My coworker died in front of me
My coworker died and I can’t believe it. I still feel like this might be a terrible dream.
We coded him for over an hour, pulled out all the stops, did everything. I feel confident our resuscitation efforts were more than complete.
What’s get me- is that I didn’t recognize him until we had been doing CPR for 30 minutes. I am a critical care pharmacist, I got called down to the ER when CPR was started. He was just another patient until I the nurse read his dad’s name off the chart as an emergency contact. I immediately connected the dots and was shocked. He was so young. He was alive when he got to the hospital.
I had to call our boss to inform her of his death. He is supposed to work tomorrow. He is the only pharmacist in his specialty at our hospital. The community will suffer.
This is crazy. I don’t know how to process this. I’m going to reach out to our employee assistance program tomorrow, but things will never be the same in our pharmacy. These are the things I never thought about when starting this job in a smaller community hospital. This is the second time someone I know has died in front of me.
Just wanted to get this off my chest.