Stefan Viljoen wrote:

> You WILL fail. Sooner or later. Somebody WILL die (they have on my watch) 
> and you will just have to deal with it. The trick is doing your best, 
> always, even at risk of your life, or loss of it. At least if you HAVE to 
> loose a patient or your own life, loose it after putting up the a hell of 
> fight and doing the best you could have done. 
> 
> I had to face this when I lost some friends operationally in the fire 
> service. For months afterward I castigated myself, should I have done this, 
> said this, done that, warned them... eventually I realized the simple fact 
> was I had done my very, very best, and NOTHING I could have done more would 
> have saved them.

Doesn't work.

No matter how hard you tried, there's always something you could have 
tried harder, something you could have done different, if only you had 
done X instead of Y, maybe they'd still be alive... No matter how much 
you know, rationally, that there's nothing more you could have done, the 
knowledge of "if I did X, they would still be alive" will taument you 
for the rest of eternity...

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