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I pray I never fear to make the decision to save someone's life, all risks reasonably considered. I have been in a similar situation, and I can tell you: your
by Xurinos 16y ago
I pray I never fear to make the decision to save someone's life, all risks reasonably considered.
I have been in a similar situation, and I can tell you: your mettle is tested. You have a tiny amount of time to make a decision, so little that it almost comes down to your instincts. You have enough time to make an assessment of what kind of fallout is about to occur for all parties involved, and your main concern is, hopefully, to minimize the damage.
Sure, you may not have all the information at hand to make a perfect decision, and few of us can say to have any reliable precognitive power. You have what you always have in life: some information and the ability to make a choice.
Let not fear stay your hand. Fear kills as easily as a heart condition. It can always go horribly wrong, but when something appears by sound reasoning to be inevitable, will you have the courage to intervene?
- jgrahamc 16y agoVery true comment. I did CPR on a guy in the street a few days ago. I'm sure it wasn't perfect, but I'm now told that the guy didn't die. http://blog.jgc.org/2010/10/you-never-think-youll-have-to-do-cpr.html http://blog.jgc.org/2010/10/you-never-think-youll-have-to-do... In the OP the guy used the information he had to make a fast decision. The toughest thing in the situation I encountered was the moment I realized his heart had stopped and needed to decide right then to take action.