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BEING THERE.(Emergency medical care)

The New Yorker

| April 03, 2006 | Groopman, Jerome | COPYRIGHT 2006 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

One afternoon in 1982, a twenty-eight-year-old Michigan state trooper named Craig Scott stopped a speeding car on U.S. Route 127, outside Jackson. Scott discovered that the car, a Camaro, had been stolen, and arrested the driver. As Scott was helping the driver into the back of his patrol car, a passenger in the Camaro pulled out a .38-calibre revolver and shot the trooper three times in the back. Bleeding profusely and gasping for breath, he was taken by ambulance to Foote Hospital, in Jackson. As doctors tended to Scott in a trauma room, his wife arrived at the hospital, and so did several of his colleagues. In the lobby of the emergency room, Scott's wife pleaded with ...

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