You think you have tough workdays. Cassie Bessert, cardiothoracic procurement coordinator at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, had a lung transplant patient who was, in layman's terms, about to die. The lungs that would save his life were in Buffalo, trapped by a snowstorm.
She had a surgical team ready to fly and get them, but — in case that wasn't challenge enough — President Bush was about to fly out of Midway, so the airport was shut down as a security precaution.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/steinberg/161347,CST-NWS-stein06.article