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HopeEvey day 4
“The point is that, while every single patient who used that IV stand got better, and usually much faster than expected, every single one of them became convinced it was haunted.”
“Haunted?”
“Well, something like that. They saw a fairy, or an angel, or some such nonsense. So it ended up out in the construction area. They still tell stories about injuries healed by some winged thing, but what do you expect from a bunch of supersticious construction workers?”
“But if people got well…”
“It was disruptive! You can’t have patients breaking out into hosannas in the ICU. We’re trying to practice medicine, not become some kind of side show.”
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