The doctors have left, too. It's just the nurses and the patients now, and a long night ahead for them both. Even the air suggested that no one should be up at this hour. The midnight hour is heavy with a sense of overwhelming stillness. All who enter the surgical floor of Ogden Regional Medical Center immediately softened their voices to whispers.
Some doors are closed, some are open.
Some rooms have patients in them, some are empty. One particular door is open wide with lights bright in the dark hallway. The sheets are turned down with a person's impression still present in the mattress. That patient just left to return to her own home and her own bed. Other patients have successfully ignored the relentless pain going through their bodies and finally sleep has settled in.