As I'm hearing the news from Arizona about the shooting of Congress-Woman Gifford as well as others in Tuscon it makes me think of the remarkable response of the emergency medical personnel and the trauma team at the University of Arizona Medical Center.
All hospitals practice for mass casualty events. At KSB we call it Code 100. Multiple times each year we practice our protocols to get the proper personnel to the hospital in a timely manner. Each time we go through the drill I pray we never have to use it.
The hostile tone of American politics has to change. Political views differ, and that makes for healthy debate and policy, but in my lifetime the nature of the attacks has deepened, and that concerns me.
As Americans we are on the same team.