It started with a call in the middle of the night from the trauma surgeon on call.
Dr. Michael Cheatham still remembers the voice on the other end of the phone.
“Normally when we call each other in the middle of the night, you start off apologizing,” Cheatham said. “And there was none of that. I picked up the phone and he said, ‘I have 20 gunshot wounds. I need you now.’ And that’s when I knew that this was not a normal night.”…