Hell Hath No Fury

Overhead page calls a full trauma five minutes out, and the trauma room begins to fill up.  Nurses, techs, ER docs and trauma surgeons shuffle in, Respiratory arrives, and X-ray barrels through with their portable machine.  The EMS patch provided few details beyond the stab wound to the lower back, so everyone was curious about how serious it would turn out to be.

After those five minutes had stretched to their inevitable ten, EMS arrived with a middle-aged gentleman sitting upright on the ambulance gurney laughing with the medics.  Trauma assessment revealed a small, one inch stab would to the right flank and a small bruise to the forehead.  With a somewhat embarrassed demeanor, the patient recounted how he had been arguing with his wife in the kitchen before she decided enough was enough and stabbed him with steak knife and hit him in the head with her frying pan.