The Emergency Department is not like I imagined.  It either seems to be full to bursting point, or almost empty; the patients never come in a steady flow.  The nature of the complaints varies in a never ending cycle – the Friday night drunks, the Sunday morning sporting injuries, the early morning chest pain.  There is no panic; an air of calm professionalism pervades the area as the team of doctors, nurses, ambulance staff mesh like the gears of a well oiled machine.  I am impressed by the mutual respect that the nurses and doctors seem to hold for one another that I have witnessed so rarely in other clinical areas.  I like it.