“There was also the fact that never before in my professional life had I felt quite so vital, so necessary as when I was holding that woman’s heart in my hands. Sure, a person with a cancerous tumor needs an oncological surgeon, and a person with a hernia needs a general surgeon, and even a person with a less than perfect nose needs a plastic surgeon, or thinks he does. But I submit that no one in the world needs someone quite as desperately and immediately as a person dying from a bullet in the chest needs a trauma surgeon.”