The most difficult profession?

[Ashton]

I was thinking about this, this morning when my friend informed me that her mother had brain cancer and she is basically poor. So she wasn't being treated at a great facility. I also lost my mother to ovarian cancer which later spread to the brain, which then became brain cancer four years later.Then I thought about possible jobs where you would have to bear the burden of a death. Many thoughts came up, military applications were kinda moot as you're killing for something you believe in, I keep coming back to oncology doctors as they basically know over 80% of their patents are going to die eventually in less than 5 years. The only treatments available for cancer are painful and well "not fun" so you're basically extending this persons suffering. Yet it's a needed evil because hopefully one day we will understand cancer and be able to treat it.Can others think of other difficult professions?

[ray1970]

I'm going to disagree with your post in regards to oncologists. I would guess they get a great deal of satisfaction from the lives they save and that probably outweighs the loss of patients.

[splogan]

Maybe a hospice nurse. You know you will lose every patient. I know my wife worked in a nursing home for a while and it really upset her when a resident she worked with a lot passed.

[BPTactical]

Politician
It must be hell to conciously lie every day.....

[Ashton]

I'm going to disagree with your post in regards to oncologists. I would guess they get a great deal of satisfaction from the lives they save and that probably outweighs the loss of patients.

So your contribution to this thread advising difficult professions is...? Oh wait you're just playing devils advocate.

[Ashton]

Maybe a hospice nurse. You know you will lose every patient. I know my wife worked in a nursing home for a while and it really upset her when a resident she worked with a lot passed.

Quality submission.

[Ashton]

Politician
It must be hell to conciously lie every day.....

Quality submission. But I think it comes naturally for them. Most of their decisions don't hinge on life and death however IMHO. You know we've got to plan for toilets for our open space and decide if fishing should be allowed on already controlled land where bald eagles nest.

[cofi]

read bailey guns post about his first day as a cop

[Ashton]

read bailey guns post about his first day as a cop

Provide link. But in all honesty I don't think a cop who protects citizens and is reactive could match the moral dillema of someone who is asking someone to get sicker so they can get better but after they get better will eventually die statistically.

[cofi]

http://www.ar-15.co/threads/16458-Wh...l=1#post136671

heavy shit not a job i would want thats for sure

another one is flight for life medic a couple of days before he killed himself my friend kevin was telling me how burned victims smell like bbq and how its summer time and he cant goto any cookouts