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"when to shoot a patient"

Timothy J Coats trauma-list@trauma.org
Thu, 7 Mar 2002 10:44:40 BST


Bj=F6rn,
Your eloquence in putting across this point makes me rather ashamed - 
I wish that I had your command of the English language.
Tim.

> Re: "when to shoot a patient"
> 
> This category of humour is called "Gallow humour" in our language. I
> understand and respect the soil from which it has sprung. Too us
> living in peace and tranquility it is extremely bad taste but put in
> its own context it should be regarded as a symptom of an evil
> situation.
> 
> Bj=F6rn Geir Leifsson MD
> Consultant / Staff Surgeon
> Dept. of Surgery
> Landspitali University Hospital
> Lsp Fossvogi
> 108 Reykjavik
> ICELAND
> bjorngl@landspitali.is
> +354 525 1000 (Hosp. switchb.)
> +354 867 8836 (mobile)
> +354 525 1304 (fax)


Timothy J Coats MD FRCS FFAEM
Senior Lecturer in Accident and Emergency / Pre-Hospital Care
Royal London Hospital, UK.