Chapter 16 The next morning, Alicia’s footsteps clicked on the tiled floors as she made her way to the conference room for the morning report. The morning report was a mandatory daily conference for residents, during which an attending would lead an interactive discussion on a recent interesting case that had been admitted. Alicia was relieved that the patient of interest today wasn’t hers—she had been up since the early hours of the morning working on the presentation before heading to the wards to review the sign out from the night team and lead a pre-round with her team for all the patients they now covered, including seven new patients. Even Mrs. Carter looked more peaceful—the grief counseling must have been good for her—before she had been moved to the surgical unit. Alicia quicke

