I’m a male nurse at a large hospital. I was working in the emergency room one summer night when the following incident occurred.

The night was uneventful for about four hours. It was a Monday night, so I expected the second four hours to be the same as the first. The silence was broken by the radio announcing the arrival of two car-accident victims.

I heard the ambulance siren a block away and then the lights filled the dark emergency entrance. Two stretchers crashed through the doors. On the first one was the driver, a young man who was bleeding from five bad wounds. The other, a passenger, was a young woman. She’d been wearing her seat belt and only had a small cut on her head, but still she was unconscious. The driver was taken into one room and the woman to another. Most of the nurses and the doctor... Read More