From: "Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l" 

I prefer professionalism to belief that it doesn't matter.

(Side Note: This is also an argument for rotation from field to field. ER
is stressful. So is ICU. So is psychiatric nursing (which my mom practiced
and taught.) Rotating between different kinds of stress can help prevent a
"mental repetitive stress syndrome".... [It also
improves overall knowledge by cross-fertilization between specialties....])

gs


"Tanj"  wrote in message news:39634ca2{at}w3.nls.net...
> I think Jeff's point is that humans simply can't do that, day in, day out.
> They have to have some coping mechanism.  It might be religion.  It might
be
> consumate professionalism.  But it can't be living on the edge of anxiety
> daily.  I've an acquaintance who has been an ER physician for 20 years -
you
> can't do that for 20 years.
>
> "Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l" 
wrote in message
> news:395f5a25{at}w3.nls.net...
> >
> > "Jeff Shultz - Shultz Infosystems" 
wrote in message
> > news:g1mtlscavtu8hrj3gmifdt6v1rlm7tb6cp{at}4ax.com...
> > > On Sat, 1 Jul 2000 21:32:20 -0700, in
, "Gregg
> > > Strom/BRYX Int'l"  wrote:
> >
> > > Sounds like you want EMT's with a much higher chance of going
> > > psychotic.
> >
> > No. I want them to value life with at the HIGHEST possible value.
> >
> > gs
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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