Cristina keyed the mic. “En route.”
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“Just the heat,” she lied, and drove into the neon night, already composing the text she’d send after shift: “You still breathing?” Cristina keyed the mic
Jake bagged the patient while Cristina started an IV. The man coughed, gagged, then took a ragged breath. “He’s coming around,” Jake said. But tonight, the air in the ambulance was
She knew the answer would be yes. For once, so was she.
They arrived to chaos. A man in his forties, blue-lipped, barely breathing. Cristina moved on autopilot: airway, sternal rub, naloxone. But the patient’s girlfriend was hysterical, clawing at Cristina’s vest. “Save him! Please!”
The Midnight Shift