In any other profession, if someone’s job drove her to attempt suicide, you’d expect some kind of inquiry into what happened and a concerted effort to make sure it never happened again. Yet nobody said anything—we all just heard from friends, like we were in the school playground. I doubt we’d have got so much as an e-mail if she’d died. I’m pretty unshockable, but I’ll never cease to be amazed by hospitals’ willful ineptitude when it comes to caring for their own staff.
