STORYCORPS: Jeanne Yeatman & Wilson Matthews

Credits: Field Producer, Recording Engineer

For more than a decade, Jeanne Yeatman and Wilson Matthews worked together as flight nurses, caring for patients being transported to hospitals on emergency response helicopters.

Wilson and Jeanne were called in to save a 13-year-old named Stephen Wright, who had been severely injured in a bike accident.

Originally aired July 24, 2015, on NPR’s Morning Edition.