Dr. Jensen – Chapter 6
\nPreview from Ron and Bruno: Against the Doctatorship<\/h4>\n
Edwin left his bellhop cap and coat in my room, and we walked down the hall and out of the building. A few blocks and we were at the loading dock of the hospital. Edwin\u2019s fianc\u00e9e was waiting at an employee door beside the cargo door.
\n\u201cGet in. Get in.\u201d She said.
\nThen she rushed us down the hall and into a storage room.
\n\u201cThis is my fianc\u00e9e, Bella.\u201d Edwin said.
\n\u201cSo why are we here?\u201d Bruno asked.
\n\u201cThis is the only door in the building without cameras.\u201d Bella replied. \u201cHere, get into this.\u201d
\nShe handed us some hospital gowns and masks.
\n\u201cNow wait just a durn tootin minute.\u201d Bruno objected. \u201cWhat is all this stuff?\u201d
\n\u201cThe hospital is on total lockdown. This is the only way you can gain entry.\u201d She said.
\n\u201cSo this ain\u2019t on the up and up?\u201d Bruno said. \u201cI\u2019m all in! I\u2019m sick of these lockdowns anyway.\u201d
\n\u201cMake sure to put on the gloves too.\u201d She said.
\n\u201cSo this is gonna be a fight?\u201d Bruno quipped.
\nBella scolded. \u201cNow let\u2019s be serious, Bruno. Carmelita told me about you.\u201d
\n\u201cAnd what did she say, pray tell?\u201d
\nNow Bella coyly smiled and said:
\n\u201cCarmelita said she fancies <\/em>you.\u201d
\n\u201cNow there<\/em>, wha\u2019d I tell you, old Ron. Camerlita fancies me. That\u2019s all I needed to hear. Let\u2019s suit up.\u201d
\n\u201cAnd put this on too.\u201d Bella said, \u201cNobody will be able to recognize you. They\u2019ll think you\u2019re from the hazmat team.\u201d
\nBella handed us hazmat suits that looked like the gear firemen wear. Now Bruno objected.
\n\u201cI ain\u2019t a gettin into one of those contraptions.\u201d He said.
\n\u201cIs there another way?\u201d I asked.
\nBruno was claustrophobic, and anything that covered him so completely was out of the question.
\n\u201cOh, well yes.\u201d She said. \u201cThe other way is to send the paper you want signed through a courier, then wait till it gets to the doctor\u2019s desk. Then wait till he decides to sign it. Then wait till he sends it out. And by the way, this doctor you want to see, this Dr, Jensen, well, the courier service told me\u2026\u201d
\nBruno was looking for anything that could keep him from putting on the hazmat suit, so he cut in.
\n\u201cI see, the courier service told you. I thought you were our contact on the inside?\u201d
\n\u201cOh, no.\u201d Bella said. \u201cI would never get the jab. Everyone on the inside has gotten the jab and some have died.\u201d
\n\u201cSo are you\u2019re telling me this is all guesswork? How are you gonna get us on the inside?\u201d Bruno asked.
\n\u201cMy cousins provide food service here with their food truck.\u201d She answered. \u201cThey\u2019ve been providing temporary service for the Sortida and the hospital as well. I just load the carts that go into the cafeteria. Housekeeping rolls them in. My cousin Julio drives the food truck and my cousin Carmelita cooks.\u201d
\n\u201cWell, since you\u2019re Camerlita\u2019s cousin, and we\u2019re all in this together. Okay, and gracias. I\u2019ll just think of her when I\u2019m under this shroud and it\u2019ll get me through.\u201d Bruno said.
\n\u201cCarmelita will be delighted to hear how you say that.\u201d Bella replied.
\nBruno\u2019s face was still glowing from hearing that Carmelita fancied him, and I could see his courage building back as Bella said that Carmelita would be delighted at his words. As the wise King Solomon said: The way of a man with a woman, who can understand?
\n<\/em>Bruno had been a fireman for 44 years. He could have retired early but felt it his duty to fight fires as long as he could. Then the worst apartment fire he\u2019d ever fought put him in the hospital for three months. He said wearing masks brought back memories of the screaming kids who couldn\u2019t be saved. He still blamed himself. But if he\u2019d stayed another moment, he would never have survived. Said he lost all his toes on one foot to burns. But I knew Bruno. It had to be way worse than that, for him to admit anything at all. Bruno didn\u2019t like being treated special. He saw doing what\u2019s right as doing what\u2019s normal. The injury is what gave him his swagger. He wasn\u2019t trying to act tough. He was tough.
\nWe continued putting on every piece of equipment that Bella gave us. After almost 10 minutes, we were all suited up.
\n\u201cLet\u2019s go put out a fire!\u201d Bruno exclaimed.
\n\u201cAmen.\u201d I said.
\nBut Bella wasn\u2019t through explaining how we\u2019d get to the doctor\u2019s office.
\n\u201cYou see how your suits have a patch that says, \u2018Hazmat Security?\u2019 You have authority to enter any part of the hospital. But there\u2019s one more thing you\u2019ll need.\u201d
\nShe handed each of us a hazmat materials bag. Mine contained an assortment of soft drinks and a cake with the words: Happy Birthday Princess Cassandra<\/em>. Bruno\u2019s contained his form for the doctor to sign.
\n\u201cWhat\u2019s this?\u201d I asked.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s a distraction.\u201d She said. \u201cI overheard the couriers talking about the Charge Nurse on the 5th<\/sup> floor. Today\u2019s her birthday and her husband is always sending her some kind of gift.\u201d
\n\u201cOld Ron, are you starting to hear the music for mission impossible?\u201d Bruno said.
\nBella cut in. \u201cI know you\u2019re anxious to get this over with, but there\u2019s just one more thing. You\u2019ll go through the first doors you come to after we leave this storage room. There\u2019s an elevator just inside. Take it to the 5th<\/sup> floor. When you leave the elevator, go to the left. Then go through the double doors. That\u2019s where you\u2019ll see a small table for packages. It\u2019s the only table when you come through the doors. Drop off the birthday treats there. Then walk straight past the nurses\u2019 station to Dr. Jensen\u2019s office. He\u2019s all the way to the end of the hall.\u201d
\n\u201cThanks for your help,\u201d Bruno said. \u201cI didn\u2019t expect all this. It\u2019s such a blessing.\u201d
\nYes, I thought to myself. Sneaking into a hospital in hazmat suits. What a blessing. But despite my sarcastic thoughts, I knew it was a blessing that Bruno and I didn\u2019t have to go this alone.
\n\u201cSo how do you come by so much inside information.\u201d Bruno asked Bella.
\n\u201cOh, I just stand out here. This is where all the staff takes their breaks. So many people in Seattle smoke now. It\u2019s the only way we can remove our masks. I just use non-nicotine vapes. I hear everything that happens in this hospital.\u201d Bella said.
\n\u201cAnd I thought Filipinos held the record for gossiping.\u201d Edwin objected.
\n\u201cWho do you think I get the information from?\u201d Bella said.
\n\u201cGood to know we still hold the record.\u201d Edwin replied.
\n\u201cOkay, are we set to go?\u201d I asked.
\n\u201cOne last detail.\u201d Bella said. \u201cYou\u2019ll need to know this more than anything else, how to get out. Just come back down the way you go in, but when you go out that door, the one you came in, you\u2019ll crouch down before you open it, so that you can\u2019t be seen above the food truck. Julio will be parked there waiting. Then crawl down the loading dock and go underneath the truck. It has a trap door. It\u2019s for running out the hoses to recycle the stove oil. Climb through the trap door and into the truck. Then take off your hazmat suits. There will be some plastic garbage bags for you to put them in. My cousin Julio will be the driver. He\u2019ll take you to your hotel just like he drives there every day. And that\u2019s it. Easy as rolling out a tortilla.\u201d
\n\u201cNow you see, Ron? It\u2019s as easy as rolling out a tortilla. Let\u2019s roll.\u201d Bruno beat me to the punchline.
\nThen Bruno put on the last accessory of his hazmat suit, the shroud. That\u2019s what he called the head covering he once wore as a fireman. I could barely see him through the hazy plastic. For sure, nobody would be able to identify us.
\n\u201cOh, one more thing.\u201d Bella said. \u201cDr. Jensen isn\u2019t expecting you, but Hank\u2019s been paying him to smuggle in relatives of patients. Hank said to just tell Dr. Jensen that Hank has a patient form to be signed and that Hank will cover the cost.\u201d
\nI put on my shroud, and we all exited the storage room. What once would have been an impossible entry, was made easy, by the fear and submission that the CDC had conditioned into the public. Anyone in a hazmat suit was automatically given carte blanche. Before the CDC had seized control, we were able to easily see our loved ones. We only had to abide by visiting hours. But now, the CDC with its insidious mind control, had power over all but the most fervent people of faith. How else could you account for more than half the population poisoning themselves. It was, after all, gene therapy disguised as a vaccine<\/em>. I hadn\u2019t been inside a church since they\u2019d begun to cover the images of God, our fellow humans, with masks. So much for people with fervent faith.
\nIn the image of God<\/strong> created He him, male and female created He them.
\n<\/em>I hoped I\u2019d get to visit Diego\u2019s secret church before returning to Arizona. Yeah, I have a habit of thinking of everything but the task at hand when the stress gets high. But I set my mind back on our task, getting the signature Bruno needed.
\nBruno and I waddled through the first door. Then I pushed the elevator button. Bruno looked at me like he used to on the Fourth of July, just before he\u2019d light off a quarter stick of dynamite. I enjoyed fireworks, but to risk my hand? Not a chance. But Bruno was a risk-taker. And he ratcheted up his risk taking when he became a firefighter. I couldn\u2019t imagine the nightmare of running into a burning building, but to Bruno, it was a sweet dream. It takes someone special, with guts, and a lifetime dream of becoming a firefighter. Yes, Bruno was more than bluster. He was exactly what Carmelita said he was, and then some. He was brutish like an animal when it came to saving the lives of those who couldn\u2019t save themselves. His faith was primal, and it was strong. How else could you run into a burning building? His was the kind of faith few of us will ever know.
\nThe elevator door opened, and Bruno and I stepped in. I pushed the button for the 5th<\/sup> floor. The elevator inched its way up, then the doors burst open. Not really, but that\u2019s how my gut felt. I\u2019d never trespassed before, at least not as an adult. We turned left and went through the doors. Bruno stood still for a moment between me and the nurses\u2019 station as I put the cake and soft drinks on the table. Next, we walked past the nurses\u2019 station. Then one of the nurses screamed. I about jumped out of my hazmat suit. She\u2019d found the cake and soft drinks.
\n\u201cCasandra! Casandra.\u201d She said. \u201cYour Don Juan husband has left you a cake and soft drinks!\u201d
\nA nurse\u2019s aide asked Casandra, \u201cAre you really a princess? It says you\u2019re a princess on your cake.\u201d
\n\u201cWell, of course.\u201d Casandra said. \u201cMy father didn\u2019t approve of my marriage and so he banished me from our kingdom. Ever since, I\u2019ve been telling my husband that he must make up for all the treasures I left behind.\u201d
\n\u201cAnd has he?\u201d The aide asked.
\n\u201cI\u2019m not sure.\u201d Casandra said. \u201cI\u2019ll find out when I get home. He\u2019s got a lot of dishes to wash, laundry to do, diapers to change and clothes to iron.\u201d
\nThen she cackled more like a witch than a princess. In unison, they cackled too. Did they have a choice? She was<\/em> the charge nurse.
\nAs Casandra and the other nurses enjoyed their cake and soft drinks, Bruno and I kept walking down the hall. The last door would be Dr. Jensen\u2019s. Just a few more steps and\u2026 the door was open.
\n\u201cI\u2019ve been expecting you.\u201d Dr. Jensen said. \u201cCome in, come in, and shut the door behind you.\u201d
\nMaybe Hank did<\/em> get a chance to tell him we were coming. Dr. Jensen paced in front of the window behind a mahogany desk. It had a protective glass top and underneath there were greeting cards from past years. One was signed, Dr. Tony Fauci. Another was signed Dr. Deborah Birx. There were a few from Congressman This or That and a signed letter on the wall from a governor. This guy was connected, unless it was all puff, just phonied up stuff to make him look important. But if they were real, why was he here? And why would this guy take the time to see a couple of unknowns like us?
\nDr. Jensen was pacing back and forth with his million-dollar view of Puget Sound behind him. He had one of the windows wide open, enjoying the rare Seattle sun. Seattle was having an Indian Summer, that\u2019s what locals call the spate of warm weather that arrives just after the kids get back in school. I remember as a kid, there\u2019d be no sunlight for the entire summer and then finally, after we were back in school, the sun would come out. They used to say it was an Indian curse on the children of settlers. Probably just a story made up by one of the teachers.
\n\u201cAh, beautiful day.\u201d Dr. Jensen said. \u201cAnd to make it even better, I\u2019ve got visitors<\/em>. So, what have you got for me?\u201d
\nHe was in an awfully good mood for someone being met by complete strangers. I wondered what Hank must be paying to get relatives in to see patients.
\n\u201cSo, what have you got for me?\u201d Dr. Jensen repeated.
\nBruno held out the form.
\n\u201cWhat\u2019s that?\u201d He asked.
\n\u201cMr. um…\u201d Bruno couldn\u2019t remember Hank\u2019s last name.
\n\u201cC\u2019mon, speak up!\u201d Dr. Jensen spoke gruffly.
\nOops. One of the others <\/em>just spoke crossly to Bruno. That\u2019s what Bruno called anyone who didn\u2019t know him well enough to verbally joust with him. But amazingly, Bruno kept his cool. Then he remembered the name.
\n\u201cExcuse me there, Dr. Jensen. Hank, er, Captain Henry, sent us with this form for you to sign. Nothing special. If you\u2019ll just sign here, we\u2019ll get out of your way.\u201d
\n\u201cA form!\u201d Dr. Jensen bristled. \u201cA form is all you got. That does it. Tell Hank, <\/em>or whatever his real name is, unless I get cash, I\u2019m not signing anything else. I thought you two jokers were from the new vax company. They\u2019re bringing cold cash. You think we\u2019d push clot shots without getting paid?\u201d
\nBruno maintained his composure. He\u2019d clearly set his mind on completing our task.
\nDr. Jensen was still pacing in front of the open window to enjoy the sunshine of an Indian Summer.
\n\u201cYou see that Mercedes?\u201d He said, pointing out the window. \u201cThat used to be mine. Now it\u2019s my wife\u2019s. She didn\u2019t even have the decency to divorce me. She filed for separation<\/em>. And when I objected to the amount of alimony? She requested my bank records. Now, I can\u2019t have her or anyone else snooping around my financial transactions, can I? So, I\u2019m here, a really nice guy. And I\u2019m just stuck. So, pardon me, fellas, if I\u2019m not in the best of spirits.\u201d
\nBruno was still determined to get his form signed so he made an offer.
\n\u201cWhat say you, Doc, if next time, we bring cash. Sounds like Hank owes you and we have experience in collecting debts, if you know what I mean. Hank needs to learn a lesson in honesty and who better to teach him than me and my buddy here. We just got out of the joint and we learned a lot about how to make a man honest.\u201d
\nDr. Jensen had been listening while polishing his shoes with his electric shoe buffer, one of those fancy ones that has a button on the top of a long handle, the kind you can use while standing up. He let go of the button on the handle, and said,
\n\u201cI like you. Yeah, let\u2019s do business. But I gotta get you guys outta here. The two hazmat Harrys that I mistook you for are coming soon. They\u2019re with\u2026 well, we don\u2019t need to name names, but he doesn\u2019t like competition. But with you two onboard, it looks like I might be able to double my take. Hand me the form.\u201d
\nBruno held out the form to him. Comorbidities was written in big letters across the top, followed by Bruno\u2019s mom\u2019s name and her patient information. It was an affirmation that she died from Covid, not comorbidities. If Dr. Jensen signed it, the Feds would reimburse Bruno for the cost of his mom\u2019s burial. It\u2019s the least they could do, considering it was their policies that killed her.
\n\u201cSo, this is for, wait a minute now.\u201d Dr. Jensen paused. \u201cThis is for Emma Hartman? You, you\u2019re Bruno Hartman?\u201d
\n\u201cAnd you\u2019re that damn doctor that kept me from seeing her on her death bed! I didn\u2019t recognize you in street clothes. Sign the damn form!\u201d
\nThe only thing that prevented Bruno\u2019s roar from being heard down at the nurses\u2019 station was their partying, and the hazmat suit that muffled his voice.
\nDr. Jensen reached for the form to sign it. But he\u2019d lost his balance. He steadied himself on the handle of his shoe buffer. Then he slipped again, this time stepping on the buffer. He gripped the handle even tighter. Wheeze, the motor maxed out. His foot shot out from under him. He reached out to grab onto Bruno, but it was too late. His hand caught hold of the top of the form ripping off a piece of it as he fell out the window. Bruno and I ran to the window to see what had become of Dr. Jensen. He lay sprawled on top of a truck in the alley, still gripping the piece of paper he\u2019d ripped off Bruno\u2019s form.
\n\u201cNot to make light of what just happened,\u201d I said, \u201cbut we don\u2019t wanna be blamed for an accident we didn\u2019t cause. Dr. Jensen\u2019s gripping a piece your form in his hand. What does he have?\u201d
\n\u201cDr. Jensen\u2019s got comorbidities.\u201d
\n\u201cWell, that\u2019s good. If he doesn\u2019t make it, we can\u2019t be blamed.\u201d
\n\u201cNeither can Covid.\u201d Bruno chuckled.
\n\u201cIs that our food truck down there?\u201d I asked.
\n\u201cLooks like it.\u201d Bruno replied.
\n\u201cWell, we better get outta here.\u201d I said.
\nBruno put what was left of the form in one of our hazmat bags then we walked out the door. As we passed the nurses\u2019 station, they were still partying. We walked through the exit that led to the elevator and I pushed the down button. When the elevator doors opened, the two Harrys in hazmats were standing there, the ones that Dr. Jensen had been expecting. Bruno and I acted instinctively, blocking their exit till we were both out of view of the corridor cameras. This was too easy. Now the nurses would think they were us, going back to get something we\u2019d forgotten.
\nWhen the elevator doors closed, I hit the 1st<\/sup> floor button.
\n\u201cBruno?\u201d I said.
\n\u201cYes, old Ron? He answered.
\n\u201cIn my life, Bruno, I\u2019ve never met anyone so corrupt as Dr. Jensen. Then like a villain in an old black and white movie, he was gone. I wonder if those two will see Dr. Jensen.\u201d
\n\u201cThey\u2019re a bit late.\u201d Bruno said.
\n\u201cSo is Dr. Jensen.\u201d I replied.
\nMy joke about a dead man was deliberate. I was still in shock at how corrupt Dr. Jensen was, and how unafraid he was to tell us. As the slow freight elevator descended, Bruno and I laughed. It was a laugh I wouldn\u2019t want to repeat, full of anger, sadness and pain. I\u2019d seen men die violent deaths, but never a man so worthy of the penalty. Dr. Jensen had mandated clot shots for payoffs. Other very well-known people had done the same, profiting from death. They even recommended it for babies, just to make a buck. Even so, to laugh about a man\u2019s death was something I\u2019d never done. And I hoped I wouldn\u2019t repeat it.
\nI knew it was too late for Dr. Jensen, but I could never stop praying that the wicked would repent. Nineveh repented on hearing the message of one man, Jonah. But could those responsible for the Covid reign of terror ever repent? If they could, like the criminal on the cross who was crucified next to Jesus, they still had to pay the penalty in this life<\/em> for their crimes in this life<\/em>.
\nBy the time the elevator doors opened, we were ready. We ran to the exit, crouched down, opened the door, and crawled across the loading dock. Then Bruno and I slid under the food truck and went up through the trap door. A man was sitting in the driver\u2019s seat.
\n\u201cJulio?\u201d I asked.
\n\u201cThat\u2019s me.\u201d He said. \u201cQuick, get out of those hazmats and put them in the hazmat bags. Then put the hazmat bags into these garbage bags.\u201d
\nBruno grabbed his form from his hazmat bag and held it over the gas burner, lighting it.
\n\u201cHang on, hang on. Everything nice and orderly.\u201d He said.
\nIt took about 10 seconds, but it seemed like minutes. When he was finished, he scooped up the ashes and threw them into the grease vat. Then we used spatulas to push the garbage bags containing our hazmats down into the black grease.
\nJulio was nervously rocking in his seat. I could tell he hadn\u2019t grown up a juvenile delinquent like Bruno and me. Finally, he couldn\u2019t hold back.
\n\u201cI heard a thud like a sandbag landing on top of my truck. I didn\u2019t get out since I knew you could be here at any moment. What\u2019s going on?\u201d
\nBruno got a look on his face that I\u2019d never seen before. Then he commanded us.
\n\u201cJulio, you don\u2019t wanna know anything and you don\u2019t<\/em> know anything. Got it?\u201d
\n\u201cYes, I got it. Bruno.\u201d
\nThen Bruno said to me:
\n\u201cYou\u2019re gonna run halfway up that driveway, then you\u2019re gonna turn around and keep your eyes on this truck. If anyone asks questions, don\u2019t answer.\u201d
\nI got out of the truck and ran up the driveway. By the time I turned around, Bruno had climbed onto the roof. He was already administering CPR to Dr. Jensen.
\nJust then, the two Harrys in hazmats burst out of the building and ran to a car that was parked in the driveway, leaving a trail of hundred-dollar bills behind them. They turned around to look but were too panicked to stop and pick up the cash. Then they jumped in their car still wearing their hazmats. As they scrambled to find the keys, two cop cars boxed them in. Once the officers had them cuffed, they cut them out of their suits with shears borrowed from the medics who were already on the scene.
\nThe medics were the reason cops were there. Seattle was a dangerous city. At the hands of the homeless<\/em>, Seattle medics and firefighters averaged 10 assaults against them per month. So, when cops heard an aid car, they followed, to serve and protect<\/em>. It’s beautiful when it happens. And it happens every day in every city.
\nBruno had by now revived Dr. Jensen and was waiting for the medics to get him down from the roof of Julio\u2019s food truck. Dr. Jensen looked up to the window he\u2019d fallen from, then down at the cash strewn in the driveway. I don\u2019t know if his groans were more from injuries, or from seeing all his cold cash<\/em> strewn in the driveway.
\nBy now, a TV crew had arrived and had their cameras pointed at their on-site reporter. She was describing the scene when one of the medics who\u2019d just arrived yelled up to Bruno.
\n\u201cIs that you, Bruno? I haven\u2019t seen you since the 4-alarm fire. Still saving lives, I see.\u201d
\n\u201cYeah, yeah, get this guy outta here. He fractured his ribs but he\u2019s breathing now.\u201d
\n\u201cHow\u2019d you get him up there?\u201d The medic quipped.
\n\u201cHar har.\u201d Bruno replied. \u201cYou remember what we do with wise guys, don\u2019t you?\u201d
\n\u201cYep, clean up. But with all these hundred-dollar bills lying around, I won\u2019t mind cleaning up after we\u2019re through here. But no joke, Bruno, how\u2019d that guy end up on top of a\u2026 food truck?\u201d
\n\u201cI guess he was hungry.\u201d Bruno said.
\nThen we all laughed, including the TV crew and reporter.
\n\u201cAnd another thing,\u201d the medic asked, \u201chow come we got a message from your mom\u2019s emergency clicker, and it pinpointed her right here in the driveway.\u201d
\n\u201cEmma won\u2019t be needing it anymore. She won\u2019t be having any more emergencies.\u201d Bruno said.
\n\u201cSorry to hear that, Bruno. I mean, you know what I mean.\u201d
\n\u201cWell, good to know these things actually work.\u201d Bruno said. \u201cI figured it was the quickest way to get you guys here.\u201d
\nI wondered if Bruno was thinking the same thing I was. The device meant to save the life of his mother, was used instead to save the life of the man most responsible for her death.
\nThe camera crew was scrambling to broadcast what had just taken place. I could see one of them jamming the thumb drive he\u2019d just pulled from the camera into a broadcast terminal inside their van. This was the kind of human-interest story that every reporter longed for: a real-life John Wayne. An anchor was already introducing: Breaking News, then the reporter showed up complete with intro, which quickly cut to Bruno. He was the star. They got everything on tape. Then they cut to an \u201cexclusive\u201d interview. It was obviously recorded right after the 4-alarm fire with one of the firemen who\u2019d seen Bruno\u2019s heroics. I wondered why they\u2019d buried it till now. Bruno saved 17 lives in that fire, but he\u2019d never talked about it. All he said was that wearing a mask reminded him of the screaming voices of those he didn\u2019t save. The fireman described the 4-alarm fire as if he\u2019d seen a ghost.
\n\u201cThe fire was chasing Bruno. It was hideous. The flames rose like fiery whips. I\u2019d never seen anything looked like that, and I\u2019ve handled the pumper truck for 30 years. But Bruno\u2019s been running into burning buildings since I was in grade school. And at 66, he\u2019s still running into them. There\u2019s nobody better. I don\u2019t think the devil likes it, and I think the devil was in the building during that 4-alarm fire.\u201d
\nNow the station cut to another interview. He continued where the first fireman left off.
\n\u201cEach time Bruno went in one door, he had to come out another. The flames seemed to chase him, but he kept outrunning them. He\u2019d come out with two or three kids and then run in for more. I heard it was a drop house for human traffickers. But Bruno got all the kids out, all 17 of them.\u201d
\nDid I just hear all 17? Then why did Bruno think there were kids left behind? What happened to him in that hospital that made him think he\u2019d abandoned children? And why was an obvious hero so isolated? I wonder if his burns would have healed more quickly, if only he\u2019d had the moral support of those who knew him. The nurses wouldn\u2019t allow any of us in to see him during his nearly three months in the hospital. They wouldn\u2019t even allow his mother to visit. And it wasn\u2019t because of his burns. It was because of the lockdowns. Worse yet, the nurses treated him like a criminal for refusing to comply with the covid tyranny. He refused to wear a mask. So, they isolated him even more.
\nIt would be easy in that isolation to dwell on regrets, and to think your own sins were the cause of your situation. But Bruno had gotten all the kids out. What regrets could there be? And why didn\u2019t anyone tell him that he\u2019d saved them all?
\nThe medics had lowered Dr. Jensen to the driveway by now and were loading him into the back of an ambulance. But before they shut the door, I heard the driver say:
\n\u201cYou\u2019re lucky Dr. Jensen. In less than two minutes we\u2019ll be pulling into your own ER.\u201d
\n\u201cNot my ER!\u201d He said. \u201cNot mine! Take me to Swedish!\u201d
\n\u201cSorry Doc. We can only take you where we\u2019re dispatched. We can\u2019t remain here. The cops want us to clear the area. Just let me get you over to ER and you can change your destination there. We\u2019re less than a minute away.\u201d
\nBefore the doctor could object again, the driver took off. The reporter heard the same fear in Dr. Jensen\u2019s voice that I heard, and she and her crew took off just as quickly to chase the ambulance.
\n\u201cI\u2019ve got to see this!\u201d Bruno said.
\n\u201cMe too!\u201d I said.
\nWe ran around the corner to the hospital ER where the ambulance had pulled in. By now, another reporter was on the scene, competing for a chance to ask Dr. Jensen what had happened.
\n\u201cDr. Jensen. Dr. Jensen.\u201d Both reporters vied for a response.
\nOne of the two nurses who\u2019d come out to admit Dr. Jensen intervened.
\n\u201cI\u2019m sorry, Jessica, Brad. All of us here at the hospital love your Covid reporting but we\u2019re on full lockdown. You\u2019ll have to forward your questions in writing. Or we can do a Zoom call later. Dr. Jensen will be in the hospital for at least 10 days per admission guidelines.\u201d
\n\u201cI\u2019m, I\u2019m not even checked in.\u201d Dr. Jensen objected.
\n\u201cIs Dr. Jensen checked in, Anne?\u201d She asked the other nurse.
\n\u201cYes, Casandra. I scanned the patient code on his wrist.\u201d
\n\u201cThank you, Anne.\u201d She said.
\n\u201cDon\u2019t roll me in here, Casandra!\u201d Dr. Jensen objected.
\n\u201cNow what did the recent memo say about unruly patients, Anne?\u201d
\nAnne replied. \u201c\u2018Upon scanning patient code, if patient history doesn\u2019t indicate drug interactions, sedate the patient from the approved list of medications.\u2019 Cassandra, his history indicates no drug interactions whatsoever. He\u2019s not on any meds. In fact, he\u2019s not even vaccinated.\u201d
\n\u201cNot vaccinated?\u201d Cassandra said, \u201cWell, alright then, Anne. Sedate Dr. Jensen, then segregate him with the anti-vaxers.\u201d
\nThen Cassandra walked back into the hospital while Anne verified some information with the ambulance medic.
\n\u201cI see you\u2019ve already got an IV inserted into Dr. Jensen. Was his blood pressure low?\u201d
\n\u201cIt was low just after resuscitation. But it\u2019s fine now.\u201d The medic answered.
\nAnne turned back to Dr. Jensen.
\n\u201cOkay. Dr. Jensen, follow the doctor\u2019s orders.\u201d She said.
\n\u201cWhat orders? What are you talking about?\u201d Dr. Jensen said.
\n\u201cLet\u2019s see, let me read this memo. Whose signature is that? Can you read that, Dr. Jensen?\u201d
\nAnne showed him the memo.
\n\u201cWell, yes, that\u2019s\u2026 that\u2019s my signature, but…\u201d He objected.
\n\u201cYou know, Dr. Jensen. I\u2019m not much for quoting the Bible, but I know this one. \u2018Physician, heal thyself<\/em>.\u2019\u201d
\nThen Anne inserted the syringe containing the sedative into the injection port of Dr. Jensen\u2019s IV solution bag.
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