Three days later, Dana Reyes coded.
I was on the floor when it happened. I was the intern on call and the page came at 11:14 and by 11:15 I was running, and by 11:16 I was in room 614 with my hands on her chest, and by 11:32 she was back, if you can call that back, which some people do and some people do not.
She had thrown a clot. The clot was the kind of clot that people get when they have been on high-dose antibiotics for fourteen days for a disease they never had and their body has finally had enough. She went to the ICU. I stayed with her until the transfer, and then I went to the basement and sat on a crate of gauze and did not call anyone, because there was no one to call who would understand.
At 4:40 the vent spoke.
"The IRB has your name on a complaint. Dr. Thorne filed it ton
