Team Saber, the second (5)
‘It’s obvious. ‘You are a human being.’
Ki-seok Choi muttered to himself as he left the duty room.
It is nonsense to say that Han Min-woo was truly sorry.
A person who knew remorse would not have bothered Lee Ye-rim in the first place. If the incident is glossed over, it could harm thoracic surgery in other ways.
Definitely nipping it in the bud now.
I entered the conference room and sat down at the laptop.
While managing surgery schedules and placing inpatient orders, interns came in and prepared for meetings.
“hello.”
I turned my head to Kang Sang-joong’s greeting.
Min-hyuk Min and an unfamiliar man were just entering the conference room.
Seo Ji-hoon, the staff member who replaced Min-woo Han, finally appeared.
Seo Ji-hoon was tall and quite thin. He gave off a sharp look with his triangular chin and sharp eyes.
Ki-Seok Choi used the eyes of Hippocrates on him out of curiosity.
Although no abnormalities were found in patient mode, there were surprising discoveries in medical mode.
‘You’re crazy.’
Among Seo Ji-hoon’s passive skills, there was rapid growth.
Rapid growth is a skill that can be acquired twice as fast if taught by someone or through effort on your own. I’ve looked at a lot of people over the years, but this is the first time I’ve seen this kind of skill.
Is Seo Ji-hoon really a genius as Min-hyuk said?
“Why are you so dazed?”
Min-hyuk Min stood next to Ki-seok Choi.
“Oh, I’m sorry. I forgot something important… Hello, senior.”
Choi Ki-seok stood up and greeted Seo Ji-hoon.
“Uh. Hello.”
Seo Ji-hoon received an awkward greeting and continued speaking.
“I… can I speak comfortably?”
“Of course, senior.”
“Now that I’m finished with military service, I’m starting to see a bit more. I’m a high standard, but you and I are both in our first year.”
“No. Once a senior, always a senior.”
“Thank you for thinking that way.”
A smile appeared on Seo Ji-hoon’s lips.
“If you’re done with work, let’s have a cup of coffee.”
Under Min-hyeok Min’s lead, the three people settled down in the break room.
The initiative in the conversation was with Minjoo-hyuk.
Min Joo-hyuk informed Seo Ji-hoon about the tendencies and power relationships of the staff at the thoracic surgery department. I told Choi Ki-seok what kind of person Seo Ji-hoon was.
“Senior Seo. It’s not a joke. I like being nervous.”
Min Min-hyuk playfully touched Choi Ki-seok’s side.
“Why are you suddenly scaring the child?”
“I’m not scaring you, that’s the truth. As I said before, Seo was really great at surgical procedures and techniques. Before I finished my internship, I received love calls from all the surgical departments.”
“Hey. It’s embarrassing. Don’t talk about the past.”
Seo Ji-hoon waved his hand, but Minjoo-hyuk did not stop talking.
“He’s a completely different person than me. If you don’t try hard, you’ll catch up quickly.”
“I think I fully understand what you mean.”
Choi Ki-seok nodded slightly.
There was silence for a moment, and then Seo Ji-hoon started crying.
“By the way, why has Minwoo changed so much? I tried to talk to him for the first time in a while, but he ignored me?”
“He’s become even more strange these past few days. Like he’s lost his mind.”
“Now it’s my turn.”
“Your turn?”
“I was supposed to tell senior Min first when my work was finished. Senior Seo is also indirectly related to this matter, so I’ll tell you.”
Choi Ki-seok cleared his throat and began to explain.
Han Min-woo has been sexually harassing nurse Lee Ye-rim. And Choi Ki-seok, who discovered this, moved to have Han Min-woo punished.
“That’s how it all happened.”
Minjoohyuk snapped his fingers.
“You’ve become a real fox. If you keep pouting, I might fly away too, right?”
“Don’t say that.”
Choi Ki-seok’s eyes turned to Seo Ji-hoon.
Seo Ji-hoon said nothing throughout the story.
What motivated him to be kicked out of the affiliated hospital because of sexual harassment? What are his thoughts and feelings about it?
“You idiot.”
Seo Ji-hoon frowned.
“Ever since I was in medical school, I’ve been doing shitty things. This is what happened in the end. It was better. I didn’t want to have anything to do with that guy either.”
“You’re hotter than I thought.”
“Hot? I just called an asshole an asshole.”
Seo Ji-hoon calmly answered Min-joo-hyuk’s words.
Time passed quickly while we were talking.
The three returned to the conference room and attended the meeting.
Case presentation, inpatient briefing, and surgical patient briefing ended successfully.
“You are preparing well for the lung cancer symposium, right?”
Jo Ji-hwan looked at Park Yong-il and Yoon Ji-hye alternately.
“Yes. We’re almost done.”
“Finishing up.”
Jo Ji-hwan nodded slightly in response to the two people’s answers.
“Hmm. Unlike other times, I have some sad news today. Teacher Minwoo Han, who has worked hard all this time, has been moved to the branch in Incheon.”
“….”
“As everyone knows, the Incheon branch has less manpower than us
, so they use a P.A. on duty. So, we decided to send Mr. Minwoo Han to the Incheon branch for a while. Mr. Han.”
At Jo Ji-hwan’s words, Han Min-woo stood up.
His expression was dark, as if he had lived the whole world.
“I will work hard even when I go to Incheon. Thank you.”
“And a new person has arrived to fill the void left by Professor Minwoo Han.”
“hello.”
As soon as Jo Ji-hwan finished speaking, Seo Ji-hoon stood up.
“My name is Seo Ji-hoon, and I am back after serving as a military doctor this month. Please take care of me.”
“Welcome, Jihoon.”
“congratulations.”
Seo Ji-hoon’s greeting was met with applause from the staff.
Most of the staff remembered Seo Ji-hoon.
Even though I only worked there briefly three years ago, the impression it left was strong. In particular, Park Yong-il, who was treating esophagitis, smiled brightly as if he was seeing his returning child.
Eventually, the meeting ended and the rounds ended without incident.
“You have a morning scrub, right? I’ll take care of Jihoon’s training, so don’t worry.”
Min Joo-hyuk said something and took Seo Ji-hoon somewhere.
In the past, I would have thought of him as a grateful senior who would do the work for his juniors, but Choi Ki-seok is different now.
Because I knew that Min-hyuk Min had started working to get Seo Ji-hoon on his side.
Jiyiing.
Suddenly the call phone rang.
I checked the number and found that it was Jeong Seol-hwa’s phone number, not the emergency room.
“Oh, Seolhwa. What’s going on?”
[I have something to talk about, so would you like to come down to the ward for a moment?]
“I’ll be right there.”
Choi Ki-seok hung up the phone and went to the cardiology ward.
Jeong Seol-hwa was staring at Kim Se-chan, who was sleeping outside the single room.
“Are you here? I’m busy, so I didn’t call you, right?”
“What are you talking about? No matter how busy you are, you have to come when you called.”
Jeong Seol-hwa smiled brightly at Choi Ki-seok’s joke.
“I just wanted to tell you about the patient.”
“Is there something wrong with patient Kim Se-chan?”
Choi Ki-seok’s gaze turned to Kim Se-chan.
Kim Se-chan is the first patient operated on by the Saber team. If a problem occurred after a heart transplant, there could be confusion about whether the surgery was accurate.
“I was in shock last night.”
“shock?”
“I think I had an acute immune rejection reaction. Fortunately, CPR was done in time, so I was able to overcome the crisis. After stopping the existing inhibitor and using a new one, my symptoms improved significantly.”
“Phew… thank goodness.”
Choi Ki-seok sighed after using the Eye of Hippocrates on Kim Se-chan.
As Jeong Seol-hwa said, the patient is stable.
“But last night was when Seolhwa was on duty.”
“Yes. I did CPR. Ki-seok is the patient you sent, so you can’t let him go in vain.”
“Thank you. After all, you are my girl.”
Jeong Seol-hwa’s cheeks turned red at Choi Ki-seok’s praise.
“And this time, I’ll give you good news.”
“Are you going to give me a kiss here?”
“Idiot. That’s not it.”
Jeong Seol-hwa smiled and told me to follow him.
The two people arrived at a double room at the end of the hallway.
“That’s the good news.”
The patient that Jeong Seol-hwa’s index finger points to is a female patient who appears to be around 40 years old.
The patient was leafing through a magazine with his guardian.
“Why them?”
“It’s not fun to just say it. Guess what.”
“Hmm… I’m not sure? No matter how you think about it, it’s strange that the patient has good news.”
“That patient suffers from heart failure and left ventricular aneurysm.”
Jeong Seol-hwa spoke calmly, but Choi Ki-seok’s words rang like an echo in his ears.
At that moment, a thrilling electric current flowed down my spine.
“really?”
“Yes. I was originally going to tell you earlier, but the test results just came out this morning.”
“It’s amazing. It’s a snowflake!”
Choi Ki-seok could barely resist the urge to hug Jeong Seol-hwa.
Heart failure is a condition in which the heart fails to pump blood to the body. Left ventricular aneurysm refers to a condition in which the wall of the left ventricle is thinned and stretched due to myocardial infarction.
“Good news, right?”
“Of course. Thank you so much.”
“I’ll send a request for cooperation later today.”
Choi Ki-seok took advantage of a quiet corridor and kissed Seol-hwa Jeong on the cheek and went up to the ward.
I finally found it.
The first Saber surgery patient.
* * *
That afternoon.
Ki-Seok Choi examined the hospitalized patients with the eyes of Hippocrates and then headed to the operating room.
The surgery that will be performed soon is a vascular annulus surgery for pediatric patients.
The area where the thoracic aorta is bent like a bow is called the aortic arch. In newborns, several blood vessels grow out of this aortic arch.
Some of these blood vessels grow abnormally and put pressure on the esophagus or airway, which is called an annulus.
The vascular ring surgery has not yet been recorded as a video.
It was clear that today’s surgery would be a great asset. However, the steps toward the operating room were not as light as they were.
‘I feel uncomfortable.’
Choi Ki-seok scratched the back of his head.
Fortunately, I ended up assisting in the Norwood team’s surgery.
This is because the second assistant caught a cold and his condition deteriorated.
Although I was called by Kwon Il-soo and became an assistant, I was worried that I might be caught and treated as a spy.
“You came at the right time.”
As Choi Ki-seok entered the operating room, Kwon Il-soo gestured.
“Yes, Professor.”
“I only get an explanation once, so listen carefully.”
Kwon Il-soo began the briefing on vascular annulus surgery.
The patient had a malformed ring in the left and right aortic arches as well as the left pulmonary artery. In addition, he suffered from airway stenosis due to the vascular ring.
The condition was worse than what I heard on the phone.
What is surprising is that today’s surgery is being performed with an off-pump machine that does not use a heart-lung machine.
After a while, the briefing and scrubbing were over and the staff headed to the rosette all at once.
The Saber team had a fight among the staff before the surgery, but the Norwood team didn’t have that kind of fight.
There was no small talk among the staff.
Choi Ki-seok, who joined the Norwood team, was inevitably compared to the Saber team.
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After the anesthesia was over, Choi Ki-seok disinfected the affected area and covered it with a cloth. Then, Kwon Il-su used a scalpel to cut the skin from the back to the 5th intercostal space into a half-moon shape.
It is a posterolateral thoracotomy mainly performed on patients with the thoracic aorta.
After the incision was completed, Ki-Seok Choi opened the retractor with the intern. Min-Hyuk Min was excluded from today’s surgery.
Thump thump thump thump.
The child’s beating heart came into view.
Choi Ki-seok swallowed dry saliva and concentrated his mind.
