Brett Parks didn’t expect to face death when he went to meet a client for his personal training business. But when he heard someone yell for help, he ran to stop a robbery and got shot in the process. The bullet destroyed several inches of his inferior vena cava,…
A patient with an abdominal gunshot wound is wheeled into the UF Health Jacksonville Trauma Center. He is moaning and in pain, and James Dennis, MD, immediately knows he will need to operate. Fortunately, Dennis is not only a trauma surgeon, but also the hospital’s chief of…
When Sam Bellett woke up that dark summer morning, his future couldn’t have been much brighter. He had just turned 16 and was a week away from starting his junior year in a rigorous academic program at Mandarin High School. He had recently earned a spot on the cross-country…
Jacob Fulford is living proof of the power of a mother’s intuition. After falling off his bike, the 12-year-old Clay County boy was cleared at the scene, but his mother Peggy knew something wasn’t right. After taking him to a hospital in Orange Park, Jacob was airlifted to TraumaOne…
