MIRAThe hospital called on a Friday, which was not entirely unexpected given the week I had been having, but the specific nature of the call was something I had not anticipated.It was the director's office. His assistant, formally and with the careful tone of someone who had been instructed to be careful, asked whether I would have time to come in for a brief conversation at my earliest convenience. The phrase earliest convenience, in my experience of hospital administration, meant: today if possible, and the sooner the better.I went in at two o'clock.The director was a man named Calloway who had run the hospital for eleven years and had the particular quality of administrators who have survived long enough to have stopped being intimidated by the role: measured, direct, slightly tired around the eyes.He asked me to sit. He looked at the file in front of him, which I could see from my side of the desk contained several printed pages that appeared to be correspondence rather than
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