The Head Nurse Told Me to Check the Camera at 3 A.M. and I Was Not Prepared

him I was fine.

We performed this exchange with the flat efficiency of two people who have had it before in different configurations and have learned that neither position will change.

Around midnight, the pediatric wing arrived at the specific quiet of a hospital at that hour, monitors beeping in their steady rhythms, the fluorescent light in the hallway continue reading …