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Local ICU nurse Jennifer Drachman has been praised by colleagues for her unshakable positivity as she continues to treat each patient flatline as, in her words, “a valuable growth moment.”
“I just love code blues,” said Drachman, with eyes bright and voice trembling with enthusiasm, as she accidentally silenced the heart monitor. “You never really know how long that alarm will go off. Sometimes thirty seconds, sometimes five full minutes of uninterrupted enlightenment. I close my eyes and just let it wash over me. I want to be baptized in the sound.”
“The way a patient chokes up right before that final beep, it’s humbling, honestly,” she added, drooling profusely at the thought while unplugging a cord suspiciously close to her current patient. “You can’t buy that kind of insight. You just have to be there.”
“I don’t think of it as ‘the end,’ but more as a beginning… of my continuing education, that is!” she exclaimed when asked about the morbidity of death. “Like, they were gonna die anyway, why not make it an opportunity for enlightenment?”
At press time, a pessimistic doctor treats every successful operation as a fluke.
