In this part of the play, Dr. Cantway, who was the doctor working in the emergency room the night Matthew Shepard was brought in, describes the extent of Shepard’s injuries. The doctor states that, “I don’t think that any of us, ah, can remember seeing a patient in that condition for a long time…” This provokes that the doctor was worried, since he asserts that nobody has seen such horrific injuries on anyone else before this happened. Moreover, the doctor contends that people who have worked in big city hospitals have seen such injuries, but the hospital has people who have not worked in those hospitals before. This suggests that the hospital may lack some experience in dealing with Matthew Shepard, since the people in the hospital might not