Today, trauma surgeons around the country are often able to save patients who may have been lost two decades ago—patients like Nicholas Velasquez. Nicholas, a six-year old San Antonio boy, held on to life by a thread after a drunk driver slammed head-on into his...
Derek McGinnis, a hospital corpsman in the U.S. Navy, was dispatched to pick up wounded marines during the 2004 Fallujah Offensive in Iraq. As his Humvee ambulance paused on the street, it was broadsided by a suicide driver, whose vehicle exploded on impact and ripped...
Roberto Espinosa had a lot of luck and one of the best trauma teams in Texas on his side when, on October 7, 2002, the bottom literally dropped out of his life. An ordinary ride in a restaurant freight elevator turned into a nightmare when a probable hydraulic fluid...
