Part Eight – Dr. Jack Shepard

Not long after he qualified, Jack Shepard operated on a teenage girl. During the operation he accidentally tore something in her spine. Nerves spilled out all over the place.

The terror took over, but just for five seconds. Then he pushed it to one side, repaired the damage, and the girl was fine.

If anyone else besides Jack had been operating that day, the girl would have died on the operating table.

Later, a young woman named Sarah was involved in a car accident. She was told she would never walk again, but after Jack Shepard operated on her she regained feeling in her legs.

Sarah and Jack got married – they were happy for a time, but they separated. If Jack had not been the one who operated on her, Sarah would still be paralysed from the waist down and they would never have married.

After the crash of Flight 815 on a supposedly uninhabited island, Jack became responsible for the forty-odd survivors of the crash. When Charlie Pace was found hanging from a tree – left there by a man who had infiltrated the survivors and kidnapped a young pregnant woman – Jack was able to resuscitate him.

If Jack had not found him, Charlie would not have been revived

Jack does not know, but he has a gift no other doctor possesses. He possesses the gift of healing. He has treated numerous people during his career who would otherwise have died.

He believes that his good success rate is due simply to skill and luck.

Soon, he will learn that, though luck was indeed a factor, he is more than just another surgeon.