Speed and Skill Saved Boy
First 'Golden' Hour Made the Difference, Doctors Say

By Tamara Jones
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 17, 2002; Page A01

The doors to the Bowie Health Center had just been unlocked, and Tom Lyons was catching up on paperwork before the usual parade of cut fingers, sore throats and headaches began. Mondays have a bad reputation with emergency room doctors, and Lyons knew the small suburban ER he ran would be bustling soon enough. He was savoring one last cup of coffee when he heard someone shout for him in the hallway.

We've got a gunshot wound!