All Bleeding Stops Eventually: A Lenny Moss Mystery

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If professionals like me go into this exercise thinking “regular people will never do this”, then regular people certainly will not. If we breed helplessness, and tell people there’s nothing they can do, just wait for help, then helplessness is what we’ll get. However,if we go into this thinking “this is a skill regular people can master and will use in an emergency, and save lives” then there is a chance they will, and that, is a chance I am willing to take.

A lifetime ago in school, in residency, we were hammered home the principles of the ABCs when it came to an emergency situation. You had to make sure the airway was clear. That was A. Yet I was the only surgeon in a small town. There was no one to call. I would have to call an ambulance for transport to a bigger facility.The criticism of these programs is always the same. That training like this ‘is turning our schools into war zones’, that this is ‘normalizing mass shootings’, or that this will somehow preclude whatever your preferred action on gun control is because we’ve ‘accepted mass shootings as part of life.’ Frankly, I don’t understand this view. When I say I don’t understand, I mean I have difficulty comprehending how any adult can seriously hold this view. But it’s clear that that is more about the limits of my own imagination or capacity for empathy since many serious people do seem to genuinely hold that view, so let me explain myself. My department training an average of 12 people a day for a full calendar year (4,380 people) in basic bleeding control and hands-only CPR, and giving them all a tourniquet But to teach someone a skill is not to terrorize them. Teaching someone a skill, showing them how to fix something, is empowering. Every child (and certainly every adult) should know how to use a tourniquet and do CPR from the point they’re physically strong enough to do those skills. It’s not ‘normalizing’ violence or injury, it is empowering people to be masters of their own fate. I do this (emergency preparedness and emergency training) professionally. I run CPR and bleeding control courses at work on a semi-regular basis. I participate in creating emergency plans and procedures. In the event of a crisis or emergency, I would be part of the response. My department is tasked broadly with preparing the organization for an emergency. Write because you want to show something. To show that the world is shit. To show how fleeting love and happiness are. To show the inner workings of your ego. To show that democracy is in danger. To show how interconnected we are. (Each "to show" is active and must be personal, deeply held, true to you.)

Rhythm is key. Use as many sounds and cadences as possible. Think of dialogue as a form of percussive music. You can vary the speed of the language, the number of beats per line, volume, density. You can use silences, fragments, elongated sentences, interruptions, overlapping conversation, physical activity, monologues, nonsense, non-sequiturs, foreign languages. On 5 July, the NHS will celebrate its 75th anniversary. To coincide, a special series of programming across the BBC spanning BBC Radio 4, BBC News and Radio 5 Live will take the temperature of the national health service to consider what the future might look like for the NHS’s huge workforce and the patients who rely on it. Keep your chops up with constant questioning of your own work. React against your work. Be hypercritical. Do in the next work what you aimed for but failed to do in the last one. Presented by comedian, actor, musician and author Bill Bailey, Extraordinary Portraits will pay tribute to NHS heroes, marking the 75th Anniversary of the NHS with a series of specially commissioned and inspiring portraits. This six-part series explores the art of portrait making, as Bill - a keen art lover - pairs up some of the most inspiring NHS staff with leading British artists. We discover the stories of compassionate doctors, inspiring nurses, dedicated porters, passionate paramedics and cleaners who go above and beyond to help the people they care for. Their work, lives and personalities are captured for posterity in a new collection of compelling portraits. CBBCIt’s a stoic viewpoint that allows you to take a deep breath when the blood keeps coming and time is running out. Whatever happens, you must remember: “all bleeding stops eventually”. Don't be afraid to attempt great themes: death, war, sexuality, identity, fate, God, existence, politics, love. This couldn’t be real. At any point I would wake up from the most realistic nightmare I’d ever had, spend the waking hour with relief that the horrors I had witnessed were nonexistent in waking life.

Tactical Combat Casualty Care Guidelines[ http://www.health.mil/Libraries/Presentations_Course_Materials/TCCC_guidelines_090204.pdf] Florence Nightingale was an activist, a social reformer, a statistician, and a bold nurse who defied stifling British conventions to change history. An indisputable pioneer, Nightingale died in 1910 aged of 90, leaving behind an inspirational legacy that benefits everyone’s medical care today. In a Newsnight special marking the NHS’s 75th anniversary, Kirsty Wark asks the big questions about the future of UK healthcare. Broadcasting live from Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, Kirsty will be joined by TV doctor Xand van Tullekan and people working at the heart of the health service, to ask is the NHS on life support or fit for the future? BBC One Think of information in a play like an IV drip -- dispense just enough to keep the body alive, but not too much too soon.I was standing at the head of the bed with the patient in the lateral decubitus position, that is, he was lying on his side. While I injected lidocaine with a small needle into the patient’s scalp, I could hear him wincing and breathing through his teeth with each little poke and infusion. To my right, a crimson curtain cascaded down, splashing and deteriorating into the pool that I found myself lying in. In a dreamlike daze, I held my fingers up to the warm and dripping liquid, let it run down my hand and forearm. How the light glinted off of the blood. Language is a form of entertainment. Beautiful language can be like beautiful music: it can amuse, inspire, mystify, enlighten.