How to learn if you have stomach for medicine

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<p>I’m a senior in high school, last summer I volunteered in a fairly new ER so there wasn’t a lot of traffic but I did get to see some. I found out stuff I thought would bother me didn’t, we had a guy come in with half his finger in a bag of ice which I found interesting and he actually okayed me watching him getting treated. The one thing that bothered me was patients who came in with no personal hygeine, I don’t know why. </p>

<p>Also someone mentioned a vet clinic, for me at least animals and humans are really different. I can’t watch an animal be in pain, be euthanized, ect. Too much of an animal lover.</p>

<p>Trust your daughter :slight_smile: if this is something she is seriously interested in she has probably thought about it quite a bit.</p>

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<p>I totally agree. If you had asked me when I was 17 if I had the stomach for nursing, I would have absolutely told you that I knew without a doubt that I could NEVER do that. It’s not necessarily true that a person can know for sure at a young age how they will react to certain circumstances as an adult. I know nurses who have guts of steel who used to faint at the sight of blood when they were teens.</p>