The Curse of Emergency Medicine and Prehospital Care

The curse of emergency medicine and pre hospital care, isn't it? We make our decisions when we don't have the information that we would like. And so what might look right or wrong in time points is very different. I had a conversation at work with one of our brand new junior doctors who was a little bit upset that a patient she had looked after and assessed, had become very sick and ended up on intensive care. But i had to come and say to her, that's not,. that's not a failure. You didn't send this patient home. You admitted the patient under an appropriate team, and when they got sick, they were already having a first line of treatment that