An unusual feature of the building is the ring bolts in the floor. Most of the rooms have at least one or two of them, including ours. Made of steel, the rings are about 4 inches in diameter and ½ an inch thick. They are set deeply into the concrete and would take a good deal of jack-hammering to remove. The rings keep the patients from running away. Not all the patients; only some of……
Feast or Famine
Working the trauma service can be feast or famine. Gunshot wounds, stabbings, auto accidents; their arrival at the hospital is sporadic and unpredictable. The ambulances are either coming so fast, dropping the latest shattered body off; or you are insufferably bored. Sometimes it depends on the day of the week, the time of day, the season of the year. We joke it depends on the phase of the moon. It is odd depending on random……