Sometimes, despite the best efforts of medics, people pass away. It was an inevitability - a harsh reality - that hospital staff were supposedly numbed to with time and experience. For Danica it did no such thing. 2 years on the job and seeing death was as emotional as the first time. Each patient lost etched a mark inside her, like a tally she didn't want to keep yet would carry with her forever. The only progress she made was to hide the pain, the guilt, the exasperation at a loss of life in her care.
After she'd ran beside Fraser to answer the alarm, the team had worked tirelessly on a 30 year old man who had his whole life ahead of him. Danica had remembered seeing his wife attending with him, only leaving to take their frazzled toddler for a walk to calm him. On her return she'd expe
