My first experience with cardiopulmonary resuscitation was during the summer of 1969. I was an orderly in a Minneapolis intensive care unit (ICU) when my patient stopped breathing. I called for help and provided mouth-to-mouth breathing and chest message until the team arrived. Later the doctor told me I saved the patient’s life, further convincing me that medicine was my life’s purpose.
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– Brookings Register