There are bad commutes, and then there is driving yourself to the hospital with gunshot wounds. That is what one man did in Baltimore, pulling up outside R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma with blood pouring from his chest before collapsing on the sidewalk.
A University of Maryland Express Care paramedic and two colleagues were already outside when the man stumbled up. Within minutes, they had him on a gurney and in an operating room. Doctors and emergency crews later said that speed likely meant the difference between life and death.
Jeremy Mayer, an Express Care paramedic with nearly a decade on the job, told reporters the man walked toward the crew bleeding heavily. Mayer and his team quickly found two penetrating chest wounds, loaded the man onto a stretcher, and rushed him through the ambulance bay straight to surgery. Hospital staff later described the operation as life-saving, and police determined the shooting happened in the 2400 block of Westport Street, with the victim driving nearly three miles to get help, according to WMAR-2 News.
Paramedics Met Him On The Sidewalk
“If he had been shot several blocks away and had waited for someone to activate the emergency system through 911, I can’t imagine that he would be alive,” Dr. Rishi Kundi, a Shock Trauma critical care surgeon, said in an interview…