The Lambda Factor

"When people are dying, it's easier sometimes. You can be

all-powerful-even heroic. You don't have to think about how much courage it takes to dwell among the living, to fight for your own life. Lots of caregivers get addicted that way."

When a category five hurricane threatens a Galveston hospital, patients and nonessential personnel are required to evacuate.

Doctors Danica Diza and Shaka Sen, a chief family medicine resident and a surgical attending respectively, are tapped, along with a s...