Illusion Blind Date - Chapter 65

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#Episode 65

“Yes, of course. It was wonderful to see someone so precious to me.”
He would have registered clearly that the precious person in question was Bom.
So he’d need to watch his behavior and keep from stirring up trouble going forward.
Cha Tae Moon regarded Lee Jae Hyung with a gaze that carried this warning.
“Ah, I see. Ha, well then, I’ll be heading out.”
“Of course. Let’s see each other again soon.”
Cha Tae Moon sent one final warning—that he would be watching.
After Lee Jae Hyung turned and left, Cha Tae Moon averted his gaze and made his rounds through the Emergency Room with the Hospital Director.

Lee Jae Hyung quickly grasped that he was no match for this man and hurried on his way out.
Someone grabbed him as he walked.
“Doctor, who was that? A celebrity?”
“Not a celebrity—the incoming hospital director I mentioned yesterday.”
“Oh really? He looks like a movie actor.”
“What nonsense. Did your eyes go sideways?”
He snapped the comment curtly at the hapless Resident.
“Come on, even if you’re jealous, you have to admit what’s admirable.”
As he was trading quips with the cheerful Resident, the wail of an ambulance siren grew steadily louder.
“Huh? What is it? You hear that too, Doctor?”
He could only hope it was just an ambulance passing through, but luck had never favored him that way.
“……Get ready.”
“No way, things were quiet for a while—why now? Don’t tell me an emergency case just came in?”
“Seems highly probable.”
Lee Jae Hyung’s eyes drifted toward Cha Tae Moon, who stood some distance away examining the Emergency Room with the Hospital Director.
Like father, like son—did patients just follow him everywhere?
In an instant, tension filled the Emergency Room Lounge.
Medical staff who’d just received notification came pouring out into the Lounge.

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The patient on the Stretcher Cart rolled into the Emergency Room.
The medical team approached swiftly and began treatment.
Cha Tae Moon observed the entire sequence in silence.
The Hospital Director urged him to leave the Emergency Room, but Cha Tae Moon chose to observe the situation a bit longer.
“Female patient in her thirties, conscious but complaining of dizziness and abdominal pain. Systolic blood pressure is fluctuating between eighty and ninety.”
Based on the paramedic’s report, it appeared to be Orthostatic Hypotension, but the underlying cause needed to be determined.
BPPV could be ruled out for now.
“Doctor, the blood pressure keeps dropping!”
At the Nurse’s cry, everyone sprang into action. IV lines were established and testing began.
Cha Tae Moon glanced at his Wristwatch, then left with the Hospital Director.
As he stepped out of the Emergency Room and toured the Hospital a while longer, Cha Tae Moon found his mind drawn back to the Female Patient. He felt he should return to see her.
Sometimes when observing patients, one develops these peculiar instincts.
Cha Tae Moon stopped in his tracks and turned to the Hospital Director.
“Hospital Director, I think I need to go back to the Emergency Room.”
“Oh? Why is that?”
“That patient bothers me. I suspect Hemoperitoneum, and I have some thoughts on it.”
Hemoperitoneum could stem from various causes. Trauma could be ruled out, so it was either an obstetric and gynecological issue or a vascular anomaly.
If not that, then—though he hoped not—it was likely abdominal malignancy or inflammatory disease.
This last possibility was precisely what Cha Tae Moon suspected.
He needed to review the chart to confirm.
“Ah, is that so? Then I’ll have a gown ready for you at once. That would be best, wouldn’t it?”
“There’s no problem with me examining the patient?”
“Ha, of course not. When staff are short, we frequently consult across departments and even perform surgery together.”
As the Hospital Director said, the YJ University Hospital Branch would operate that way.
“Then I’ll change into surgical attire first.”
“Yes, let’s go.”
Cha Tae Moon followed the Hospital Director down the hallway.
After changing out of his surgical attire thanks to the Hospital Director’s swift arrangements, Cha Tae Moon made his way back to the Emergency Room, his eyes sweeping across the treatment beds.
The female patient remained lying in the Treatment Room.
“Excuse me.”
As Cha Tae Moon entered the Station, the Chief of the Emergency Medicine Department approached him.
Though puzzled—having only just exchanged greetings with the Hospital Director moments earlier—he welcomed Cha Tae Moon’s arrival.
“Chief, would you mind pulling up a chart for me? The female patient who went into the Treatment Room.”
“Of course, Professor.”
The Chief quickly opened the chart and stepped back.
Every staff member at the Station watched Cha Tae Moon’s movements, wondering what he was doing.
Cha Tae Moon moved the mouse to check the test results, then pulled up the ultrasound images.
He reviewed them carefully, several times over.
Ruptured Ovarian Cyst.
Seeing the diagnosis Lee Jae Hyung had made, he exhaled a low sigh.
He was glad he’d come.
The patient had already been transferred to Obstetrics & Gynecology.
Rising from his seat, Cha Tae Moon applied hand sanitizer and headed toward the Treatment Room.
A unified gaze followed him from behind.
Though it was well past quitting time, Lee Jae Hyung remained at the patient’s side, monitoring her condition.
“Lee.”
As Cha Tae Moon approached and called to him, Lee Jae Hyung turned in surprise.
“Oh? Professor, are you still here?”
“You diagnosed this patient with Ruptured Ovarian Cyst, is that correct?”
“Yes. Her hemoglobin dropped suddenly, and the ultrasound is consistent with that diagnosis. Fortunately, the Beta HCG came back negative.”
“Is that so?”
Cha Tae Moon’s eyebrows rose sharply.
“…If I may ask, why are you questioning that?”
Lee Jae Hyung was confident in the diagnosis he had made.
Cha Tae Moon turned his head to address the Nurse assisting nearby.
“Her blood pressure?”
“Eighty.”
The patient’s face was growing increasingly pale. He approached and grasped her wrist to check her pulse.
Her Heart Rate would climb, and her blood pressure would continue to drop.
In severe cases, consciousness itself could deteriorate.
“I need a Central Venous Catheter Kit, please.”
High-volume IV fluid had to be administered immediately.
“H-here it is.”
Cha Tae Moon informed the patient he would place an injection, then donned Medical Gloves and inserted a Central Venous Catheter into her right neck.
He began administering large volumes of IV Fluid.
The Nurse, uncertain whether an unfamiliar doctor should be doing this, kept glancing nervously at Lee Jae Hyung.
“Professor, what are you doing?”
Lee Jae Hyung asked sharply. At the sound of his voice, medical staff converged around them.
Not just Lee Jae Hyung, but all the medical personnel stared at Cha Tae Moon as though wondering if he had any right to act this way simply because he was from the main hospital.
But there was no time to concern himself with that. By his assessment, the patient was in critical condition.
Once he confirmed the IV was flowing, Cha Tae Moon turned his gaze to Lee Jae Hyung.
Looking at the patient’s initial symptoms, most would have made the same diagnosis as Lee Jae Hyung. After all, Lee Jae Hyung was an Emergency Medicine physician, not a specialist in Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic surgery like himself.
Taking that into account, Cha Tae Moon explained.
“You likely thought Salping-oophorectomy would be the answer, but the patient’s condition presents differently than that diagnosis suggests.”
“Pardon?”
Lee Jae Hyung stared at Cha Tae Moon with a bewildered expression.
“We need to perform a Liver CT Scan immediately.”
“But Obstetrics & Gynecology was supposed to take over—why the liver all of a sudden?”
Cha Tae Moon’s position was such that Lee Jae Hyung didn’t dare openly protest, yet his expression was fierce enough that he looked ready to curse.
“Did you experience sharp, stabbing pain in your pelvis, as though someone were driving a knife through it?”
Cha Tae Moon questioned the patient directly, as if to make a point to Lee Jae Hyung.
The patient shook her head and spoke in a weak voice.
“No. It’s more like my whole abdomen aches, and I felt dizzy and nauseous.”
As Cha Tae Moon looked at Lee Jae Hyung, realization dawned on the younger doctor’s face.
He had belatedly grasped the reason for Cha Tae Moon’s intervention. Better late than never.
Cha Tae Moon turned back to the patient.
“I see. We’ll need to proceed directly to a CT scan to determine the exact diagnosis.”

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