Who would choose to spend their professional lives in a medical trauma room? Day in and day out, trauma room nurses at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre’s Trauma Centre manage excruciating pain, tears, panic and fear while often witnessing lives change or die before their eyes. They’re high on the action where every moment of medical attention counts, but they know the cost of burn out can be high. Cases of blunt force trauma that put patients’ lives on the line are told from the privileged viewpoint of veteran and young trauma room nurses. One young man was shot at close range, while another was stabbed in his own school yard, while a young and new mother may never get to hold her baby, after being hit head on in a car crash.