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What Happened to Them?
CHANGE OF SHIFT
What Happened to Them? John Tabb DuVal, PhD* *Corresponding Author. E-mail: [email protected]. 0196-0644/$-see front matter Copyright © 2014 by the American College of Emergency Physicians. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2013.10.020
[Ann Emerg Med. 2014;63:773.] Your leg is in a cast as I wheel you out of the ER with my face and nose stitched up and my clothes torn and splotched past the eyes of the folks in the waiting room diverted for a moment from the private catastrophes that brought them here. They imagine: our kitchen a wreck, the neighbors alarmed, policemen at our door, me with the baseball bat at your knees, you with the frying pan at my face. That wasn’t the case. It never did happen—not in forty-one years. But my dear, you do have spark and exceptional flare with a frying pan. Now where did we park?
Author affiliations: From the Department of English, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR.
Volume 63, no. 6 : June 2014
Annals of Emergency Medicine 773
What Happened to Them? John Tabb DuVal, PhD* *Corresponding Author. E-mail: [email protected]. 0196-0644/$-see front matter Copyright © 2014 by the American College of Emergency Physicians. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2013.10.020
[Ann Emerg Med. 2014;63:773.] Your leg is in a cast as I wheel you out of the ER with my face and nose stitched up and my clothes torn and splotched past the eyes of the folks in the waiting room diverted for a moment from the private catastrophes that brought them here. They imagine: our kitchen a wreck, the neighbors alarmed, policemen at our door, me with the baseball bat at your knees, you with the frying pan at my face. That wasn’t the case. It never did happen—not in forty-one years. But my dear, you do have spark and exceptional flare with a frying pan. Now where did we park?
Author affiliations: From the Department of English, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR.
Volume 63, no. 6 : June 2014
Annals of Emergency Medicine 773