Dr. Brown said the injuries he immediately saw were gruesome, and people needed to get to hospitals quickly before losing too much blood. He and other medical staff members put tourniquets on and applied pressure to wounds — anything to increase survival rates, according to the report.
Dr. Brown’s wife, Libby Riggs, an emergency room physician, got a text from a friend two miles before she reached the finish line, saying her husband had been spotted on TV pushing a gurney. He also worked to start IVs and carry the injured to nearby ambulances.
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