Almost everyone believes they would step forward in an emergency. Again and again, people freeze instead. This episode of First 5 Minutes looks at why, and at the single decision that separates the people who act from the people who wait.

The show draws on the work of Dr. Alexander Eastman, a trauma surgeon and EMS physician who led the Rees-Jones Trauma Center at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, serves as a reserve lieutenant and Chief Medical Officer with the Dallas Police Department, and contributed to the Hartford Consensus, the national effort behind Stop the Bleed.

In this episode:

• Why freezing in a crisis is biology, not cowardice
• How the presence of a crowd makes each person less likely to act, not more
• Why fear of "doing the wrong thing" is often the more dangerous choice
• The difference ...