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If it were me unconscious on the floor, I'd take a pediatric neurologist that "hasn't done hearts" for 20 years over a flight attendant with 8 hours of "first

• pmiller2 10y ago
  Definitely. I'd rather have any medical professional (any doctor, nurse, emt, paramedic, etc.) attending me in that situation rather than someone whose medical training consists of a first aid course and maybe a CPR certification.
• webtechgal 10y ago
  Heck - I'd settle even for a vet... any day...
  • ndespres 10y ago
    I fear the day I have to call upon my experience birthing livestock to help deliver a human baby.
• vacri 10y ago
  Oh, for sure. I certainly don't mean to disparage her skills, just that 'doctors' come in a lot of different varieties, and not all of them retain general medical skills. I remember a friend who became a paramedic. My home state brought in ambulances-for-everybody. If you wanted an ambulance, the dispatcher couldn't say no anymore, you got an ambulance. And for people on low-income cards, those ambulances were free. So my friend got called out to a lot of junk calls (his term: "coughs, colds, and sore holes"), and said that it was a problem for the paramedics because their skills rusted - some paramedics reported only seeing one heart attack in a year, and they have to pause and think what needs to be done again. Medicine is very much a 'use it or lose it' discipline, at least when it comes to the details.