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Could you save a life?

I’m in the park and earlier I passed four police officers gathered round someone who had collapsed. One of them was giving CPR. If I’d been five minutes earlier and on the other bank of the river it might have been me calling the police. I thought later I should read this.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/may/07/how-to-save-a-life-paramedics-on-emergency-first-aid-from-cardiac-arrest-to-burns-to-seizures?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Strange that just this morning I finally finished Rachel Clarke’s tremendously moving account of her work as a palliative care doctor, Dear Life.

#CPR #FirstAid #Japan