post duty monday

wasted an hour of sleeping time to read through someone's fb page.

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encountered a person in active seizures in the arms of his companion on the way home. being full costume tipped the bar and I decided to approach the pair. I asked the companion if he wants to bring the patient to the hospital and he replied that they've been to PGH and they were just driven away. He said they'll just wait for the seizures to stop and they'll be sent away again. Post duty status got the better of me. Instead of explaining about the limited admissions policy on Sunday, that of course you will be discharged once the seizures stop and that a person probably needs to go to the hospital if he's been seizing for around 5 minutes, I just asked, "Are you sure?" He said yes and so I replied, "It's your decision." So I just watched and waited for the person to stop seizing and once the seizure stopped, I walked away.

I know a better person would have convinced them to go to the hospital but I'm not that. Nor am I willing to be inflict a patient with an unwilling bantay into the PGH ER. The ER is still only working because of the willingness of many bantays to go the extra mile.

At the very least, I could have taken the post-ictus vital signs I guess and made sure the seizure didn't recur in the next 5 minutes. I could blame post duty status but I think I'm just really evil.