For various reasons here at ND Central we have not posted recently. The biggest cause of this is the fall out from the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud in terms of reducing bodies on the ground which only now are finding their way home from foreign shores.
An article in an obscure bit of the medical press caught our attention. If you can find it, it is on the letters page of the freebie found with the British Medical Journal called BMA News which is normally about as thick as a piece of quality toilet paper.
On their letters page there was a short letter entitled “Trust me, I’m a physio”.
The crux of the letter was that a doctor, who is an anaesthetist, volunteered to help in response to a request for inflight medical help only to be told by a steward that someone else had volunteered “who is a physiotherapist”.
What does this tell us about dumbing down?
So now if there is an acute medical emergency like a heart attack, a pneumothorax, meningititis, a cardiac arrest on an aeroplane a physio is now to be preferred over an ansaethetist? We are sure that the prompt administration of some core stabilizing exercises with some gentle mobilization and stretching will be of huge benefit for any life threatening emergency at 36,000 feet.
We do wonder what the acute medical emergency was that a physiotherapist would have been able to manage better than an anaesthetist?
An article in an obscure bit of the medical press caught our attention. If you can find it, it is on the letters page of the freebie found with the British Medical Journal called BMA News which is normally about as thick as a piece of quality toilet paper.
On their letters page there was a short letter entitled “Trust me, I’m a physio”.
The crux of the letter was that a doctor, who is an anaesthetist, volunteered to help in response to a request for inflight medical help only to be told by a steward that someone else had volunteered “who is a physiotherapist”.
What does this tell us about dumbing down?
So now if there is an acute medical emergency like a heart attack, a pneumothorax, meningititis, a cardiac arrest on an aeroplane a physio is now to be preferred over an ansaethetist? We are sure that the prompt administration of some core stabilizing exercises with some gentle mobilization and stretching will be of huge benefit for any life threatening emergency at 36,000 feet.
We do wonder what the acute medical emergency was that a physiotherapist would have been able to manage better than an anaesthetist?
Praise be to the Party for telling us all that anyone can be a doctor. It would seem like someone, somewhere, might be starting to believe them.
