Mallorykn0x

Hey,

Have you ever directly saved somebody's life? For example, dealing with a suicidal person, talking someone through CPR and the person 'came back to life', getting the police to apprehend a madman just as they were about to murder someone, etc?

Such an emotive job, you must have to switch off your feelings sometimes.

I bet it's hard to beat the buzz you must feel when you talk somebody through a delivery and hear an overwhelmed, exhausted father/friend/relative saying, "IT'S A BOY!?! "

You've got balls to be able to handle suicides. I think I'd end up crying my eyes out every time instead of actually being helpful.

Have you ever heard something terrible going on? Like a shooting, somebody hiding from a murderer, or somebody being beaten up?

Wow. Well I guess you have to remind yourself that your job is to do the best you can in the given situation, so it wouldn't be fair to think you were in any way at fault. It must be awful to hear domestic violence.

There was a story in the UK recently (well, perhaps the last year) where a very young child called up and said mummy wasn't moving, but she couldn't explain where she lived, and for some reason they couldn't trace it (call too short or something). I bet that type of thing is your worst nightmare. It made me shudder to think the child was locked in a house somewhere with limited food and a dead body. Shudder