> When has that happened to you, or anybody you've known?
Are you kidding me?
I practiced medicine until 8 months ago when I burned out and had to take a break. One of the cases I recall having on an offshore medical center, involved 4 victims who had suffered burns(in one case over 80% of his body surface area), on a night when I had 2 other patients on admission. It easily took my team of four 5 hours to stabilize the patients and have them evacuated by helicopter.
In 2014, the oil company we subcontracted for had an incident where over 90 people suffered acute food poisoning from eating dinner at the staff canteen. This was a bacillus cereus infection with vomitting and stooling. Dont attempt to imagine that number of sick patients. There were only 2 doctors and five nurses initially to manage the incident. I could tell you war stories all day so could many other doctors.
Are you kidding me? I practiced medicine until 8 months ago when I burned out and had to take a break. One of the cases I recall having on an offshore medical center, involved 4 victims who had suffered burns(in one case over 80% of his body surface area), on a night when I had 2 other patients on admission. It easily took my team of four 5 hours to stabilize the patients and have them evacuated by helicopter.
In 2014, the oil company we subcontracted for had an incident where over 90 people suffered acute food poisoning from eating dinner at the staff canteen. This was a bacillus cereus infection with vomitting and stooling. Dont attempt to imagine that number of sick patients. There were only 2 doctors and five nurses initially to manage the incident. I could tell you war stories all day so could many other doctors.