Educating common people on professional subjects, is it helpful or is it an asking for a disaster?
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Re: Educating common people on professional subjects, is it helpful or is it an asking for a disaster?
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I would rather know a person had some knowledge of what to do until help arrived over someone trying to provide care with no knowledge at all! Sometimes if you wait for professionals to arrive a patient could die. For example when someone is bleeding a lot. Teaching common people that pressure must be held on such a wound without letting up every few minutes to look at the wound. Most laypeople would do that. Constant pressure must be held until professional help arrives. Or for at least 15 minutes. In other words, sometimes whoever is present with the patient is not going to be able to wait on a professional so if they know 'something' about what to do that is better than if they know nothing, in my opinion.Sushan wrote: ↑30 Sep 2021, 23:57 Nowadays people tend to google their symptoms and try to diagnose and treat their own selves. But in most occasions this has ended up with disasters and people getting unnecessarily panicked.
Here via this book William W Forgey has tried to educate common people on emergency medical management in a quite deep level. He has tried to make a person able to provide medical care in an emergency situation without any help from the professionals.
Though I agree that having medical knowledge can be useful, this can worsen the scenario by a non-profesional trying to play the hero. What do you think?
A simple example:
(Location 768 - Kindle version)In case of possible neck injury, the airway can be opened by lifting the jaw without moving the neck.
This is the only mentioning about the important, yet difficult, and has to be practiced and precised, jaw-thrust-maneuver. Trying to apply this with no or inadequate practice will clearly put the victim in more danger.
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I agree with you, educating about basic things like first aid is good but going further in this field is not good as we doctors having so much experience also do mistakes. The book should be written in a much simpler way so that everyone around should be able to understand, no doubt for a medical person the book is five stars but for the layman, the book is a lit bit tough to understandHyacinth Bella wrote: ↑04 Oct 2021, 07:52 I believe that educating yourself on the basics is a really good thing, and can help people around, but I do hope that no one will act as a hero if they are not a professional in the field because that will make disasters. I also hope that books like this have a simpler way of educating because if a book is filled with jargon common people won't understand, then it will do more harm than good.
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There are quite a lot of procedures that common people won't be able to do by themselves but I think for the most part there are still some practical things and if you can't still do any of them then at least you know. No knowledge is a wasteMindful Wordsmith wrote: ↑01 Oct 2021, 15:20 This is a question that I too have in my mind ever since I've been reading this book. I think there are certain procedures that cannot be performed by non-medical professionals. But I think reading this book will create an awareness in the reader's mind about the different useful procedures. That way, a reader, who cannot do certain difficult maneuvers, can at least avoid doing something harmful with the knowledge he/she has gained through this book. This is the approach I've been using to read this book. If I can't do something, at least I know about all the wrong things that I shouldn't be doing.
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