Once he was sutured up and stable, we pulled off the gloves and I breathed a huge sigh of relief. We transferred him to the hospital bed, and she took the monitors off. "Why not leave them on?"

"He's bound to shift as he starts to wake up, and you don't want a tight blood pressure cuff on when he does," she explained. We took off our surgical gowns and tossed them, then busied ourselves cleaning up from the surgery. "You're going to be an amazing Doctor someday, Meghan."

I just blushed. "I was scared to death the whole time, if you weren't talking me through I don't know if...