Part of transitioning from summer back to the school year means I'm back to following the news more closely. It's a weird feeling to read about patients who were brought to our ER in the papers the next morning. We've had a couple of pretty major traumas lately, and I'm always intrigued to see how the stories are handled by the press. Most of the time the coverage is disappointingly light, and sometimes appears to completely contradict the information we receive from EMS. With gunshot victims in particular, I always want to learn more about what happened, but more often than not very little information comes out. Still, it's a unique perspective to read that the victim "was rushed to Big City Hospital's ER" and know that I was there when it happened.
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