{"id":9,"date":"2009-07-06T23:18:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T22:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/?p=9"},"modified":"2009-07-06T23:18:18","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T22:18:18","slug":"young-lives-cut-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/2009\/07\/06\/young-lives-cut-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Lives Cut Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: small;font-family: Arial\">An ex-colleague died of a sore throat today.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>It was an apparently innocuous infection that eventually affected his heart and lungs, and despite intravenous antibiotics he died.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I did not think that people died of infections any more in our medically sophisticated western world.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>He was a talented and intelligent man, had just been promoted, he loved his wife and his dogs, and was younger than me.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The same day I hear that an 11 year old in my son\u2019s year at school has died of a brain haemorrhage.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Life can be very cruel.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I start reflecting on my own mortality and end up feeling melancholy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ex-colleague died of a sore throat today.\u00a0 It was an apparently innocuous infection that eventually affected his heart and lungs, and despite intravenous antibiotics he died.\u00a0 I did not think that people died of infections any more in our medically sophisticated western world.\u00a0 He was a talented and intelligent man, had just been promoted, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/2009\/07\/06\/young-lives-cut-short\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192,1190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evidence-based-nursing","category-student-nurse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}