The Heart That Beats

HotelDieu Hospital in Montreal one of the oldest in North America In the emergency ward patients await their diagnosis foreshadowed by the most personal questions from doctors Others dont have the luxury of worrying about such things They suffer in pain fight to live or simply want it all to end despairing at the bodys inability to do what its supposed to We cannot face disease much less face those who suffer from it But whats left of the human once laid out on the operating table dreading bad news or anticipating the end Something moving feeling loving The heart that beats