Is this quote from a nurse or a Broadway actress?!?
““The numbers are higher now than they’ve ever been, the patients coming in younger and sicker. Death is at my shoulder again, as silent as he is relentless,” she said.”
WhoTF talks like that?
I know, right?
I had to turn off the lights, don a hooded cloak and illuminate myself a la chiaroscuro, with a flashlight, just to read that.
/wish I’d had a pipe organ droning in the background
She probably writes romance novels in her spare time when she’s not saving lives…
Yes its from a screen play...
Move over, Camille
Shakespeare?
Here’s an idea, b*tch...leave us alone. Seriously. MYOB.
No one I would know talks like that and I’m a currently active ICU RN still after 35 years.She sounds like one of those that we hope would quickly go to NP school or get promoted to some Stroke navigator position just so she would get away from us and the patients. She might be good as a NPR news announcer or correspondent...complete with that world weary tone of voice all of the NPR broadcasters use.
“From Covid worn Anytown Hospital...this is Silvia Macaroni for NPR news!”