Do Not Resuscitate a Dead Relationship
Seven years went by and I still tried to save it
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9 min readMay 31, 2017
When I was working in the ER, we’d often treat a “last-ditch effort.” This was the patient who was, for all intents and purposes, deceased. Paramedics had been doing CPR for over an hour, or the patient had been found down with no indication of how long they’d been without a pulse, or they’d have an injury that…
