Whether I did it just so that I could bring back the Cyprus Pound, or whether I used it just as a negotiating tool with the Troika, I would very noisily make enquiries of De La Rue about the prices on an emergency bank note printing contract.

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This last December, an emergency room doc (thought to be female based on the handwriting) wrote a note to the widow of a patient she had treated in the Emergency Department of New York Presbyterian Hospital.

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So it's interesting to note that if this had happened a decade ago, many emergency responders might have avoided the tourniquet.

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Ed Note: This post was originally published on the official blog of FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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