I Am Batman.
I am not a superhero. Neither are my friends the paramedics, firefighters, police, doctors, and fellow emergency nurses. We can not look at you and use our Spidey Sense to diagnose your ailments in an instant. We can not order, perform, read results, and give you a mystery medicine in the form of a gust of healing wind to cure you in a single bound. I can not zip you from the front door to your exam room then to your inpatient room then back to your home like The Flash. I can not run backwards like Superman and turn back time to before you had your fully modifiable and preventable illnesses and make them disappear.
Emergency Responders can not sense your emergency and teleport themselves to you in ten seconds or less and solve all your problems at a moment's notice. They can not sense when you are in danger from miles away and use their telekinesis to foil your attack before it happens. They can not single-handedly lift you and float you on a cloud to the nearest hospital for treatment. They can not summon the gods of earth, water, fire and wind to instantly fix or prevent natural disasters.
We are human. We have bladders that fill to painful proportions. We have stomachs that are empty. We have families who we are away from while yours is angrily staring me down for scarfing a two-pack of saltines while I run to get your emergency sandwich and diet ginger ale. We have thoughts and feelings which we hold back from allowing you to see as you accuse me of ignoring you while I was helping to save someone else's mother or father's life next door. We have only two arms and two legs that can carry us only so fast.
What we can do is use our education, our common sense, our scientific research, our ingenuity, our ability to care about other people and put ourselves second, our bodies and our lives to try and help you as best we can. We put ourselves at risk of catching illnesses that you bring to us, of being caught in a fire while saving your family, of being attacked by maniacs while saving you from them, I can do my best to get you pain meds quickly and hope they work on the first dose. I can do my best to get your IV in one try in a comfortable spot. I can do my best to come back and explain things to you once I know what I'm explaining.
All I can do for you is the best that I can. If that is not good enough then just remember, I am not a superhero. I am human. Actually that might make me Batman...
Emergency Responders can not sense your emergency and teleport themselves to you in ten seconds or less and solve all your problems at a moment's notice. They can not sense when you are in danger from miles away and use their telekinesis to foil your attack before it happens. They can not single-handedly lift you and float you on a cloud to the nearest hospital for treatment. They can not summon the gods of earth, water, fire and wind to instantly fix or prevent natural disasters.
We are human. We have bladders that fill to painful proportions. We have stomachs that are empty. We have families who we are away from while yours is angrily staring me down for scarfing a two-pack of saltines while I run to get your emergency sandwich and diet ginger ale. We have thoughts and feelings which we hold back from allowing you to see as you accuse me of ignoring you while I was helping to save someone else's mother or father's life next door. We have only two arms and two legs that can carry us only so fast.
What we can do is use our education, our common sense, our scientific research, our ingenuity, our ability to care about other people and put ourselves second, our bodies and our lives to try and help you as best we can. We put ourselves at risk of catching illnesses that you bring to us, of being caught in a fire while saving your family, of being attacked by maniacs while saving you from them, I can do my best to get you pain meds quickly and hope they work on the first dose. I can do my best to get your IV in one try in a comfortable spot. I can do my best to come back and explain things to you once I know what I'm explaining.
All I can do for you is the best that I can. If that is not good enough then just remember, I am not a superhero. I am human. Actually that might make me Batman...
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