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Location : Wasted Space Job/hobbies : Cayman Islands Actuary
| Subject: OZschwitz: Knife epidemic concealed Fri Jan 08, 2010 6:22 pm | |
| Statistics show blade attacks rising in line with assaults, but those who work at the front line think a lot goes unreported, writes Andrew Rule.
By the time Ben Thomson got to the emergency department at 4am last Sunday, one stabbing victim was dead and the lives of two were teetering on a knife edge.
The surgeon on call, Susan Shedda, had been operating all night - as she would for another four hours - and a dozen tired police milled around a crowd of shocked relatives and friends in the waiting rooms.
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