The Sixteen Seconds
And the third document is the one that was never touched, and it belongs to a man who had been awake for nine hours.
Dr.
Kwabena Osei-Tutu was the emergency physician on duty in Jasper at 11:10 that night.
The triage note in front of him said fall from hay trailer.
At 11:52 p.m. he entered an addendum that runs to about a hundred and forty words.
I have read it more times than any other document in my life.
It notes that the pattern and depth of the injury are not consistent with the mechanism described.
It notes a specific finding on the skin of the lower leg — a linear pattern — that he documents and photographs.