At a residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, Kuhls had been taught how to handle what's known in the trade as penetrative trauma - stabbings, impalements, gunshots. Now she underwent an education in blunt-force injuries, which are often considerably harder to diagnose.
If you're going very fast, and then suddenly you're not, the floppy parts of your body - your intestines, your kidney, your liver - will keep going, Kuhls told me. That's just plain physics. And our brain is floating in our skull, surrounded by fluid. But what if the skull bounces around or the car roof caves in and connects with the driver's head?
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