A night in the on-call room

A page from a doctor’s diary

Photo by Artem Sapegin on Unsplash

Standing atop the Hoover Dam, a massive concrete edifice rising a quarter of a mile above the Colorado River, I couldn’t help marvel at human ingenuity. Below my feet, enough concrete to build a four-foot-wide sidewalk around the earth filled a narrow canyon. The smooth-walled human-made structure did not look out of place amid the rugged stone walls rising on both sides. The lake…