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Originally Posted by SouthernDZ
For what it is worth, an 18D has to have the mindset that medicine isn't always pretty and pain "is the patient's problem" - this sounds cold and uncaring, it isn't. Proper medical care sometimes hurts; bury your emotions and do what is proper and necessary.
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Though I think I understand what you are trying to say here, I have to disagree with the way you have presented it.
There are numerous ways to handle patients appropriately and effectively in both combat and clinical environments-with the aim of lessening their pain by providing proper medical care while accomplishing whatever it is that needs to be done. Mission or otherwise. Pain may be the patient's problem, but
management of that pain is part of my job.
Sure, chest tubes hurt, so do IO's and FAST-1's. Shoot-even IV's. And yes they ALL need to be accomplished based on the patient situation..."this is going to hurt for a second, but it is going to save your life. I'll make you more comfortable in a just a minute."
So-their pain is my problem, whether they own it before I get to them, or I instigate it. I always
try to inflict as little discomfort as is required to get the job done.
Medicine is a practice, how you practice it makes it an art...
Eagle