The Killing Machine
The Killing Machine
“No nurses bustling about; no patients slowly walking the halls; no relatives quietly weeping.
In the small room that the docs and nurses used for eating and relaxing, I found Jane reading a magazine. When she became aware of me, she looked up and smiled. “You’re starting to get some color back in your face.”
The room, like every room in the hospital, was painted white. A skeleton stood in the corner, the attitude of its long bones suggesting that it was about to break into a dance. The walls were covered with lithographs of great figures in medicine. Most of them I hadn’t heard of. Which made us even up, I suppose. They probably hadn’t heard of me, either.
“Help yourself to the coffee,” she said, before I had a chance to speak.
I poured myself a cup. In a room somewhere on the first floor, a patient coughed. It was the loudest noise I’d heard since coming here.
“Quiet,” I said.
She smiled. “You’re witnessing a miracle. Most of the patients are sleeping. Dr. Roussel even had time to lo...ok for a birthday present for his little daughter.MoreLess
In the small room that the docs and nurses used for eating and relaxing, I found Jane reading a magazine. When she became aware of me, she looked up and smiled. “You’re starting to get some color back in your face.”
The room, like every room in the hospital, was painted white. A skeleton stood in the corner, the attitude of its long bones suggesting that it was about to break into a dance. The walls were covered with lithographs of great figures in medicine. Most of them I hadn’t heard of. Which made us even up, I suppose. They probably hadn’t heard of me, either.
“Help yourself to the coffee,” she said, before I had a chance to speak.
I poured myself a cup. In a room somewhere on the first floor, a patient coughed. It was the loudest noise I’d heard since coming here.
“Quiet,” I said.
She smiled. “You’re witnessing a miracle. Most of the patients are sleeping. Dr. Roussel even had time to lo...ok for a birthday present for his little daughter.MoreLess
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