Sarah Stevens, the shift nurse, glanced up in surprise, revolted by the smell coming from the woman Ken and Tom were wheeling toward her. Putting her hand close to her nose, she waved the admission away. It was extremely unusual that a new patient would be brought to Well Spring Institute in this condition.
Scrutinizing the woman with distaste, Sarah sent Ken to the supply room for a hospital-issue gown, while instructing Tom to take her to the female ward attendant to clean her up. There was no way that she was going to have this woman ruin the nice chairs in the reception area, not to mention the smell.
One of the reasons that she had quit working at county hospital was to avoid coming in contact with these types of patients. This battered hag definitely didn’t fit the description of
