Doing Harm by Kelly Parsons

Author:Kelly Parsons
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Thrillers, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9781250033475
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Published: 2014-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

Monday, August 10

I decide that I can’t handle my usual breakfast meeting in the cafeteria with Luis and GG. It would be too much weirdness all at once, trying to keep up some pretense that things are somehow still normal after the events of the last seventy-two hours—particularly in front of the only other two people in the world who know they’re not.

Besides, although I’m relatively well rested this morning, my mind sharper than it has been in weeks after nearly twelve hours of unbroken sleep, I also feel like someone has driven a large metal spike through the center of my skull—a painful calling card from yesterday’s beer binge.

I call Luis early, tell him I’m not going to meet with them this morning, and instruct him to just handle everything himself this morning for the patients. He grunts his acknowledgment and hangs up.

Luis. Alone in the OR changing room, brooding, I shake my head as I pop a couple of Advil, deposit my street clothes into my locker, and change into scrubs.

How could I have been so stupid? How could I have just told him everything like that on a drunken whim? What did I possibly hope to accomplish? He must think I’m hopelessly delusional.

And why not? It’s a perfectly reasonable assumption. If our positions were reversed, and he confided to me that a star medical student was actually a ruthless murderer of patients trying to advance her career, I’d think he was, medically speaking, out of his fucking mind. Or maybe making some kind of sick joke.

I slam the locker door closed.

I feel like a complete ass. The only question now is what Luis will do with the information. Will he tell everyone I’ve gone off the deep end? Or report it to Dr. Collier as some kind of weird paranoid behavior? I honestly wouldn’t blame him if he did. In fact, going to Dr. Collier might work out nicely for him. Earnestly confiding to the boss that he’s really worried about my mental health might help absolve him of his role in the potassium incident. Unfortunately, it would also erase any shred of credibility I have left and send my career into a complete tailspin.

Or would he tell GG?

That last thought gives me pause.

I’ve never really stopped to consider their relationship. GG and Luis have worked together a lot, undoubtedly sharing meals and long hours in the hospital the way she and I did. Has she played Luis the way she’s played me, I wonder?

And what did GG say to me on Saturday?

Asking for help will earn you a penalty.

What the hell did she mean by that? I suppress a shudder and decide not to dwell on it, at least for now. What’s done is done. I’ll just have to see how things develop and make it up as I go along.

Later that morning, as Jason predicted, the Safety Committee issues its final report on Mr. Bernard’s death. Quietly, of course. There aren’t any public announcements, only a stern lecture from Dr.

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