“None of us present will forget the sight of him lying on the hospital gurney about to be wheeled into the operating room.”

“Mike then quickly inserted a catheter and valve then taped it down just as the medics from the ambulance wheeled in a gurney.”

“All assumptions were proven correct when a transport gurney and an EMS crew came in the front door.”

“His department, responsible for moving patients around in wheelchairs and on gurneys, had already been cut from three people to two.”

“Several monitors clicked and pinged for both men, as Corpsman Frank Lerner moved between the two gurneys, watching silently.”

“In the emergency room, draped surgeons paced anxiously alongside empty gurneys.”