The Procedure: “Ready for Prime Time”
I wasn’t the only one waiting anxiously at Pam’s bedside in the Hopkins ICU that day in March, 2002. She’d been wheeled straight over from the cath lab, heavily sedated.
As I held her hand and mulled over just how to gently break news to her when she woke up that things… well, things hadn’t gone exactly according to plan, various surgeons were sidling up to the bed, looking things over, checking monitors, reading strips. Just checking, they’d say… just checking…
Collateral Damage: A Patient, a New Procedure and the Learning Curve 