August was a month of quiet arrivals — twelve people named by a colleague who happened to be paying attention.

July went almost entirely to the unglamorous half of the work, which is where most of the work actually lives.

June belonged almost entirely to the people at the other end of a call that nobody wanted to have to make.

Everything named in May happened before a patient had started anything — the part of the work that is invisible by design.

April’s responses are all about cases that took the detour, and the people who stayed on them anyway.