Troubled Path to Broken Medicine

"There is another patient being extracted from the other vehicle. They should be on their way in about thirty minutes." The charge nurse answered, "I will be standing by."

For Dr. Kirk Frei, this would turn out to be the worst shift of his ER career so far. He heard the radio and was thinking of what was happening with the first patient, what he would have to do.

Suddenly the radio crackled again. "We have the second patient from the accident, whose BP is 70 palpable. He has got chest and a...