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magical thyme

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11. My anatomy professor was a 37 year nursing veteran with masters from Yale
Sun Aug 25, 2013, 10:14 AM
Aug 2013

On our 1st day of class she announced, "If I go down, do NOT call 911. Just step over my body and go out for a cup of coffee or something. I do NOT want some young intern breaking all my ribs doing CPR. I am serious. If I go down, just leave."

I've had versions of this conversation with any number of co-workers. The lab assistants, when I was doing my phlebotomy rotation, while we were headed up to or back from ICU.

And having to go up there at 5 in the morning at the end of a 13 hour overnight shift, having to wake up a dying person to stick them in a blackened arm in a fruitless search for a functioning vein....

No way.

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