For twelve years, she has quietly written down one sentence from every emergency room patient she has scribed. She has 43,000 sentences.
A night-shift medical scribe in Baltimore has, for the past twelve years, been quietly writing down one specific sentence from every emergency room patient she has documented. She has 43,000 sentences. She has never told a coworker. She has never told a patient. She does not, at forty-one, know what she is going to do with them.