I was an EMT in California. It is amazing what you can get used to. I still watch the graphic operations on TV to keep myself from becoming squeamish. Besides, it is all so very interesting. I try to never pass up an opportunity to learn something new or experience something new or useful.

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Yes, and with your mental control, you can block out the pain

IMO, amnesia doesn’t work that way. It doesn’t make you stupid, you just forget some things. Unlike the TV dramas, the person that has amnesia may not even know it. To him, things may appear to be ok.

For instance, they said this guy was in Panama. Perhaps he used to live in Panama, and simply went home. No doubt there would be times when things didn’t exactly make sense, but then some people may go out of their way to hide the fact that there is something wrong with them. Maybe he was confused, but didn’t want people to think he was crazy. Otherwise, there is no reason he could not function normally.

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Or he just made up a total cock-and-bull story and didn't research real amnesia when he did it, but just used the TV/popular version.

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I doubt that. A point sources like a stitch, or a root canal is easy. I don’t think I could block out the pain of thousands of nerve endings being cut.

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I am very squeemish. In seventh grade I had Health the class before lunch. I had also just gotten a teething German Shepard, so I looked like something from a prison movie, very skinny and with scars on my arms and legs.

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His wife has admitted the whole thing was a con, I heard her neighbour in Panama on Radio Scotland this afternoon saying she saw him there six months ago....... all seems pretty much cut and dried. Good old fashioned fraud, clumsily executed.

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Do you have a link? I saw where she said she may have to pay it back, but I didn’t see where she said it was a con.

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One more thing , I still have this fear with the needles used by the dentist. But it doesn't mean I don't have my dental check-up regulary , it's just that , it's a dreaded feeling whenever I see my dentist .

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I can stand watching surgical operations over TV but NOT right before my very eyes!

Last month I rushed my son to the hospital in the middle of night , and as expected the ER is full of people . You know how an ER looks like with all these emergency activities. I strengthen myself not to pass out and concentrate on my baby condition (he underwent an appendectomy procedure).
It's like in the ER TV series, and in Greys Anatomy Show , but when you're really in that place , and see it firsthand , it's really different and the tension is HIGH.

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I was an EMT for the company I worked for back in the early 1970s. The product was aluminum cans. The stock was huge rolls of thin aluminum. Many machines were chain driven with no protection. Ditto with the drawing and ironing machines.

I dealt with many cases of severed limbs, digits, and deep gashes. We kept an ample supply of ice in the quality control lab so we could cold pack the severed body part in order to preserve it until it and its former owner both got to the emergency room.

Only had one death to deal with. A machine tech in the D&I department keeled over from a heart attack at his work station. He had been dead for a few minutes when I examined him. The D&I supervisor yelled at everyone to stop standing around and get back to work. So they worked with a corpse in their midst until we were able to get the appropriate personnel and authorities to remove it properly.

A lot of this was pre-OSHA.

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My father claimed that by the time he finished med school, he could perform an autopsy while eating a candy bar!

Squeamishness is learned behavior. It can be unlearned if the situation is right and/or the motivation is there.

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