battery problem before a new monitoring system reached patients.
There was no accident.
No public scandal.
No heroic rescue.
The risk was found, documented, and corrected because the system allowed an ordinary employee to say no.
That quiet success meant more to me than every award Grant and I had received at Meridian.
On Northline’s first anniversary, we signed a national contract large enough to expand our team to thirty-six employees and finance an independent safety laboratory.
Thomas asked how I intended to celebrate.
“By leaving at six.”
“That’s all?”
