Object
G.W. Hospital Patient Evacuation Van
A utilitarian van lurks at the hospital's backdoors and scaffolding, engine humming in tense readiness as Secret Service agents bark orders, shoving waiting patients toward its yawning rear doors. Nurses and doctors glance its way amid siren wails and PA alerts, the vehicle swallowing civilians in a chaotic exodus that strips the ER bare for the President's bloodied arrival. Blank stares from the displaced underscore the ruthless pivot from routine care to national fortress.
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Purpose
Evacuates non-critical patients from the emergency room to secure perimeter and prioritize space for incoming high-level trauma (POTUS).
Significance
Cuts through medical bureaucracy like a blade, herding the vulnerable aside as assassination's shockwave demands absolute precedence for Bartlet—every loaded patient amplifies the presidency's fragility amid institutional frenzy.
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