The ICU waiting room was frozen in a kind of artificial stillness that felt cruelly inappropriate for the moment. The lights hummed softly overhead, too bright, too…
I had worked as an emergency physician at Saint Raphael Medical Center in Milwaukee for almost eight years, long enough to believe I understood the full spectrum…
When I was discharged, Javier made a decision that didn’t require discussion. We would not return to that house. We rented a small apartment near the hospital,…