Shock and Awe: Dispatches from a First-Year Med Student | Simulation in Health Sciences Education | Scoop.it
From healthland.time.com - September 15, 2012 1:27 AM

Our mock clinical scenario: an elderly woman (fortunately, a mannequin, whose vital signs the EMS instructor makes up as we go along) collapses in a ShopRite supermarket, aisle 3. Unresponsive, she has stopped breathing. We check: no pulse. The instructor is quizzing us on the emergency response protocol. Then he asks a different type of question: “Is the patient dead or alive?”