Paramedics in need of support instead face bullying in NSW Ambulance service
This article about a paramedic who found that one particularly gruesome job sent him into PTSD made me wonder: will there any detectable de-sensitising effect on younger paramedics who come to the job already used to playing the most gruesome computer games?
Sensitivity to game violence seems to be an age related thing - I know I find clips of it I see on Good Game or elsewhere disturbing enough, and just don't understand why people aren't repulsed by it; but young people just seem to take it in their stride.
If there is anything to it have a desensitising effect, then one would think it might show up in young people (men particularly) who are becoming paramedics now.
Go to it, psychologists. (Even if we don't really expect the first study to be replicated!)
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