Emergency Blind Date - Chapter 71
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#Epilogue Episode 1
“You guys don’t know about this, right? The gangsters coming to our hospital’s emergency room?”
Well past lunchtime, Kyung-tae had gathered the first-year residents in the tea room inside the Emergency Room station, putting on airs as he ran his mouth.
“Gangsters?”
Eun Hyeok, who had been taking a spoonful of his cup rice, widened his eyes and asked back.
“Yeah, those gangsters who carry around sashimi knives.”
“Wow…”
Eun Hyeok’s mouth fell open. Since Eun Hyeok never missed a gangster movie, he seemed intrigued.
“Oh, looks like our Royal is interested in gangsters?”
Kyung-tae crossed his legs the other way and turned his body toward Eun Hyeok.
Da-som and Han Byeol snickered and focused on eating their cup rice. They were having a meal during a brief lull in patients, but there was no telling when they might come flooding in.
“It was probably around mid-February. We were just about to start the evening shift when things went to hell.”
The sound of Eun Hyeok gulping could be heard.
“Gangsters in pitch-black suits came swarming into the emergency room, shouting for a doctor to come out – it was absolute chaos. Of course there was a security guard, but it wasn’t a situation one person could handle alone.”
“Whoa, really? So what happened?”
As Eun Hyeok responded enthusiastically as if showing the essence of reactions, an excited Kyung-tae moved closer to him.
“I may not look it, but I’ve done every sport since I was young. Judo, taekwondo, kendo… Anyway, I’m a black belt and pretty big, you know? I boldly stepped forward in front of the gangsters and said, ‘You can’t do this in a hospital, please all leave.'”
As if recreating that moment, Kyung-tae spoke with great force in his voice.
“Wow.”
Unlike Da-som who was about to burst out laughing, Eun Hyeok made a genuinely impressed expression and added timely encouragement.
“But looking closely, I saw one of them was bleeding! From how the underlings were surrounding him, he seemed like the boss.”
“Did he come because he was stabbed?”
When Eun Hyeok asked with interest, Kyung-tae nodded.
“The stab wound in his abdomen was severe – it looked like hell would break loose if we didn’t treat it right away.”
“So what happened?”
Eun Hyeok and Kyung-tae’s teamwork couldn’t have been better.
“I laid the patient on the bed and tried to check the wound, but these gangsters went crazy. They told me if anything happened to their boss, they’d gouge out my eyes, cut off my wrists, bury me in cement – they were being brutally threatening, and even though I’m a black belt, it was pretty scary. But who am I? Aren’t I the chief of our emergency room? I told the paramedic who was trembling beside me to quickly call Professor Tae Kang-hyeok.”
“Ah, it was going so well, why did you have to…”
Eun Hyeok grumbled with a deflated expression.
“Listen. This is where it gets real. As soon as the professor, who was about to leave work, stepped into the Emergency Room Lounge, the gangsters made way. They thought he was someone from the same line of work. That day the professor was dressed sharp in a dark three-piece suit.”
…Three-piece?
For a moment, Da-som recalled the day she had a blind date with Kang Hyeok. That day he had come out in just a vest, with his shirt sleeves rolled up because he said there was blood on them.
Could that have been that day?!
“I escorted the professor to the patient and gave him the rundown. Very confidently. Only then did the gangsters seem to recognize my true worth – the way they looked at me completely changed. When I calmly cut the patient’s shirt with scissors and wiped away the blood with gauze, exclamations of admiration erupted from here and there.”
Just as Kyung-tae’s self-praise was reaching its peak, Nurse Im entered the tea room, shaking her head as she spoke.
“Chief, why are you saying such ominous things? You know we have a dinner gathering tonight, right?”
“How could I not know that? It’s the first dinner gathering since these cute kids joined us.”
“Just don’t let it interfere with the dinner gathering.”
“Haha, no way. I’m not some jinx, so that won’t happen.”
Kyung-tae answered very confidently.
Wee-ooh wee-ooh wee-ooh.
“Hey, isn’t that a siren? Sounds like an ambulance is coming in.”
As Eun Hyeok perked up his ears and stood up, Kyung-tae shouted.
“What are you doing? Aren’t you all going to run?”
Da-som and Han Byeol also put down what they were eating and rushed out.
Standing at the emergency room entrance waiting, an ambulance soon arrived, followed by black sedans arriving one after another.
Wondering what was going on, men in pitch-black suits came pouring out of the cars.
Then Kyung-tae shouted with a pale face.
“Q-quickly contact Professor Tae Kang-hyeok! Hurry!”
It was almost like a frantic scream.
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“It’s about to rupture. Foley keep. And let’s do a transfusion.”
Even in the chaotic situation, Kang Hyeok calmly finished examining the patient and gave orders.
The patient brought in by ambulance had been deeply stabbed with a knife.
Taking off his blood-stained gloves and putting on new ones, Kang Hyeok surveyed the situation with sharp eyes.
Outside the resuscitation room, gangsters in pitch-black suits were stamping their feet and watching the situation.
Perhaps because of the experience from a few months ago, their attitude toward Kang Hyeok was quite respectful, but they still came into the emergency room and stood guard in front of the resuscitation room.
He could drag them out right away, but there was no time for a scuffle. The patient’s condition was that critical.
“Please prepare the CVC.”
As Kang Hyeok prepared to insert a central line below the patient’s collarbone, he quickly scanned the medical staff doing their best in their respective roles.
Among the medical staff busily moving to attach IV fluids to the patient’s arm and insert a catheter, Kyung-tae caught his eye, trembling with a pale face.
“Kyung-tae, let’s properly compress with the gauze.”
“Ah, yes!”
Kyung-tae, who had been holding gauze against the bleeding area, flinched and then carefully began pushing the gauze into the wound site.
The trembling seemed to have stopped as Kyung-tae’s movements became swift and precise.
“Push more gauze in.”
Kang Hyeok spoke in a calm voice.
“Ah, understood.”
It wasn’t that he couldn’t understand Kyung-tae’s feelings. Last time when the gangsters took over the emergency room and caused a disturbance, Kyung-tae was in charge.
He had been grabbed by the collar and shoved against the wall by gangsters, taking a lot of abuse, so since this was a situation not much different from that time, he seemed to have unconsciously become frightened.
It was a natural fear that any medical staff who had been assaulted or grabbed by the collar could have.
But having chosen emergency medicine, he had to overcome it.
This was a place where drunk people at night and unexpectedly violent patients could appear anytime, anywhere.
There were plenty of people who ran away because they hated this kind of life, but Kyung-tae was silently enduring it well.
“Professor, it’s ready.”
At the nurse’s words, he was about to insert a 14-gauge needle into the sterilized collarbone when suddenly the resuscitation room door opened.
“Eek!”
A death rattle burst from Kyung-tae’s mouth. Kang Hyeok stopped what he was doing and looked toward the door.
The guy who had been guarding the resuscitation room was gone, and it was a different gangster. From his red face and heavy breathing, he looked ready to charge in at any moment.
“Close the door.”
When Kang Hyeok snapped coldly, the man couldn’t quite enter and hesitated before disappearing.
These types of people wouldn’t understand even if you tried to persuade them politely with respectful language.
It was only to this extent because he had established dominance through physical confrontation last time – otherwise, proper treatment might not have been possible.
Quickly securing the central line, Kang Hyeok connected the blood transfusion pack, pumped in blood, and then checked the vitals.
“We need to get into surgery within 10 minutes.”
“Yes! Everything’s ready.”
“Then let’s move.”
As they left the resuscitation room, a GS resident who had just been called down came running.
“We’ll take it from here.”
The surgical team would soon begin the operation.
After the bed was wheeled away, the gangster who had opened the resuscitation room door bowed his head to Kang Hyeok before leaving the emergency room.
The gangsters who had been waiting in the waiting room could also be seen streaming out of the building.
After the commotion was settled, Kang Hyeok quietly observed the medical staff gathered around the station.
The first-year residents were huddled together around Kyung-tae.
“Wow, look at all this blood.”
Da-som pointed at the blood-stained gown and widened her eyes. Then Kyung-tae lifted his chin as if the bloody gown were some kind of medal.
That kid, no need to worry about him.
Kang Hyeok decided to listen to their conversation from a little distance away.
Nurse Im, passing by Kang Hyeok, pointed at Kyung-tae with an expression that said she couldn’t stop him. Having witnessed Kyung-tae trembling in the resuscitation room, it was understandable.
“Did you see? As soon as the patient got out of the ambulance, I immediately compressed the wound and stopped the bleeding?”
“The atmosphere was absolutely murderous, but you were amazing. Honestly, just seeing those gangsters wandering around the lounge made my knees go weak…”
“Exactly. Only someone like me could endure that. If it were you guys, you would’ve wet yourselves and then some.”
Wet themselves, my ass.
If anything, they should check Kyung-tae’s pants, Kang Hyeok thought as he slowly approached where they were gathered.
Then Kyung-tae keenly noticed him and straightened his slouched posture while reading the room.
“Kim Kyung-tae, good work.”
“Ah, yes, yes. Thank you.”
Kyung-tae’s face was flushed as he bowed his shoulders in greeting. Kang Hyeok patted his shoulder and said.
“Go change your gown.”
“Yes! I’ll go change and come back.”
After Kyung-tae answered energetically and shot out of the Emergency Room like an arrow, the gathered first-year residents also scattered after reading Kang Hyeok’s mood.
In the midst of this, Da-som gave Kang Hyeok a thumbs up before leaving her spot.
“Ahem.”
Unable to suppress the laughter that kept bubbling up, Kang Hyeok cleared his throat and turned around.
Nurse Im was quietly watching Kang Hyeok.
“What is it. Do you have something to say.”
Kang Hyeok dropped his act and looked at Nurse Im with his usual stoic expression.
“Professor, it must be nice dating all by yourself, huh?”
“…?”
One of Kang Hyeok’s thick eyebrows rose.
“Please take care of your best friend too, Professor.”
Leaving those words behind, Nurse Im disappeared with her face flushed bright red.
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