Stepping-Stone for Mia novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: Rounds
I called Philadelphia back the next morning, from Tim's kitchen, under the yellow cabinets.
"Thank you," I told the director. "Really. I'm staying in Baltimore."
"May I ask why?"
Tim was at the stove making eggs badly. His mother had come in the back door with soda bread and was telling him so.
"I picked it," I said.
My first night as a maternal-fetal medicine fellow was the second Saturday in September.
I came up to Six at a quarter to seven in new navy scrubs.
My father's stethoscope was around my neck.
The unit looked exactly the same. The same smell of hand gel and coffee. The same squeak in the double doors.
Except for the phones.
Every phone on Labor and Delivery had a laminated card zip-tied to it.
Yellow, the size of a playing card, in big black letters.
KELLY'S RULE. HEMORRHAGE PAGE NOT ANSWERED IN 5 MINUTES GOES TO THE ATTENDING. NO EXCEPTIONS.
The youngest nurse had made them on the unit laminator. She'd made two hundred.
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