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Ok lets try this again... I didnt notice the section I posted to initially.

How many of us are in the medical field? How do you cope with the pull from the blood bank( in hosp. setting) and the various other issues that occasionally arise from working in this field?

I know personally it is difficult as an IV-tech in my ems service as well as working in the hospital. Its very difficult to say walk by a blood bank box during my rounds in the ICU and CCU. sighs.

Jinxd and I are studying to be Veterinarians (animal doctors if anyone doesn't know).

I am in the nursing field (still in training) and the home health. I also watch a lot of piercings as a family member is in the business.
I personally find watching blood awakens my hunger, but it gets more intense the more I am exposed to it. But at this point it is like while watching a cook cooking an extraordinary meal and you salivate while watching.

I'm a Medic and don't actually find it a problem. Although my casualtys don't really like it when I start nibbling them lol.
Seriously I keep my work life and private life so seperate its unreal.

I'm along the same lines as Vampyric666, work is work "play time" is seperate.

Although I do off one bit of advise. When you roll up on a fatality make sure you wipe your feet good before getting into your vehicle.

Nothing worse then getting almost home and discovering bits of grey matter and skull stuck to the bottom of your boot.

*grinz*

vampyric666 has the best answer. I also keep my personal life and career life seperate.
I also do not have contact with the people I serve.

On a health point of view, you dont know what diseases anyone could have, so you should be careful who you feed from.

Its easier when you get used to it,some even get a 6th sense and can tell you how the dead body they see died by glancing at them

It's temptation like any other.

Fight it.Especially the fact that since it's off patients.

Personal experience the smell would drive me nuts.
BUT I realised that although I was annoyed by my own exposure I was more taken with the fact that anything i was involved in was bettering the life of the person being treated either by just taking out stitche's to preparing them for a major surgical operation.
You learn to control your instint and as sed before you know where to draw the line from your everyday life and your private life (if it helps buy nose plugs :)

i have health care education but yeah, keep it private

*looks at Ashkalon and laughs*

You would think of that, wouldn't you?

I would never consider taking during my job.... I may enjoy the look and smell of blood.... but supporting my family comes before my hunger and always will.

when I did do a bit of medical I never had a problem with it. Yet, now the only type of real medical I get to do is field medicine.

- Sin

I volunteer for the Blood Services in my area. And been donating for the last twenty years. One learns to be careful.

*looks at Ashkalon*

Don't make me smack you. I just got up and haven't had coffee yet.

And I DID wipe my damned feet before I got in the car. It's not my fault that poor guy had a really "open mind" and my boots had deep treads in them. Just be glad I found it and cleaned it off BEFORE we walked into the house.

*reaches over and smacks him anyway*

Seriously if you go round you local hospital or where ever you work shouting your into blood letting, then go into the area where they keep blood for transfusions your going to:-

1) Loose your job.
2) No doubt go to court.
3) Loose a lot of friends in the work place.
and
4) Be branded crazy.

I'm gonna have to face that in a few years also. I'm gonig to go into massage therapy. And just being hands on with someone can be tough. Meh, I'll cross that bridge when I come to it..or burn it. One of the two.

i agree with abouve statement

im not in the feild as of yet, but i have been..and its like a druggie trying to go strait around people doing drugs..
you get to sweat and shake and your hunger grows as the smell , the taste...everything about blood draws you to it

I must agree with Vampyric666, about how it you cant go about yapping how you want this and that.

none of that realy bothers me but i am no the one to be drinking blood

i am a lifegaurd and i have only seen a few blood spills. i don't see how you could mix up your personal life with work. there are to many people around and you don't want to get "branded"

I worked in the medical field for many years.. LPN, phlebotomist and IV tech, the last in an AIDS center.... I found I loved that job more than anything and where I do not feed off of blood, I like looking at it and drawing blood was the best.. Never missed a vein in 10 years...

Now, blood play with a coworker outside of the workplace is totally acceptable...

I have donated blood many times in my life. I must say the nurses who come around to take the blood always act very professionally. You can never tell which ones are the vampires. ;-)

on a similar note how do u react to getting blood take/taking blood in the hospital or something like that?

Doesn't bother me either way. Although I'm not in to drinking animal blood really...

Most fun with blood play for me has to be intimate... big hospital setting is too much.

ok thank you do you ever get hungry when seeing your blood or someone elses

The feild of nursing and the area I work in deals with mostly older patients and personally their blood isn't something I crave. So it isn't an issue at my day to day . On occasion I have been tempted by the hot blonde chic I work with . She has a vein that runs down her lower back , You can see it when she bends over. HOT !!

For some strange reason I wouldn't find blood or energy ect. To be tempting or desirable unless it was still beating through someone's veins...

picky picky

Well I am not in a medical field, but seeing as how I am a psi vamp, it wouldnt be hard for me in that sense. I am not cruel enough to drain a sick person of their energy. Even then it wouldnt be a very good feed if the person was sick. I wish you all luck with your temptations.

i would like to be docktoe cause i could cut people open for fun and not get in trouble

They tend to frown on that sort of thing. And it's a bit of a waste to get a medical degree or certification (and have spent the time and money) to lose your job by feeding on patients.

But yeah, sick people don't seem to appetizing.

Not in medical field, but i already got looked at weird when coworker really cut himself and all I wanted was to drink. He still weary of me..

i wouldn't recomend anyone who loves blood go in the medicle field

Well. I think true blood drinkers has a hard time seeing the bags of blood or the blood in IVs and transfusions at firt but I think once they been there for many years, they can get use to it. Its call will power over your cravings..just like a heavyset person has cravings when they diet...they do succeed with stron wil power

As a hospice nurse....my patients are already close to death...no feeding from them....

for me when I went to go get my Cna whenI was 17 I was watching the room next to us was the phlebotomy peoples class and all I could do is stare and I even volunteered alot mmm so hard to get over but you knwo I need to fucken redo my cna ohh snap lol forgot it cos I stopped after 3 weeks got boring~NFA

I was pre-med in undergrad, but then went into chemistry...

well I am an E.M.T and it gets hard but I have donors to go to so thats how I do it.

Hmm, if you drink blood you must be sure to have your source tested first to be disease free. Thats a sound bit of advice from Mama Vampire here ;)