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We get a guy in who's been stabbed a few times, with a broken beer bottle. It was an impressive job. Several deep wounds, a punctured lung and a broken rib. It takes a lot of force to break someones rib, with a broken beer bottle.
The guys friend is found a short time later and is brought in to the ER. He's had the **** beaten out of him and ended up with a suspected fracture in his spine/neck.
Both guys were not the most pleasant of chaps. Lots of swearing and carrying on, I got called a "fucker" at one point.

So we had a chat with the police, who were investigating the stabbing and beating of our two patients.

From what they can gather and after seeing the "White supremist" tattoos they were both sporting, it seems the two "victims" were skinheads/white supremists/racists, whatever you want to call them.

They went to a park and spotted a couple of black 'kids" and disided to attack them. The black "kids" turned out to be 4 large, angry Tongains/Islanders, who proceeded to chase down our two heros, beat the **** out of one and stab the other and leave both for dead.

The guy who was stabbed, had a nice cut across one of his "racist" tattoos, so in the interests of being good caring health workers, we used skin glue to glue the cut together, so the letters didn't match up correctly.

Islanders 2 - Racists 0.

Edited, Sat Jan 29 05:55:54 2005 by lagduff

This reminds me of a story told by Afeni Shakur in her autobiography, where she mentions that at the time she lived in NC black people were scared of the Klan, and when they tried to hold a rally a bunch of Lumbee Indians showed up with shotguns and chased them out of town.

I love it.

We all in some small way in the health care profession make our own mark against idiots. I have had tatooo's ruined, gang peircings destroyed, and clothes cut off patients in my career all in the name of health care and justice!

Are you assuming they had no insurance? I don't remember Lagduff mentioning it.

I work in the Public Health Care system. Most of the Australian Health Care system is public. Quiet a lot of people, don't actually have private health insurance or use privately owned hospitals.
If you're brought to the ER badly injured, say like the Construction Worker, with the nail in his mouth, from a few weeks ago, you're not going to end up with a $100,000 bill, upon discharge.

Tale:
Last night (saturday) we meet "I'm gonna take a **** on the floor" lady. Sur,e she could have walked to the toilet, but why, when she could cop a squat next to her trolley, drop her pants and **** in a foam cup. Unfortunately, the cup runnith over. I'm still washing my eyes with bleach, after seeing her ***. Curse all drunken old women!

Title: Sometimes you just get hungry

We had a guy (23yrs) airlifted to the Hospital, via chopper. He'd been in a Police chase, the car had rolled and caught fire and he had been burnt over 45% of his body, from the torso up, including his head.
He was black and crispy on the outside and looked (and smelt) like a beef sausage, that had been over-cooked on a BBQ.

So I'm standing there, helping to get him across from the Helicopter stretcher to our Trauma trolley. All I can smell is "BBQed burnt sausages" and my stomache rumbles loudy. I then realise it had been a busy night and that I hadn't eaten all shift.

I had to settle for dry old peanut butter sandwiches and a coffee, after we took the guy to ICU. I don't think I'll be eating sausages for a while, though...

They got 4 of the 5 suspects who beat the 2 "racists" up.
The cops we spoke too said they would most likely be charged with attempted murder, plus whatever other charges they can come up with.

I guess Islanders are good in a brawl, but they can't play hockey for crap.

Wait...no one's playing hockey for anything. Never mind!