Medical Drama · fiction
The Rules Beneath the Cast
The smell reached me before the stretcher did. It moved through the emergency department like an invisible warning—sickly sweet, metallic, and unmistakably rotten. Two nurses at the central station stopped talking. A respiratory therapist pulled down her mask, frowned, then quickly covered her nose again. I...
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