Mushmouth
04-22-2017, 07:05 AM
Nurses and physicians in Chicago's trauma units say they feel these shootings in their souls. Day after day, they work 12-hour shifts without enough resources to handle the shooting victims. When their shifts end, it isn't the body disfigurement or the gore that haunts them when they get home. It's witnessing despair. A child who sustains a life-altering head injury. A mother who loses her first-born son.
Over time, some caretakers become numb. Researchers call the condition compassion fatigue: a mixture of burnout and traumatic stress. Local physicians and nurses say they haven't lost their compassion, but some say they've been in situations where they try to isolate their emotions in an attempt to distance themselves from the grief they witness each day.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-hospitals-compassion-fatigue-gun-violence-met-20170421-story.html
Over time, some caretakers become numb. Researchers call the condition compassion fatigue: a mixture of burnout and traumatic stress. Local physicians and nurses say they haven't lost their compassion, but some say they've been in situations where they try to isolate their emotions in an attempt to distance themselves from the grief they witness each day.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-hospitals-compassion-fatigue-gun-violence-met-20170421-story.html