“The nurse who inserted the IV, a veteran of America’s war in Southeast Asia, said that he survived a jump out of a plane in Vietnam, in which his parachute didn’t open”
best nurse i ever had in an ER was a former military medic, both ridiculously competent and surprisingly compassionate ...
“in hot pursuit in my sister-in-law’s Honda CRV, I asked the EMTs to stop at my house, so Susan could grab my cell phone and charger. They concurred, and we secured this vital communications link.”
similar story being transported to ER for an asthma attack couple of weeks ago: we already knew no visitors of any kind, so we frantically threw cell phone & charger, and laptop & charger (more important to me than cell phone) into the ambulance with me ...
best nurse i ever had in an ER was a former military medic, both ridiculously competent and surprisingly compassionate ...
In 1990, my pickup was t-boned on the interstate by an 18-wheeler. A bunch of broken ribs, fractured pelvis, and lost almost 7 pints of blood. The ER doc who got me was a point man in a Marine Rifle platoon in Vietnam (NOT a medic, a full-bore grunt). 30 years later, which included marriage, running a marathon, a hitch in the Army, and four kids, I'd love to thank Dr. Soul for stitching me up.