Ashira Klein is a pediatric resident.
During intern orientation a few months ago, they promised we would never be alone in the hospital. And they were right. Until they weren’t.
It’s hard to see colors in the dark — that’s why he looks blue. That’s strange; it almost seems like his chest is not moving. I must be overreacting. Everything is fine.
My right hand began flicking his foot.
Yell for help.
This baby is a healthy newborn.
Call a code.
Interns …
February 14, 2018. It’s the “before.” My phone rang, and I stopped breathing as words poured straight from her heart about the most recent school shooting — Stoneman Douglas High School, where I had nervously walked the halls as a freshman and excitedly watched my sister cheer at football games in Parkland, a boring little town next to my equally boring hometown, as a teenager. Here, I protested the indignity …
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