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Before they landed, the crew of the chopper from Baptist Hospital saw the shark on the beach, its gray body against the white sand. Once the chopper touched down, they discovered that Jessie had basically been drained of blood, the worst situation in a trauma. In such situations, fewer than 1% of victims survive. No medication can help the heart. "There is nothing left to pump," says Greg Smith, an emergency-room physician who had hopped onto the helicopter when he heard there had been a shark attack. "You've basically run the pump dry." The medics could well have...
...their absence, the most fascinating part of the job is the new perspective it affords on a time so fresh in my memory. In the adventure and trauma of preparing for college, something as simple as a sheet pattern can seem to take on extraordinary importance. And in a sense, that impulse is right on target. Going to bed every night is one of the great constants in our lives; especially at an early age, it is also a great source of comfort. Outfitting a completely foreign bed, especially one five confounding inches longer than a regular twin-size, represents...
...sometimes even a star has trouble getting what she wants. First, says Stone, the zoo sent its own medics; then a fire engine arrived, and then paramedics wanted to take them to a hospital that had no trauma ward. When the apologetic--and panicky--director of the zoo, Manuel Mollinedo, arrived at the hospital, Stone says she told him, "Look, this is all we want from you: we don't want you to do any sensationalized press, and we want you to move the animal into quarantine. "So the first thing the zoo did was a fund raiser with...
...Finally, we get an ambulance, and they insist that they have to take him to Glendale Hospital, which does not have a trauma ward...
...know it didn't have a trauma ward...