You mean, like when you said “when was the last time a human doctor euthanized a healthy person simply because they had a broken limb? Or skip that, when was the last time a doctor euthanized a healthy person with nothing wrong with them at all (animal shelter medicine where healthy animals are euthanized every day)? When was the last time a doctor determined if the treatment was worth more than what the actual person is worth and therefore killed the person?? (like what happens multiple times a day in farm animal med)?”
That isn't "one-upping" that was asking the OP legitimate questions. That was asking her when she has experienced specific things that happen in vet med that do not happen in human medicine, thinking that she might see there are some differences there that she had not thought about. Many others also pointed that same thing out. Not anywhere in that post of mine did I say or even suggest that she can't handle those things. Not anywhere did I say that those things are 42341232 times worse than anything she has seen. I did consistently state over and over again that one cannot know how they will react in a situation until they have been in it. I did consistently state that the OP will probably be fine with the emotional aspects, but they WILL BE different than those she has experienced. That is all that anyone through the entire discussion has stated. Except for you and the OP. The OP stated over and over again that she "gets it" because of what she has seen as an EMT. I stated that I don't doubt she has seen emotionally horrific things. NEVER, EVER did I once state she had not. Nor did I ever once or anyone else ever once state that what we see in vet med is worse. We all repeatedly and consistently stated that it is different. We never said it was worse. EVER.
However the OP does state this:
"I told you guys I was an EMT and there has been such a heavy emphasis on the "hardships" of dealing with patient/animal interaction. You guys don't think I know what it's like to deal with bad interactions? Or the hardships of having to put an animal down?"
And this:
"But please don't act like you have to be "ready" for the emotional aspect."
And this:
"Yes, I can. What is the difference between a ten year old girl ejected from a motor vehicle because her mother didn't put her daughter's seat belt on, resulting in a life as a vegetable... and a healthy puppy having to be euthanized?" (Clearly showing that she doesn't get how they can be different. And again, people responding to this never stated one was "worse" than the other, they both suck, but there is a giant difference between the two.)
I could keep going about how she continued over and over to state repeatedly that she "knows" and "gets" this stuff from her experience as an EMT where not a single on of us stated the same thing back to her...
Actually I suggested it back to her in the reverse order here:
"You keep repeating over and over that you're an EMT so you "get it", but you don't. You can't understand aspects of vet med until you've witnessed vet med. That is what we're saying.
It'd be like someone telling you that they "get" what the emotional aspect of being an EMT is like because they were once transported by an ambulance somewhere. Or because they are a vet or a vet tech. Or whatever. It's ridiculous, right?"
No one at a single point anywhere in this thread tried to "one-up" the OP, tried to discount her experience, tried to talk her out of vet med, tried to say that she hasn't seen traumatic things, the only thing that people tried to get the OP to understand was that despite her experience, vet med is different and she DOES need to be prepared for the emotional aspect of the job as it will be different.
This has been me reading this thread.
