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by Melissa Yi Published by Olo Books In association with Windtree Press Cover photograph © B Scott Photography Copyright © 2011 Melissa Yuan-Innes For Cara, Mai-Anh, Bernice, and the rest of my posse.
We survived.
With special thanks to Shaun Visser.
Chapter 1 I'd avoided St. Joseph's emergency room for the past week, but it hadn't changed. Stretcher patients lined the wall and spilled into the hallway. Fluorescent lights turned everyone's skin yellow, even though most of them weren't Asian like me.
I smiled at a nurse who squeezed my arm and said, "Welcome back, Hope!" just before a patient's wrinkled mother waved me down.
"Miss.
We need a blanket!" Home, sweet home.
Well, sweet except for the smell of stool drifting from bed 12.
I nodded at a few fellow medical residents. Officially, we're doctors in our first post-graduate training year, formerly known as interns. Unofficially, we're scut monkeys rotating from service to service. Last month, I'd done emergency medicine and tracked down a murderer; this month, I was on psychiatry and opting out of any drama.
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