re: What’s the wildest thing you’ve even seen in person

One of those second line shootouts after Katrina came to Touro because Charity was still shut down and University hospital was opened yet. They bring this 18 kid in all shot up in the face, bleeding like a stuck pig. EMS couldn’t intubate him, ER doc couldn’t intubate him, I couldn’t intubate him, you couldn’t see any landmarks to place an airway, between all the blood and holes in his face it was impossible to see.

In the process with this kid bleeding out and us trying to tube him, he was cursing all of us out. We wound up doing an emergency trach on him and sent him to surgery. Kid wound up dying in surgery. It was crazy.