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“Yet we didn’t really learn about death until after graduation.”
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“Of all the places to learn about death, the Emergency Department offers you the richest opportunities.”
“My patient was in a side room and the first thing I noticed when I walked in was how still the air was.”
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“Her name was Elsie, and the double doors crashed open as she was wheeled in on a trolley.”
“The patient even attempted to stand up ( lie down Elizabeth!”
“I had been taught.”
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“Spying a potential “learning opportunity” two medical students followed her in there and closed the curtain.”
“Another Kodak Moment.”
“Ten years later, long after I left those wards, I still carry these moments around with me.”
“And so I collected another Kodak Moment, another thing I had learned about death.”
“There were times it felt quite miraculous that human beings managed to survive at all.”
“In the ED, death feels so unlikely.”
“It was a paperback, and deep within its pages was a bookmark.”
“It just so happened a consultant cardiologist was in the next cubicle and within seconds a resus team had gathered around the patient.”
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“I was writing up at my notes at the nurses station when Elizabeth was admitted, a thirty-five year-old woman with a racing pulse, tightness in her chest, and a feeling that something very bad was going to happen (a sense of impending doom as doctors describe it).”
“If you want to see the definition of efficiency, a crash call is an excellent place to start.”
“We attempted to revive plastic dummies and sewed up oranges to hone our suturing skills.”
“In August 2010 I walked onto a ward, with my shiny, new stethoscope and a combined sense of pride and sheer terror.”