06-18-2013, 01:21 AM
I'd like to compress it further, but the two sections have to remain separate. The regret didn't occur at bedside but until far later, and I want to keep the narrative accurate. If the reader feels anything, I want it to be because I've accurately related what I saw and did and think now; skillfully describing those things should produce the same kind of feelings in the reader. If it doesn't, I need to work on the imagery and language.
A "sterile field" is a medical term for the area around a patient that has been made free of germs prior to a medical procedure. Any competent doctor or nurse would have strongly objected to me shoving my unscrubbed hands into the area in which they were working. Hence, I kept away.
A "sterile field" is a medical term for the area around a patient that has been made free of germs prior to a medical procedure. Any competent doctor or nurse would have strongly objected to me shoving my unscrubbed hands into the area in which they were working. Hence, I kept away.