Night Shift

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Dr. Susan Passero, an internist at the Manhattan Memorial Hospital, known colloquially as the MMH, ushered her forty-first and final patient of the day, Florence Williams, out of the examination room. It was nearly 6:00 p.m. She said a warm goodbye and encouraged Florence to keep up the good work adhering to her rather complicated medication schedule. Returning into the room, Sue took a deep breath, readjusted her Covid-19 mask, and sat back down at the computer terminal to finish the required entry. Like most doctors, she despised being so chained to the demands of the electronic health record because of the interference it invariably caused between her and her patients, yet she knew that modern medicine demanded it. When she was finished and had dutifully checked all the necessary boxes, she washed her hands for the thousandth time that day, pocketed her stethoscope, and headed out into the clinic proper.

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