Emergency Blind Date - Chapter 15

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#Episode 15

How could this place with the Fanta Brothers ever be quiet?

Just as Eun Hyeok and Da-som’s eyes met, a nurse’s shout was heard.

“TA (traffic accident) patient. A car and bus collided at an intersection, and 10 people are coming here. Fortunately, the bus passengers have minor injuries, but the car driver is in a coma state.”

“What’s the arrival time?”

“About 10 minutes.”

***

Kang Hyeok, who was monitoring the patient’s condition at the station, raised his sharp eyes and said.

“Let’s prepare before the patient arrives.”

“Understood.”

At his single word, the emergency room medical staff began moving in perfect coordination with determined expressions.

They looked like systematically trained agents.

Da-som, who was part of that group, naturally tensed up.

Let’s stay sharp.

“And call GS (general surgery) and OS (orthopedic surgery). If there are any guys making excuses and measuring angles, report to me immediately.”

“Understood.”

Would there really be anyone who would ignore Kang Hyeok’s call?

Looking at his muscular body and large frame that seemed capable of taking down a bull, she automatically shook her head.

But still, a critical patient plus over ten minor injuries.

It was an emergency.

Swoosh.

Shortly after, the summoned doctors came rushing breathlessly into the emergency room. Patients were startled by the sight and began murmuring.

“What’s happening?”

“Looks like a traffic accident.”

“Must have been an accident on the wet roads.”

The tense emergency room atmosphere had patients and guardians murmuring as well.

Kang Hyeok lined up the doctors who had gathered at the station and scanned each one with a cold gaze, growling lowly.

“Patients are going to flood in. If you waste time arguing whether it’s our jurisdiction or not, I’ll make sure to show you exactly what happens. Everyone handle this properly. Got it?”

“Yes, understood.”

Everyone had faces worn with fatigue, but their voices were remarkably strong.

“And interns and first-year residents must notify the senior residents about patient conditions.”

“Understood.”

March. First day of work.

So it was perhaps a natural instruction. Da-som nodded while making eye contact with her peers.

Being the first day of work made her even more nervous. Sweat began forming in her palms.

“Let’s go.”

Following Kang Hyeok toward the emergency room entrance, second-year resident Ahn Sin-ho and Head of Department Kim Kyung-tae followed, while interns quickly prepared mobile beds.

Su-ji, who was leading the first-year residents, also gestured and moved toward the emergency room entrance.

“Jeon Su-ji.”

Kang Hyeok called Jeon Su-ji.

“Yes, Professor.”

“When the bus passengers come flooding in, can you handle organizing them with the first-year residents?”

“Yes, I’ll do that.”

Jeon Su-ji answered with bright eyes. In Kang Hyeok’s gaze toward Su-ji, there was solid trust.

Watching the two, Da-som glanced up at Kang Hyeok with an indescribable strange emotion.

Kang Hyeok, who wouldn’t miss that gaze, looked down at Da-som with eyes thick with question.

His cold, intellectual eyes contained no personal interest whatsoever.

Feeling like he might scold her for being flustered and unfocused at any moment, Da-som followed behind Jeon Su-ji.

A resident trusted by the professor.

Da-som also wanted to become a useful person like Jeon Su-ji, who was taking command in front of her.

So a desire to be recognized arose.

Right, let’s stay sharp and do well.

The sound of the 119 ambulance siren began growing louder. Following the siren sound, Da-som’s heart also beat frantically.

Screech!

As soon as the ambulance stopped at the emergency room entrance, a 119 paramedic opened the back door and jumped out. Kang Hyeok immediately ran to the stretcher car.

The patient appeared to be the car driver they had been notified about over the phone.

“What happened?”

The unconscious patient appeared to be in his mid-to-late twenties.

“At the intersection, a bus that was starting after getting the signal collided sideways with a car that was speeding from the right at full speed. The car driver had faint consciousness when we arrived, and we suspect a left femur fracture.”

“How long did it take?”

“It took 20 minutes from receiving the report to arriving at the hospital.”

“Thank you for your hard work. Let’s move the patient. Quickly to the resuscitation room.”

“Yes!”

Rumble.

The patient on the stretcher car was immediately moved to the resuscitation room, and subsequently, bus passengers arrived one after another with loud ambulance sirens.

Most were students in school uniforms and office workers heading to work.

Medical staff rushed to them as well, beginning to triage patients and move them to beds.

“Move laceration patients to Section B!”

“Please move the abdominal blunt trauma patient to Section A!”

“Chest contusion patient!”

It was no different from a battlefield.

Not only Da-som but all the first-year residents were having a proper initiation on their first day of work.

***

“That was quite an initiation.”

Eun Hyeok sprawled in the cafeteria chair with half his face showing, his bottom sliding down.

“There’s no time to sit around. We need to eat quickly and switch with Han Byeol.”

Da-som, who had been standing and moving all morning, suppressed her groans and picked up her spoon with trembling hands.

The morning had passed so frantically that she didn’t even know how time had flowed.

“It won’t be like today every day, right?”

Eun Hyeok said while laboriously lifting his spoon.

“Even if it’s not like today, patients will flood in every day, and we’ll get used to it eventually.”

Actually, she was acting calm because she was in front of Eun Hyeok, but Da-som was secretly worried too.

SJ University Hospital’s emergency room was on a different level from the emergency room she had experienced as an intern.

It was overwhelming enough to question whether she should praise herself for applying with such conviction and belief. And this was after spending just half a day.

“Will the day when we get used to it really come?”

Looking at Eun Hyeok with his drooping eyebrows, she recalled someone who had dominated the emergency room, moving freely in a place no different from a battlefield.

“It will come. Of course it will.”

Kang Hyeok, whom she had encountered from time to time in the emergency room, was close to the perfect ideal of a doctor that Da-som had always envisioned.

An unapproachable aura with perfect looks. Plus skills that surpassed even his appearance.

He was a man who had everything that anyone would fall for.

“Honestly, he was cool.”

Da-som said with a dreamy expression. Then Eun Hyeok jumped up and shouted.

“Jeong Da-som, I didn’t think you were like this, but are your eyes on the soles of your feet? What’s cool about him? You just don’t know that person’s true nature yet. If you knew, instead of saying he’s cool, you’d be saying he’s a total pervert!”

What’s with calling him a pervert now?

“Calm down. Lower your voice.”

Da-som looked around and tried to calm Eun Hyeok down. But this bundle of inferiority complex looked at Da-som with very resentful eyes, as if he had so many grievances.

A sense of crisis arose that if she praised him more here, he might throw a fit.

“Well, how would I know his true nature? You must have your reasons for acting like this. Our Eun Hyeok must have suffered a lot, huh?”

When she subtly took Eun Hyeok’s side, he finally calmed his anger and pulled in his protruding lips.

“Earlier too, do you know what that person did?”

“What happened?”

“I was preparing to draw blood for an ABGA (arterial blood gas analysis) instead of the intern, and I felt this eerie sensation on the back of my head. So I turned around just in case, and that person was standing right behind me, watching. He wanted to see how well I’d do it. Is that something a senior should do?”

Sigh, what am I going to do with this guy.

“He was probably just observing. You know, checking the skills of first-year residents.”

“He sure loves to ‘just observe.'”

“So did you do the blood draw well?”

“How could it go well when he was watching like that? I ended up failing the blood draw, got cursed out by the patient, and Dr. Jeon Su-ji had to do it.”

“I see. You had a hard time. Come on, eat your food. Here’s a spoon.”

It didn’t seem like Kang Hyeok had done anything particularly wrong, but what could she do.

She coaxed him gently and placed the abandoned spoon in Eun Hyeok’s hand.

Reluctantly gripping the spoon, Eun Hyeok grumbled about never wanting to hear about that person again while shoving rice into his mouth.

Then suddenly, as if remembering something, he put down his spoon and looked at Da-som.

“What, want some bulgogi?”

“No, that’s not it. I almost forgot to tell you. The day after we went to orientation, that person called me.”

“And?”

“He asked if you and I were dating. So I told him no, that we’re just buddies.”

Well, there probably wasn’t a more accurate way to put it.

“…And then?”

Since Kang Hyeok had said he recognized Da-som’s identity the moment he saw her at orientation, it made sense he might ask.

But why suddenly ask about a romantic relationship?

Maybe because she was a woman who went around deceiving people, he wanted to warn his junior to be careful.

“I think that person is trying to mess with you because you’re my friend. You should be careful and watch yourself too. Once you’re on his bad side, it’s over. Don’t take my words lightly.”

There was no need to be careful—she was already on his bad side.

“He wouldn’t do that just because I’m your friend. Anyway, I’ll be careful. Hurry up and eat.”

As Da-som was about to scoop up rice with her spoon, speak of the devil—Kang Hyeok was entering the hospital cafeteria.

Afraid their eyes might meet, she quickly averted her gaze and stuffed her mouth full of rice.

As she chewed thoroughly and swallowed, she felt something strange and looked up to find Kang Hyeok standing behind Eun Hyeok with his food tray.

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