Care Of Death
A pastiche of nursing care
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10 min readMay 4, 2024
Zoe got up before the sun, as she always did. She dressed and drove to the hospital, as she always did. She had a cup of tea and took handover, as she always did. And, as she always did, she went to care for her patients - medications, dressings, vital signs, comfort checks. Nurse Zoe was good at her job and could solve most of her patients' problems.