The Lack of Certainty

I just read the news regarding an untrained nurse who whilst doing her daily routine of servicing her patient ( this is an in-house nurse), accidentally switched off  (I cant emphasis more on the word ‘switched off’) the respiratory help machine. The patient was left for 14 minutes unattended with the untrained nurse beside him trying to perform a resuscitation and what do you know, she performs it wrongly. So we might as well say that he is unattended for 14 minutes. And the result of that? Well it is a pretty easy conclusion to make for anyone who has a reasonable thinking skills..lack of oxygen, 14 minutes…well u perform some calculation and you get a pretty much disabled person. He was a disabled person before this as a result from his mishap a few years back, but he could still exercise a reasonable judgement and communication. But now his speech seems slurred like me and his quality of life has been affected tremendously as a result. Imagine that you put your life on stake and anyone would reckon that hiring a personal nurse from a reputable firm would of course comes with it a professional treatment that is above of the general hospital and greater care could be provided. So hence the title ‘The Lack of Certainty’. We never could be certain of the outcome of our decision. Well we could most probably use money to improve our odds, but it is by no means extracting out the inherent risk that persist. We are however risk averse people and will try to minimize our exposed risk as minimal as it can be especially when it comes to our health with the exception of drunkards, drug addicts and smokers. Uncertainty conceals danger

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