Inside a local warehouse, people took turns pretending to take care of injured youngsters in an ER built from thick cardboard. The scenario: Two brothers, ages 16 and 10, were seriously injured in a car crash in the middle of the night. One was brought to the hospital by helicopter, the other by ambulance. Wearing signs on lanyards displaying their roles, the participants wheeled the “patients” on hospital beds through the mock emergency department, tended to their injuries and comforted their distraught mother. It was all just make-believe, but this was no child’s play. The workshop was part of an unusual planning process to create the recently announced $200 million...
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