❝ –– perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. and when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house—the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture—must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. and suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.
“I am here, because she has a bleed in her brain and if I don’t stop it, no matter what you do to fix her heart, she will still die. Do you understand that, Dr. Altman?”
“So, you’re just
going to ignore that monitor
screaming bloody murder? Why didn’t you
page me sooner? Her pulmonary artery is
dissecting at this very moment, and there’s
no way in hell she’s going to make it unless
I open her up — now.”