![]() ![]() “I enjoy entertaining the audience, making them forget their problems,” he told The Associated Press in 2006. If his singing and public life lacked the high drama of Sinatra’s, Bennett appealed with an easy, courtly manner and an uncommonly rich and durable voice - “A tenor who sings like a baritone,” he called himself - that made him a master of caressing a ballad or brightening an up-tempo number. Unlike his friend and mentor Sinatra, he would interpret a song rather than embody it. The last of the great saloon singers of the mid-20th century, Bennett often said his lifelong ambition was to create “a hit catalog rather than hit records.” He released more than 70 albums, bringing him 19 competitive Grammys - all but two after he reached his 60s - and enjoyed deep and lasting affection from fans and fellow artists.īennett didn’t tell his own story when performing he let the music speak instead - the Gershwins and Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern. There was no specific cause, but Bennett had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2016. Most importantly, we beg you to use your influence to stem the celebration of gun culture, and model care and concern for our children.Publicist Sylvia Weiner confirmed Bennett’s death to The Associated Press, saying he died in his hometown of New York. We plead with you to support and implement laws to keep our children safe, including safe gun storage requirements, universal background checks and “red flag” laws to keep guns out of the hands of potentially dangerous people. We implore you to show leadership in making this world safer for our children. Our children are suffering and dying from firearm injuries. We hold our families close and try not to think about the loss of life, of potential, that we witnessed at work.īut our lives - and those of our patients and their families - are forever changed. The trauma room is cleaned of blood, bandages and cut-off clothing and prepared for the next patient. We return to our jobs, to the other patients waiting. Or the heartwrenching, “I’m so very sorry, we did all we could, but your child has died.” “Your child is going to the operating room now.” The physician speaks with them as soon as we are able, and we do our best to answer and comfort: ![]() The chaplain sits with them, offers a gown. The family arrives, stunned, sometimes in bloody clothing from where they clutched their child while awaiting help. “Are we going straight to the operating room?” We obtain X-rays trying to determine the extent of the damage. The sickening “pop” of a chest tube being pushed between a child’s ribs, followed by a rush of blood and air, is hard to forget. The blood pooling where it should not – around the heart and lungs, impairing their function, in the abdomen where it can be hard to detect until too much is lost, into the skull, compressing the brain and causing increasing pressure and damage. Those tiny holes on the surface only hint at the damage done inside the body. It is amazing just how small those holes in the body can be. “Where are the injuries?” We quickly inspect the patient looking for the telltale holes. The physician leader trying to manage this chaos while assessing the patient. ![]() Everyone is busy – cutting clothing off the patient, placing or checking IVs. Or the worst of all, they are unresponsive and already efforts are in progress to breathe for them, pushing on sometimes very tiny chests trying to circulate what little blood is left in their hemorrhaging bodies. Sometimes the patient is crying in pain more often they are quiet in stunned shock - pale and sweaty skin, asking for water as their body tries to replace the life blood they are losing. “Please let me do my job the best I can.”Įmergency Medical Services (EMS) pushes the stretcher into the room. Each person with their own thoughts and prayers: Lead physician and nurse assign roles:Īs everyone gets into position, the words “they are pulling up” are followed by an expectant pause, a brief moment of quiet. Donning gloves, goggles and plastic gowns. Often the information is limited to the approximate age of the pa1ent and some hint as to their condition: But we would like to share with you what we see too often when boys and girls are actually shot - whether by accident or intention.įirst, there is the alert about an incoming patient. We too frequently see guns taken lightly, jokingly addressed, used as props, emphasized in music, or glorified in media. ![]()
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