Mass casualty incident

Long time, no post. A week of vacation followed my last post, and now I've started R2 year -- the second year of residency.

I worked an overnight shift last night on the Pediatrics team. When I arrived in the Emergency Department things were pretty chaotic; there had been what we call a mass casualty incident: two light rail trains had collided. As you can imagine the department was pretty backed up, but fortunately no one who presented to our hospital was too badly hurt. One of the trains involved was headed to a Chinese-American neighborhood, so when I got there the halls were full of elderly Chinese people in cervical collars.