If you are a medical professional who has worked at St. Michael’s Hospital, please quit and find a new job immediately.

I’m a nurse anesthetist at St. Michael’s, a mid-sized hospital in the midwest. Nothing about this place is unusual, and the majority of my experiences here have been normal, if a little mundane. That was the case until early this year, when we received a very strange patient.<br><br>I wasn’t in the room for this one, but a colleague of mine was, so I’m going off what she told me. The patient was a man, middle aged. No identification on him, didn’t know his name, no way of figuring out who he was. He was rushed in after being rescued from Lake Michigan. Apparently, he was out there for quite a while.<br><br>He survived, somehow. My colleague told me he looked ancient, and not just because he was a middle aged man. All of his hair was gone, he was covered in scars, looked like he had been dead for weeks.<br><br>He didn’t survive for long. Less than 24 hours. They were able to determine that he had been out on the lake for months, maybe years. Somehow he’s still alive when they rescued him, and he somehow made it to the hospital. No one knows what happened to him, or how he ended up where he was.<br><br>No one knew his name, and the cop assigned to his case couldn’t seem to find out. The plan was to cremate him, and bury him in the hospital cemetery. A lot of patients who didn’t have a family end up there.<br><br>He didn’t end up being cremated, or buried for that matter. A couple of days after he died, one of the doctors came in and requisitioned the body. The cop was rather surprised, but the doctor had filled out all the paperwork. No one knows where the doctor took the body, or why he wanted it in the first place. <br><br>He’s not the only doctor to have done this, either. Once you start looking for it, you can see a trend. A patient dies without an identity, or wit any family, and a doctor takes the body. The cop is really the only person who has tried to blow the whistle on this, but no one has listened to him.<br><br>You probably guessing where this is going. I’m the anesthesiologist for surgeries. The majority of operations are for living people, with the occasional cadaver for practicing surgeries. In the last few months, I’ve seen an increase in cadavers. No one knows who they are, or where they came from. Just that they are going to be used for practice.<br><br>I think the doctor who took the body of that man from the lake might be the head of this whole thing. His name is Absalom. I’ve never met him, but he apparently heads the cadaveric anatomical practice lab. <br><br>One of my coworkers was selected to work in this lab. I didn’t hear about it until after the fact. He went in as a normal person, but came out changed. Every time I’ve talked with him after that, he’s been different. He’s very serious, and there was something off about him, something that wasn’t there before.<br><br>I don’t think he’s the only person.<br><br>I think a lot of doctors and nurses are being recruited to work in this lab. And I think the cadavers are people who had no one left when they died.<br><br>They know I was asking questions. The cop was very careful, but somehow Absalom found out. A couple of days ago, I got a note. It read: “Your lack of concern for your fellow humans is admirable. I have a spot open for you in the lab, and I think you’d be perfect for it.” <br><br>There’s only one way this ends. I will have to join them.