In my 3rd year at the new hospital, I became Chief of Hepatobiliary Surgery. When Charlotte retired, I took over as hospital president.
Gina became one of the most capable surgeons in the department, and I guided her through one difficult case after another.
The hospital's reputation kept growing. More and more patients started coming from other cities just to be treated here.
One day, the ER received a trauma patient with a ruptured liver following a car crash. He was in hemorrhagic shock.
I scrubbed in as lead surgeon. The moment I opened the abdomen, blood flooded the field. I controlled the bleeding while Gina suctioned and passed instruments. My hands were steady. Gina stood beside me, passing instruments quickly and cleanly.
The surgery lasted 6 hours. When it was finally over,
