Emergency Blind Date - Chapter 14

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#Episode 14

It was still early morning. Only the sound of two people’s footsteps echoed through the quiet hallway.

“Let’s take the stairs.”

“Okay.”

They headed for the emergency exit instead of the elevator.

As they were earnestly going down the stairs, Han Byeol sighed and slowed down.

“Why, did you forget something?”

“No, it’s not that. I think I’m going to have a panic attack.”

“You’re talking nonsense about panic attacks. You’re just embarrassed, right?”

Han Byeol, who had turned into a dog during orientation, had bitten Yohan who was next to him.

Although Eun Hyeok and I managed to subdue Han Byeol together, what had already happened couldn’t be undone.

There were no injuries or anything, but Yohan was completely terrified.

“We told them you got a rabies vaccine.”

“…Thank you so much.”

Da-som giggled and grabbed Han Byeol’s arm as they went down the stairs.

The two people who arrived at the Emergency Medicine Department knocked and then went inside.

“Welcome.”

Ilrok and Yohan, who had arrived first, greeted them.

“Oh, hello?”

When Han Byeol raised one hand with an awkward expression to greet them, the two smiled.

“Eun Hyeok isn’t here yet, I guess.”

Han Byeol looked for Eun Hyeok while pretending to be nonchalant.

Creak.

Just then the door opened and Eun Hyeok poked his head out and quickly scanned inside.

“I’m not late, am I?”

“No. It’s just us.”

Only then did he straighten up and enter.

“It feels kind of awkward since this isn’t our home ground.”

Eun Hyeok stood close next to Da-som and looked around the department.

Even though there wasn’t much difference between Central General Hospital and here, it was cautious and unfamiliar just as Eun Hyeok said.

“You don’t need to think like that. We have to work here for 4 years now, right?”

“True.”

Everyone was standing around talking to ease the awkwardness when the department door opened wide and Ahn Sin-ho, a second-year resident exhausted from fatigue, entered.

“Everyone’s gathered here.”

“Good morning.”

“Let’s go to the department meeting room for now.”

Ahn Sin-ho led the five first-year residents to the department meeting room. There, interns who were even more frozen than them were sitting, and they jumped up from their seats to greet them.

“Good morning.”

“The kids came early. Sit comfortably. Ilrok, distribute the patient list.”

“Yes, sir.”

Ahn Sin-ho gave instructions to Jo Ilrok.

“You guys sit anywhere comfortably too.”

After taking seats at the end of the table, Head of Department Kim Kyung-tae and the residents entered the meeting room shortly after.

“Everyone came early. Very good attitude from the first day.”

The Head of Department approached where the first-year residents were sitting and greeted each one while making eye contact.

“But first-years, you know it’s raining outside right now, right?”

“Yes, we know.”

Han Byeol answered loudly.

He looked like he was determined to make up for that day’s mistake, with military-like discipline. Kim Kyung-tae looked at Han Byeol as if he found him very interesting.

“Right, did you get home okay that night at One Star?”

“…Oh, yes. I got home fine.”

Han Byeol’s face turned red.

“Let’s talk about that later, but anyway, I’ve been thinking and it seems our first-years are quite the lucky charms.”

Better safe than sorry. On rainy days, there are no patients.

This was an unwritten rule that came down to the Emergency Medicine Department.

But would that really be the case?

The Head of Department just didn’t know yet, but there were exceptions to everything.

Da-som glanced at Eun Hyeok sitting next to her.

Seeing him sigh deeply and fidget with his fingers, he seemed to feel guilty inside.

“Surely, there isn’t a hwanta (patient magnet, someone who attracts patients) among you, right? Hehe, there isn’t, right? There shouldn’t be. Our lucky charms wouldn’t be like that, right?”

Kyung-tae, who was looking around at the first-years with a slightly crazy feeling, blinking his eyes, was completely different from before, as if he had been wearing a mask.

The law of conservation of psychos was an unavoidable law.

The psycho of the Emergency Medicine Department seemed to be the Head of Department.

Seeing Kyung-tae’s crazy look, Eun Hyeok’s legs were shaking. Da-som quietly patted Eun Hyeok’s thigh, comforting him as if everything was okay.

Although there was no defense against a flood of patients, what could happen in a place where skilled professors were stationed?

Eun Hyeok stopped shaking, seemingly calmed a bit by Da-som’s comforting.

“Good, think of first-years as no different from interns and let’s learn hard. Today’s start is very good. So let’s try to get through March safely.”

“Yes! Understood!”

The first-years’ loud voices echoed through the meeting room.

As a joke, they say you should avoid university hospitals in March and April if possible. This is because there are significant numbers of new hires including interns, residents, nurses, and pharmacists.

It could be seen as a chaotic time when blood draws fail, orders are strange, medications get mixed up, and wrong drugs are sent up.

While listening to Kim Kyung-tae’s nagging that wasn’t really nagging, the meeting room door opened.

Ah, what was bound to come has finally come.

Da-som spotted Kang Hyeok, who stood out particularly among the group entering with an imposing presence, and swallowed her dry saliva.

She was more nervous than when they met in the elevator.

As she carefully looked at Kang Hyeok, their jet-black eyes met in mid-air.

Immediately, without a moment’s hesitation, he found Da-som right away and stared at her with a cool gaze.

His deep, dark eyes were so distant they seemed like they would draw a person in.

“…He’s totally glaring at me right now, right?”

“Huh?”

Suddenly Eun Hyeok whispered in Da-som’s ear.

Perhaps because he was inwardly uncomfortable working at a hospital where his brother was, he was showing almost paranoid behavior.

Kang Hyeok watched the two whispering for a few seconds, then went to his seat and sat down.

Kang Hyeok in his doctor’s coat had a different charm from when he wore a suit.

…I must really be crazy.

As soon as he sat down, Kang Hyeok picked up the printouts on the table and examined the patient list, seeming to radiate a halo.

Since when were coats such cool clothing?

The pounding of her heart felt like it would burst through her eardrums.

“The meeting room looks nicely full. Shall we start then?”

When the Head Nurse spoke up, patient reports began.

“A 64-year-old female patient who came in with dyspnea as chief complaint…”…”

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After rounds of patients admitted to the emergency intensive care unit, full-scale work began.

Ilrok and Yohan, who were from SJ University Hospital, decided to work the evening shift, while the three from Central General Hospital started with the morning shift.

Looking at the work schedule, after working two morning shifts, the next would be an evening shift. After working an evening shift, they would get two days off.

Compared to when they worked 12-hour shifts in the emergency room every day, this could be called a honey-sweet schedule.

“I’m Jeon Su-ji, a second-year. There’s no special treatment for being a woman here, so it would be better not to think about taking it easy from the start. And you said your name was Tae Eun Hyeok?”

Jeon Su-ji, whom they hadn’t seen during orientation, tied her long hair up in a ponytail and looked at Eun Hyeok with a cool gaze.

“…Yes, I’m Tae Eun Hyeok.”

“You don’t look like the professor. Anyway, you work hard too so you don’t disgrace the professor’s name.”

“Ah, understood.”

Wow, look at that charisma.

Jeon Su-ji, who resembled a certain actor, was like… how should I put it. Like a female Tae Kang-hyeok.

Da-som exchanged meaningful glances with Han Byeol and resolved to do well.

If they messed up, the atmosphere suggested they wouldn’t even be able to collect their bones.

“Follow me.”

Da-som followed Jeon Su-ji along with Eun Hyeok and Han Byeol, familiarizing herself with the basic systems.

“It definitely seems like there are no patients because of the rain. Am I finally escaping from being a patient magnet?”

Eun Hyeok, who was famous for attracting patients, whispered in Da-som’s ear while looking at the quiet Emergency Room.

“That’s probably just wishful thinking on your part. Seeing how you’re running your mouth, I think they’ll come flooding in soon.”

Eun Hyeok truly lived up to being the hospital director’s son, attracting patients to whichever department he went to.

“Even I think it somehow feels like the calm before the storm.”

When Han Byeol chimed in as well, Jeon Su-ji seemed to have heard their words and turned to look at the three of them with a snicker.

“Do you see over there? Professor Tae Kang-hyeok.”

“Yes.”

Da-som answered while fixing her bangs. Even though her identity had already been discovered, her hand automatically went to her bangs whenever she heard Kang Hyeok’s name.

“The Professor is the original patient magnet. So you don’t need to worry about that.”

“Oh, is that so?”

Eun Hyeok smiled meaningfully while making eye contact with Da-som. His expression was as if he had caught some weakness of his older brother.

But regardless of being a patient magnet or whatever, Kang Hyeok’s figure busily moving around the stage area, giving instructions and checking charts, was as dignified as a general commanding a battlefield.

It was true that his charismatic appearance wherever he was would instantly draw everyone’s attention.

“From now on, attending physicians need to identify patients admitted through the Emergency Room before the Professor’s rounds. You know that, right?”

“Yes, I know.”

“Then shall we head to the Station as well.”

To identify inpatients before rounds, they had to go to the Station to check charts and understand basic tests like blood work and urine tests performed the previous day, as well as the medications that were administered.

This was the most basic of basics.

While they were familiarizing themselves with the work, the piercing sound of a telephone rang throughout the Emergency Room.

Rrrrr. Rrrrr.

It was a call coming to the Station.

Ah, here it comes.

Anyone could instinctively tell without being told.

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