FIC: "Hero", Robert Chase
Jan. 20th, 2006 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rwryterTitle: Hero
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hawkeyecat
Fandom: House
Character: Chase
Prompt: 006. Hours
Community: fanfic100
Word Count: 140
Rating: Everyone
Disclaimer: I have approximately as many rights to House as David Shore does to my computer. I’d willingly trade him, though.
Author's Notes: I have what some may call a “bad habit” of using my Friends list. I say it gets them fic. This prompt was chosen bydarksky23 (sort of). My thanks, as always, to sarcasticsra for the beta.
People don’t die fast.
It’s a fact. You see the rare exception, especially down in the emergency room, but by and large, the process drags out. Some take longer than others, though they may have identical conditions. Even after hard training, you still can’t predict a precise time of death.
Even that varies. How do you define death? When respiration ceases? Cardiac function halts? Or do you wait for the brain waves to end, and do everything you can until then?
These are the questions you face daily as an intensivist, and they always make you question why you went into the specialty. That is, until you come across a miracle child, one you predicted had perhaps a 5% chance of recovery and is off the ventilator in two days. Then you remember why.
You want to be a hero.
Author:
hawkeyecatFandom: House
Character: Chase
Prompt: 006. Hours
Community: fanfic100
Word Count: 140
Rating: Everyone
Disclaimer: I have approximately as many rights to House as David Shore does to my computer. I’d willingly trade him, though.
Author's Notes: I have what some may call a “bad habit” of using my Friends list. I say it gets them fic. This prompt was chosen by
darksky23 (sort of). My thanks, as always, to sarcasticsra for the beta.People don’t die fast.
It’s a fact. You see the rare exception, especially down in the emergency room, but by and large, the process drags out. Some take longer than others, though they may have identical conditions. Even after hard training, you still can’t predict a precise time of death.
Even that varies. How do you define death? When respiration ceases? Cardiac function halts? Or do you wait for the brain waves to end, and do everything you can until then?
These are the questions you face daily as an intensivist, and they always make you question why you went into the specialty. That is, until you come across a miracle child, one you predicted had perhaps a 5% chance of recovery and is off the ventilator in two days. Then you remember why.
You want to be a hero.
