You could do a lot worse than the trauma unit at Cooper. If I got shot, I’d want Cooper. Or stabbed. They have experience with that sort of thing there. Bad car accidents too.
I know that Cooper did a good job on my grandfather when he was run over by a drunk driver as he stepped off the curb in front of his house. The guy hit my grandmother first and sent her sailing, broke her back and ran right over my grandfather’s legs. They rebuilt them with metal bars. That was in 1949 or 50. My grandfather’s injuries were so bad that they took my grandmother to another hospital so that the trauma team could concentrate on him.
He was the VP of the Radio and TV workers at RCA and my grandmother was the president of the WCTU. Some people have wondered if it was really an accident.