Emergency Blind Date - Chapter 25

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#Episode 25

Fellow residents Ilrok and Yohan were also busy finishing up, inputting charts or bustling around the lounge.

“Oh, where are your glasses? Did you put in contacts?”

Ilrok, passing by, noticed that Da-som had taken off her glasses and struck up a conversation.

“Oh, just. It was uncomfortable wearing glasses.”

When Da-som gave a vague response, Ilrok stared directly into Da-som’s eyes and opened his mouth.

“Wow, your eyes are really pretty.”

“Pretty, my foot. Why are you making my face itch?”

“Anyway, you look much better without them.”

Ilrok made a confidence-boosting comment and then disappeared. At least as a fellow resident, he gave compliments like this.

Da-som sat down in a cheerful mood and checked the list of inpatients.

The attending doctor who worked the night shift would give a report, but Da-som also needed to know in advance.

It would be helpful later during rounds.

As she sat in the corner concentrating on the monitor, she heard the nurses greeting someone.

“Good morning, Professor.”

When she quietly looked up, it was Kang Hyeok.

The man who had enthusiastically done morning exercises with her since dawn. The man who had mocked Da-som as she panted on the treadmill, showing off his superhuman stamina. And believe it or not, the man she had started something with as of yesterday.

The Emergency Room atmosphere became slightly excited at his appearance.

He was just born that way.

A person who makes himself the center wherever he is. Kang Hyeok was definitely that type.

Exuding an overwhelming presence as he entered the Emergency Room, he greeted them lightly and passed by the station.

Da-som stood up from her seat and bowed in greeting when the distance between them narrowed.

She greeted him with as natural an expression as possible, trying not to make it obvious, and looked up at Kang Hyeok, but he seemed not to notice her and just passed by.

…He must not have seen me. I shouldn’t have that little presence.

Or do I?

Well.

She had shown him her bare face and stiff body since dawn, so it was understandable.

Now he was coming to his senses.

There had been signs of this since the car ride this morning. Unlike at the gym, he didn’t talk to her and just drove looking straight ahead, seeming somewhat uncomfortable and perhaps even angry.

She had brushed it off as nothing, but it seemed she shouldn’t have.

Where did the person who said let’s get close go?

“Professor, please take a look at this chart!”

Jeon Su-ji, whom she hadn’t even noticed was there, suddenly appeared and thrust a chart at Kang Hyeok.

Watching Kang Hyeok seriously examining the chart and Jeon Su-ji confidently exchanging conversation with him left a bitter taste in her mouth.

Where does one learn such confidence?

If I work here for about a year, will I become like that too?

Da-som sat back down and checked the time on her watch. Han Byeol and Eun Hyeok hadn’t come to work yet.

She had arrived too early because she rode in Kang Hyeok’s car.

Maybe she should drink some iced coffee to clear her head.

When Da-som approached the Head Nurse, the perceptive woman nodded and told her to go ahead.

“There’s still time before the shift change, so take your time.”

“Yes, would you like some coffee? I’ll buy some while I’m at it.”

“No, I need to go home and sleep later.”

“Yes, then I’ll be right back.”

As Da-som was about to leave with her phone, she heard the conversation of nurses a little distance away.

“Don’t Professor Tae and Dr. Su-ji look good standing together like that?”

“Now that you mention it, they do.”

“We’ll have an EM couple soon.”

“Well, will we? Our Professor Tae isn’t the type to fall easily. How many people have fallen away after having one-sided crushes until now?”

“That’s true. But wouldn’t it be possible with someone like Dr. Jeon Su-ji?”

“Do you think so, Nurse Hong? I actually think Professor Choi would suit him better. Professor Choi seems to secretly like our Professor Tae.”

Professor Choi must be referring to Professor Choi Eun-ju from Pediatric Surgery, right?

Da-som perked up her ears and followed Kang Hyeok with her eyes.

As he went around each bed checking on patients, his characteristic vitality overflowed.

Extremely handsome and popular too.

Kang Hyeok was practically the celebrity of the Emergency Medicine Department.

“Anyway, we don’t know which woman will take him, but that woman will be blessed.”

“Even if three generations accumulated virtue, it might not be enough.”

Da-som glanced at Kang Hyeok, who was examining a patient with Su-ji, then left the Emergency Room.

No matter what.

As of yesterday, the Professor decided to get along well with this Jeong Da-som.

Of course, she couldn’t guarantee what would happen afterward.

Anyway, it was certain that Kang Hyeok wasn’t a man of a size she could handle.

It seemed she would need to keep a close eye on him going forward.

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After the department meeting in the morning, she made ward rounds and came down to the Emergency Room.

In that short time, patients must have rushed in because the waiting room was bustling with patients and guardians.

“No, we came first, so why aren’t you seeing us earlier!”

A guardian who had finished a simple interview with the triage nurse and was waiting for treatment began raising their voice.

“Please wait a moment. We’ll see you soon.”

The nurse told the guardian, but the complaints didn’t stop.

The Emergency Room isn’t a place where people are treated in order of arrival. The order is determined by severity.

Thinking that it was the same at any hospital, Da-som quickly prepared to see patients.

“This is a patient with breathing difficulties.”

A middle-aged woman was coming in clutching her chest, supported by a nurse.

Da-som rushed to the patient.

There was no guardian and the patient was alone. Looking at her panting symptoms, it seemed like hyperventilation syndrome.

Finally, before she could even be moved to a bed, the middle-aged woman collapsed onto the Emergency Room floor.

Da-som quickly got a plastic bag from the nurse’s cart and held it to the patient’s mouth, saying:

“Patient, please try to breathe slowly and deeply.”

Even while breathing rapidly, the patient seemed to understand Da-som’s words and tried to breathe slowly.

“You’re doing well. A little slower, yes, like that.”

The pale-faced patient maintained eye contact with Da-som until the end and followed her instructions.

Soon after, the patient’s breathing returned to normal.

When the bag was removed from her mouth, the patient sat up and looked around.

“O, our Min-chan! Doctor, where is Min-chan?”

The middle-aged woman, who seemed somewhat dazed, kept looking around searching for Min-chan. Her haggard complexion looked precarious, as if she might collapse at any moment.

Da-som couldn’t leave her spot and spoke to her.

“Is Min-chan your son?”

“Sob, yes. He’s my son. I heard our Min-chan was coming here. He was in a car accident, please find him. Please!”

“What is your son’s exact name?”

“Kim Min-chan. He’s twenty-one years old.”

Da-som roughly grasped the situation and asked a nurse for help. The nurse quickly checked the patient list.

“He’s not on the list.”

“Um, Aunt. It seems he hasn’t arrived yet. He’s not at this hospital.”

“Sob, Min-chan. Where are you? Hah, hah.”

Her breathing was becoming rapid again.

“Guardian, just in case, I’d like to do some simple tests.”

Da-som carefully observed the patient’s condition and seated her on an empty bed.

The causes of hyperventilation syndrome could be psychological, but there were also various physical causes. So rather than leaving it as is, it seemed tests should be done.

“Oh, no. I’m fine. I need to find out where my son is right now.”

The woman, having regained some composure, got off the bed and took out her phone to contact someone.

Would it be okay to leave her like this?

Kang Hyeok, who had been watching the situation, approached the hesitant Da-som.

“Professor…”

“It’s hyperventilation syndrome. We don’t need to run tests right away. This happens often with guardians who rush here after hearing about traffic accidents.”

“Ah, I understand.”

Wondering how great that grief must be for such a reaction, her nose tingled with emotion. Realizing there was nothing more she could do for the guardian, Da-som headed to the station.

“You did well.”

But then she heard Kang Hyeok’s voice from behind her.

At his gentle voice that was barely audible, Da-som smiled slightly, thinking she had been acknowledged for the first time.

“Maybe it’s the weather, but there are frequent traffic accidents. The fog was thick at dawn.”

Da-som nodded and responded to the Head Nurse’s words.

“Yes, I think so too. By any chance, didn’t we receive a call about a TA (traffic accident) patient coming? It seems that aunt arrived before the ambulance.”

“We didn’t receive any separate contact.”

“Ah, I see.”

Da-som turned around to see the waiting patients. Just then, the loud sound of sirens began to be heard from far away.

Rumble.

“Traffic accident patient. 21-year-old Kim Min-chan, blood pressure and pulse both weak, unconscious.”

The paramedic who burst in pushing a stretcher cart shouted.

Kang Hyeok and the other residents all rushed to the patient.

“Thank you for your hard work.”

After greeting the paramedic, Kang Hyeok gave instructions to the medical staff.

“To the resuscitation room!”

Following Kang Hyeok’s instructions, the patient was quickly moved to the resuscitation room.

“Sob, Min-chan! Min-chan! It’s mom, Min-chan, wake up!”

The aunt who followed them in desperately called her son’s name and tried to enter the resuscitation room, but was stopped by a nurse and sent to the waiting room.

Da-som couldn’t enter the resuscitation room either. The medical team working with Kang Hyeok would be moving frantically inside to save the patient’s life.

Da-som looked at the closed resuscitation room before turning away.

In the waiting room, the paramedic and the aunt were having a conversation. The aunt was crying so hard that normal conversation was impossible.

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