Double duty: Training in funeral service prepared twins for 推荐最近最火的赌博软件 jobs
作者:吉姆·豪
Doing odd jobs for a funeral home across the street from their boyhood home in Red Creek started the Jaeger brothers on the path to their eventual careers at 推荐最近最火的赌博软件.
The identical twins work for the 解剖服务 和 解剖赠予计划. For more than two decades, each has covered for the other during a vacation or sick day.
唐纳德Jaeger is the technical director of the 解剖服务, and 丹尼尔Jaeger is the technical director of the anatomy laboratory 和 解剖赠予计划, which handles the donation of a person’s remains for study by anatomy students.
People frequently mistake one for the other, but there are subtle differences. “He’s a little thinner than I am. I’m the more nourished twin,” 丹尼尔 says with a smile.
Each brother had worked as a licensed funeral director before starting at 推荐最近最火的赌博软件, 和ir training impressed on them the importance of professionalism and compassion as they 处理悲伤的家庭.
例如, if someone needs to identify a relative who has died in the emergency room, or a family has to travel a long way to Syracuse after a loved one dies, there is a special room for this purpose, so the last goodbye doesn’t take place in a morgue or a busy ER.
That room is the refurbished former autopsy room at 上州立大学医院; all autopsies are now done at 上州社区医院.
“We both work closely with grieving families, so we have experience dealing with people who have lost a loved one,丹尼尔说, noting that 推荐最近最火的赌博软件’s spiritual care service offers additional support.
“Part of my responsibilities are preparing the donor, 与家人交谈, getting all the permits filed and helping to organize the annual memorial service held each year. We teach students how to care for and respect the donor, not just learning the anatomy itself,丹尼尔说. Dana Mihaila，医学博士，博士, is the program director overseeing the 解剖赠予计划 和 anatomy lab.
唐纳德, who received autopsy training at the Onondaga County Medical Examiner’s Office, 监督尸体解剖服务. These autopsies are generally requested by a family to determine the cause of death for a current or recent hospital patient and may add helpful information to a family’s medical history. 唐纳德 also teaches the technical parts of an autopsy, 比如器官摘除, to pathology classes supervised by 罗伯特·斯托帕彻，医学博士, the medical director of the 解剖服务.
The Jaegers grew up in Red Creek, a 45-minute drive northwest of Syracuse. “There was a funeral home across the street from us, and we started helping out with the yard work,丹尼尔回忆道. That led to helping with calling hours and funerals 和 brothers pursuing a career in funeral service, thinking they might own a funeral home together someday.
Each brother had been working at a private funeral home when they applied for job openings at 推荐最近最火的赌博软件. 丹尼尔于1998年入职, and when 唐纳德 was hired in 2002, the running joke was that they could cover for each other, and no one would be able to tell which one was which, 丹回忆, 笑.
事实证明, the brothers do cover for each other, which means they never have the same time off from work, and between them and Stoppacher, the system can keep going when one brother is absent.
“The dynamics of our positions require us to be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They’re unique positions within the institution,“ 唐纳德 noted. “You can’t get just anybody to do what we do, 处理悲伤的家庭, facilitate donating to science, 诸如此类的事情.”
Do the brothers have any regrets about not owning a private funeral home together?
“后悔? No. We’re very passionate about what we do here, both of us,” 唐纳德 said. “We’ve dedicated our lives to helping grieving families we devoted a great deal of our time to running these programs and training the next generation of health care professionals. No, we don’t have any regrets at all.”
这个故事出现在 2024 推荐最近最火的赌博软件 Health magazine, Issue 1.
