A mindset or emotional support is often overlooked. Anyone who wants to succeed, but tends to stumble knows this well. Everyone wants to be the best there ever was in a certain profession, unfortunately those who want to succeed occasionally have distractions which cause them to “screw up” that take over his or her ability to put the past behind them and notice the flowers blooming outside. In Janice Hudson’s memoir Trauma Junkie, Hudson takes her reader on a series of CLASTAR (California Shock/Trauma Air Rescue) flights that reveals why “trauma junkies” must be emotionally stable to combat the eyesores they witness on a daily basis. Throughout this action packed memoir, Hudson and her fellow junkies have to combat the emotional stress that
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Hudson uses vivid imagery to paint her reader a picture of how gruesome the condition of some patients can be while stabilizing them, and preparing them for possible surgery: “A long with the flow of blood, chunks of bone and brain tissue oozed off the backboard” (41). Here, Hudson reveals the gruesome eyesores she and her junkies encounter on a flight to save a shooting victim, who also was later found to be HIV-positive. Most ordinary people exposed to brains pouring out of a trauma victim’s head would either pass out, or throw up, but not Hudson. Hudson also reveals her emotional strength since she is not terribly grossed out by this scene, as she rushes with her partner to stabilize the victim. Without question this job is not easy, which is why the heads of the medical field only pick the ones who are the best of the best.she desperately covets down time to re-gather herself because her unit was called to tend to this victim at 11:45 PM, just 10 minutes after they had sat down to rest after a previous call. Although Hudson groans about …show more content…
One must think about how to approach it, the consequences, the long-term effect, and how to perform at the best ability but with a job like this, the stress it may cause may be unbearable. Hudson goes through this sequence multiple times throughout her time at CALSTAR, but no training mission could prepare her for a wildfire. “With this drought the whole state is one large tinderbox. Everything would explode” (199). Here, Hudson adds a hyperbole to amplify how dangerous this situation, helping the Oakland area battle a forest fire, really is by indicating that
Hudson uses vivid imagery to paint her reader a picture of how gruesome the condition of some patients can be while stabilizing them, and preparing them for possible surgery: “A long with the flow of blood, chunks of bone and brain tissue oozed off the backboard” (41). Here, Hudson reveals the gruesome eyesores she and her junkies encounter on a flight to save a shooting victim, who also was later found to be HIV-positive. Most ordinary people exposed to brains pouring out of a trauma victim’s head would either pass out, or throw up, but not Hudson. Hudson also reveals her emotional strength since she is not terribly grossed out by this scene, as she rushes with her partner to stabilize the victim. Without question this job is not easy, which is why the heads of the medical field only pick the ones who are the best of the best.she desperately covets down time to re-gather herself because her unit was called to tend to this victim at 11:45 PM, just 10 minutes after they had sat down to rest after a previous call. Although Hudson groans about …show more content…
One must think about how to approach it, the consequences, the long-term effect, and how to perform at the best ability but with a job like this, the stress it may cause may be unbearable. Hudson goes through this sequence multiple times throughout her time at CALSTAR, but no training mission could prepare her for a wildfire. “With this drought the whole state is one large tinderbox. Everything would explode” (199). Here, Hudson adds a hyperbole to amplify how dangerous this situation, helping the Oakland area battle a forest fire, really is by indicating that