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Stories like these reminds me how a lot of talent is going waste trying to improve CTR on Ads and other futile jobs.
There's hacking and there is _hacking_. My sister is training to be a doctor and she has come to dislike the heavily regulated environment we have here in which doctors are not allowed to do anything of this sort. Now, they also don't usually need to, which is a good think, but after she returned from a year in South America, she misses the on-your-feet thinking, creativity and flexibility she could and had to employ…
Famous case in Brazil: in 1998 a surgeon used cyanoacrylate glue on the heart of a patient: https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fol/geral/gx055168.htm
The European rules for emergency medical kit (I guess FAA rules are very similar) also automatic defibrilators are increasingly being included in these kits: CONTENT OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL KITS (a) Emergency medical kits should be equipped with appropriate and sufficient medications and instrumentation. However, these kits should be supplemented by the operator according to the characteristics of the operation (scope o…
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Eight hours! It's hard to believe the woman's condition was critical enough to require invasive surgery with these makeshift tools mid-flight, but so stable post-op that the doctors did not recommend an emergency landing. I understand they recommended against landing pre-op because of worries about cabin pressure, but why not after the surgery? She's going to have to come down at some point.
I don't understand your point. If it's no longer an emergency, why require an emergency landing?
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In the US all commercial airlines are required to carry AEDs and train staff to use them. So the internet tells me
NJ EMT here and the guidance we are given is to not run AED while driving as the vibrations can make the analyzer misread. There are probably different types of AEDs to account for this
There's hacking and there is _hacking_. My sister is training to be a doctor and she has come to dislike the heavily regulated environment we have here in which doctors are not allowed to do anything of this sort. Now, they also don't usually need to, which is a good think, but after she returned from a year in South America, she misses the on-your-feet thinking, creativity and flexibility she could and had to employ…
Work emergency? Awesome, I'm fine—great, even. Serious family problem that could be of the life-or-death sort? I will get. Shit. Done. As long as shit needs to be done, and will keep it together the whole time without a moment's lapse or even really having to try not to fall apart.
I sometimes think I'd probably have been an awesome mammoth hunter.
Alas, normal life these days rarely offers opportunities to operate at actual-peak perfect-flow state like that, and I like life enough that I've not tried to fill that void with extreme sports or anything of that sort.
I think the "I actually kind of prefer serious emergencies to normal, safe life, maybe?" thing isn't super rare. Dunno if it's normal, exactly, but I think it's common enough.
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Similar to what happened to a doctor in Antarctica: https://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/people-in-ant...
I know a guy who went there (McMurdo in Antartica) the year after this happened (so similar situation - there is only one doctor that needs to do everything for everyone). Again, you're there for a long time and there is no help coming if you have a problem in the middle of winter. Before you go, they do as much as possible to ensure you won't have medical issues once you get there. One of the things is that they str…
More info: https://books.google.com/books?id=sR5Cm_zeIekC&lpg=PA84&ots=...
> It emerged that she had not merely fallen from a bicycle but had been flung to the ground while riding on a motorcycle that collided with a car
> Wallace suspected she had previously concealed the extent of her injuries so as to avoid being taken off the flight.
Taking medical history is very hard. Patients minimizing their symptoms or omitting details are just one of many things doctors have to deal with on a daily basis.
There's hacking and there is _hacking_. My sister is training to be a doctor and she has come to dislike the heavily regulated environment we have here in which doctors are not allowed to do anything of this sort. Now, they also don't usually need to, which is a good think, but after she returned from a year in South America, she misses the on-your-feet thinking, creativity and flexibility she could and had to employ…
Famous case in Brazil: in 1998 a surgeon used cyanoacrylate glue on the heart of a patient: https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fol/geral/gx055168.htm
I've had an spontaneous pneumothorax when I was a teenager. Had to undergo emergency surgery with only local anesthesia. The surgeon while cutting my chest asked: "You're sure it is this side, right?", which I confirmed. He then said: "Ok, if you're wrong I'm not going to jail alone."
This happened to me in college. Driving home from the movies, chest started to hurt on inhale .. I decided to "sleep it off", which obviously didn't work. Went to the ER in the morning. Got the chest tube and spent about a week seeing if it would heal naturally, then they removed the offending part of my lung, and did a mechanical pleurodesis (a procedure that sticks your lung to the chest wall so it can't collapse).…