Chapter 12: The InterviewFROM HER WINTER EMERGENCY room rotation, Gail had learned that in Chicago the cold was a force to be reckoned with. She had treated patients with frostbite, hypothermia, broken bones from slipping and falling on slippery sidewalks, some who had heart attacks after shoveling snow, and even a few who were unfortunate enough to have chunks of ice crash down on them from tall downtown buildings.
What she had left behind in Southern California, the sunny skies that belied the seismic threats below, reminded her of a certain kind of patient, the kind who seemed, on the surface, to have it all together. But Chicago’s moody weather, its depressed winters, manically overheated summers, its bipolar falls and springs and erratically behaving climate, reminded her of a teenag
