Avery leans against the wall and closes her eyes, trying to fight another dizzy spell. The two nurses are following her, and every time she stops, and their shoes stop squeaking on the linoleum floors. They seem to know better than to offer her a wheelchair.
When Avery looks up, she realizes she's outside the waiting room. A large flat-screen TV hangs on the wall, and a crowd of patients and nurses have gathered below it. A news broadcast is playing a grainy cell phone video over and over again. Red words flash across the bottom of the screen: "Daring helicopter rescue."