Emergency Blind Date - Chapter 42

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#Episode 42

 

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Starting with a patient who rolled down the stairs while drunk, a lively night shift began.

 

Da-som exchanged light greetings with Eun Hyeok, then moved busily to see the backed-up patients.

 

Da-som had to personally draw arterial blood when she saw a first-year resident who couldn’t do it properly getting into an argument with a patient, and she had to break out in a cold sweat trying to calm down a patient who needed to fast but kept throwing a tantrum about needing to drink water.

 

A patient who came in completely drunk vomited all over the emergency room floor, and the nurses changed the intoxicated patient into hospital clothes and put on a diaper.

 

Da-som carefully monitored the patient’s condition while administering IV fluids, making sure the vomit didn’t go into the airway.

 

A female patient with stomach pain and fever, an elderly woman who couldn’t use the restroom for days due to constipation, a patient complaining of back pain, and so on – they came in endlessly without a break.

 

After spending time frantically like that, it was already past midnight.

 

Just when she thought there was a brief lull in patients and she could take a breather, she heard a nurse’s shout.

 

“Doctor, it’s a fall patient.”

 

A male patient in his 40s who had drunk so much that he rolled down bar stairs and was brought to the hospital – getting a head CT scan was problematic from the start.

 

They barely managed to complete the scan after coaxing and persuading him, then waited for the results.

 

The person who came as a guardian was equally drunk, making the emergency room noisy with their loud chatter and causing frowns.

 

While looking at the chart, a signal appeared on the screen to check the CT.

 

When she called the second-year doctor to show the images, he pointed at the screen and said.

 

“You see it here?”

 

“Yes, I can see it clearly.”

 

The vein connecting the brain and dura mater had torn, causing bleeding.

 

The patient’s poor consciousness level might be due to alcohol, but it was more likely due to this condition.

 

“It’s a subdural hematoma. Call NS (Neurosurgery Department).”

 

“Understood.”

 

Da-som called the NS on-call doctor.

 

―Yes, this is Han Seon-woo.

 

She heard Seonwoo’s familiar voice. This was the first time she had directly spoken with Senior Seonwoo when putting in a consult.

 

A wave of joy washed over her.

 

“Senior, it’s Da-som. We have a subdural hematoma patient here, and I think you need to come down and see them. Let me give you the patient number first.”

 

―You’re on night duty. Alright, go ahead.

 

After Da-som gave him the patient number, he said he’d come down shortly and hung up.

 

Da-som approached the patient and explained the situation to the man who appeared to be a coworker, still talking loudly beside them.

 

“You need to contact his family right away. There’s bleeding in his brain, so he’ll probably need to go into surgery now.”

 

Then the coworker looked Da-som up and down, snickered, and pointed his finger at her.

 

“You’re a doctor? Call a proper doctor, not you.”

 

“I am a doctor. A neurosurgery doctor will come down shortly to explain again. For now, you need to contact his family, so please give me their contact information first.”

 

“He just fell and hit his head, what surgery. You’re totally planning to rip off the patient’s money.”

 

The man tapped Da-som’s shoulder with his red face, picking a fight.

 

There was no getting through to him.

 

“Hey, get up. You bastard. A man lying down over something like that? Get up. Let’s go drink more.”

 

He even tried to make the patient, who was breaking out in cold sweat, stand up.

 

“You can’t do that. Move aside.”

 

It was an urgent situation, so Da-som physically got between the patient and the man to block him.

 

“Hey, won’t you move?”

 

The man roughly grabbed Da-som’s shoulder and tried to drag her away.

 

Da-som held her ground, thinking she had to protect the patient.

 

When Da-som wouldn’t budge, the man tried to grab her hair this time. Da-som turned her head to the side to avoid him and swatted away his arm.

 

The enraged man shouted and lunged at her.

 

“Hey, damn it, move!”

 

Ah, this time she really thought her hair would be grabbed, but at that moment someone blocked in front of Da-som.

 

“Where do you think you’re causing trouble.”

 

The person speaking in a low, chilling voice was none other than Kang Hyeok.

 

“Wha, what!”

 

Whether overwhelmed by the intimidating aura Kang Hyeok was emanating, the man stammered and stepped backward. Even while drunk, he seemed to instinctively sense such things.

 

Kang Hyeok, having pushed the man away, gestured to the security guard who had followed him.

 

Then the security guard dragged the man out of the emergency room.

 

“…Professor.”

 

Kang Hyeok’s black eyes scanned Da-som from head to toe. After confirming she wasn’t hurt anywhere, he let out a low sigh.

 

“Are you okay? Weren’t you scared?”

 

“…I’m fine.”

 

When Da-som answered, Kang Hyeok nodded.

 

But why had he come to the hospital at this hour past midnight?

 

As she blinked her large eyes looking at him, Kang Hyeok gently smoothed down Da-som’s disheveled hair.

 

Kang Hyeok’s words about not hiding their relationship flashed through her mind for a moment.

 

Even so, Professor.

 

What to do about this.

 

Da-som opened her tightly closed eyes and looked up at Kang Hyeok.

 

But as if getting angry again, Kang Hyeok turned around and glared fiercely at where the man had disappeared.

 

“It’s, it’s okay. I wasn’t hurt or anything. He just said some harsh words because he was drunk, but…”

 

As Da-som muttered, Kang Hyeok looked at her and smiled coldly.

 

He seemed to be doing it to reassure Da-som.

 

“You did well protecting the patient without fighting with that troublesome guardian. Good job.”

 

Kang Hyeok said while looking at the patient behind Da-som. Da-som slightly moved aside so he could see the patient.

 

“It’s a subdural hematoma patient.”

 

Kang Hyeok examined the patient’s condition with sharp eyes while staring at the monitor.

 

“We should get him into surgery before his vitals become unstable.”

 

“I already put in a consult to NS.”

 

“Good job.”

 

Kang Hyeok praised her once more.

 

Unlike Da-som, whose mood was greatly elevated, she could see medical staff standing with sour expressions.

 

Is it because he touched my hair?

 

That doesn’t seem to be it.

 

Looking closely, Ahn Sin-ho, the head nurse, and even Professor Ma had faces that were pale white.

 

Ah, it was probably because of that rumor.

 

The rumor that when Kang Hyeok appears at the hospital on his day off, the emergency room explodes.

 

Of course, the person in question didn’t seem to care at all.

 

In such an atmosphere, when Kang Hyeok gestured and called Ahn Sin-ho, he came running like a shot.

 

“Did you call me, Professor!”

 

“You just let someone who isn’t even a patient roam around the emergency room? A drunk person at that.”

 

“Well, we were actually trying to stop him, but then you came, Professor.”

 

Kang Hyeok, who had been glaring at Sin-ho with narrowed eyes, gestured toward Professor Ma standing in the back.

 

“Professor Ma.”

 

Professor Ma strode over.

 

“Professor Ma my ass, why did you come out? Did you come out today to see me die? I told you not to come near the emergency room on your days off, didn’t I.”

 

Everyone nodded vigorously at Professor Ma’s words and glared at Kang Hyeok. Da-som also felt somewhat uncomfortable and became curious whether that rumor was really true.

 

“Stop talking nonsense and you do your job properly too.”

 

The head nurse, unable to stand it anymore, grabbed Kang Hyeok’s arm.

 

“Get out. Right now. Don’t come here. You want to see everyone die tonight, don’t you? You did this last time too, why are you doing this?”

 

The elderly head nurse seemed very close to Kang Hyeok. Kang Hyeok chuckled and lightly escaped from the nurse’s grasp.

 

“Everyone get back to work. I…”

 

Kang Hyeok, who spotted a doctor just entering the emergency room, stopped what he was saying and quietly held his breath while staring at that doctor.

 

Then everyone’s gaze turned toward that doctor.

 

It was Seonwoo senior.

 

The intellectual and refined Seonwoo senior gave a light bow to the emergency room staff gathered there, then approached Da-som.

 

“Is this the patient?”

 

“Yes, senior.”

 

When Da-som nodded and stepped back so he could examine the patient, Seonwoo checked the patient’s pupils with a penlight, conducted a few examinations, then instructed the First-year Resident who had followed him.

 

“Quickly contact anesthesiology and arrange the operating room.”

 

“Understood.”

 

“We’ll take the patient.”

 

Seonwoo said to Da-som with a gentle smile.

 

Now the brain hemorrhage patient had been handed over to the Neurosurgery Department. The Emergency Room’s job was essentially finished.

 

As Da-som watched Seonwoo notify the attending professor and schedule the surgery, Kang Hyeok approached her side.

 

“You called him senior?”

 

Why was he acting like this when he already knew everything? Da-som looked up at Kang Hyeok with anxious eyes.

 

His sharp and piercing gaze reached Han Seon-woo.

 

Seonwoo, who had been on a phone call, felt the gaze and raised one eyebrow.

 

Then, quickly realizing that Kang Hyeok wasn’t just any Resident but a professor, he swiftly lowered his gaze.

 

Just as she was sensing that the atmosphere was flowing strangely, Professor Kwon Tae-ha from NS appeared in the Emergency Room.

 

SJ University Hospital definitely hired doctors based on their looks.

 

The neurosurgery professor, who had charisma rivaling Kang Hyeok’s, seemed to know Kang Hyeok well as he tapped his shoulder and greeted him familiarly.

 

When the three of them stood in one place, the entire Emergency Room seemed to brighten up.

 

Nothing beats eye candy, after all.

 

Da-som looked at Kwon Tae-ha’s face as he talked with Han Seon-woo, then looked back at Kang Hyeok’s face with a pleased smile.

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