Goals

• Collect 4 stories from the hospital every month for the remainder of the time that I am in Lexington.
• Each story should include either 2 interview sessions or one interview session and a shadowing experience.
• Audience: young people (college/high school) interested in a health profession.
• Stories should be 3-4 pages long. Brief and to the point. Tell of one experience in the hospital and how it fit into their life.
• Make sure to get contact information as well as permission.

Places to Start

1. Doctors
2. Patients
3. Janitors
4. Research assistants
5. Cafeteria Workers
6. Families of Patients
7. Nurses
8. X-ray people
9. Secretary
10. Students
11. Residents

Or this could be my summer project: 31 days in the lives of 31 different people in one hospital.

Day 1

The person sitting at the next cafeteria table may have just lost her father or her sister might have given birth to a beautiful little boy. A hospital is a crazy clash of humanity. Separate stories flow together when a kidney donor is shared or a nurse treats a six-year-old cancer patient with a brilliant smile but no hair over 45 consecutive days.

The mailman. The lunch lady. The woman sitting in silence in the chapel. All are under same roof.

But their stories merge unexpectedly, and here they are.