I’m thankfully far removed from the patient areas, so I am not subject to that.
Instead, I just hear the disembodied voice over the PA indicating someone is dying, or has gotten hurt. And then I see the response teams rush down the halls.
I work at a VA. So the folks here, all of them have suffered in ways most cannot imagin. I’ve seen folks missing limbs, severe burns, and deep scars. Saw a kid once, little younger than me, prosthetics on both legs, and burn scars up one side of his body. And the hidden mental trauma is ever present. Normal looking folks, but deeply scarred. Spoke to someone once that had to runover a kid in Afghanistan. Terrorists would send kids out to stop convoys for ambushes. I can’t imagine what it does to someone to have to run over a kid. I don’t think I’d be able to sleep again.
That’s why the codes rattle me so much. You never know what trauma is on the other side of that call, but you know it’s just adding more pain onto someone already deeply in it.