[FireBeyond]

Speaking as a paramedic, two things come to mind:

1) I don't have squeamishness about trauma. In the end, we are all blood and tissue. The calls that get to me are the emotionally traumatic, the child abuse, domestic violence, elder abuse (which of course often have a physical component too, but it's the emotional for me), the tragic, often preventable accidents.

2) There are many people, and I get the curiosity, that will ask "what's the worst call you've been on?" - one, you don't really want to hear, and two, "Hey, person I may barely know, do you think you can revisit something traumatic for my benefit/curiosity?"

[Modified3019]

That’s an excellent way to put it, resonates with my (non medical) experience. It’s the emotional stuff that will try to follow me around and be intrusive.

I won’t watch most movies or TV because they are just some sort of tragedy porn.

[coliveira]

> movies or TV because they are just some sort of tragedy porn

100% agree. Most TV series nowadays are basically violence porn, now that real porn is not allowed for all kinds of reasons.

[ocschwar]

I'd be asking "how bad is the fentanyl situation in your are?"

[FireBeyond]

Relatively speaking, not particularly.

What's interesting now is how many patients will say "You're not going to give me fentanyl are you? That's really dangerous stuff", etc.

Their perfect right, of course, but is sad that that's the public perception - it's extremely effective, and quite safe, used properly (for one, we're obviously only giving it from pharma sources, with actually properly dosed solutions for IV).

[BobaFloutist]

It's also super easy to come up with better questions: "What's the funniest call you've ever been on?" "What call do you feel like you made the biggest difference?" "What's the best story you have?"