I worked as an assistant on a show patterned after and produced by the same
company as "Trauma: LIfe in the ER" and in order to get a feeling for the
footage, they asked me to watch dailies from "Trauma" on my first day there.
So I sat down there in front of the monitor with my sesame chicken noodle
and watched the uncut dailies of a man being brought into the hospital for a
self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. It was obvious from the first
frame the guy wasn't going to make it, with a little of his blood and brain
seeping out of the otherwise surprisingly neat little hole in his temple. He
never had any vital signs from the moment they wheeled him in. I continued
to eat, thinking, "This is bearable, I can handle it." In fact I didn't get
sick. But that night I had nightmares, which I almost never do. Reflecting
on what was so disturbing, I realized it wasn't the blood and gore. I see
that stuff on the news nearly every day. It was the tragedy of the who's and
why's behind the incident. He had done it cuz his neighbor didn't like the
job he had done working on his car. The guy was a infantry veteran of the
Vietnam War.
Jeff "Turn On, Tune In", Turboff
http://www.angelfire.com/ny2/editwiz
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>From: "Skelton, Kim" <kskelton@asante.org>
>To: "'Bob Turner'" <bobturner@mediaone.net>
>Cc: "'avid-l@calvin.edu'" <avid-l@calvin.edu>
>Subject: RE: Thank you all.
>Date: Jun 23, 2000, 2:04 PM
>
> So far not much has affected me. I am very lucky. Not only do I get to
> edit but do live broadcasts as well. As I mentioned I have worked "Death
> Investigation classes." They are based on local incidents. Some I actually
> knew. Over 1200 slides!
>
> Also Neonatal / Perinatal lectures. These are tough cause it deals with
> children but all of the info is really fascinating.
>
> So far the toughest one has been open chest surgeries. After a while you
> get over it and you become used to seeing the gore.
>
> On a funny side note...the guy that taught me was filming an open chest
> surgery. Everything was going well. He was doing fine until a piece of rib
> popped out and hit him in the forehead! After that he had to go and sit
> down.
>
> Does anybody have any more good ones?
>
> Kim
>
> Kim Skelton
> Media Coordinator
> Smullin Health Center / Asante Health System
> kskelton@asante.org
> 541-608-5915
> fax 541-680-5853
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Turner [mailto:bobturner@mediaone.net]
> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 10:57 AM
> To: Skelton, Kim
> Subject: Re: Thank you all.
>
>
>> Kim -
>>
>> >>Maybe I should submit the piece I worked on concerning adult male
>> >>circumcision! That should get some reviews!
>>
>> I hope that this project did not affect you the way my first project
>> in NYC as senior editor of Devlin affected me. It was on Breast
>> Surgery. I am not making up the title, it was called Dr. Herman's
>> Greatest Tits!
>>
>> It was my first edit as a NYC CMX senior editor, and I will never
>> forget how traumatized I was with the images. That was in 1982 and I
>> still have nightmares!
>>
>> Bob
>
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