Why do the hard, fighting-the-vent patients still stump me?

You can run the easy cases now. The hard ones — the patient fighting the vent, numbers going wrong, no clear cause — still catch you off guard. You tell yourself you need more training. Maybe. But look closer. What actually happens in those minutes? You slow down. You try one thing, then another, alone, hoping it works before anyone notices you are stuck. The gap is not your hands. It is that you face the hardest minute of the shift by yourself. You have a pod. A team stands near you right now. The task is not to master every bad case alone. It is to call out early, use the people around you, and build a shared habit for the moments that still stump any one of you.