Leaving aside the question of if high school students are “children”, I agree with the impulse. It is important not to unnecessarily terrorize people, especially children, with things (like mass shootings or cardiac arrests) which are very unlikely. I should differentiate between “mass shooter training” and bleeding control training. Mass shooter training (if a shooter comes into the school this is what we’ll do) is something which I do not believe we should be doing with young school children. It effectively terrorizes children over something that is extraordinarily unlikely, creating a fear that need not exist. It’d be like doing home invasion drills with your children, why would you want to put that thought in their heads before they are old enough to process the probability of ever being a victim of a home invasion? A play must be organized. This is another word for structure. You organize a meal, your closet, your time -- why not your play? My department training an average of 12 people a day for a full calendar year (4,380 people) in basic bleeding control and hands-only CPR, and giving them all a tourniquet

Rossaint R, Bouillon B, Cerny V, Coats TJ, Duranteau J, Fernández-Mondéjar E, Stahel PF, Hunt BJ, Komadina R, Nardi G, Neugebauer E, Ozier Y, Riddez L, Schultz A, Vincent JL, Spahn DR, Task Force for Advanced Bleeding Care in Trauma: Management of bleeding following major trauma: an updated European guideline. Crit Care 2010, 14: R52. 10.1186/cc8943 Imagine a suboptimal hot tub temperature. The kind of temperature where you get in and it’s just warm enough to be mildly infuriating. Nothing cold enough for you to call the manager over. Maybe just hot enough to let the grandkids play in without worry or discomfort. You soak for a while and it doesn’t feel right because it’s roughly the same temperature as your own body. The water neither lifts nor lowers your natural warmth.

Squares of used gauze began to pile up on the mayo stand, damp and red. I had had enough. I continued to hold pressure on the scalp, adding more gauze whenever the current gauze got soaked. Soon, he had six inches of dressing jutting from his head, me applying pressure. I tossed this aside and threw some figure eight ties down with suture, blindly attempting to tie off the bleeding vessel. Live is giving over 11 hours of output to their audience - to tell us about their experiences of the NHS - good, bad and future concerns. The final criticism, which often comes from professionals, is that we can’t expect “lay people” or “civilians” to do these things, let alone do them correctly. They, rightly, point out that out of people who learn CPR, only a percentage of them will actually perform CPR if the time comes, and only a small percentage of that group will do it correctly. This is true, but it is all the more reason to give better training to more people to increase the numbers of people who know these skills, choose to do them when needed, and do them correctly. Florence Nightingale was an activist, a social reformer, a statistician, and a bold nurse who defied stifling British conventions to change history. An indisputable pioneer, Nightingale died in 1910 aged of 90, leaving behind an inspirational legacy that benefits everyone’s medical care today. I was standing at the head of the bed with the patient in the lateral decubitus position, that is, he was lying on his side. While I injected lidocaine with a small needle into the patient’s scalp, I could hear him wincing and breathing through his teeth with each little poke and infusion.

For BBC Radio 4, coverage will begin with Dr Kevin Fong and Isabel Hardman in a special episode of Start the Week alongside GP Phil Whitaker and the historian Andrew Seaton. Also that week, a one-off documentary The NHS at 75: Covid Memories will reflect on the pandemic through the experience of health service staff. Language is a form of entertainment. Beautiful language can be like beautiful music: it can amuse, inspire, mystify, enlighten.

Invest something truly personal in each of your characters, even if it's something of your worst self. In all your plays be sure to write at least one impossible thing. And don't let your director talk you out of it.