• medgremlin@midwest.social
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    3 hours ago

    From the emergency medicine perspective on that last bit…we don’t care if you have a DNR somewhere on file. If you show up in cardiac arrest and someone isn’t shoving an official POLST into our hands, we’re running the code. We’d rather someone try (and fail) to sue for malpractice for saving them than accidentally let someone die that didn’t want to.

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      13 minutes ago

      Exactly, and that’s your job. Like, people who think that doctors will murder them for organs also work at a job where they won’t hold the elevator for anyone pushing a mail cart. How long would you keep a job where you intentionally suck at it to help someone else do their job?