[asianthree]

ER Doctor...fractures...abuse....burns....accidents.. .sucide....cardiac arrest...birth and death...and you get to talk to each and every family and give them the good or bad news

[jrandall]

Law Enforcement

[mainlander]

Graciegirl, I do not know where you get these ideas for thread discussions, obviously from a very sharp and creative mind. " The absolute worst of humanity..."? I do not know where this ranks, but in my life I have managed a number of political campaigns and believe me, being exposed to some people under constant stress for a couple of months of 24/7 closeness you often see the "worst of humanity" and often it is from the candidate themselves... a sad but true reality.

[DougB]

Guess it would have to be the dude that gives that lethal injection.

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

There is a broad spectrum of retirees here, many who have seen some really overwhelming and awful sides of the human condition.

What professions would be the worst as far as seeing awful and shocking realities of our times?

Social work, law enforcement, medicine, teaching?

I do wonder, graciegirl, where you get ideas for a thread like this?

I had an uncle who was a scout in WWII in Italy in 1943 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian...(World_War_II) and who got hit with a tank tree burst which caused him to lose an arm, a leg, and a good part of his skull. He lived but only he and one of his fellow squad member's survived this. Of course, WWII was over for him. He had a great life as a small town hero of Itasca, Illinois. Until that is, dementia started and he began reliving his war days over and over as if it all was happening again. A lot of this was because of his head wound caused by the Panzer tank tree burst. It hits up high and sends shrapnel down onto troops as well as parts of trees like wood shards and caused horrific wounds.

I had been taking care of him before they got him into a nursing home back in 1994 in Itasca. Other times, he would relive more pleasant memories as if they were taking place right then and start having conversations with people from long ago and even naked Indians which he probably saw on some Western in the 1940s.

A lot of our troops coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan are experiencing similar trauma from IEDs. Of course, there are probably a lot more soldiers and others who never see the front lines and are never anywhere near IED explosions.

There are probably also soldiers who enjoy war, killing, violence and other aspects of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Kind of hard to generalize about various professions.

[Villages PL]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

A lot of our troops coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan are experiencing similar trauma from IEDs.

One day I was sitting in a waiting room, waiting to get a blood test, and I saw a car pull up and two men got out. It looked like father and son. And the son was struggling to walk on two artificial legs. It's one thing to hear about trauma but when you actually see it, it's a whole different thing. It's very upsetting just to think about it, but these traumatized young men have to live with it every day.

[jannd228]

Originally Posted by mentoj

Now that I have officially retired from teaching after 39 years, I have to say teachers. It may not be politically correct to say, but everyone comes through the halls of a school. They may not graduate, but they are there until they are at least 16. Many times teachers see the signs of what is to come but can say little. They do what they can for students but parents are the decision makers. That's it in a nutshell. I can write a book, but I'll stop here!!!

I agree especially if one works at the high school level as I did

[renielarson]

I'm sure my best girlfriend of 50 years would say being a nurse at St. Jude's in Memphis.

[TexaninVA]

Originally Posted by tucson

Psychologist in a prison for the criminally insane/ treatment center for sexually dangerous persons.

That sounds like it is indeed at the very top of the list

[kittygilchrist]

Originally Posted by TexaninVA

That sounds like it is indeed at the very top of the list

hey I worked in mental health with criminally insane murderers/sexual offenders...it was a dangerous work environment, but not the worst of humanity in my book of ugly.
at least they are insane.
child sexual abusers and baby torturers top my list for depravity.
especially heinous because most of them are family members or mother's boyfriend.

[ssmith]

I am with Kitty...could not take the children and their situations. My daughter fosters newborns and we have seen some really sad situations.

Suzi, what did you do?

[BobandMarilyn]

In the end, it must be a proctologist.

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by kittygilchrist

hey I worked in mental health with criminally insane murderers/sexual offenders...it was a dangerous work environment, but not the worst of humanity in my book of ugly.
at least they are insane.
child sexual abusers and baby torturers top my list for depravity.
especially heinous because most of them are family members or mother's boyfriend.

Since you seem to have some expertise in the area of victims' experiences, I would like to get your opinion on what this group might like to see in public, law, medical, and other type libraries? Since I basically got kicked out of the law librarianship profession in mid-1991 which was made quite clear to me at the law library convention in New Orleans in the Summer of 1991 and then cemented even further at the law librarianship convention in San Francisco in the Summer of 1992; I tried to do something with my own extremely limited resources about a niche I had found in my library meanderings from late February of 1976 through then. I ordered a copy of the National Organization for Victim Assistance Directory of Victim Assistance Programs and Resources and wrote maybe 1000 of these programs listed in this Directory and asked them what they would like to see in libraries of different types especially public and law libraries. This was a technique taught at the Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Management at the University of Denver (Class of May, 1984) in the Collection Development course. You go to a group you serve or would like to serve and get an idea of what they would like to see in your library.

Of course, I recommended this NOVA Directory as being one of the most important reference volumes that should be in libraries.

I became quite a pest of libraries and librarians as being blackballed gives you a lot of free time. And, after I had gone to the then Librarian of Congress for help, the then Law Librarian of Congress (M. Kathleen Price) who I had worked under at the University of Minnesota Law Library from around 1988 through 1990, had said that access to victims' rights information in libraries was important but it would take ALL libraries to address this issue. Kind of like a lawyer asking for one file and getting sent the whole archives of some place.

I would like to get more input on this especially with respect to Villages' area libraries, websites, Sheriff's Department websites and the like. What would be useful for a victim/survivor to have access to that would make their lives easier to deal with in the short and long run?

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by BobandMarilyn

In the end, it must be a proctologist.

Like the pun, do not like the proctologist.

[Tracy1581]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

there is a broad spectrum of retirees here, many who have seen some really overwhelming and awful sides of the human condition.

What professions would be the worst as far as seeing awful and shocking realities of our times?

Social work, law enforcement, medicine, teaching?

homicide detectives