I can still *see* the little boy who was bitten in the face by a friend's dog, and the panicky parents who were rushing him to the emergency room, back when I was doing my EMT clinicals some 20 year ago. I was left alone with the boy as the ER was extremely busy. It didn't help matters that apparently he was to meet a doctor at a different hospital. But the ER staff wanted to make certain he was stable and arrange for medical transport (ambulance) to the correct hospital that would do the surgical repairs. The owners of the dog were equally mortified and told the police that they would just have the dog put down, that the little boy had done nothing to provoke the dog. When I was left with him, I to make sure he stayed conscious and breathing. He was amazingly calm, and not mad at the dog, and thankfully didn't seem to be in a lot of pain (he should have been). Poor lad will be horribly scarred for life.