Everyone was talking about the Illinois ruling when I entered the ED staff break room before my shift. The news story was clipped from our local paper and pinned to our bulletin board, with the title highlighted in yellow and the word "READ THIS" scrawled in bold red marker above the headline. It was the topic of conversation for days, and dominated a full two hours of the ED consortium in which I participated. Every ED in the country is going to be taking a hard look at their triage systems. It is always a good thing to take a...