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To: Grainne who wrote (6980)	2/5/1998 10:23:00 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Christine, Gangs and drugs were and still are the leading industries in Fun City. I felt reasonably safe driving to work at night, largely because there was an unwritten rule that hospital people be allowed safe passage, the gangs' version of diplomatic immunity. But I could still write a book about my nightly travels through the mean streets. On New Year's Eve, I would go in about two hours early--well before midnight. From about 11:00 p.m. on, the place sounded about like Vietnam as the locals welcomed in the New Year with Uzi music and the less fortunate fired shotguns and handguns. We received surprisingly few injuries from Fun City's rendition of Auld Lang Syne. Your story reminds me of the medical student we had observing suturing in the ER. He fainted too and had to be carried out of the trauma room. I sometimes wonder if he ever did finish medical school or if that incident finished it for him. Lots of people faint at the sight of suturing, and such was a common occurrence. Actually, cigarettes kept me way from the badder bad stuff out there. Never even sampled the stuff. I was afraid I might like it too much. Holly