Sunday, October 25, 2026
Mavenlus
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PART 3 OF 20

THE EMERGENCY ROOM

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The pediatric side of the emergency department at one in the morning is quieter than people expect.

There was a teenager with a wrist in a towel and a man asleep sitting up with a toddler across his lap.

Theo went back first.

Mild dehydration.

Severe diaper dermatitis, which is a clinical way of describing something you should not have to look at.

Underfed but not dangerously.

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