A story of an ER doc doing an emergent tracheotomy – only previously having done them on dogs and cadavers
“It could only happen to a gangster— – or to an ED doctor like me. Three minutes ago, I’d never seen the guy. Now, with one slash of the scalpel, I slit his throat. From start to finish, it takes fewer seconds to do it than to tell you about it.”
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