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When triage decisions haunt emergency responders

I coordinate emergency medical response and during the mass casualty incident last year I had to implement triage protocols that meant some people got comfort care instead of lifesaving treatment and I still dream about the ones we decided not to save.

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You had to decide who lived and who didn't, and the ones you couldn't save still haunt you.

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