Walking in the darkness
On Friday, November 4, 2016 I went to the hospital for my first night shift. The purpose of my visit was to learn about night shift patient population characteristics and staff activities. Our facility operates 24 hours a day, throughout the week. However, we are usually busy during the day and afternoon hours with sporadic emergency cases presenting during the night shift hours. Since I live about 10 minutes from the hospital, I had to walk on my dusty road to the hospital and began my commute around 9pm local time. This was my first time venturing out on this road at that time of the night and as I made my way toward the hospital I began wondering about all the critters (snakes and scorpions) I had seen on the road during day time. Since there aren’t any street lights on this road, my flashlight came in handy but it wasn’t powerful enough to abate the darkness around me. However, I was reminded of the truth contained in Psalm 23 as I walked down on the dark road and that broug