A better first aid kit
Do you remember that first aid kit that your mother kept around the house. The one with band aids and that whole spool of salve and just things that you didn’t ever think you use. Well it turns out that for doctors there’s a whole other level. They actually make specialized first aid kits for EMS. Enough equipment to do roadside surgery. I find that so interesting because it is so far outside my level of training. I mean I can apply a Band-Aid with the best of them but please do not ask me to fix your broken leg and stop the bleeding as we sit beside your car. Not going to happen. Call someone else in emergency. What brought this to the front was an ad in a video. I know I should pay for ad free video but I’m too cheap. This was a medical video with inserted ads for things that a doctor might want. Magical. I worked with computers and we had none of those things even though it would have been nice to have. Imagine a little kit with an extra motherboard. Or something to fix a broken hard drive. Or even spare power supply. That would have been helpful where I worked. Instead I had an inventory of parts from old machines. I wish I could include a photo because my cubicle was filled to the level of my shoulders. I would arrive in the morning insert myself into my chair and then hope that nothing fell on me during the work day. In a better world we would have had a storage space for such things but we didn’t so when something was no longer of primary use it went to the secondary storage under my desk. I could probably have made a working machine with that pile of parts but I never did. Budgets were good and if we needed something there was a number you could call and the courier would drop it off at the front door. However unlike people who sell me appliances in my home those delivery people never took away the old stuff. It just accumulated until someday on a spring afternoon I would be told to move what I could out to the back door to go to I assume a landfill. Not the best model for the environment but you do what you do. That’s why knowing the doctors can have specialized first aid kits is inspiring. Someone is actually thinking outside the box on this one. Just for the record I cannot afford to buy one of those kits. You have to have a salary at a doctor’s level. But if I ever make a movie I will try to get one of those in the background shots at least. And with that I’m going to turn this back to a text in waiting. The way I handle most days.
