Grade V Mobilization: Does it mean what you think it means?
For those unfamiliar with the picture above, this is from the movie The Princess Bride in the late 80’s. After his boss Vizzini continues to exclaim “Inconceivable!” every time something doesn’t go as planned, Spanish swordmaster Inigo Montoya makes the confused statement “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”1
I believe the colloquial definition of Grade V mobilization reflects a similar situation in clinical practice to this movie.
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This post will certainly date me as I make a comparison to the classic Star Trek movies. At the end of Star Trek II, the iconic character Spock exposes himself to lethal amounts of radiation in order to repair the Starship Enterprise and allow it to escape a deadly explosion. After fleeing the explosion, the crew communicates with Spock during his dying moments as he is quarantined inside an engineering section. The commander of the ship, Admiral Kirk, is distraught at the imminent death of his friend, but Spock counsels him to not grieve, saying “it is logical; the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.
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