How to save a life (part 2)

As i wrote the previous post on the links between a military past and a medical career, or that involving both, i wondered more about the song that rang in my head so often.

“Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life”

I found out more about the Fray and why did Isaac Slade write this song, starting from good old Wikipedia.

Source: http://www.howtosavealife.com/

The band has left the song open for interpretation and its bittersweet inspiration can be felt everywhere. Just go to youtube.com and search “how to save a life” and you will see dozens of videos created using this song as the background, from deaths of friends and family to recreation of TV drama serials.

I liked this one in particular:

With regards to the above video …

Can any doctor comment on the prognosis of chronic renal failure (it seemed like it), how its related to rabies (huh?), rabies’ relative low incidence (3 reported cases according to J.D.) and how that affects further investigations, thus leading to the unforeseeable patient death?

And have you had any experience whereby one patient just died (whether it was or was not your “mistake”, as in Doctor Cox’s case), you’re still recovering from it, and then the pager goes off (Code), and how you coped with it?

Look forward to comments.

P.S. i almost teared when i watched the above youtube excerpt of “My Lunch” of Scrubs. I wonder how i seriously will cope when it happens to me…

Related posts:

“Learn how to kill, and learn how to save”

“Boerhaave” at “other things amanzi”

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