I busted my knee up a few years ago. I was examined in the emergency room by a female "Doctor" who could not find my pulse. After several minutes of huffing and puffing trying to find it, she got angry and said, and I quote "Look, I can see that you're OK, so i'll just leave it at that" and walked away quickly. A nurse then stitched my knee up.

I can't have been that OK if she was not able to confirm my pulse. Does the fact that she could not find my pulse indicate my blood pressure had dropped drastically to a dangerous level? If I was unconscious from blood loss (I did lose a lot of blood) would she have declared me dead, or taken a defribillator to my chest, thus ensuring that I would be dead as a result?

I've been treated by Doctors a few times over the years for accidents, and they were always professional and did the job properly.