triage

|trēˈä zh; ˈtrēˌä zh | noun
1 the action of sorting according to quality.



2 (in medical use) the assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients or casualties.



verb [ trans. ]
assign degrees of urgency to (wounded or ill patients).

ORIGIN early 18th cent.: from French, from trier ‘separate out.’ The medical sense dates from the 1930s, from the military system of assessing the wounded on the battlefield.



i was thinking of it in the verb sense, really, thats regarding the next record. very m*a*s*h. less korea. but it more or less applies to everything im doing at the moment.



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anne lamott speaks