IMHO it's completely acceptable (although perhaps unusual) to remain emotionally undisturbed while dealing with death and/or injury in a professional context. The fact that you characteristically exhibit a level of clinical detachment doesn't make you a 'bad person', and I am sure that your emotional responses would be considered normal within the intimate interpersonal range within which they would be considered professionally appropriate.
By way of analogy, I'm sure that most surgeons would hesitate before stabbing someone with a razor-sharp knife, but given the right context (sterile environment, anaesthesia, medical demand, etc) they wouldn't even think twice about it.
Lastly, the fact that you have sufficient social insight to worry about the appropriateness of your reactions shows that you are not completely detached from what you are doing.
31 Oct 2013, 1:35 am
