2025-02-18
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When Kevin Menis was a kid, he used to watch this show called Emergency.
It was super popular in the 1970s.
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Go ahead, 51.
It followed a team of paramedics based out of Station 51 in Los Angeles
and their work alongside doctors at a hospital there.
It was high stakes, full of flashing lights and split second decisions.
But for Kevin, one part of the show always stood out,
how calm the emergency room doctors seemed to be.
They'd always bring a victim in
and there was a doctor who would go out to the ambulance bay and kind of meet the patients.
And I thought, wow, that's kind of cool.
That's what I wanted to do if I ever became an ER doctor.
Kevin Menis did grow up to be an ER doctor.
He trained in one of the toughest hospitals in the country in Detroit,
and eventually became the attending in charge at Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas.
And like those doctors he saw in Emergency,
he developed a kind of calm amid the chaos that came into the ER every day.
You wouldn't make it through training if every heart attack that came in you,