The intake photo on my tablet showed a nine-year-old boy with a blood clot pressing on his brain, and my hands went cold before I even read his chart. He was brought to my OR specifically because…
The blood type on the intake form was printed in standard black font on standard beige paper, and it stopped my heart the way nothing in fourteen years of surgery ever had. Not the compound fractures, not the ruptured arteries, not the three a. m. codes that made your whole body go cold. A blood … Read more