John and Cam rushed toward the Emergency Department doors that slid open as they approached. The waiting room was jammed with people asking attendants about loved ones. He marched past them to a pair of double doors and pushed through into a hallway littered with gurneys and wheelchairs holding victims from the storm. A nurse who was treating a man on a gurney looked up as he and Cam came in. She stepped away from her patient and blocked them from going any further.
“You go back, you not supposed be here,” she said.
Cam said, “I’m a doctor. We just came in with the woman you took down the hall. I need to consult with the attending.”
The woman considered Cam with a wrinkled brow, pressed her lips together and said, “You wait here.”
John panned his gaze around the noisy hallway as his he
