Christmas in Emergency: A Medical Drama

By Murray Peters

It's Christmas...
...and someone's gonna die.

 

She knew it.

Dr. Ayers is stuck in Emergency for the holiday, again. And every year a patient doesn't make it through. Try as she might, the good doctor cannot stop death. Or can she? With the help of her nursing staff, Dr. Ayers treats her patients in a desperate attempt to keep them all alive. Will she keep death from invading the ER? Or will tragedy destroy the holidays?

 

What are you waiting for? A brain aneurysm?

 

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Coffey Publishing
• Release date: Apr 29, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224240678

Murray Peters

Murray Peters wrote his first story in grade three at the age of nine for a creative writing assignment. He modeled (which means “stole”) his story after the Disney movie The Incredible Journey. Time past, and Murray didn’t write again until he reached fifteen. Inspired by Hardy Boys Mysteries, Stephen King, and Marvel Comics, he began getting ideas of his own. An anti-suicide short story, “Mistaken Identity,” was published with the help and collaboration of his grade nine English teacher. A few more published stories - co-authored with his teacher – later, Murray put down the pen. Writing was turning into work and no longer fun. The collaboration ended. More time past, and he would occasionally dabble on his mother’s typewriter - which he still has – but nothing too serious. Then came high school graduation, a DJ career, girlfriend, and two wonderful kids. And still he just dabbled, admitting sometimes – many times – he wrote shit. Murray became a single parent in spring, 1991. After two failed attempts at college, he became an English Major and earned an Associates of Arts Diploma in 1995. Meanwhile, he wrote some short stories and improved his craft until finally his story “The Murderer On Langston Road” was published in The Storyteller magazine. The story is now an e-book. With his children grown and on their own, Murray began to focus on his writing and wrote and published 365 Fascinating Facts You Didn’t Know About Your Cat by Peter Scottsdale. He uses the pen name “Peter Scottsdale” for all his cat books and e-books. Murray Peters loves writing but doesn’t have as much time as he would like to write due to work to pay the bills. However, he is putting pen to paper and will continue to publish. More than anything, he wants readers to enjoy his work. Happy reading!

Book preview

Christmas In Emergency

by

Murray Peters

I drove to work dreading the day, that Christmas Day. Suicides, car accidents, heart attacks - it doesn't stop for any day. And on this day, worse. Who wants to remember every year on December 25th their loved one died? Not me. Yet, on the Christmas Days I worked the ER at the Langston Falls Regional Hospital, I remember every death, every grieving relative. Here I was in Emergency on Christmas Day again.

I arrived at work, parked in my stall and went inside. Early, I took my time changing into my scrubs. After hanging my stethoscope around my neck, I hit the Emergency floor.

Look who's here, Dr. Jemison said.

How was your night? I asked him.

Quiet. Yeah, I know. Unusual. He filled me in on the few patients he treated.

Liz, an attending nurse, walked up and handed me a clipboard with a girl's admitting information. I read it and headed to room four, pulling back the privacy curtain.

On the bed, a toddler rolled side-to-side. She cried with her mother next to her side.

Hi, I'm Doctor Ayers. I understand she's been crying all night, and she has a fever.

Since midnight. She's not hungry. She didn't hurt herself. I don't know what's wrong.

Does she have a history of this?

No. She keeps pulling on her ears too.

Can you hold her still while I examine her?

I took the otoscope from its cradle on the