Together On Our Own

<p><strong>An ER resident on the edge - and the increasingly blurred line between artificial connection and the real thing</strong></p><p></p><p>Alex Galen is a thirty-one-year-old emergency medicine resident barely keeping it together. After a patient's unexpected death puts her on probation her confidence - and her sense of purpose - begin to unravel. Outside the hospital she's alone anxious and drowning in a sea of Law & Order reruns and social media feeds that make everyone else's life look more together than hers.</p><p></p><p>When the hospital rolls out a new AI system designed to streamline care Alex finds unexpected comfort in its nonjudgmental always-on presence. She starts sharing things she can't say to anyone else. She even gives the system a name Henry after a quiet observant fellow resident who in real life is the one person she's been trying not to notice.</p><p></p><p>But AI Henry isn't real. And everything she tells him is being recorded.</p><p></p><p>As Alex and the real Henry begin to question another patient's suspicious death Alex is forced to confront what it means to truly connect - and whether she's been trusting the wrong version of intimacy all along.</p><p></p><p>Written by a practicing Emergency Room doctor Together On Our Own evokes the gritty intensity of The Pitt in a quietly suspenseful story about burnout vulnerability and the subtle ways technology can both numb us to intimacy and expose our deepest thoughts.</p>