I’m a respiratory therapist and spent many years being among the last faces seen by someone’s life. I got really tired of violently pumping somebody’s chest or bagging them while my coworker did it. The vast majority never recovered. I always hoped my patients could have the calm, pain free peaceful death most would prefer but unfortunately every shift I’ve ever worked in over 20 years has either been me responding to a code or now I take care of how people are “recovered” after the code in long term care or rehab…I work in peds.
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