Downstairs in the darkened conference room, with only a dim street light to illuminate it, shadows cast all around her, the emergency doctor slept through all the chaos, she having learned long ago that you take sleep where you can get it. During the first minutes of her slumber she had shifted, now sleeping sideways in the overstuffed chair, her legs brought up and bent at the knees, her head resting against the back of the chair. Her breathing was slow and measured despite the uncomfortable and cramped position.