TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1983//
TI  - A note about paramedics' strategies for dealing with death and dying
JO  - Journal of occupational psychology
A1  - Palmer, C. Eddie
SP  - 83
EP  - 86
VL  - 56
IS  - 1
N2  - Paramedics and Emergency Medical Technicians encounter death and dying routinely in the course of their jobs. Many times the death is not a clean and sterile occurrence but is witnessed and/or participated in under the most trying physical and emotional conditions. Using a participant observation approach, this research reveals that these workers are assisted in their response to death and dying by six principal coping aids: educational desensitization, humour, language alternation, scientific fragmentation, escape into work, and rationalization.<p /> 
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SN  - 0305-8107
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -