I think you made a silly comparison.
So does this 'nurse'. He thinks doing and living the combat is a better test of female psychological ability to deal with it, than seeing the result of it back at the hospital is.
Posted on 04/11/2014 2:41:17 AM PDT by markomalley
I have never met a nurse or doctor in the military who thought that they were fighting and living the life, and experiencing the war, as combat troops.
They are where the men injured in combat go to get treated, fed, and cleaned up, and taken care of.
They are where the men injured in combat go to get treated, fed, and cleaned up, and taken care of.
Please go back and read carefully what I wrote. I did not ever say that medical personnel are fighting. What I said is that women are already in combat zones, using field hospitals as one example (because I am familiar with them), but certainly not the only example. This is in support of my observation that there appears to be no evidence that women would handle combat psychologically any different than men. No better, no worse. Physically is a different matter.
FYI, those doctors and nurses treating those combat casualties are under a lot of psychological stress. They feel personally responsible for every patient who doesn't make it. That, too, is a combat stress.
Who knows what you are arguing about, you seem to just want to argue no matter how much you have to keep moving and changing the subject.
Post 17 was accurate and a reasonable post, but man has it set you off on a wide ranging search for some kind of argument, from Vietnam to female casualties.
To: exDemMom
“”I think that, psychologically, women are just as capable of handling combat as men. After all, women already work in areas that bring them very close to combat; in the capacity of doctors and nurses, they routinely deal with combat-caused injuries and psychological problems.””
Working in a hospital, is hardly combat, they don’t have anything in common at all.
17 posted on 4/11/2014 11:14:08 AM by ansel12
I really don’t know what your issue is, or why you keep trying to read things I did not say into my posts.
You clearly do not know anything about the operating environment in today’s combat zones, or about the stressers that exist throughout those zones.
You also obviously want to argue about something. I saw you doing the same thing in another thread, where at least two people were calling you out on it.
No offense, but perhaps you should go get a full physical evaluation and find out what is going on there.
I think you made a silly comparison.
So does this 'nurse'. He thinks doing and living the combat is a better test of female psychological ability to deal with it, than seeing the result of it back at the hospital is.
Fine, have it your way. Merely being in danger of getting killed at any moment is not psychologically stressful, and medical personnel are never disturbed when they have to patch broken and mangled bodies back to some semblance of their former conditions. Nope, none of that stuff matters. Only those who actually shoot at the enemy are subject to any kind of stress.
Clearly, you have no clue about the modern operational environment. We aren’t in Vietnam any more.
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