All tagged 1990
“A friend of mine and I once got together for dinner after she had been awake for 36 hours. It was toward the end of her first year of residency in internal medicine at Harvard. She was haggard, red-eyed and had the waxy complexion of sleep deprivation most rescuers know well. Predictably, she fell asleep at the restaurant.”
“Us and them. They're easily recognized. They all have numbers. In fact, they have several numbers, starting with the county call number on down through the address, date of birth, and medical insurance number. These numbers make the people aspect of emergency medicine tolerable so the rest of the job can be enjoyable.”