January 31, 2006
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Wow
I'm not sure if the below scan is readable, but here is the story.
I work in a communications center in a large hospital emergency room. One of our jobs is to handle any mass casualty situation in the region. Peg, one of the communications nurses, wrote this note, reminding everyone to read the Disaster Policy so that we would all be ready for the "big one".
She wrote this on September 10th, 2001.
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WOW. That is amazing.
Wow! Did your hospital treat any of the victims ?
We were mobilized for patients from the Pentagon. I heard that the hospital cleared about 200 rooms, and called in all the trauma and OR people available. But we received very few patients, most went to hospitals closer to the site.
I'm assuming your hospital is not a major trauma center, am I correct?
We are the biggest in Virginia actually, but the Pentagon is slightly closer to a trauma center in DC and several lesser hospitals, which took most of the pateints.
I don't know if I should admire you or thank God that I'm not you
. I've worked in an ER, but nothing close to a level 1 trauma unit. I don't think you can just jump into something like that unless you're as strong as an ox both spiritually and emotionally. I'm taking baby steps up the ladder and am considering going back to school yet once again to earn my RN, but I want to specialize in hospice care, not trauma. God Bless your week!
Tricia, I know what you mean about having to be strong emotionally and spiritually. It is tough to see so much pain and death every day. I'm ashamed (?) to say that I am maybe numb to it now. I need to write a blog entry about the subject someday.
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