Emergency Censorship

Being an intern in an Iraqi emergency is hard and dangerous thing. You have to develop special survival skills to save yourself, and you should have an extra-talent not only in diagnosing and treating patients (despite limited facilities); but also in the way in which you manipulate them otherwise you will face distresses, become frustrated, and unable to keep your daily work, You may even get offended! {1}
On my first duty at emergency department—I was shocked when my senior colleague told me ‘’the patient is your first enemy? You have to save yourself before saving him!’’. at that moment I did not understand what he meant, and I thought he was just joking with me. But as the days passed I started to realize what he meant:
Violence has huge impact on the health practice, and it is very apparent at emergency room. Some patients are dangerous and
Doctor’s professionalism is not evaluated according to his care and scientific approach toward the patients; but rather, by how many patients he could handle per hour, and each one has his own strategy to escape from the workload. The doctors, because of the pressurised work environment, start to conceal their real personality; they become aggressive — because it is a self-defensive mechanism — and eventually the aggressive personality becomes dominant and most of them demonsrate? personate the offensive face; which subsequently disturbs the friendly relationship, and this makes me regret dealing with some of them. The health care workers are less compassionate here! When I was a student I thought that everybody would be nice to each other, but the reality is totally different. There is a lot of tension and anger. We work for about 80 hours per week in a hostile environment; the stress and work pressure just erodes people and make them