there is a rhythm and flow that is fairly predictable in an emergency room. It’s usually quiet until the late morning. The busiest times are from about noon to ten p.m. As noted earlier, on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day very few patients come in. Black Friday is just the opposite; the ER overflows with patients. When I worked in inner-city emergency departments, summertime was stabbing season. There was more happening outside, more places where people gathered, more alcohol flowing. “If it is hot enough to barbecue,” a patient of mine once told me as I sutured the knife wounds on his chest,
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