The Glimpse Behind the Scrubs

In 2019, a video from Seattle Children's Hospital went viral. A janitor named Manuel quietly mopped the hallway outside the pediatric oncology ward, the same hallway he cleaned every night shift for eleven years. What the camera captured was a mother stepping out of her daughter's room at 2 a. m. , collapsing against the wall in tears. Manuel set down his mop, sat beside her on the cold floor, and held her hand without saying a word.…