Cardiac Reboot

Stopped his heart on purpose to save his life. Three AM, patient coding,

family screaming, and I am the only one who sees the monitor glitching.

His rhythm is all wrong but the machine keeps shocking him anyway. If you have

ever pulled a double shift running on pure adrenaline, you know that moment when protocol

says one thing but your gut screams another. I yanked the paddles away mid-charge.

Doctor turned on me, furious, but I pointed at the screen.

Pacemaker malfunction. We had been killing him with every shock. Induced cardiac arrest,

rebooted his system manually, brought him back in ninety seconds. He walked out