The Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, over a four-year period, used its disaster plan more than 100 times due to the civil disturbances in Northern Ireland. The concept of classifying these patients into three or four triage categories made me critical of assumed methods and articles dealing with triage. None of it measured up to my own experience. What is triage? Triage is the French word for “sorting.” I, therefore, addressed myself to the kind of sorting I had seen, where it was done and what categories were used.