{"id":266880,"date":"2026-05-11T17:42:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266880\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:42:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:42:31","slug":"the-trauma-surgeons-who-faced-the-pulse-mass-shooting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266880\/","title":{"rendered":"The trauma surgeons who faced the Pulse mass shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">It started with a call no trauma surgeon ever wants: \u201cI have 20 gunshot wounds. I need you now.\u201d Inside Orlando Regional Medical Center after Pulse, teams treated patients at a pace of one per minute\u2014barricaded in the trauma bay, still working, and supported by every set of hands (including the EVS staff who kept the room ready). Ten years later, the \u201cwhy\u201d still lingers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS It started with a call no trauma surgeon ever wants: \u201cI have 20 gunshot wounds. I need&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114775,114776,139,141,140,114774,114772,8309,114773],"class_list":["post-266880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-dr-joseph-ibrahim","tag-dr-michael-cheatham","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-tragedy","tag-ormc","tag-pulse-nightclub","tag-trauma-surgeons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}