>> A lot of people ask why I have a surgical laceration kit 
    in my go-bag given that I am not qualified to actually use it. 
    My reasoning stems from what I have seen across many disasters that have occurred all over the world. 
    In the most likely scenario for the bay area, an earthquake (like the Loma Prieta quake or the Northridge quake), 
    all these people are moving around and then boom, everything stops moving. 
    At that instant in time you have a cross section of people evenly distributed across an area, 
    then some percentage of them will be health care workers (Nurses, Doctors, PAs etc). 
    And the hospitals will be far away.