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a hand. You need to speak to her,
but before you do you have to find
out the patient’s name. And then
you go back to whatever you were
doing before the code went out
over the PA.
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Granta 33: What Went Wrong?
Photo by Tom Stoddart (Katz Pictures)
Design by The Senate
HUFFINGTON
09.23.12
HERE IS A
GREAT deal of
mess in hospital
medicine, literal
and figurative,
and the code bunches it all into
a dense mass that on some days
seems to represent everything
wrong with the world. The haste,
the turmoil, the anonymity, the
smell, the futility: all of it brought
to bear on a single body, as if to
point to a moral that I would understand better if only I had time
to stop and contemplate it. Which
I don’t. Not today. We’re admitting and there are three patients,
two on the floor and one down in
the ER, waiting to be seen. There
is no time to read the fine print
on anything, least of all the mortal contract just executed on the
anonymous woman lying back in
the room. I can barely make out
the large block letters at the top:
our patients die. And very often they do so in the middle of