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All views expressed are those of the person speaking and not their employer. This is the nocturness. Uncertainty in Medicine. Today we're looking at time.

Today we're looking at time. time. The 14-year-old girl lay pale and lifeless on the stretcher.

A plastic breathing tube jutted out of her mouth, and at the head of the bed, the intern squeezed oxygen into her lungs.

The medics said they found her down in the bathroom without a pulse.

The resident pushed on her chest, doing compressions. Her ribs crunched with a nauseating

sound of broken bones grinding against each other. When I asked the parents what happened,

her dad stared at me glassy-eyed, mute from shock, while the mother screamed incoherently,

so loudly I almost couldn't hear my own thoughts.

The medic handed me a can of silver spray paint. He said the patient had locked herself in the

bathroom 30 minutes ago. Dad broke down the door, finding her with a spray can in one hand

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