It could be me!

A  Rescue Helicopter suffered a fatal crash in L’Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. Six person died in the crash. Doctor, Nurse, Pilot, HHO, Mountain rescue expert, patient. 

The helicopter crashed during a routine HEMS mission.

The five people of the crew and the patient all died.

When something like that happens the first thought for an HEMS professional is:

IT COULD BE ME!

Then you start to rationalise the situation, mostly in a technical and non emotional way, and arrive at the conclusion:

NEVER WOULD HAPPEN TO ME. 

There are many reason, in my opinion, why we arrive at that. 

We all have family and friends to care about and who take care of us. And we can’t even imagine them devastated by grief.

Our major concern is about patients health and not about our safety. 

And finally, we are humans and human being self-protect their inner fragility, avoiding to hurt themselves thinking about death, especially their own .

But I know, and always will. that IT COULD HAVE BE ME despite any protection and self-lie.

Cause even the 6 persons  who died in the crash had family and friends that now live in a devastating grief.

Even them were taking care of patients over they own safety.

And also them were humans, like me. 

So WAS ME! 

Today a part of me ideally died in that crash.

Tomorrow a new day will begin, but from now on things will look different.