Heart Stop by Radclyffe

Author:Radclyffe [Radclyffe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781626399006
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2017-05-30T04:00:00+00:00

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“Morning,” Tasha called as Jay arrived at the pit a little after seven. Tasha wore pale blue scrubs and had her running shoes propped up on the coffee table, a half-eaten sandwich balanced on the arm of a dark green vinyl chair. She sipped from a mug with an image of the Statue of Liberty and looked surprisingly rested after a night on call.

“How was your night?” Jay rinsed out a mug from the communal stash on the counter and poured some coffee. Tasha had left Smokey Joe’s right after dinner while Archie and Jay stayed for another beer.

“Quiet. A couple death reports from the hospital, but no callouts. I got about six hours.”

“That is nice.” Jay tried to remember a night on call when she’d actually been able to sleep and couldn’t think of one. She’d learned to get by on an hour or two in between cases or floor emergencies. Even now, when she had the opportunity to sleep straight through the night, she rarely could. Last night hadn’t been any different. After she’d gotten home, she’d read a book until almost midnight and still only catnapped until six. “So what’s on the agenda?”

“The rotation list is over there on the bulletin board,” Tasha said. “Basically, we take calls in the order posted up there as they come in, unless we all get busy at once, and then we pretty much try to back up as needed. You’re on phone duty today.”

“Okay, what’s that? Since I’m the new guy, I’m assuming it sucks.”

“Not so much. Okay, maybe it’s really boring.” Tasha grinned. “You get to triage the calls that come in to us from the hospitals and emergency services. You’ll decide if a body needs to come here or can be released to family.”

“Okay.” Jay sipped her coffee. “I don’t have any idea how to do that.”

“I didn’t figure you did. Archie and I will give you a hand. We both have posts to do, but we’ll be around if you need us.”

“Thanks, but I don’t want to interrupt you if you’re in the middle of a post—”

Tasha waved her off. “Hey, it’s no problem. They’re not going anywhere.”

Remember, to call for help is a sign of weakness.

Jay shook her head. She sure as hell wasn’t in Kansas anymore. “All right, you want to give me a quick rundown of how I’ll know what I don’t know?”

“Absolutely. When the police call, it’s usually straightforward—they’ve got a DB and you need to determine if it’s a scene we need to roll out on. Violent deaths—suspected homicides or suicides, ODs, accidents—they’re all rollouts for the investigators and one of us. Pretty much anything they get, we roll on it unless it’s somebody who dies at home after a long illness. Then the body will need to come here, but we don’t need to go out on it.”

“Okay, so if it’s anything other than clear natural causes, we go.”

“Yup. The hospital calls are almost always the opposite. They’re calling to tell you they’ve lost the patient.

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