15% off spongebob scrubs with promo code "spongebob_sale"I was told this all summer, but I still can't believe it's really true. All summer we had violent crime victims, mostly GSWs (gunshot wounds) several times a week, sometimes daily. And that was just what came into our ICU; I don't even know the rate for the whole hospital. (At my old hospital, I'm pretty sure if you were shot anywhere we all panicked and you went to the ICU, but at my new workplace, if you're shot in a nonvital manner, you get patched up and go to a regular trauma-medical floor.)
But all the experienced people said the trauma season really slows down in the winter. And it has! I can't get over that.
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People are really out less shooting each other because of the cold. I mean, it kinda makes sense - most people can hardly oblige themselves to shovel their sidewalks. It takes me an hour to get the kids ready to go outside. I can hardly imagine trying to motivate your minion gangbangers to go perpetrate crimes in this weather. But honestly, you wouldn't think drug-addled hoodlums would care so much about it. Doesn't alcohol make you feel warmer?
Lest you think this wasn't written in the holiday spirit, it was: anyone braving the shopping malls at this time of the month should take heart that the hideous stress of last-minute Christmas shopping hasn't driven up our admissions - at least for violent crimes, that is. Make sure you don't slip on the ice and come in with a subdural hematoma.
Merry Christmas!