Second Shift · Pulse Beat

A night-shift nurse studies for the medical entrance exam in the quiet hours of the ward, and learns what a second life costs the first. Ambition, exhaustion and a patient who sees through her. A work of fiction.

Fatima Sheikh has worked nights on a hospital ward for six years. In the quiet between rounds she is teaching herself to be a doctor. A story about the second shift, the one you work on yourself. A work of fiction: the people and the hospital are invented.