fight-or-flight response was designed for. That day, standing just outside my patient’s room in the hallway of the ICU, I smiled. Secretly, I felt as powerful and agile as a running back who had just leaped over a line of defenders and into the end zone. Nadine, 1; Grim Reaper, 0. Doctors don’t get to dance a shuffle like Ickey Woods of the Cincinnati Bengals when they do something they feel particularly good about, but I might have gone into the ladies’ room and done a fist-pump in the mirror. • • • My experience
