Tending to Tsarnaev

On the evening of April 19, 2013, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was rushed by ambulance to Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center after a gun battle with the FBI. Dr. Stephen Odom was the attending trauma surgeon on call. Boston and its surrounding towns had been on lockdown all day as police hunted Tsarnaev, and it was a tense time throughout the city — not least of all at the hospital, where several marathon bombing victims were recuperating from surgeries and amputations. Tsarnaev arrived with multiple gunshot wounds, "the most severe of which appears to have entered through the left side inside of his mouth and exited the left…lower face," Odom told a judge in a hospital bedside court hearing on April 22.