By Karina Bland | The Republic
Dr. Dan Lieberman was in the emergency room at Abrazo West Campus, an acute-care hospital in Goodyear on a recent Wednesday morning. Lieberman, a neurosurgeon, was about to head home, but stopped first to check on a patient.
It was 4:15 a.m. The ER was busy even at that time of day. As Lieberman finished his visit and packed up for the drive back to central Phoenix, another patient was brought in. The man had been in an accident and was in bad shape. His brain was bleeding into his skull.
Lieberman was enlisted to do a craniotomy, to surgically remove part of the bone from the skull to alleviate the pressure of swelling on the brain. It had to be done quickly.
The emergency room doctor had told Dr. Lieberman that the patient was married. So as the young man was wheeled past him to the operating room, Dr. Lieberman tapped into the hospital computer to look for contact information for his next of kin.
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