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Quote: zooo @ October 19 2009, 9:06 PM BST

I wonder if Tim would be even slightly shocked by videos like these, or if he's seen it all the flesh so nothing bothers him...?

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Not shocked by the flesh and blood aspect, more by how some people can become so desensitised by watching such images. Everyone pretty much has some degree of morbid fascination, I don't personally believe that's necessarily unhealthy.

What is disturbing is the existence of individuals who really seek out these videos (quite easy on the internet) and get to the point where they don't connect images of pain/torture/death with actual human suffering. I'm sure no-one around here is like that, but for certain sociopathic personalities, these vids are catnip.

So, in summary, I don't think anything much could physically repulse me, but emotionally...? Definitely.

Ooh, yes, interesting point.

Some doctors must still have to rush off and be sick at the sight of something that comes into hospital though, suuurely. Just now and then.

Quote: zooo @ October 19 2009, 10:08 PM BST

Ooh, yes, interesting point.

Some doctors must still have to rush off and be sick at the sight of something that comes into hospital though, suuurely. Just now and then.

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lol you're such a girl

Quote: Tim Walker @ October 19 2009, 10:05 PM BST

Not shocked by the flesh and blood aspect, more by how some people can become so desensitised by watching such images. Everyone pretty much has some degree of morbid fascination, I don't personally believe that's necessarily unhealthy.

What is disturbing is the existence of individuals who really seek out these videos (quite easy on the internet) and get to the point where they don't connect images of pain/torture/death with actual human suffering. I'm sure no-one around here is like that, but for certain sociopathic personalities, these vids are catnip.

So, in summary, I don't think anything much could physically repulse me, but emotionally...? Definitely.

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Yes. I've seen some really gruesome shit and I actively avoid it now for the reasons you've set out there. I remember seeing pics of corpses on Rotten.com years and years ago and actually feeling nauseous with shock. A few years later I watched a beheading and barely flinched. That's worrying. It really can't be good for the soul, if there is such a thing. The internet's a foul, murky place in parts, but I'm trying to stick to the nice bits and sidestep the horridness.

Which is why I'm leaving this forum. Goodbye!

Kidding.

For now.

Quote: zooo @ October 19 2009, 10:08 PM BST

Some doctors must still have to rush off and be sick at the sight of something that comes into hospital though, suuurely. Just now and then.

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Like MY FACE.

Quote: zooo @ October 19 2009, 10:08 PM BST

Some doctors must still have to rush off and be sick at the sight of something that comes into hospital though, suuurely. Just now and then.

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It is always fun to watch the medical students or baby doctors faint in theatre!
(I did it myself whilst assisting on my first ever surgical emergency.)

I used to anaesthetise for major facial reconstruction surgery, where the skull is split in two lengthways and the skin and muscles stripped off down to the bare bones. That was pretty gory I suppose.

Quote: Tim Walker @ October 19 2009, 10:19 PM BST

It is always fun to watch the medical students or baby doctors faint in theatre!
(I did it myself whilst assisting on my first ever surgical emergency.)

I used to anaesthetise for major facial reconstruction surgery, where the skull is split in two lengthways and the skin and muscles stripped off down to the bare bones. That was pretty gory I suppose.

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Weren't they ever tempted to tell them it was done and let them go home like that? That'll learn em, vain buggers!

Quote: Moonstone @ October 19 2009, 10:22 PM BST

Weren't they ever tempted to tell them it was done and let them go home like that? That'll learn em, vain buggers!

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They were ops that lasted up to 14 hours! Made me wish I was being paid by the hour. Used to take in a wide selection of papers, books and crosswords for the long haul. (In anaesthetic terms they were usually fairly boring.)

Quote: Tim Walker @ October 19 2009, 10:24 PM BST

They were ops that lasted up to 14 hours! Made me wish I was being paid by the hour. Used to take in a wide selection of papers, books and crosswords for the long haul. (In anaesthetic terms they were usually fairly boring.)

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Christ what a nightmare! Did they have to have the same person? Couldn't you just've swapped with someone else after a sensible shift time?

My surgery was about 4 hours long and my guy had to stay the entire time. Isn't that how it usually works?

Quote: Tim Walker @ October 19 2009, 10:19 PM BST

where the skull is split in two lengthways and the skin and muscles stripped off down to the bare bones.

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Oh Jesus shitting Christmas.

Quote: Aaron @ October 19 2009, 10:15 PM BST

Like MY FACE.

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I read that as 'lick my face'

Lick my face and stroke my cannon, phwoar!

Quote: Tim Walker @ October 19 2009, 10:05 PM BST

What is disturbing is the existence of individuals who really seek out these videos (quite easy on the internet) and get to the point where they don't connect images of pain/torture/death with actual human suffering.

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Indeed. And the people who post such stuff. I must be old-fashioned, as I think putting snuff videos and photos on the Internet is wrong. It's like how the news media in some Asian countries, especially Japan, China and Indonesia, love to show gruesome images of death and suffering. Some of their newspapers publish photos of mutilated or charred corpses, executed criminals, murder victims and disfigured/bloated bodies after terrorist attacks or natural disasters. Some of their "current affairs" programs show footage of the same. I'm not against people (apart from small children) being made aware of the inevitability of death and suffering, but I generally don't like images/footage of the recently deceased (let alone videos of people being executed) being so widely disseminated. Perhaps I'm just squeamish. I also detest "current affairs" shows that show grieving people crying, especially in interviews that seem geared toward making bereaved people cry. That's not news, that's just exploiting people's tragedy.

Quote: Kenneth @ October 20 2009, 12:01 AM BST

That's not news, that's just exploiting people's tragedy.

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The counter-argument would be that many in the west (particularly the US) seem to think of war as some kind of modern, sanitized computer game, rather than the mindf**king abattoir that it is.

Quote: Moonstone @ October 19 2009, 10:30 PM BST

Christ what a nightmare! Did they have to have the same person? Couldn't you just've swapped with someone else after a sensible shift time?

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You'd usually find another anaesthetist or two to relieve one for meal/coffee breaks.

Quote: AndreaLynne @ October 19 2009, 10:33 PM BST

My surgery was about 4 hours long and my guy had to stay the entire time. Isn't that how it usually works?

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For a general anaesthetic, there should always be an anaesthetist (or anaesthesiologist, as you guys call them) in attendance at all times, yes.