The problem, though, is that ~nobody would bother doing what it would take. And so there's the argument that recommending bandages is the most effective strategy.
It would be cool to see this acknowledged. Even if in tiny print somewhere.
Well yes, when I said they have to help I meant more like an emergency, not a papercut - but I guess most people would be happy to give you a plaster(bandaid) anyway.
I guess you could call it a bandage? The point wasn't to bad-mouth it or undersell it - bandaids are awesome. The point is that we need some external thing to patch holes in the underlying system.
It's incredibly difficult to stop such bleeding and having such device will undoubtedly save lives on and off battle fields. For example in bad car wrecks.
That wouldn't reduce the number of accidents, but it'd be an excellent method to reduce the number of handicapped (and the inconvenience of accommodating them.) The US military has been suffering from this very real problem due to advences in medical technology over the past few decades. Not treating the wounded (or at least waiting a day or two) should significantly reduce the military budget.
If your leg gets blown off, and the only help you're getting is from Gary, who claims a strong stomach and has used a needle kit before, for sewing closed your femoral artery, I reckon you're taking a swing.
Are you sure the desperate don't deserve this attempt to help them? I can't imagine what it must be like to have such issues and have zero professional options to turn to, and you know what the solution for many is.
These kind of moves are band-aids that don't provide a viable long term solution. But sometimes the hospital is really far away and using a band-aid allows you to temporarily protect yourself from excessive blood loss or infection while you wait to get proper medical attention.
Sometimes, putting a bandage on it yourself is the correct answer. Imagine a world in which we could do nothing medical for ourselves at all and could ONLY call an ambulance any time we had a problem.
I am fine with the courts and legal system trying to come up with solutions that say, in essence, "for little things, you are allowed to bandage it yourself and here is the list of approved remedies."
Maybe it calculates the fractures and other injuries, but if the goal is realism, as a wounded figther is likely to be less efficient, they should also find a way of hampering movement for the wounded parts.
It's pretty much always that easy. Even for big long wounds. You can apply pressure to the wound, or to the artery proximal to the wound. If one doctor needs his hands then a nurse/junior doctor/medical student is recruited to stand there for up to hours
The problem, though, is that ~nobody would bother doing what it would take. And so there's the argument that recommending bandages is the most effective strategy.
It would be cool to see this acknowledged. Even if in tiny print somewhere.
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