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The newspaper article told of a serious car accident A 22-year-old man had been pierced with an S-foot-long board, “it was unbelievable, said Mountjoy. who was head nurse of the ER at the time. “It went right through him. They had to cut both ends of the board away in order to get him in the ambulance*

Attending the victim was Dr. Joseph Servidsx the current chairman of the Fauquier Hospital Emergency Department. He was then 34 and in his first year with Fauquier Hospital.

The board had collapsed his lung, went behind his heart, behind his abdomen and through his bowel." Servideo recalled. "I had never seen anything like it. and I was scared to death*

Servideo and one of the hospital surgeons got the patient stabilised, and he was airlifted to the Washington Hospital Center, where he was operated on successfully.

Former ED nurses Bernice FVarson and Janice Fblev, now both retired, were on the scene that night, too, “It was a small community back then," Fbley said, "if something big happened, you

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