Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery — the two departments that bore the worst of the overnight emergency load.Starting at one in the morning, Nora's duty phone didn't stop."Dr. Ward, bed three — patient went into convulsions in his sleep. ECG shows ventricular fibrillation.""Dr. Ward, ER just admitted an acute heart failure case. Needs surgical assessment.""Dr. Ward, bed nine — hyperkalemia. And we're out of monitored beds."...By eight o'clock, when the day team came in for handoff, Nora's phone finally fell silent.Summer, one of the nurses, brought breakfast to the doctors' office. "Another all-nighter?"Nora kneaded her stiff neck. "Got four and a half hours of sleep. Pretty lucky, actually."Stay up all night and survive — a doctor's core competency. Every chief resident went through it.Summer sighed. "My heart breaks for you."Nora smiled and nodded at Summer's phone, buzzing nonstop. "Aren't you going to check that?""Morning gossip."Not quite on the clock yet, Summer
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