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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Appreciate the armchair psych consult[/quote]

You're welcome - it's amateur too, but then you're looking for validation on an anonymous forum rather than talking to a pro.

[quote]however the day I am so "toughened up" that seeing a child burned alive for crying or beaten to death for soiling his diaper fails to bother me is the day I quit medicine.[/quote]

Oh Doctor Kildaire! Your saintliness is beyond reproach!

Give up the sanctimony.

I suggested that maybe this stuff eats at you, and I don't believe that's sustainable.  If your job is gut-wrenching on a regular basis, then you're gonna burn out.  I don't doubt a minute you deal with some horrible shit, and major kudos to you for it, but at some point, most people have to be able to be a little cold and impartial about it, or they get eaten alive.  I was defending Doctors who come off as 'unempathetic' as a result of developing this necessary emotional distance.  As the other posted: in an emergent situation, you have to be cool calm and collected.

[quote]No idea why you feel I do not respect DH. I can't bear what a big deal my DH makes out of small problems. It drives me bananasHe actually says my work helps him keep his work in perspective.[/quote]

You yourself came on here and said "I can't bear what a big deal my DH makes out of small problems. It drives me bananas".

That's why.  Your own words.  Not, "it's mildly annoying", but "it drives me bananas".

If it's bugging you enough to come on here complaining and looking for validation, then it's bugging you a lot and you think his worries and concerns are trivial.

Oh, and the fact that he says you help him keep his perspective? [b]That's a measure of how much he respects you, not how much you respect him. [/b][/quote]

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