While working as a Scribe at the Emergency Room in San Bernardino, I have been confronted with many difficult situations, including the death of children and the death of people my age. One particularly difficult case for me was when an eight year old boy was brought into the Emergency Room by his mother because he felt sick. Upon arrival, the boy was having a hard time breathing and had one episode of coffee-ground emesis. We immediately brought him to a bed in the back to stabilize him and begin diagnostics. Approximately an hour later, he began to seize and soon after that he went into cardiac arrest. I watched both concerned and hopeful as the physician and staff coded him intermittently for three hours. Unfortunately at the end of the
