Riding the waves

When you are starting to feel tired, it’s easy to let the emotional intensity of the hospital become your everyday fuel. Yet if that becomes the norm, when you walk out to go home, what you might first notice is absence: no overhead pages, no backchannel murmurs, no monitors, no whoosh of PPE in the hallway. But there is another way. Could leaving be a signal to your body and brain that a new phase of the day is starting?