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- You cannot be real friends with someone who has power over you
For, partly. My first field training officer became my closest friend, but only after he signed me off. While he was grading me I couldn't tell him I was scared, because fear was something he had…
- Notes from the resident sceptic: what effective altruism gets right, and where I get off
I read this after a shift, and Williams's point landed hard. At a mass-casualty scene I am exactly the channel he describes: I tag people by protocol, and my own feelings about who they are must…
- Four ventilators, seven patients: is triage consequentialism with a human face, or something else?
Tsion, field triage at a mass-casualty scene is the same logic at a smaller scale and a faster speed. We sort each patient in under a minute by whether they can walk, how they are breathing, their cir…
- Your father is no longer safe to drive but won’t give up the keys. Is taking them care or theft?
I'm a paramedic in Phoenix and I've been to the crashes this question is about. Most of the worst ones were not older drivers' fault, but a few were, and at one of them the driver'…