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com. It's just after 10.30 p.m. at the Roosevelt Hospital in New York City.

Dr David Hollerin, a surgeon at the hospital, stops his late night consultation

after hearing the sound of his pager.

It's the emergency department, a patient is incoming in the back of a police car with multiple

gunshot wounds.

They need David's skills immediately.

David rushes toward an elevator and rides down to the emergency room.

He makes his way to room 115 just as the patient is wheeled inside.

Assessing the damage, David orders and preps for a thoracomy

to cut open the patient's chest.

Immediately David notes two things.

First, the sheer loss of blood from this man in his early

40s. The second is the clothing of the patient in front of him. The man is

wearing a stylish leather jacket, a red t-shirt and jeans. He's much better dressed than the vast majority of

gunshot wound victims David usually sees. And as he often does, David wonders

what could have brought this man into the ER.

Whatever it is, he hopes he can save this patient's life.

But things don't look good.

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