The ER Nurse Who Knew Before the Monitors Did

Veteran nurses at Johns Hopkins call it "the feeling." Maria Gonzalez, a thirty-year ICU nurse in Baltimore, could walk past a patient's room and stop cold. "Something's wrong with bed seven," she would tell the resident. The monitors showed stable vitals. The labs looked clean. The young doctor would glance at the screens and shrug. Twenty minutes later, bed seven would code.…