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[sythyry]

After last night's deeds, there has been some debate among my friends. In Vheshrame, the Healers' Guild has one policy; in Yistreia, it has another.

Ghirbis' Position: The responsibility of the healer to her patient is supreme. She must take all plausible measures she can to save his life and cure his condition. (Illegal and immoral measures aren't plausible, etc., etc. Don't be silly.) A healer with several patients having crises should get help for all but one of them. A healer with one patient in a crisis and another not currently in a crisis should attend to the one in the crisis, and not reserve anything for the one not currently in one -- bearing in mind that few crises last longer than a day, and most resources are renewed at each dawntime.

Havune's Position: The responsibility of the healer to the community of patients is supreme. The healers should take all plausible measures she can to protect her patients collectively. A healer with several patients having crises should get help for all but one of them if she can; if she cannot, she should act to do the most good that she can with whatever resources she has. A healer with one patient in a crisis and another not currently in a crisis should help the one in a crisis, but save some cley for the other.

[Poll #520528]

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[collie13.livejournal.com]

My answer is right down the middle -- because to me it's all context-driven. I had emergency training many, many years ago, although I've been in very few emergencies. I understand triage, and in a "normal" emergency I know I perform quite competently. I've even been lightly dinged in an emergency, and still done my best to aid others who needed the help also, since I was on so much adrenaline I didn't initially realize I was bleeding. When it was pointed out to me, I couldn't feel any pain, so figured it couldn't be that important.

On the other hand, I've never been in an emergency where it's my beloved lying there injured. Quite frankly, I doubt I'd be thinking rationally at that point about how many dressings I had and whether I should be working on this person or that one. I'd be rational in the sense of not forgetting my emergency training, but I also know myself well enough that I'd probably be very, very focused on my sweetie, and not give a flying flip who else was there.

I realize this will probably make me sound quite selfish, but I think it's the truth. Here and now we can calmly and thoughtfully say we'd do this or that in an emergency -- but when the proverbial shit actually hits the fan, I've found few people are actually that cool and collected. ;)