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Annie
Despite the texts, I didn’t see Jordan when I got home. I had too much work to do, especially after missing two days for the interview.
I moved back into an emergency medicine rotation, which was my specialty and also meant strange hours. We were supposed to get used to working all potential shifts, which meant all hours of the day. I’d apparently drawn the short straw and started with overnights, getting into the ER at midnight. It was a long night ahead of me, but emergencies never ceased, and the hours rushed by.
It was still two hours until eight, which was when I got off. I knew they were being generous, doing eight-hour shifts with four days on, two days off. In residency, I’d heard horror stories of working thirty-six hours straight and up to a hundred hours a week. But
