Several years back a new neighbor moved in who was an emergency medicine physician at Johns Hopkins. Once we started hanging out with her and her husband I asked if she was getting tired of treating all the knife, gun and general beating injuries. Very much unexpected was her answer that what she was really getting weary of was treating folks with cockroaches in their ear canals. I’d never heard of such a thing but she said it was very routine in inner city Baltimore.
Whether it's cockroaches in the ears or gunshot wounds to the head working in a big city ER can demoralize you more than you can possibly imagine.