Emergency Blind Date - Chapter 52
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#Episode 52
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After finishing his early morning workout, Kang Hyeok came to work looking no different than usual.
As he sat in the research lab drinking coffee and organizing materials for his thesis, the lab door opened and Seong-ho walked in.
“You came early?”
Just because someone has a good personality doesn’t mean they’re simple-minded.
Seong-ho’s face looked haggard as he greeted Kang Hyeok with his usual gentle smile.
It seemed he had run quite a bit after Kang Hyeok left first.
“What are you working on?”
Seong-ho approached Kang Hyeok’s desk and turned the monitor to look at the screen.
A massive Excel file was spread across the screen.
“Were you doing field work?”
The task of entering vast amounts of patient information into Excel files for thesis or paperwork was colloquially called “field work.”
Kang Hyeok was also in the middle of entering patient information one by one into an Excel file filled only with patient names and numbers.
“Yeah.”
“When we were interns, this really made us grind our teeth. The professors made us do it constantly.”
They usually made interns or junior residents do it.
But Kang Hyeok did the work with his own hands. He wasn’t so heartless as to burden those already exhausted guys.
Seong-ho returned to his seat and put on his coat while glancing at Kang Hyeok. His face was full of things to say.
If not anyone else, he should tell this guy the truth.
Kang Hyeok stroked his chin and spoke first.
“Aren’t you curious about the woman I’m seeing?”
“Yeah, I’m curious. Actually, after you left yesterday, several candidates came up.”
“Really?”
“Yeah. Should I list the candidates?”
“No, I don’t want to hear them. I’m dating Da-som.”
“…”
Seong-ho said nothing. Then after a while, he wondered if his ears were wrong and poked his ear with his pinky finger.
“Jeong Da-som.”
Kang Hyeok said the name again. Seong-ho’s mouth fell open and his pupils shook wildly.
“Th-that’s impossible. Wow, damn, really, how is this possible?”
“Keep quiet for now. Only you know.”
“Ha…, you thief! You shameless bastard! You want me to believe that? When did this sly snake seduce the girl? Ah, right. From the beginning you specifically picked on Da-som and tormented her. You had ulterior motives all along. You daylight robber!”
Seong-ho jumped up from his seat and pointed at Kang Hyeok while spitting.
Well, he understood completely.
Kang Hyeok waited until Seong-ho calmed down.
“You really have no conscience. You know that?”
Yeah, he was indeed shameless.
He had coveted that lovely and innocent Jeong Da-som and eventually made her his woman, so he deserved to hear such words.
“Hanging around the emergency room like that. How could that young and pretty Da-som be suitable for a black-hearted guy like you?”
The more he thought about it, the more absurd it seemed, so he started round two.
“Continue.”
“Geez, really. What should I do with this guy.”
Kang Hyeok chuckled and looked at his wristwatch.
She’d be sleeping soundly by now.
If Jeong So-yeon hadn’t gone home, they would have slept together in that narrow bed.
It seemed he should consider living together rather than continuing to keep her in that inconvenient place.
Tap, tap.
Kang Hyeok tapped the desk with his pen tip, glanced at his watch, then got up from his chair.
“Where are you going? The emergency room?”
“No, I have a place to stop by.”
Kim Min-chan.
He planned to visit the hospital room where he was admitted. If he went and saw that guardian’s face again, things would become clearer.
He left the research lab, leaving behind Seong-ho who was looking at him with puzzled eyes.
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As soon as the evening shift started, a 60-year-old male patient with suspected myocardial infarction symptoms and pneumonia came to the emergency room.
After conducting basic tests, Da-som pondered and called the cardiology department.
Usually when emergency patients came, they would treat them and either send them home or call the relevant department if intensive treatment was needed.
But this calling process was quite burdensome for first-year residents.
If they made a mistake, they could get destroyed by the doctors from that department the moment they called.
Da-som was a first-year resident who had just started, and she had no power.
“Doctor, why did you call our department?”
A cardiology resident with messy hair and a scruffy beard started questioning Da-som after finishing the patient examination.
“Pardon?”
“Anyone can see this is pneumonia. Then you should consult pulmonology. Can’t you make that judgment yet?”
She held back because he was a second-year resident.
After he left, Da-som called the pulmonology department with a flushed face.
A little later, a pulmonology resident came down.
The strict-looking on-call resident examined the patient and started snapping at Da-som.
“This patient previously had a procedure for myocardial infarction. Call cardiology. I’m busy as hell, really.”
No, these people are crossing the line.
“Excuse me, doctor. Even if he had a procedure for myocardial infarction, he came with pneumonia symptoms now. In that case…”
“Why are you so rude? Who doesn’t know that? Where do you get off arguing back? It’s not our department, so call cardiology.”
The pulmonology resident left the emergency room with just those words.
What kind of jerks are these?
Da-som was fuming with her hands on her hips when second-year Ahn Sin-ho, who saw this, approached.
“Jeong Da-som.”
Ahn Sin-ho called Da-som.
“Yes, doctor.”
“I told you to make good calls. And once you’ve made the call, you must win with logic no matter what. Otherwise, do you know what they’ll say? They’ll say the Emergency Medicine Department is hopeless.”
He knew that even if the workload increased and it was difficult, they should respect the emergency medicine doctor’s judgment.
“I did argue back but got called rude.”
“Which bastard said that?”
Ahn Sin-ho also got angry while speaking. It seemed he was upset that his subordinate was insulted by another department.
The patient was still in the emergency room, unable to go to any department.
“Pulmonology.”
Da-som said straightforwardly. She was too angry to hold back.
Then Ahn Sin-ho jumped up and ran to Kang Hyeok, who was just entering the emergency room.
Oh no, this might escalate.
Kang Hyeok, who should have gone home, said he’d be at the hospital late because of his thesis.
But he appeared at exactly this timing.
Da-som watched the situation unfold with bated breath and an anxious heart.
Ahn Sin-ho took the chart and explained to Kang Hyeok, who looked at it silently.
Even though he only moved his eyes, the atmosphere he emanated was chillingly murderous.
Ahn Sin-ho unnecessarily rubbed the back of his neck while reading Kang Hyeok’s mood.
Kang Hyeok said something to Ahn Sin-ho, and Ahn Sin-ho, who received the chart back, ran to Da-som.
“Watch carefully, Jeong Da-som.”
“Yes.”
Ahn Sin-ho took a deep breath, picked up the phone, and called somewhere.
“Hey, Lee Ju-young. If you don’t take this patient right now, I’m calling the head nurse immediately. …Rude bastard. Come down within one minute.”
Then he hung up the phone.
Lee Ju-young checked the name of the on-call doctor to see which department it was.
It was the Pulmonology Department.
Still, could Kang Hyeok really have told her to put in a consult like that?
Da-som looked at Kang Hyeok standing in the distance with an expression of disbelief.
“Did you see that?”
Ahn Sin-ho strutted around triumphantly.
“…Yes. But is it really okay to do it like that?”
“This is how we’ll do it from now on. An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth. Got it? We have Professor Tae Kang-hyeok on our side.”
“…Ah, I understand.”
The ER (Emergency Room) runs well.
Who would dare challenge Professor Tae Kang-hyeok, but still, this isn’t right.
With an anxious heart, she waited for the Pulmonology Department doctor to come down.
A moment later, Lee Ju-young came in fuming.
He was coming to confront Da-som with a stern face when he hesitated and stopped in his tracks. Then he bowed so deeply his waist bent in half.
“Good evening, Professor.”
Kang Hyeok appeared from behind Da-som. Lee Ju-young was so intimidated by the overwhelming pressure he was radiating that he couldn’t even breathe.
“Where does this bastard get off making a fuss over a patient?”
“I’m, I’m sorry.”
Da-som’s mouth fell open at the profanity that came out of Kang Hyeok’s mouth.
Lee Ju-young immediately took the patient up to the ward without Da-som having to do anything.
“Jeong Da-som, follow me.”
At Kang Hyeok’s call, everyone pushed Da-som away with gestures as if telling her to hurry and go.
Her head was spinning from all the confusion.
She followed behind, looking at his broad back. Instead of taking the elevator, Kang Hyeok headed toward the emergency exit.
Kang Hyeok opened the thick steel door and went out, then closed the door after confirming Da-som had followed him in.
“…Come here.”
Kang Hyeok pulled Da-som toward him and held her tightly in his arms.
“The patient always comes first. When you put in a consult, if they say something, confidently give it to them. We professors will handle the aftermath.”
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