random question for medical professionals

[MJ2.0]

When you were training, were you ever squeamish/weirded out by seeing blood/insides? If so, how did you get over that?

[HoneyBBQ]

Sometimes yes and sometimes no. Mostly you just get used to it and you learn tricks of the trade (we had 'morgue cream' we would put under our noses if something smelled really bad). Focus on parts, not the person. But mostly just time and experience. 

[MJ2.0]

I see how that works for doctors, but what about nurses? I imagine it's nearly impossible to separate the parts from the person....


tagging mmhmm

[Deleted]

My aunt used to pass out at the sight of blood (same as me), but went on to be a nurse for 40 years.  She said it just gets to be part of the job. 

I was freaked out about Anatomy class for the longest time, but after awhile working with the cadavers didn't bother me at all. 

[swasat]

My MIL is a doctor, a neo-natologist.

I remember her saying that once you are in med school, and later during training, it all becomes a "job". Your focus tends to shift to co-relating book knowledge with practical experience. Gradually it becomes another thing in a day's job, where there are so many bigger problems to solve that bloody sights don't even register on your overworked brain.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

No human patient experience but as far as mice goes. ..it comes with experience and practice.  I've killed and taken apart so many mice at this stage in my career that I don't blink an eye.  I'm so "bad" that I don't stop anymore if I get goop on my face because that's five minutes wasted.  I tend to horrify students.

I had a friend who thought about being a nurse but would actually pass out at the sight of blood.   He toughed it out for the rest of the class but ended up dropping out of the CNA program.  

Then I know of people who have never been able to get beyond the ick factor of mice either.   They are quickly expelled from the lab if possible because they are a waste of time/money.   Some do end up with special snowflake status and can make others do their work for them.    I doubt that would fly in a medical program.

[moon/Laura]

MJ2.0 - mmhmm isn't around right now. She got the flu, then was in an accident. Not sure when she'll be back.

[MJ2.0]

oh no. 

[Deleted]

Not a medical professional but I was around a lot of blood and guts on the farm growing up, I just got used to it. It doesn't bother me now to see any of it and I think it was because of being around it growing up.

Came in handy as at one point in my career I worked with medical devices and part of it was an education on how they are used. While others were squeamish it was nothing for me.

[tractor]

I don't fit you medical professional description, but I used to be really squeamish up until the point I had to do 200 waterfowl necropsy's in college, after that everything was easy. I don't work with human body parts, but about anything else fascinates me. In fact I'm eating lunch right now thinking about this topic and it doesn't bother me at all,

[weltschmerz]

Jan 23, 2017 10:09:33 GMT -5 MJ2.0 said:

When you were training, were you ever squeamish/weirded out by seeing blood/insides? If so, how did you get over that?

No, I was never squeamish or weirded out.

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

Not humans, but I have opened a lot of lab animals to retrieve organs.  I've never really been squeamish, even when whatever was happening was happening to me.

In fact, when I sliced the hell out of my hand, the post doc in the lab damn near fainted while I was trying to instruct him to get me a package of unopened gauze to try to staunch the flow of blood.  I could see the tendons in my hand, and I remember just looking at it in fascination.  I was really hoping to be able to stay awake during my hip replacements, but my surgeon wasn't on board with that.

[buystoys]

Visuals never bothered me when I worked in medicine.  Smells, though?  There are a couple I can think of off the top of my head that will make my stomach churn uncomfortably.  I never vomited in front of a patient, but it was a close thing a couple of times.

[Rukh O'Rorke]

Best wishes to mmhmm!