AN ALL-NEW SHORT STORY!

HOSPITALS are places all of us will have experience with at some point in our lives– whether in them as patients ourselves, or through visiting friends, relatives, and loved ones. They’re like throbbing mass organisms with endless bustling activity which to us appears incomprehensible. Who organizes this hectic madness? How do they get things done? Yet they get a lot done, amid tremendous drama.

Our new feature story, “The Memorial” by Brent King, presents some of the drama. Brent has been in the business, so to speak, and knows these places. He does a great job conveying that knowledge, and the emotion which goes with it. The question, though, is what you the reader think.

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Tina and I were working together that day. She got the intubation equipment together while I started working on a central line and the nurses started CPR and then got the Lucas set up to compress Sophie’s chest. I knew it was Sophie lying on that gurney and briefly I thought of all the times we’d seen her in the department; tried to get her into rehab, but I pushed all of that down deep and focused on the steps of getting the line and on keeping my breathing steady.