57 pages • 1 hour read
Last Patient of the Night
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Chapters 1-12Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Content Warning: This section includes discussion of sexual violence, graphic violence/torture, physical abuse, cursing, and death.
Chapter 1 Summary
Physician AJ Docker, or “Doc,” is skiing in Wyoming when he’s interrupted by a man named Sam who struggles with his skis. Doc helps Sam get into his gear and lets Sam take the first run in the snow. Sam crashes into a tree. Doc finds that a branch has crushed Sam’s windpipe, so he can’t breathe. Doc always travels with a scalpel and endotracheal tube, so he manages to open Sam’s airway and put a tube in his trachea to allow him to breathe. The Ski Patrol officers arrive and want to take Doc’s statement, but he wants to ski a little more first. He asks the young, beautiful woman named Michelle to dinner to discuss the events.
Chapter 2 Summary
Doc drives to Ben Taub Hospital in Houston, where he works in the ER. Ben Taub handles over 100,000 trauma patients a year. Doc heads to the ER. He brings in donuts for the staff, and the charge nurse, Jean, is happy to see him, teasing him about his love life. He also checks in with Deb, the co-director of the ER, and Finn, who made a dollar bet, a common practice in the ER, that Doc wouldn’t have romanced anyone in Wyoming.
