Bag of worms.
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Abstract
In this story, I describe, from my perspective as a resident, working with a surgeon to resuscitate a woman who has suffered an avulsion of her pulmonary artery. The patient, a victim of a collision with an intoxicated driver, arrived at the hospital as I was caring for another patient who was undergoing his tenth admission for detoxification. Having been thrown unexpectedly into the fray, I looked upon a beating heart for the first time.