![]() Michael has three young children, and Bronez started working nights after her son was born. They both chose the night shift so they could be home for their families. Michael’s been at the hospital about eight years, Bronez for three. “My body thinks it should be asleep and starts to shut down and shiver at night.” “It’s not normal to be up all night,” she says. Please help us support great journalism in our community by subscribing to The News Leader. Bronez prefers sneakers and always has a jacket on hand for the middle of the night when she begins to get cold. ![]() Physician assistant Candice Bronez has been working since 7 p.m., and the two have been a team for over a year and a half. My dinner is often graham crackers with peanut butter when I have time or think to do that.”īut Michael’s not alone. There are many nights where there’s no time to pee. “Then you’re out there seeing whichever patient has been waiting for you,” says Michael. Wearing the same pair of gray mocs he’s been buying for 10 years because they are comfortable and somewhat professional, before starting his shift at 10 p.m., he stops at his locker to change into a set of gray scrubs monogrammed ED (patients think that's his name), throws on his stethoscope, grabs a few pens he uses to sign off on countless EKGs and walks into the emergency department. The night shiftĪs the overnight supervising emergency physician at Augusta Health’s Emergency Department, Michael’s the doctor patients will see when a health crisis occurs in the middle of the night. That's life in emergency medicine, but working the night shift is a different world. “They don't remember you, and you don't remember them.” It isn't until he looks at the chart when he remembers that he saved this person's life. ![]() And I don't recognize their face because they look a lot different when they're super, super ill as opposed to this time they're coming in with something minor and were relatively healthy.” ![]() “I saw the same person back a few months afterwards,” says Michael. “They were in the ER, and they don't remember me because they were dead. ![]()
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