"Well, that's the core of triage. The idea of treating the most injured first. there are three categories in triage. category 1, the person you are operating on has suffered minor wounds. This would be a light peppering of shrapnel in non lethal areas, only minor amputations, bullet wounds through non critical parts of the body, or a light concussion. They get taken care of after all of your next category, unless you've got hostiles breathing down your neck and they're needed in the fight to keep you operating and your patients unexecuted, in which case you give them a slap on the rump, hand them their weapon, and tell 'em to suck it up. Category two is amputations to a high degree, shrapnel damage in a critical area, heavy burning, or a bullet wound that pushes through an artery. They need treating first, or else they die there while the soldier with an owie got a band-aid wrapped around his finger. Category 3, the one I think you will have trouble accepting, are the unsaveable. They have a combination of category two injuries, amputations, heavy burns, bullet wounds, heavy shrapnel, any sort of combination where it would take a trained professional hours to treat them." Bryce sucks in a deep breath, and his tone grows sad. "The best you can offer them is a bullet to the head or some morphine to make the pain go away for a while, until they pass on. You can not, and will not, be able to save them. The damage is too severe, and there is no way to pull them back from the brink. Accept it, and save the ones you can save."
