2022 - What's made you happy today

I've just been on nights for a few days, and part of my job when I'm on-call is leading the medical emergency/cardiac arrest team. During one night, one of the in-patients had a cardiac arrest. If you watch hospital dramas on the telly, you'd think that we get people back from a cardiac arrest all the time, but that's pure fantasy. Usually, even if we get the heart beating again, it doesn't last very long or the person is terribly damaged by it and either dies before discharge or is left terribly disabled.

I obviously can't go into any detail, but this person not only got a pulse back but has a good chance of doing well and getting home again. It's so incredibly rare that we get a result like that. I've been a doctor for more than ten years and I've only personally seen three or four cardiac arrests with good outcomes in all that time, and two of those were in very young fit people. Now just keeping all my fingers and toes crossed that this person continues to do well!