Imagine if a stretcher or hospital bed could talk. What kinds of memories could they share? Imagine standing at a historical site, any number of them, and being able to witness the history that occurred there. We would all be overwhelmed by the imagery that would inundate us. The same holds true of a hospital bed. The joy, the pain, the life, the death, the horrible tragedies and the uninhibited victories would be astronomical in number. From personal experience, hospital beds usually last a very long time, so I can only imagine what types of stories, from how many different decades, they could tell me.Unfortunately, hospital beds do not talk. So, we cannot get their stories. However, in Crossing the Bedside, we get the next best thing. We get to hear from the healthcare workers who stood next to those very beds day after day and year after year, experiencing events often unknown to those outside of the healthcare profession. In Crossing the Bedside, we have compiled a number of stories from healthcare workers around the world. The stories that are ingrained in their memories for a lifetime.