Silent Code, Loud Secrets

I walked in on my attending kissing the charge nurse in the supply closet, and now I'm covering

his patient who's coding. My hands are shaking doing compressions because I know he

should be here, not me. The family's screaming in the hallway. My coworker just

texted asking if I'm going to report what I saw. But here's the thing nobody talks about:

we protect each other even when it's wrong. Even when patients suffer.

I've seen nurses hide medication errors, doctors blame techs for their mistakes,

all because we're sleeping together or friends or scared. This man might die because I'm too

junior and my attending chose his affair over his oath. Do you stay silent to keep your job,