The Rush

Delay in getting a patient to radiology. Yeah, I'll take them down myself. ED dumps a crashing patient on you. Don't worry, I'll sort it out. Tube, lines, done. I control their physiology now -- until I can't. The agony of resuscitation. The art of deresuscitation. The feeling that -- this needs to happen, right now, or this person dies, so get it done. And if you need to go home, that's fine, but I'm here all night. We're at war with death, and in the end it's a war we all lose -- but by... The Rush
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