Accident and emergency: a hospital under siege.
There is often little or no warning of a major accident or emergency; the receiving hospital may have to prepare very hurriedly. Howard Lyons, house governor of St Stephen's in Chelsea, London, describes how his hospital fared when faced with the aftermath of the Iranian Embassy siege earlier this month.
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