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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Boston ER Doctor Finds Marathon Memories Hard To Shake "
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/04/24/178850615/boston-er-doctor-finds-marathon-memories-hard-to-shake?ft=1&f=1001Really? A story about someone who finds the memories hard to shake a week and a half later!?!?
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)nt
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)to deal with in this. The psychological damage is as bad as the physical.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)and he said out of all the things he'd seen in his life, that was what mentally scarred him the most
marions ghost
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Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)marions ghost
(19,841 posts)reminding me of the Texas fertilizer story. Gross negligence.
cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)I can't imagine them ever "getting over" this, nor should they. Blocking it out of your mind isn't a very good coping strategy.
WilmywoodNCparalegal
(2,654 posts)a vascular surgeon at Mass General. In those days, she worked through the day and night, often with a two-hour sleep break. She said that the kind of injuries she saw were the kind that in medical school were shown as examples of 'war' injuries. It wasn't just bones - bones are relatively easy to fix or amputate. The hard part about the many injuries was the shrapnel - which often severed arteries and veins, causing massive blood losses. Bleeding out is a horrible way to die.
Yes, she too has some problems trying to forget the quantity and kind of injuries she saw. I don't begrudge anyone who has some PTSD-like symptoms after experiencing this kind of event and its aftermath.
Of course, these things happen daily in war theaters, but I doubt many doctors in Boston would consider Boston to be a war theater.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)that people should be shaking off these memories a week later is total nonsense. It takes time to process and time to forget.
Dash87
(3,220 posts)that haunt you.