Medicine and Clinical Studies
The Emergency Room in a rural hospital is staffed in four six-hour shifts (1, 2, 3, 4). During any shift, an Emergency Room patient is attended to by either a general physician (G), a surgeon (R), or an intern (I). An experiment consists of coding the next Emergency Room patient by shift and attending doctor. Consider the following events.
A = The attending doctor is the general physician.
B = The patient is admitted during the second shift.
C = The patient is admitted during shift 3 or is seen by the intern.
D = The patient is admitted during shift 4 and is seen by the general physician.
a. Find the sample space S for this experiment.
b. List the outcomes in each of the events A, B, C, and D.
c. List the outcomes in the events A ∪ B and A ∩ B.