Brandon O
Puzzled by facies
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But what are you willing to risk to make them feel better faster?
Your life, a limb, your career, your physical health? Your partnerts? The innocent bystanders?
Reducing suffering faster are not benefits that justify such risks.
The risk of anybody dying in a fiery wreck is not meaningfully increased when I drive with lights and sirens, nor would I ride with anybody who drives in such a way.
Like anything, it's a tool, and it can be a fairly safe tool for sensible use. It can also be an easy way to cause a disaster. But so can the endotracheal tube, the drug box -- hell, the rolling stretcher. At some point we have to trust field providers with a little rope.