• Question: Have you saved any lives? If so What would be the proudest life saving? Or If you saved him from the impossible?

    Asked by cdrcodor to Andrew, Emma, Marianne on 17 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: anon

      anon answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      Gee whizz! I think the life-saving thing is a bit of a TV phenomenon. I don’t think there’s many doctors who can say with a straight-face (unless they are incredibly vain)’saving lives again today!’ I think it’s important to be humble because there’s a lot of people you can’t help and these are the cases that really stay with you.

      Human beings are amazing and it’s certainly true to say that patients have surprised me by their amazing powers of recovery (and in some cases resurrection)….

    • Photo: Andrew Maynard

      Andrew Maynard answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Hi cdrcodor,

      I haven’t directly saved any lives to my knowledge. But I hope that my work has allowed people to make decisions that have prevented others from being harmed.

    • Photo: Marianne Baker

      Marianne Baker answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      I’ll leave this one to the doctors!

      Hospital workers are on the front line when it comes to life-saving.
      However, many of the drugs and techniques we use today wouldn’t be possible without all the work that’s been done in the past by many scientists and medical doctors alike.

      We’re a team!

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