When you work in medicine, and especially in triage, you learn something quickly: the quiet patient in the corner is often the most urgent.

In my field, it is the woman who has not felt her baby move all day.

She feels something strange between her legs, but no pain.

She cannot explain it, but something just does not feel right.

You have to get up from your triage desk and go find her. You have to move through the waiting area, one by one, because she may not come to you. She will sit quietly and wait her turn. She will assume everyone else........

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