By Claudia Cottle Hinz
Nurse Shirl McCaffrey told a supervisor that she planned to leave just before 5:00, but at the inquiry, a scrub tech said he saw her on the 5:00 bus, which proved it was closer to 4:45 when she left the hospital. In the court stenographer’s notes, another passenger identified Shirl slumped over her purse, the bracelet she never took off, a slim, silver heart, swinging wildly.
And so what if she left a few minutes early? She had spent her whole life arriving early and staying late and no one ever noticed. At 16:41 Shirl entered her patient notes in the computer, printed copies for the next shift and for supervisor Molly Slope, with special instructions to keep an ear out for room 244, Dr. Doug Bram’s last patient just up from surgery. [Read more…] about Shirl