Nurse in Recovery by Dianne Drake

Author:Dianne Drake
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

LUNCH was pretty silent for the first ten minutes of it—a fallout from Izzy, Anna guessed. Actually, she liked Izzy a lot—her spunk, her drive, her passion. Mitch was nothing like her. At least, now he wasn’t. In the past, though, when he’d been a doctor? She could picture him with that same drive and passion, but she didn’t know if that was the fantasy version or the reality. And for sure the reality, as it existed now, lacked those qualities.

She still wanted to know what had happened to him. Sure, he’d probably blow her off again. But, hey, nothing ventured, nothing learned.

“What caused you to burn out, Mitch?” she asked casually, as the waiter served up a burger so large it would take her two days to eat. It had been a long time she’d done anything other than pick at her food. “Lanli said you were a great doctor, but that one day you just walked out. And I get the feeling Izzy isn’t happy with that choice. Before you tell me it’s none of my business, though, let me tell you why it is.” Last time she’d asked it hadn’t mattered much—just conversation to fill in the pauses. Now she had a vested interest in his answer.

“You’re right. It’s none of your business. And make that two for two. My mother’s not happy with my choice, like I’m not happy about her choice to go out to the county home and protest about their food. But that’s what she does, and it’s her business, not mine,” he snapped. “Just like my reason for quitting medicine.”

“Yeah, I know. Your business. But guess what, Mitch? I have a stake in that business now, because you’re helping me, and I want to know if I can count on that—count on you. I mean, are you going to walk out on me one day like you did your job?” Thin ice here, and judging from the frown on his face she guessed she might be on the verge of crashing through it into the chilly waters below. She was taking a big chance, depending on him the way she was. And she had to know if she could take that chance, considering it was a very long road ahead, one she’d be measuring by fractions of inches, if she decided to stay on it.

“Izzy is accomplishing something worthwhile, Mitch. Or at least trying to. You know what it’s like to accomplish something worthwhile and, sure, you know the other side of that, too. So do I, actually. I’ve worked my butt off to save the life of a patient who simply does not survive no matter what I’ve done, and I’ve worked my butt off to save someone who does. Either way it’s all worthwhile because at the time you don’t know the outcome, and even if you did, you wouldn’t walk away.

“So maybe the one thing you’ve never thought about is what’s worthwhile from the patient’s point of view.

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