title: Save Your Life...: What To Do in a Medical Emergency
author: Shelly Glazier
description: Shelly Glazier, M.Ed., LMFT, Medical Emergency Awareness Advocate has lectured and taught courses on topic in the Boston area including, Brandeis Universitys BOLLI (adult education) Program. She has managed a pediatric practice and worked as a medical administrator for Boston Childrens Hospital Pediatric Medical Association. Mrs. Glazier is a licensed marriage and family therapist. Dr. Mache Seibel served on the Harvard Medical School faculty for almost 20 years and has won multiple national awards for patient education, research, medical writing and music composition. He also won the distinguished alumnus award from the University of Texas medical branch. Seibel is currently a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
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  [Table of Contents](The_Fourth_Wall_split_054.html#filepos966646)
  
  [Copyright Page](The_Fourth_Wall_split_055.html#filepos971277)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For Kathy Hedges
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [TEASER](The_Fourth_Wall_split_054.html#filepos967029)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  EXT. HOSPITAL—DAY
  
  
  I come limping out of the hospital leaning on Astin’s arm, and I blink in the
  pale California sun that shines through a high layer of cloud. People move in
  and out of the hospital, men and women wrapped in a kind of mental solitude,
  intent only on the business that brought them here.
  
  
  Astin eases me into the black SUV. I gasp as pain rockets through my wounded
  leg. I think about the person who just tried to kill me, and I think about the
  secret that we both shared.
  
  
  Once upon a time, I thought that the biggest secret in my life was that I’d
  killed a friend of mine.
  
  
  But now I realize I have a secret that’s much, much bi