The IV nurse lifted the patient’s arm like he was assembling an IKEA chair.

The staff nurse responded to her patient’s disclosure of pain as though she were solving a math equation.

The incoming night shift nurse entered the room with drifting eye contact and announced that he already knew the patient’s story.

The coworker listened to his fellow RN describe her shift and cut her off to list why she shouldn’t feel that way.

Somewhere in the middle of all this fixing problems and fixating on problems, the people experiencing the problems are going completely unseen.