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Copyright 2021 by Bruce D. Bruce ISBN: 9798523480317 Cover Photograph: Victoria Borodinova https://pixabay.com/photos/girl-model-portrait-fashion- beauty-5864292 https://www.instagram.com/victoriaborodinova/ https://www.facebook.com/victoria.borodinova https://pixabay.com/users/victoria_borodinova- 6314823/ USA KINDLE/PAPERBACK BOOKSTORE https://www.amazon.com/David-Bruce/e/B004KEZ7LY I will make NO money from this book. It is royalty free and a labor of love. Note: Yes, these good deeds are impressive, but we may want to ask how society can change so that some of these good deeds are not needed. TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: Questions 1-20 1 Chapter 2: Questions 21-40 43 Chapter 3: Questions 41-60 91 Chapter 4: Questions 61-80 149 Chapter 5: Questions 81-100 204 Appendix A: Fair Use 270 Appendix B: About the Author 272 Appendix C: Some Books by David Bruce 273 1 Chapter 1: Questions 1-20 1. What’s A Good Deed Someone Did For A Dying Person? 1) Atrista121 wrote, “My brother died in a motorcycle accident and someone who saw it apparently held him until the ambulance arrived. I can’t imagine how hard that must have been for her, but I’m forever grateful. I regret not telling her so, but I was a teenager and pretty messed up about it for a long while.” 2) square_succulents wrote, “My dad was in a significant motorcycle accident. He was in a coma for 2.5 months before he passed away. He never woke up. The police report noted at least three witnesses, including a woman who held his hand the whole time. Knowing that someone was with him during that time and trying to comfort him always gave me a moment of peace.” 3) esprockerchick wrote: “I saw my neighbor murdered in cold blood in my own driveway. My neighbor was helping his lady friend escape a very abusive relationship. Lady’s ex hunted her down like a dog. I saw my neighbor walking back home with her after they went to get food for his kids. Heard three loud pops. I ran outside to find her screaming and him blown out of his shoes and into my driveway. He had a hole in his chest big enough to put my fist in. There was nothing I could do to save him except sit with him and hold his hand while I prayed for him to pass quickly. I’ll never forget that night. Forty-eight hours later I broke the lease on my house and moved in with my boyfriend, who lives in a much safer borough. You were an awesome neighbor and a wonderful father, Kaine. You’re certainly missed. “Edit for those wanting news articles: 2 “<https://tinyurl.com/yajl95aq>.”1 2. “If You Had A Friend Who Spoke To You In The Same Way That You Sometimes Speak To Yourself, How Long Would You Allow This Person To Be Your Friend?” bruhnahimgucci wrote, “You make a very valid point, and I don’t know how to feel about it.” 1CEninja commented: “I call it the reverse golden rule, and I tell this to everyone with depression and self-confidence issues. “Everyone knows the golden rule — treat others how you would want them to treat you — but people with depression don’t treat themselves well. “So I tell them to treat themselves the way they would treat their closest friends. Would you say that shit to your friends? Then don’t say it to yourself. It’s awful, stop saying such hurtful things to my friend (you).”2 3. “Surgeons Of Reddit, What Was The Biggest Mistake You Made While Operating On A Patient?” 1) surgthrowaway wrote: “Actual surgeon’s take: Got into the wrong intermuscular plane during the initial approach to an anterior-based hip 1 Source: TempestYGO, “(Serious) Redditors who witnessed a murder, what is your story?” Reddit. AskReddit. 2 January 2021 <https://tinyurl.com/y84ehsn6>. 2 Source: CMPunkTHEMAN434, “If you had a friend who spoke to you in the same way that you sometimes speak to yourself, how long would you allow this person to be your friend?” Reddit. AskReddit. 3 January 2021 <https://tinyurl.com/yaf67czw>. 3 replacement and damaged the patient’s femoral nerve. They have permanent paralysis of their quad as a result. “The reason this thread is mostly full of joke answers and third party retellings is that mistakes like this can be hard to talk about, even behind an anonymous throwaway account. Every time you put on the gown and gloves, there is a small, needling part of the back of your mind, reminding you that there’s a real chance you may be about to ruin someone’s life. It may not be this time, it may not happen in any of the 12 other surgeries you have scheduled this week, or the 50 this month, or the 50 next month, or the 50 the following month. Major, life-altering mistakes are extremely rare, but with enough time and a big enough sample size, rare things happen all the time. “That’s the reality of being a surgeon. People put their life and well-being in your hands and at some point you are going to betray that trust and hurt someone. It is going to happen. There is no amount of preparation or care that can prevent it — if you chose this life, you have chosen a life where at some point you are going to lie sleepless in bed at night wondering, ‘I wonder how Mr. / Mrs. X would be doing now if they’d never had the misfortune of meeting me?’” Gabrovi commented: “This is so true. But I just got a message today from a patient tonight whom I thought would hate me. I am switching to a new practice and I sent a letter out to my patients informing them. He texted me (I give my patients my cell if I think that they will need it), saying that I changed his life and he will be forever grateful. I operated on him 10 years ago and he had a postop complication because the anesthesiologist hadn’t removed the NGT from the stomach when I asked him and I stapled across it. This led to a fistula eventually forming. This was just discovered last year and I operated on 4 him again. It was disastrous and he spent three weeks in the hospital. He eventually healed, and he can now do things that he never thought that he would be able to do and he also now qualifies for a kidney transplant (his whole reason for surgery in the first place). I was floored, and told him so. “I know that this is kind of vague, but I don’t want to disclose too much. “Also, lawyers tell us not to say too much. “But the guilt is tremendous. It doesn’t matter that you do 99% or 99.9% or 99.999% correct. It’s the failures, omissions, and mistakes that haunt you at all times. What I’ve learned is that even if things aren’t going well for a patient, they are very understanding. They just want to know that you’ll be there and not feel abandoned. It’s the least we can do.” 2) anutteranceofshush wrote: “Not a surgeon, but I am a histotech (we work in the pathology lab where all the specimens are sent). “A surgeon did a double mastectomy based off a different hospital systems pathology report. Basically the report said she had the kind of breast cancer where both breasts need to be removed. “But we found zero cancer in either breast. “He was shitting bricks so we submitted both breasts IN THEIR ENTIRETY … That’s a ton of blocks and it’s unheard of to submit all the tissue like this but he needed to find cancer. “I’ve never seen a surgeon stand there and watch the pathologist like this guy did. He was cussing up a storm the whole time and screaming about ‘this is why I never take outside pathology reports!’ 5 “Turns out the other lab had mislabeled her specimen so some other lady got the all-clear who had cancer and our lady lost both breasts when she didn’t have cancer. All-around horrible situation and the surgeon was sick over it all.” fallingleaf commented, “My god. Never realized people messed up like that in the medical industry, doing something as simple as mislabeling.” spicycheezits commented, “It happens all the time. I also work in a pathology lab and I spend multiple hours every day contacting nurses to solve mistakes that they made / we caught. So many things come to us mislabeled or not labeled at all and we just have to send them back. It’s ruined any sense of trust I had in doctors to see all the silly mistakes they make constantly.” jaloca commented, “Same. I definitely don’t spend hours calling people, but if I (regularly) have to call about 4-5 specimens on a day we have 250, that still feels like a high rate of mistakes. (Although to be fair — I’m not going to pretend like I don’t think I’ve ever made a mistake. I definitely have.)” Ideal_Needle commented, “Former lab assistant here, errors in patient identification and specimen labeling are the main cause of adverse patient outcomes related to the lab and pathology departments.” 3) Icnaredef wrote: “Med student here, I was watching a knee operation when the surgeon suddenly stopped, looked towards the staff absolutely shocked and asked, ‘This is the wrong knee, isn’t it?’ “Basically he was told to operate the wrong knee and halfway through he realized it was too good looking to be the knee that needed the operation.

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