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  • #16
    Originally posted by Starchild
    Casuality = a BBC medical drama. Not very good yet strangely addictive, like a slow paced polite E.R. Casuality also refers to the British term for Emergency Room (also called A&E here)
    Actually not, ERs in the UK are called EDs (Emergency Department). There's no such thing as Casualty.
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    But he would think of something
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    • #17
      I've never heard them refered to as ED's before.
      Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
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      • #18
        Maybe it's just an internal thing - my girlfriend keeps correcting me when I call it A&E or casualty. Unless I mean A&E, as apparently they're different
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        For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next
        But he would think of something
        "Hm. I suppose I should get my waffle a santa hat." - Kuciwalker

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        • #19
          My medical friends haven't ever said ED. then again, they watch Scrubs to help them revise.
          Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
          -Richard Dawkins

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Drogue

            Actually not, ERs in the UK are called EDs (Emergency Department). There's no such thing as Casualty.
            Random, off topic factoid: Calling it the Emergency Department instead of Emergency Room is a growing trend in America as well, more and more hospitals are adopting the term as it really is a department, not just a single room.
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