In r/emergencymedicine, clinicians describe practicing under severe resource limits and making high-stakes decisions amid incomplete information, emphasizing giving patients a chance when the story may be wrong and outcomes uncertain.
“In the emergent setting you don't know what actually happened.”
“A couple days later on my next shift the doc told me that it was a homicide not suicide.”
“You need to give them, or their loved ones, a chance at something meaningful.”
“They don't have EMR and only use paper charting, the hospital CT scanner has been broken for weeks”
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