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To: SeekAndFind
I heard the other day about a very young doctor who had to goggle something up during a code...the nurses basically ran the code because the doctor didn't know how...

technology can only do so much...

10 posted on 09/19/2018 9:24:52 AM PDT by cherry (official troll)
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To: cherry

Years ago when I was in EMS/private ambulance service as a paramedic, we all agreed that the very WORST place to get a call from was from a Dr.’s office. They knew NOTHING of emergency Tx and just wanted you to “get them out of here”, even if the patient was bleeding to death, asphyxiating or in full code. You’ll die in a doctor’s office if anything goes wrong.

And in the ER, the nurses would routinely run a code while the doc stood by and “oversaw” things unless he was one of the more competent emergency certifed Advanced Life Support ones.


35 posted on 09/19/2018 12:39:35 PM PDT by hadit2here ("The urge to save humanity is nearly always a cover for the urge to rule." -- H.L. Mencken)
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