The hospital code blue alarm is supposed to signal urgency — a rush of medical professionals fighting to pull a patient back from the brink. But in certain rooms, the performance is more muted.

Hospital staff are constantly going “above and beyond” their everyday job responsibilities. The reason these heroes jump through the extra hoops is empathy. They care. That small trait enables them to ...

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There have been times when I have been at a hospital visiting a sick member or one of their family members when I would sometimes hear over the speaker system in the hospital, "Code blue. Code blue.