They Mocked the Wrong Nurse
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For six years Nora Delaney has worked the night shift in the emergency room at Fairhaven Regional, and for six years Dr. Julian Strand has called her "the nurse." Good for needles. Bad for opinions. Now the hospital's new vice president wants the ER closed by spring, and Strand wrote the proposal. Nora keeps her head down and her sleeves over the scar on her forearm. Then a blizzard puts forty cars in a pile on Route 9, every ambulance in the county turns toward her doors, and the people who looked straight through her find out who has been standing in their emergency room all along.
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At eight o'clock Friday night, wet salt from boots coming off Route 9 streaked the emergency department floor everywhere except the four-foot circle around Lowell.
Lowell wore a tailored charcoal suit without a crease in it and represented Harbor Point Health Partners, the private investment firm Colleen Prewitt had brought in to fund t……
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