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3) Phoenix Rising

Excerpted from the journal of Dr. Melissa Jorganthal M.D.-

Had a most amazing experience in the ER this week, a young man came in (smelling profoundly of alcohol) with a severe knife wound to the medial thigh. He had lost almost 25% of his blood, and his pulse and BP were both dangerously low. (How he survived that long I have no idea!) He was accompanied by another young man who volunteered to donate blood in a direct transfusion, but of course that would be unacceptable in this day and age. He became quite agitated and I had to call security to remove him.

I was called away to triage four unfortunates who had been brought in after a terrible auto accident, and I asked our new nurse practitioner Mike to irrigate and prepare the wound for suture. (the accident had been absolutely horrifying, one DOA child, the others all critical and I fear at least one them has terminal injuries, will she make the night???)

In addition I had ordered a volume of plasma and a small dose of vasoconstrictor in an attempt to bring up the BP, and reduce bleeding. When I returned I found his room empty. Confused I went looking for Mike who said that the young man had been removed By a Dr. Hanso Fook, who was having him prepped for surgery in the OR. His condition had worsened and Dr. Fook believed that he had little time to wait. The patient had been literally spirited away quite quickly and efficiently, from my ER, and no one had informed me! I was livid, and when I had him paged I discovered something quite shocking. There is no Dr. Fook at this hospital.....

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