triage

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/31/2013 11:25 PM, W Brewer wrote:
>BB: <<<I assume "assessment to determine order of urgency" is the key
>issue.>>>
>WB:  First order of urgency to determine:  rank of patient / social
>standing of caller.

After the battle of Concord, Lexington, and Menotomy on that
ever-memorialized April 19, the first "return" to General Gage of the
killed, wounded, and missing named all the officers and merely
counted the number of anonymous non-commissioned men.

Joel

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