Writing Something Big
An emergency room isn’t a happy place to be. Patients, germs, pain, blood, nurses, doctors, and the smell of medication obsessively remind you of the imminent end of your bodily journey. An emergency room is an even worse place to experiment, with human health and lives at stake. That’s why nobody experiments with an actual emergency room but with its computer model. Simula is a great language to simulate such a model.
This book isn’t about modeling and simulation, so we’ll use a simplified model. Adhering to the principle of “garbage in, garbage out,” it’s essential to note that our simulation results, while insightful, won’t necessarily reflect a reliable representation of a real-life emergency room.
An emergency ...
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