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My experience of this ERS production is unique to the moment of my encounter.

Scott Shepherd, an ERS mainstay who was not only part of the ensemble but also co-directed with John Collins and served as dramaturg, introduced the proceedings in an impishly folksy manner reminiscent of the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town.”

ERS doesn’t traffic in emotional realism or literal re-creation.

A cyberattack at L.A.-based Prospect Medical Holdings affects computers at hospitals in several U.S. states, forcing some ERs to close and ambulances to be diverted.

Speaking of barns, the consolidation of dairy farming into massive operations where cows are confined to tight spaces and feedlots rather than grazing makes transmission from one sick cow to an entire herd far easier than it would have been on smaller farms: “Cows are less likely to graze in pastures and are more likely to be confined within large barns and lots,” write the authors of the ERS report.