A head injury or major bleed from a motor vehicle accident must be handled within the first hour of injury or the patient has very little chance of survival. The residents of Montgomery County should not accept high death rates as a consequence of living outside Houston.

The bullet hit a blood vessel in his neck. And out here, that's not a very good prognosis. He bled to death. The mother of that student came to my class to talk to me. Children shouldn't die before their parents.

A new trauma center in Montgomery County would not only reduce the trauma death rate it would be a new source of jobs for county residents.