“There’s a new patient in Room Three,” Doris, the shift supervisor, says while pulling the file and laying it on the hospice counter. Marcie, a young Island nurse, leans her elbows on the desk and begins to scan, “Robert Crossman, eighty-three, metastasizing liver cancer.” “Transferred from Plymouth Hospital last night,” Doris adds, “morphine drip, digestive…
Leaving Us by Ken Leland
