Birthday Shuffle Year V - Day 17 - Sweet Caroline

I LOVE Neil Diamond...

His music has been a part of my life since high school.

I have a lot of his music on my iPod,

and today this song came up...

This year, I was lucky enough to go see him in concert,

and it was AWESOME!

We had great seats, center floor about row 10...

and, I drove my husband crazy singing along with most of the songs..

but then, so was most of the crowd around us

and I didn't feel bad at all about it...

Especially when he played "Sweet Caroline"...

I'd share the video I shot during the song, but there's a lot of

me singing "bham bham bham"

and 

"so good! so good!  SO GOOD!"

If you don't know what I'm talking about, then you need to watch this video

which was shot at Fenway Park in Boston after the marathon bombing.

They play this song at every game (I went to one while I lived in Boston),

and it's always great to have the crowd singing together...

Enjoy!  Sing Along!

#538 - M is for Mass Casualty Incident

My training is in Emergency Medicine.

My subspecialty is EMS (Emergency Medical Services.)

My interests are in Mass Casualty Incidents

and Disaster Medicine.

Days like today are what we train for.

One of my colleagues from residency was at the race today.

She also was in my subspecialty group,

and her interest is in mass gathering medical services.

I don't know if you realize that when you have a sporting event

you have to have x amount of emergency medical services per x amount of people.

The more people, the more extensive the list of 

emergency medical personnel you have to have on hand.

She was working the medical tent at the race.

Usually she deals with sports-related injuries.

Today turned out to be a little different.

When you watch the video of the explosion,

and you start to see people running away,

pay close attention to those who run toward the danger,

those who started pulling down the barriers even as the second bomb exploded,

who immediately went into Mass Casualty Mode 

and started helping.

That's EMS.

That's my friend,

who ran back to help start up triage

to help the injured.

This is what we train for,

and she did what I would have done/would do

in the same situation.

I loved Boston the year I lived there training at BWH.

We watched the marathon from the Common as the first racers came into view

the year I lived there on one of my random days off.

I pray for those affected by this incident.