A big problem is going to be in the "Golden hour." As I understand it, current trauma specialists can heal an awful lot of damage if they can get to a victim within an hour of the injury. Without air or ground ambulances, that looks pretty grim. I think a lot more people will die of bleeding out or shock than we see currently, but the general medical knowledge might bring things back to the WW2 level of wound survival.
Diseases, however, that chills me-- the lack of medicines and vaccines we now use to keep a lot of us alive through childhood and beyond is going to hurt.
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My Twilight claim to fame: I ran "Allegheny Uprising" at Allegheny College, spring of 1988.
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