![]() ![]() Now he had good news for this woman, if he could find her. It had taken all Ramon’s skill, and a few prayers, to bring the man through it. She was a middle-aged woman whose husband had survived against the odds, having been brought in with a leaky prosthetic valve complicated by pneumonia. The CCU nurse had inadvertently sent her down to the main lobby waiting room, and when he’d phoned down there, she was missing. The woman wasn’t where she was supposed to be-in the surgical waiting room on the second floor. His black eyes danced in a lean and darkly handsome face as he strode along in his surgical greens, scouting for the wife of a patient in whom he’d just replaced a malfunctioning heart valve. ![]() ![]() In fact, some of them were fans of the Wyoming-based group Desperado, as well. They were a team, he and these hardworking people, so he didn’t take offense at the teasing. The nurses and technicians in the cardiac ward where he worked had teased him about it affectionately all day. Ramon Cortero liked to listen to the rock group Desperado while he performed the open-heart surgery that he was world-famous for. The interviewer had elicited the information that Dr. He’d just been interviewed on local television that morning about his habits in the operating room. ![]() Mary’s Hospital, and it was hard work not to grin. He heard the whispered, amused comments as he walked down the hall toward the cardiac care unit of St. ![]()
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