The fly

All nurses knew that evidence. Whenever they saw a fly in the room of a very ill patient, they knew the patient’s death was a matter of few hours. It was always a nervous fly, attracted by the sweet smell of death, trying to land on the patient’s motionless head.

Room 71

Her doctor made a mistake and the old woman died. She shouldn’t have died that afternoon. At night, at the nurse desk, the bell of room 71 rang once and again. A nurse opened the door of room 71, but the old woman had been taken to the hospital morgue.

The Algerian patient

A young Algerian was in bed, unconscious. The young nurse couldn’t help feeling sorry for him. She entered the room, approached to him, raised her arms, the palms towards the patient’s head, and told him: “Come to life, struggle to live”. Then she thought “But he can’t understand Spanish!”