Chapter 31
The hospital was old and rustic. A few attempts to modernise it have been made, but the town’s character had swallowed it back.
There wasn’t much staff, so we had to wait for a while. Zoe kept going outside for a smoke, I stayed at the waiting area.
There weren’t many sick or injured people, certainly nothing too gory or disgusting. But sitting there, waiting and wallowing, made me think a lot.
Was I right for this kind of work? It was starting to get to me, the interviews and the tears. No matter how much I tried to distance myself from these strangers, they were ordinary people and I felt sorry for them. The job wouldn’t get any better. Its subject was disease. It would always entail doctors, hospitals, sick people, and unfortunately dead people. It’s not like we had to wa
