The Emergency Room That Runs on Everyone

On a Friday night in March 2023, a five-car pileup on I-75 outside Atlanta sent eleven patients flooding into Grady Memorial Hospital's trauma bay within twenty minutes. Dr. Keisha Amari, the attending surgeon, later told reporters something striking: "I didn't save anyone that night. We did." She meant it literally. The respiratory therapist who stabilized the teenager's collapsed lung. The phlebotomist who typed and cross-matched blood faster than anyone thought possible.…