emergency room - FightWrite A Writer's Resource for Fight Scenes, Action and Violence Fri, 08 Nov 2024 20:25:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.fightwrite.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cropped-fist-pen2-1-32x32.png emergency room - FightWrite 32 32 Emergency Room Terms for Writers https://www.fightwrite.net/emergency-room-terms/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=emergency-room-terms https://www.fightwrite.net/emergency-room-terms/#comments Thu, 03 Feb 2022 15:07:58 +0000 https://www.fightwrite.net/?p=9617 Where there is a fight, there is often injury. If your character ends up in the ER, here are some emergency room terms that might be said and/or written. I generally don’t like technical words in stories unless they are organic to the scene. This is one of those organicky times. You won’t hear an ER doctor say, “is she a little comatose or, like, a lot comatose?” Instead they will ask for the GCS, or the Glasgow Coma Scale. Also, I just bought a heap of used medical books and was feeling all “doctor-fied.”  I had to pass that …

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