Hemophobia

[…] there may be found practitioners of modern medicine, highly accomplished histologists, pathologists, therapeutists, etc., who, when certain acute cases confront them, evince hemophobia and eschew the lancet:

The conflict between himself and his family, as to whether he should return to medicine or not, was deepening […]. The nightmares were still very bad, but in any case the haemophobia alone prevented any hospital service whether in Britain or France.

With hemophobia, symptoms may be triggered by seeing blood in real life or on television.

However, hemophobia causes much more than discomfort, and someone with this condition will experience highly distressing and disruptive symptoms at the sight of blood.