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Chapter One

The radio squealed in her ear adding to the chaos of the busy erabbed a pen from the pocket of her hot pink scrub top and poised it over the run sheet as she hit the talk button with her other hand “This is County Base, come in 79”

“We’re on scene with an approximate 35 year old male, about 185 pounds with an altered level of consciousness He’s unresponsive with a GCS of 13 No visible signs of traulucose is 112” The ns, which Janet jotted down

When the paramedic paused, she pushed the button on the radio and spoke into the mic “79, is there any evidence of ETOH?”

“Negative There’s no alcohol on scene, and I don’t smell any on his breath”

Janet sat forward and gave her orders “Try two rams of Narcan IV push, I’ll stand by”

While she waited for the medic to carry out the order, she yelled over the nurse’s station at one of the Techs “Hey To in with a run”

“County, are you there?”

“Go ahead, 79”

“No response to the Narcan”

She tilted her head toward the radio, trying in vain to block out the noise of the depart to e have?” The Paramedic on the other end was seasoned He had seen al in the last twenty years

“I think he’s psych”

“Based on what?”

“The man’s naked”

Janet heard laughter in the background Thesome levity out of this one

She tossed her pen down and stopped worrying about giving the wrong orders Following procedure, she ras to be done with the patient before he made it to the back door She knew thethe exercise a waste

Finished, she signed off and logged in the run

It had been a bitch of a night Janet glanced out the back doors of the ER where the sun started to rise Unfortunately, day shift wasn’t due in for another hour They couldn’t get here fast enough as far as she was concerned

Patients had bombarded the ER nonstop since she arrived at 7:00 PM the day before Graveyard sucked Add a full hto to schedule her days off around it As o however, she was stuck with a full moon shift when one of her fellow nurses ended up sick with the flu

Now beat, she rubbed the back of her neck, urging the muscles to relax, and counted the minutes to when she could leave

Less than five ency Medical Technicians wheeled the patient-laden gurney into C-2 with the parae sheet and walked behind the curtain

“Anything change?” she asked, then set the papers on the overcrowded crash cart

“He’s responding to pain a little more But he’s still completely out” Mitch tore off his paperwork and handed it over

Janet grasped a set of EKG patches and started placing them on the man’s chest Lucky for him his torso was free of hair Otherwise, she would have had to shave the unconscious man

Surprisingly, thehe was most likely some psycho off his ht her attention and his arhts on a daily basis

He wasn’t hoiven

So as he naked in the busy streets of LA? No e what she needed to do

“Is LAPD co in?” she asked the medic before he left