Just one?
-Teenage female...stage IV melanoma. Delivers her first baby, fourth degree laceration. Gets out of the hospital only to die of metastatic disease at home.
-Middle-aged woman, survives two separate MVCs in a row and prolonged ICU course. Transferred to rehab and dies of gruesome medical error.
-6th grader, comes in wheezing. Dies while family watches the code. Status asthmaticus.
-Wife dies in car accident, husband survives long ICU course. Kiddo taken into foster system while adult step-kids have stolen the wife's identity and cards and ruined the rest of the husband's life.
-Health-freaks, newly married couple out for a walk. Wife trips and hits her head. Persistent vegetative state. Husband meets his mother-in-law for the first time at his wife's ICU bed.
-Teenage girl, hunting. Trips and falls. C2 quad.
-Middle-aged, healthy guy goes out to work. Doesn't come home. "You're telling me there is nothing you can do?" That's what I'm telling you. Uncal herniation. Hearing teenage kids cry for their dad isn't fun.
-Middle-aged guy, undergoes high-risk surgery. Sick for days in the ICU and I tell the family: "Get everyone here you want to be here; prognosis isn't good." Makes miraculous recovery, transferred to the floor and we're ready to send to rehab. 2 hours after telling the family how great he's doing, he's dead. Massive PE.
-Walk in on a code to the husband screaming "You killed my wife!" Medical error. He was right.
-20-something year old guy, MVC. Grabs my hand, "Don't let me die." Three hours later, I'm holding his heart, trying to keep it beating. He dies.