Can you be desensitized to blood?

If you regularly faint at the sight of blood, and are terribly squeamish, being a doctor may not be the best career choice for you. However, if it’s a general discomfort and queasiness, then it’s likely you’ll get used to it, and function just fine as a physician.

Does trauma desensitize?

When we experience something traumatic, we are usually deeply impacted by it, and sometimes there is considerable damage done to our mental, emotional and physical health. Over time, we can become desensitized to trauma in various ways.

Are medical trainees becoming desensitized to technology?

Health care professionals are spending more time behind a screen, treating electronic versions of patients, losing physical facetime with the patients themselves, and becoming increasingly impersonal, much like the backlit screens they are made to stare at. For medical trainees today, desensitization is almost inevitable.

Why do we desensitize our bodies?

So we begin the process of desensitization, as a form of self-protection. The amount of medical knowledge we must learn is colossal.

Is it necessary to desensitize death in medicine?

That’s tough. But it’s so very necessary for those doctors that deal with death on a regular basis, because if they were to take it home with them, it could seriously endanger their lives with their families….. As with the others – desensitized may not be the right way to describe it.

Is desensitization hurting your professional fulfillment?

This is our profession’s unfortunate reality: In the short-term, desensitization protects us from feeling intense pain and grief. But it impedes us from genuinely being present for our patients, impairing our ability to develop strong relationships with them and to also to find long-term professional fulfillment.