The nurse's name was Denise, and for three long seconds she just stood there, staring at us, before she cleared her throat and said the patient in Room 12 was asking for pain medication, and then she left without another word.Doctor Cole stepped back from my bed like I had burned him. He picked up his chart from the floor, his hands shaking a little, and would not look at me."That should not have happened," he said."But it did," I said."Maya." He said my name like a warning, but also like something else, something softer underneath the warning. "I could lose my license. You are my patient.""I won't be your patient forever," I said. "The fever is going down, remember? You said so yourself."He rubbed his hand over his face, and for the first time since I met him, he looked tired, not like a doctor who had everything under control, but like a man who wanted something he was not allowed to have. "I need to go check on Room 12."He left. I lay there for an hour, staring at the ceilin
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