“She Just Doesn’t Want to Work,” My Mother Told Her Nursing Staff About My Condition. I Silently Slid My Medical File Across the Table to Her Chief of Medicine. Her Next Shift Was Her Last.

Chen, Chief of Medicine at St. Joseph’s, was a man I had seen twice in three years of coming to this hospital, once in the elevator and once in the hallway outside Dr. Harrison’s office. I knew his name from the hospital website and from the staff directory that was posted near the elevator bank. I knew that his office was at the end of the administrative continue reading …