Pou was the kind of cancer surgeon who fought to give patients with poor prognoses the latest treatments and every last possible chance to survive. Sometimes she fought after other physicians would have given up hope. Now, robbed of her armamentarium, Pou’s sense of efficacy as a doctor was diminished. She, like Mulderick, had concluded the sickest remaining patients and those on ventilators might not make it out of Memorial alive.
