They Threw Me Out on Graduation Night and Did Not Expect to See Me Again

father, but the systems underneath medicine, the structures that either held patients up or let them fall through.

It was at this desk that I met Evan.

He appeared one night in wrinkled scrubs, stethoscope looped around his neck as though he had forgotten it was there, arguing patiently with the vending machine in the corner. He had one hand against continue reading …