Brief moments of necessity

Brief moments of necessity, when in the midst of a repetitive routine, the unexpected happens and your actions help to fix it. This is what you studied for, to make the right decision now. The number of correct decisions increases over time, but the feeling of necessity does not.
Weekdays in a district hospital. Patients, exhausted doctors, nurses, and rivers of instant coffee.
Cardiac arrest, brain arrest, final stop. End of shift. Weekdays of an anesthesiologist and an avalanche of patients and papers, under which is a doctor, an ordinary person who once chose to save others.
Ivan Chernenko is an anesthesiologist. Author of the book “Laughter at the End of the Tunnel. Notes of a Ukrainian Anesthesiologist.”