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Re:More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnos... by FireBeyond on Saturday December 21, 2024 @08:31PM (#42483773)
Speaking as a paramedic, two things come to mind:

1) I don't have squeamishness about trauma. In the end, we are all blood and tissue. The calls that get to me are the emotionally traumatic, the child abuse, domestic violence, elder abuse (which of course often have a physical component too, but it's the emotional for me), the tragic, often preventable accidents.

2) There are many people, and I get the curiosity, that will ask "what's the worst call you've been on?" - one, you don't really want to hear, and two, "Hey, person I may barely know, do you think you can revisit something traumatic for my benefit/curiosity?"

Re:More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnos... by BobaFloutist on Sunday December 22, 2024 @01:08AM (#42484678)
It's also super easy to come up with better questions: "What's the funniest call you've ever been on?" "What call do you feel like you made the biggest difference?" "What's the best story you have?"
Re:More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnos... by Modified3019 on Sunday December 22, 2024 @01:32AM (#42484745)
That’s an excellent way to put it, resonates with my (non medical) experience. It’s the emotional stuff that will try to follow me around and be intrusive.

I won’t watch most movies or TV because they are just some sort of tragedy porn.

Re:More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnos... by coliveira on Sunday December 22, 2024 @10:25AM (#42486906)
> movies or TV because they are just some sort of tragedy porn

100% agree. Most TV series nowadays are basically violence porn, now that real porn is not allowed for all kinds of reasons.

Re:More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnos... by ocschwar on Sunday December 22, 2024 @11:15AM (#42487234)
I'd be asking "how bad is the fentanyl situation in your are?"
Re:More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnos... by FireBeyond on Sunday December 22, 2024 @12:07PM (#42487616)
Relatively speaking, not particularly.

What's interesting now is how many patients will say "You're not going to give me fentanyl are you? That's really dangerous stuff", etc.

Their perfect right, of course, but is sad that that's the public perception - it's extremely effective, and quite safe, used properly (for one, we're obviously only giving it from pharma sources, with actually properly dosed solutions for IV).