The Weakest Link

Every family thinks the crisis will look obvious when it comes. It rarely does.

The Weakest Link follows a family through what looks, at first, like an ordinary health scare: a symptom nobody quite has words for, a call that doesn’t get an exam, a discharge that closes one chapter of care without connecting to the next. Nobody is careless. Nobody fails at their job. And somehow, by the time anyone notices, the gap between all those competent, reasonable decisions has already become th…