"Boston ER Doctor Finds Marathon Memories Hard To Shake "

[hedgehog]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/04/24/178850615/boston-er-doctor-finds-marathon-memories-hard-to-shake?ft=1&f=1001


Really? A story about someone who finds the memories hard to shake a week and a half later!?!?

[Fresh_Start]

1. Or we could try a little empathy nt

nt

[marions ghost]

2. There will be a lot of PTSD

to deal with in this. The psychological damage is as bad as the physical.

[Blue_Tires]

5. One of Walter Cronkite's first assignments was the New London school explosion

and he said out of all the things he'd seen in his life, that was what mentally scarred him the most

[marions ghost]

7. When was that

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[Blue_Tires]

8. 1937

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London_School_explosion

[marions ghost]

10. horrible

reminding me of the Texas fertilizer story. Gross negligence.

[cbdo2007]

3. It's hard to shake for me too after a week and a half and I'm 2000 miles away....

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]

4. My best friend from college is

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]

6. It's not that i don't feel for those involved, but to imply

that people should be shaking off these memories a week later is total nonsense. It takes time to process and time to forget.

[Dash87]

9. Not just memories. Horrific memories. The ones

that haunt you.