Before the army of specialists at the University of California, San
Francisco Children’s Hospital can save kids awaiting liver transplants
or battling cancer, the patients must get to the Bay Area — often from
hospitals as far away as Arizona or Hawaii. Flight doctor David
Wanderman helps transport the region’s most delicate patients to the
medical center. “In flight, we make on-the-spot decisions with the
resources we have,” says 31-year-old Wanderman. “If a kid’s heart stops
beating, we can’t rely on teams of docs and CT scans.”