Welcome guys to episode 169 of Behind the Shield podcast. As always, my name's James Gearing,

and I have an incredibly powerful story for you this week. My guest, David Hughes, a retired

state trooper, lost his son, Drew Hughes at the age of 13 after Drew fell off his skateboard

and then suffered a series of horrendous medical decisions, medical

errors that resulted in his life.

You will hear the story I won't say it in the intro, but I want to preface by saying,

this isn't a breakdown of what went wrong and a blamestorming session.

This is a how can we all learn from this tragic, tragic story and honor this

young man's life by making sure that we learn and fix the areas in our lives at a week and make

sure this doesn't happen again. There are many incidences of things like this happening that get swept under the carpet,

you know, that kept hidden.

And David was brave enough to tell Drew's story.

This obviously came out in public courts.

This is why we're able to talk about it as well.

But again, this isn't to blame the people.

Obviously, they were wrong.

But this isn't just a pointing our finger

session. This is looking in the mirror at our training, at ourselves, at our department, at our

hospitals and asking how can we make it better to stop this happening again? So, as I always say,

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