Emergencies happen anywhere, anytime, and sometimes medical professionals find themselves in situations where they are the only ones who can help. Is There a Doctor in the House? is a Medscape series telling these stories.
Sunday night. Las Vegas. Jason Aldean had just started playing.
My wife and I were at the 2017 Route 91 Harvest Festival with three other couples; two of them were our close friends. We were sitting in the VIP section, a tented area right next to the stage. We started hearing what I was convinced were fireworks.
Dr James Sebesta
I've been in the army for 20 some years. I've been deployed and shot at multiple times. But these shots were far away. And you don't expect people to be shooting at you at a concert.
I was on the edge of the VIP area, so I could see around the corner of the tent. I looked up at the Mandalay Bay and saw the muzzle flash in the hotel window. That's when I knew.
I screamed, "Somebody's shooting at us! Everybody get down!"
It took a while for people to realize what was going on. When the first couple volleys sprayed into the crowd, nobody understood. But once enough people had been hit and dropped,
