The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients Lives, by Therese Brown

Nurse and NY Times columnist describes a day in the life at a busy teaching hospital's cancer ward

May 07, 2026 1 mins
The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients Lives, by Therese Brown

During a twelve-hour shift, nurse Theresa Brown shows us the lives of four patients on a busy teaching hospital's cancer ward. Unfolding in real time, The Shift gives an unprecedented view into the individual struggles as well as the larger truths about medicine in America. By shift's end, we have witnessed something profound about hope and humanity.

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