Oregon Stories

Dr. Emma Taylor, a renowned neurosurgeon at Beaverton General Hospital, stared at the latest CT scan in front of her, her mind racing with a sense of unease. Another patient, another ruptured cerebral aneurysm, another life hanging in the balance. What caught her attention was the eerie pattern emerging. The patients all lived or worked near the same industrial corridor in Beaverton, Oregon. The coincidence was too striki...

Frank is mid-shift when the radio crackles with an urgent call to dispatch him southbound on I-5 toward a "Code 3, possible STEMI in transit." The ambulance shudders as he weaves between traffic, his partner Marcos white-knuckling the wheel. "Here we go again! Another one, and so soon?" he mutters, flicking sirens louder as rain smears the windshield. In the back, Frank's fingers hover over the AED, already calculating: t...