“I thought I was going to die in the stupid elevator.” I added a half-laugh to my cry. “No one was going to let you die.” “That’s the thing, we can’t stop it. We don’t ‘let’ people die, they just die. We can’t stop it.” I thought of my team after our patient’s death, their faces as sad and raw as circus clowns who had just wiped off their painted-on masks.
