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Originally Posted by Marvelous Marv
If you were a responsible and respectful EMT on the scene, is it your opinion that it would have been better to tell everyone that he died after a few minutes of extreme agony?
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No, a responsible person (in a medical profession or otherwise) doesn't make shit up. There are a myriad of other ways to comfort the bereaved without blatantly falsifying things. If I found out a family member was stabbed a bunch of times all over his body but not in any fatal places, and basically bled to death, I would punch a person in the face for patronizing me if they blatantly lied to me and said there was no pain, trying to "comfort" me. A responsible person does not make things up.
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What possible purpose is served by contradicting his manager on the matter? It's not like they didn't try to revive Irwin.
Give Stainton points for bedside manner.
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Good luck reviving a person who sustains a puncture wound to the heart. The blood pressure would be plummeting and he'd either be developing pulmonary edema and drowning in his own blood, or dependent edema where his blood starts building up in his body instead of circulating- either way, you have a few minutes at best, not an hour.
Bedside manner is about helping people in their time of crisis- this does not include blatant lying.
I didn't mean to make a big deal of it, I was simply pointing out that he had no right to say what he said, and it could do more harm than good.