I taught CPR for the American Red Cross for over a decade, and one of the issues we discussed was the tendency of people having an urgent health crisis to immediately go into denial, or think getting into a car and driving to a hospital was wisdom (instead of calling for an ambulance, back in the olden days when this wasn’t a thousand dollar expense). My personal theory has always been the herd mentality of not wanting to be “weak” because everyone knows the “old and weak” are prey for the predators, and this is probably ancient survival instinct, but whatever it is, it goes deep. We were told we increased the chances for survival just by making people aware of the signs and symptoms of heart attack and stroke. I pray it helped.
I taught CPR for the American Red Cross for over a decade, and one of the issues we discussed was the tendency of people having an urgent health crisis to immediately go into denial, or think getting into a car and driving to a hospital was wisdom (instead of calling for an ambulance, back in the olden days when this wasn’t a thousand dollar expense). My personal theory has always been the herd mentality of not wanting to be “weak” because everyone knows the “old and weak” are prey for the predators, and this is probably ancient survival instinct, but whatever it is, it goes deep. We were told we increased the chances for survival just by making people aware of the signs and symptoms of heart attack and stroke. I pray it helped.