I am a trauma surgeon, a doctor like DemFromCT, BarbinMD (Oops, not a doc, I assumed) and many others. It's kind of funny being a trauma surgeon since everybody "thinks they know what you do" but they really don't. But I tell somebody that I'm a trauma surgeon then apparently ask, "Do you work in the emergency room?" I smile and say sort of. As a trauma surgeon I take care of everybody who walks in the door who has had "significant" trauma. This includes victims of car crashes, gunshot wounds, people fall from roofs or fall off their motorcycles. If Keith Olbermann's father fell out of bed and had a traumatic injury and came to my hospital, either myself or one of my partners would've taken care of him.
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