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Anti-fragile: humans need risk, not ‘safe spaces’

13 November 2022

10:00 AM

13 November 2022

10:00 AM

Last week I had a medical student shadowing me when we were called to the Emergency Department for a critically unwell man. He had collapsed and was brought in by the ambulance service in a bad way.

The chaos of a full-blown resus (resuscitation) is striking. His brain is deprived of oxygen and he’s flailing as the three ambulance officers try to transfer him to a bed.

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