It is 7 a.m. when Shilo Cook clocks in at St. John’s Regional Medical Center, the start of a 12-hour nursing shift that begins ordinarily enough on this Sunday morning — taking vitals, drawing blood, tending to a patient with stroke-like symptoms who needs an EKG.

IN THE EASY CHAIR / a series focusing on people you should know. Today, Jane Simmons of Stonington.

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