From the Good Doctor

feline | The Everyday Tiara | Saturday, July 30th, 2005

Here ’tis, as promised:

“The big three in the 5 minute rule: Stroke, heart attack and major trauma (i.e. car wrecks).

With the advent of clot busting drugs, time is the issue. We can either correct the damage or at the least minimize it. There is a thing called the golden hour in trauma cases. 90% of people who make it to the hospital in that hour survive. So when you see the ambulance you have no way of knowing if the poor slob in the back is at minute 5 or minute 55.

Perhaps the most important, someday it will be your sorry ass (not you personally, my dear) in the back of the meat wagon.”

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