A 16-year-old boy is admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit following a gunshot wound to the head. He is likely to be brain dead within two days. While updating his mother on the devastating news, Dr. Kellie Snooks stands at the foot of the bed, looking at the gauze wrapped over his head that hides the protruding brain matter from his family. In this moment, she is reminded of a story from her father, a retired police chief.

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