Credibility and Redundancy

I’m going to make an important point and I need you to pay attention. That sentence, the one I just wrote. The one about saying something important. That was a redundant statement. And it undermined your sense of my credibility as a blogger and an EMS educator. No really, it did.

Not in a huge way. Not like if I had said something that you knew to be completely false, or got all wishy-washy, namby-pamby about some critical issue regarding your patient care. But it made you doubt my sincerity just a little. Somewhere in your subconscious you thought, “If it’s important, why not just say it?” You questioned why I felt the need to preface my important thought with a statement declaring my own thought important.

It’s as if I doubted my own credibility.

So why shouldn’t you doubt it too.

Right?

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Trust

For the most part, people trust us.

When they hand over their confidential medical information, they trust us.

When they hand over the keys to their houses, their cars and their posessions, they trust us.

When they surrender their limbs to our IV’s and their bodies to our medications, they trust us.

When they open the front door and point toward the back bedroom where their loved one lays in bed and say, “She’s back here.” they trust us.

When they hold their baby in outstreached arms they trust us.

They trust that we know the right thing to do.

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