The Janitor's Prayer at Cedar-Sinai

In 2014, a janitorial supervisor named Hector Vega worked the overnight shift at a hospital in Los Angeles. He had no medical degree, no letters after his name. He mopped floors, emptied biohazard bins, and restocked soap dispensers while surgeons and specialists rushed past him without a glance. But the nurses on the fourth-floor oncology ward knew something the doctors didn't.…