Your EMS Partner Has Been Through Some Hard Times Lately

Multiple Choice

Your EMS partner has been through some hard times lately. He broke up with his wife a few months ago, and his father died last month. After not smoking for years, he's taken it up again and now chain-smokes. He's sometimes rude to patients, and when you try to talk with him about this, he cuts you off. Your partner is using stress management techniques best described as:

A) normal.
B) defensive.
C) detrimental.
D) neutral.