I’m writing this from the corner of a hospital ER, where I’ve been watching a wall-mounted monitor flash and beep on an endless cycle. IV pumps, telemetry monitors, access doors all have something to say, constantly. Harried nurses scurry through the ward, ignoring most of it, trying to stay ahead of whatever’s next. When I ask about the cacophony of alarms and beeps, they say: “Honestly, we just tune most of it out.
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