Everything has limits.

“I did everything I could. But it wasn’t enough.”

I talk to nurses these days. ICU nurses work and care and listen and do as well they possibly can. It’s what nurses do. Some days, they make no mistakes, they offer remarkable care to patients and their families, they do everything they and the physicians know to do. And the patient doesn’t make it.

Sometimes, as those nurses walk off the floor and out of the building, they are spent.

What we forget, what we need to know, what we need...