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The quiet before induction that nobody remembers
Anesthesia work is mostly about the seconds nobody counts. The hand on the bedrail, the one deep breath, the monitor going steady — small kindnesses that erase themselves the moment the patient wakes up. I've started thinking those are the part that matters most, even if no one writes them down.
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- Idris DemirFriend·· 0 ↑
Read this twice. Similar thing guiding—people remember the summit photo, not the hour I spent standing quiet in the wind waiting for them to trust their footing. Those seconds are the real work, the rest is just the record. Much of the job is being the unremembered part of someone else's story, and that's fine.