It's hard to tell at first if this is working, because one of the nurses is pounding on the patient's chest in what seems to be an effort to shove blood in and out of his heart anyway, and it's messing with her Sight - but Marian catches her eye and then says something and the nurse stops doing that. 

Now everyone at the room is staring intently at the glowing box above the patient's head! 

Belrun doesn't know what any of the symbols on it mean, but her Sight shows that the patient's heart is behaving itself better - every third or fourth beat is still abnormal as the irritated muscle twitches or spasms, but he's getting enough organized muscle contraction to be circulating some blood again, now.

Which is probably going to help with the lack of oxygen in his blood, in a minute or two, if she can keep it up - his lungs are in terrible shape, his tissues oozing fluid into the airspaces, but he has a breathing machine as well and it's shoving concentrated air in and out with considerable force. 

:What did you do?: Marian asks, amazed. :Can you - see what's wrong - is there something we're missing...: 

:I don't know what you can see. His heart is exhausted, I'm helping but I can't do this forever. There's junk in his lungs, but the machine seems to be helping:

Marian nods. :Just - if you can buy us a couple minutes to see if we can get him stabilized, let Dr Millinger if it's worth trying anything more heroic...:

She takes a deep breath. :I can tell you the case history. He's about fifty, was pretty healthy before but had a bit of heart disease, high blood pressure - then he was hit by a truck, really bad crush injuries. We got him stabilized at first but the damaged muscle dumped a lot of proteins into his bloodstream and that gummed up his kidneys - that's why he's so fluid-overloaded and it's backing up in his lungs and stuff. The machine over there is filtering his blood instead, but that's also hard on his body, and we can't take too much fluid off him because he's in shock and his blood pressure is already too low. His blood is messed up because of the byproducts from the tissue damage and because his kidneys are fucked up, specifically his potassium - dunno if you know what that is - is crazy high and that's messing with his heart, makes it more irritable and likely to do arrhythmias like that. Oh, also his clotting is all messed up, from having a lot of internal bleeding before and from the dialysis machine, so he's probably oozing blood internally? If we can get his potassium down and get some fluid off his lungs that'll take a bit of strain off his heart and he might get through this: 

:I can do a couple minutes. Will it help if I find where he's bleeding inside - I don't think he has much slack to let me fix it but maybe you have something?:

Marian takes another deep breath. 

:We might be able to buy you some more slack to fix more of what's wrong with him. If you could otherwise do that. There's a machine we can use that'll pump his blood for him so his heart can rest. The problem is that it won't really work longer than a day - we have to pull his blood in and out of his body, it causes micro-damage to the red blood cells and eventually he'll clot off the filter. And I don't think his problems would get better on their own in a day. But if that's long enough for you to work on his kidneys or get bleeding stopped or whatever, then...: 

A helpless shrug. :Maybe. I really don't want him to die. He has a wife and kids, they're cute, they'll be so devastated...: 

:I can't guarantee I can do it, I'm a microbiologist and not in great shape myself, but a day - with some sleep in there and a huge breakfast, Gift-use makes you hungry - I probably have a shot:

:...I understand. We can't ever guarantee that sort of thing: 

Marian looks imploringly at her. :- Are you willing to try. I know you want to be with Leareth, and this would distract you...: 

:How frequently is a crisis this bad going to happen in the next, uh, week:

:...I think stuff as urgent as this - where the patient still has a chance of surviving and having a good life ahead of them if we can fix them, I mean, sometimes it's just hopeless - but, anyway, it's...maybe once a fortnight or once a month. Not every day: 

:Then yeah, I can:

:Okay:

A pause.

:Just...keep his heart beating. As long as you possibly can. Don't worry about anything else yet. I - I need to convince Alice and Dr Milinger that this is worth trying... I'll explain about the magic later but maybe once he's not dying: 

She turns and starts talking in the unfamiliar language. 

Belrun nods and focuses on his heartbeat.

The other staff are mostly standing around looking anxiously at the machines. They seem a bit surprised by Marian's insistence, and are giving Belrun concerned looks, but no one tries to shove her out of the room. 

After a bit, the older white-coated man who tried to stop her entry earlier nods, briskly, at which point the nurses blur into motion. Within remarkably little time, a new machine has been hauled into the room and someone is running fluid from a bag into a giant intricate set of tubing with a weird cylindrical canister in the middle, while a different nurse wipes down one of the little tables-on-wheels and rips open a blue square package that proves to contain all sorts of bizarre equipment including some very sharp implements, and Belrun is nudged slightly toward the man's feet so that the older man can take her place; he dons a blue paper gown over his clothes, being very careful not to touch the outside of it with the rest of his body, and pulls on tight gloves. 

And shortly later he's using some other machine to show a black-and-white image of what's inside the patient's chest - sort of like her Sight except much worse - and cutting a small hole and wrestling with yet more tubes, shoving a surprisingly wide one through the large returning vein practically into the patient's heart, and then placing another in the artery, somehow without causing the patient to bleed out everywhere. 

The atmosphere is hurried but not frantic; everyone is very calm and controlled, half a dozen nurses still latched onto the patient like hungry leeches, helping the doctor hook up the tubes hanging off the machine to the tubes piercing the patient's body. 

And then it's done! The patient's heart stutters and his blood pressure plummets briefly as the pump in the machine spins and blood is yanked from his body, but then the first gush of fully-oxygenated blood makes it back from the machine, and starts flooding through his body.

The glow of his life-force is almost immediately brighter, to Belrun's Sight. 

Wow, the glass city has very cool machines.

She finds and stops little bleeds, shoves fairly undirected Healing at his kidneys.

The others bustle around her and don't interrupt right away.

At one point Marian is talking to them, over in the other corner and in a low voice. 

Eventually, though, the blonde woman - Alice - and the older male doctor march up and stand in front of her. 

:Is it true you have telepathy: Alice thinks loudly at her. She seems very dubious, and surprisingly incurious; mostly she's exhausted and slightly crashing after the stress of the emergency. 

Belrun is not reading her mind at this time, and gives her a quizzical look.

This isn't that surprising to Marian, who feels like she really should have realized it would happen. 

"Belrun?" Marian says to get her attention, and then thinks loudly, :I tried to explain you have magic and telepathy and healing, and they're really dubious and looked at me like I was crazy, can you demonstrate something: 

:Uh, okay: She thwaps Alice in the face with her own nametag lanyard.

Alice jumps. Her eyes go wide; she looks simultaneously scared and impressed. 

"Belrun," she says as well, and then looks Belrun very deliberately in the eye and attempts to very loudly think DO YOU REALLY HAVE TELEPATHY????? at her. 

"She wants your permission," Marian says. "She might read your other thoughts too by accident." 

"- Whatever! My patient was coding and you're claiming she fixed it, compared to that why would I care if she finds out what I had for lunch or something!" 

:She says it's fine if you read her mind a bit when you telepathy with her: Marian thinks at Belrun. 

"- We should get another X-ray for Leareth," she adds.

"...Who?" Dr Millinger says blankly.