Brett Parks

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…