Salem Hospital shares behind-the-scenes look at emergency care

Last January, Ariel Buik found herself a patient at the same hospital she worked in.

Buik was sandwiched between two friends on a sled that raced down an icy hill on Kuebler Boulevard. She saw the sign coming, but couldn’t do anything to stop the collision. They slammed into the pole at over 50 miles an hour, hard enough to rip it out of the ground.

Buik, an emergency room technician at Salem Health, knew…