The Sixteen Seconds
1:38 a.m. — She goes to an operating room.
From the injury to the operating room: eight hours and fifty-nine minutes.
From the injury to the first time any licensed medical professional looked at her: six hours and thirty-six minutes.
From the 911 call to the cancellation of the 911 call: two minutes.
Part Four: The Window
There is a window in medicine and there is a window in a house and this account is about both of them, and the one in medicine is about six hours long.
Dr.
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