As emergency physicians, you and I hold unique positions in the scheme of health care. If it is, it's more like a dry documentary than a titillating soap opera. Oh well, it's real life that makes us mere mortals and not superhuman.
Emergency medicine is real life.
We see slices of others lives, the minor incidents and the major, even life-threatening, crises. The stress of constantly dealing with other people's lives can make us frustrated, angry, or even, at least to appearance, uncaring. I do not think this latter to be true, but our workplace is unlike any other in the world. Patient care is the life blood of emergency medicine. As emergency physicians, we have no office, no set group of patients.