Sadly, this is very true. If you see the pain, you're "woke" and that makes you wrong.

Editorial note: Should this thought and the next sentence should be in the same paragraph. Is this thought in italics an internal dialogue Kyra thought sadly to herself?

If so, it should read thusly:

They call it being "woke" when you're a realist, Kyra thought sadly to herself as she prepped the stirrups for the delivery table.