[I] set my cardiac monitor down by the young man\'s head.
When Peter Canning started work as a paramedic on the streets of Hartford, Co.
A week from today, after the young man\'s brain shows no signs of electrical activity, the medical staff will take the breathing tube out, and with his family gathered by his side, he will pass away at the age of twenty-three.
I apply the defibrillator pads to his hairless chest...
He is lifeless, his face white with a blue tinge. [I] set my cardiac monitor down by the young man\'s head