Angels on the Night Shift by Robert D. Lesslie

Author:Robert D. Lesslie [Lesslie, Robert D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Religion, Christian Life, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9780736948432
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Published: 2012-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

11

Get Off My Bus

Robert, if it’s under control when the 10 a.m. doctor comes in, Walter Stevens would like to meet with us in his office.”

Virginia had walked up beside me at the nurses’ station and spoke quietly, making sure no one heard what she said.

I looked up at the clock. That was a little less than an hour from now, and the morning hadn’t been too bad.

“Okay, Virginia,” I told her, signing the bottom of the chart in front of me and tossing it into the discharge basket. “I’ll do what I can.”

She turned without saying anything more and walked back to her office.

Great, I thought. That’s just what I need—another meeting with Walter Stevens.

Darren walked up and put the chart of the patient in ENT on the countertop.

“This is a good one,” he said, smiling.

Just then, I heard a loud holler from down the hallway in the direction of our ENT room.

“OH, LORDY!”

I looked down at the chart and asked him, “What’s the problem? Why the—”

“OH, LORDY! DO SOMETHING!”

“She’s got a bug in her ear,” Darren explained. “Looks like a candle fly, and it’s moving around. I thought I could grab it with some tweezers but it went in deeper. She thinks it’s going to lay eggs in there, and that’s really got her freaked out.”

“Come on,” I told him. “Let’s go rescue this gal.”

When Ted Nivens came in at ten, the bug lady was gone and there were only two other patients in the department. Virginia Granger was standing behind the counter. Her arms were folded across her chest and she was looking at me over the tops of her glasses.

“Looks like we can go now,” she told me, stepping around Amy Connors and heading down the hallway. I told Ted where we would be and tried to catch up with her.

When we turned the corner and passed the entrance to X-ray, I asked her, “What do you think this is about, Virginia? More of Stevens’s investigation?”

“I’m sure that’s it,” she said flatly. “He told me he had some definitive information and he wanted to share it with us.”

“Definitive,” I repeated, slowly stressing each syllable. “I wonder what that means.”

She looked over at me and said, “Robert, let’s just let him do the talking. We’re only there to get information and see what he’s thinking.”

“Why do we have to deal with this guy? Why don’t we just go directly to Bill Chalmers?”

Chalmers had been the hospital administrator for the past ten years, and I had always found him to be reasonable and focused on patient care. That always made things easier for us.

“I wanted to do that too,” she answered. “But Bill made it clear we needed to deal with Stevens. Don’t ask me why, but that’s where we are.”

We turned another corner and stood in front of the door to the administrative offices.

“Remember,” Virginia said, looking me straight in my eyes. “Let him do the talking. And keep your temper. We both know how you can get sometimes.

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