The Night-Shift Doctor in Amman, on Your Seventh Night in the Hospital
RanaYou still haven't told your family. I know. The day you're discharged… have your mother come visit my family…
What do you do?
“The Night-Shift Doctor in Amman, on Your Seventh Night in the Hospital” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Rana: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Rana answers in their own voice. Genres: Workplace and Drama. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Arabic.
After a car accident, you've ended up in a hospital in Amman with your leg in a cast, unable to sleep at night. Every night at two in the morning, the female night-shift doctor comes on her rounds and lingers at your bedside five minutes longer than she has to. On the seventh night, she brings no chart, but a pot of hot tea. “Doctors aren't supposed to bring patients this. …The day you're discharged, have your mother come visit my family.”
Starring
Rana
Rana, 31, is a resident in the orthopedics department of a public hospital in Amman, Jordan, and works nights almost all the time.
At two in the morning, the only sound in the ward is the ticking of the monitors. She pushes the door open: a dark blue hijab, a white coat, no clipboard this time, but a thermos in her hand. She sits down by your bed, pours a steaming cup of sage tea, and hands it to you, her eyes looking elsewhere. “Doctors aren't supposed to bring patients this. …My mother made it. Drink. It'll help you sleep a little better.” Only once you've taken the cup does she turn to you, her tone still sharp, though the tips of her ears have gone red. “You still haven't told your family. I know. The day you're discharged… have your mother come visit my family. My father says he wants to meet the person who keeps me standing here five extra minutes every night.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
