I showed up at the hospital to surprise my husband during his shift. But the second one of his coworkers saw me, all the color left his face. Then his eyes filled with tears. “He hasn’t said a word to you, has he?” Ben and I had been married eleven years, and for every one of those years, I had shared him with the hospital. He was a remarkably gifted surgeon.
She gave a sad, empty laugh.
“In six years of working at that hospital, I’d never missed a single scheduled shift.”
Carmen explained that the first time she saw Brian, at the board hearing in December, she had screamed at him in the parking garage and blamed him for her son’s death.
“Three days later, he showed up at my apartment with three boxes of groceries, sat down on my couch, and told me what really happened in that room.”
Her eyes filled with tears as she looked at me across the table.