004: AUDIO/ACTION
[This is casual, matter-of-fact conversation, directed into Chase's network device as he heads into the city. Some background noise from the square can be heard.]
I realise it's a fallacy based on population densities, but the violent crime rate, here, on non curse days, is incredibly low.
Saw a lot more gun crime on an average day in New Jersey. I'm not qualified to compare the ratio of bad public rapping, but I'd take a bet that's higher, too. It's actually kind of fun. The gun crime, not the rapping. And I mean treating it. Half the time it's a hopeless case, but it's never not interesting.
Survival can be less dependant on aim than the type of cartridge used. People tend to think there's just the entry wound to worry about. Not often true. The last patient I opened up took two shotgun cartridges to the chest. Didn't die immediately, his girlfriend had time to drive him to the ER, still conscious. And then we looked inside him. The pellets from the cartridges had turned the main artery from his heart into a colander. Every major organ was scattered with shot: we even found pellets that had caught a ride in the blood supply down to his legs. Shot in the chest, shrapnel in his ankles.
Needless to say, he was fucked. Pumped 25 litres of blood into him but no one can sew that fast.
Most guns in the United States are owned for home and personal protection. Which is another fallacy, because if you own a gun, statistically, you're more likely to get shot. Here, you're more likely to have one to hand during a curse when you might not be acting like yourself.
I don't have an opinion on whether you should own one or not. Your choice. As long as you know which risk you want to take.
Not sure anything can be done about the rapping.
[And it seems like he's done. Although, hmm. Someone's been decorating out here. This is added, half to himself, before he turns off the device.]
Huh. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
[Chase will be wandering the city, getting coffee and buying a new winter coat, before heading back to the hospital. He is available via audio or for all the in-person run ins.]
I realise it's a fallacy based on population densities, but the violent crime rate, here, on non curse days, is incredibly low.
Saw a lot more gun crime on an average day in New Jersey. I'm not qualified to compare the ratio of bad public rapping, but I'd take a bet that's higher, too. It's actually kind of fun. The gun crime, not the rapping. And I mean treating it. Half the time it's a hopeless case, but it's never not interesting.
Survival can be less dependant on aim than the type of cartridge used. People tend to think there's just the entry wound to worry about. Not often true. The last patient I opened up took two shotgun cartridges to the chest. Didn't die immediately, his girlfriend had time to drive him to the ER, still conscious. And then we looked inside him. The pellets from the cartridges had turned the main artery from his heart into a colander. Every major organ was scattered with shot: we even found pellets that had caught a ride in the blood supply down to his legs. Shot in the chest, shrapnel in his ankles.
Needless to say, he was fucked. Pumped 25 litres of blood into him but no one can sew that fast.
Most guns in the United States are owned for home and personal protection. Which is another fallacy, because if you own a gun, statistically, you're more likely to get shot. Here, you're more likely to have one to hand during a curse when you might not be acting like yourself.
I don't have an opinion on whether you should own one or not. Your choice. As long as you know which risk you want to take.
Not sure anything can be done about the rapping.
[And it seems like he's done. Although, hmm. Someone's been decorating out here. This is added, half to himself, before he turns off the device.]
Huh. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
[Chase will be wandering the city, getting coffee and buying a new winter coat, before heading back to the hospital. He is available via audio or for all the in-person run ins.]