Obeid Hospital (2)
“Why the first aid kit?”
“Look here.”
Choi Ki-seok illuminated the lion’s wound with the light of his cell phone, and Jeong Seol-hwa frowned when he saw it.
The skin was torn, exposing the pink flesh.
If left as is, infection could not be avoided.
‘Good.’ It works.’
He smiled with satisfaction after using Painkiller on the lion. Then, I opened the emergency box given to me by Jeong Seol-hwa and disinfected the wound.
The lion purred but didn’t make much of a fuss.
This is thanks to the pain being killed in advance with the Pain Killer.
Choi Ki-seok attached a waterproof patch to the wound and wrapped it with a bandage.
This is the end of first aid!
Grumbling.
At that moment, the welcome sound of a car starting reached my ears.
“Dr. Choi. Repair is complete. “We can leave.”
Nareka, who was sitting in the driver’s seat, motioned for them to get in the car, and Choi Ki-seok and Jeong Seol-hwa returned to the car.
“It’ll be okay now. See you again.”
Choi Ki-seok stroked the head of the lioness, who gave her a sad look. Suddenly, when I used the Eye of Hippocrates on the lion, Rapo rose to level 2.
He seemed to know that he had received treatment.
“Phew… I thought I was going to die.”
Nareka sighed in relief and stared at Choi Ki-seok in the rearview mirror.
“How did this happen? “That fearsome lion was as calm as a cat in front of Dr. Choi?”
“I was surprised too.”
“I was lucky. “I also received help with the items I packed in advance.”
Choi Ki-seok scratched the back of his head with a puzzled expression upon hearing Nareka and Jeong Seol-hwa’s words.
“I wish I could watch the NewTube video I mentioned earlier. It’s truly groundbreaking that there is a way to avoid being attacked by wild animals. “How can I search?”
“Ah… Strangely, there are no records left.”
“That wouldn’t be possible. “Do you want me to check for you?”
“uh? uh.”
Jeong Seol-hwa held his cell phone in his hand and selected a video item on NewTube that he had already seen. However, there is no way that there is a new tube channel made up out of nothing.
In the end, she wasted nothing.
“I guess I saw it on a computer, not a cell phone. Why are there so many cases like that? “Accidentally encountering information while using a link.”
“….”
“Aha. Is that so? “But what is this?”
Jeong Seol-hwa pointed with his index finger to videos he had seen a month ago.
The videos were all direct cam videos of Lovely Girls members performing on stage. After falling in love with Lovely Girls’ music, which he heard at Lee Young-ho’s recommendation, Choi Ki-seok even dabbled in the forbidden area of fancams.
“Lovely Girls? “Do you think you like girl groups?”
“Oh… no.”
“Then why did you watch the fancam video of a girl group you don’t like?”
Choi Ki-seok saw the life in her eyes and felt skin growing on his arms. Even his high political power and oratorical skills were of no help now.
“That’s… actually.”
“in fact?”
“Oh… I guess the cat pressed it. I went to visit a co-worker who owns a cat, and the cat touched my cell phone on the table. “I think it probably played back then.”
“Fuhuhuhu.”
Nareka burst out laughing at Choi Ki-seok’s ridiculous excuse.
Since Korean was only used when the two of us were alone, Nareka could understand the current conversation.
Meanwhile, Jeong Seol-hwa put her hands on her hips and pointed out her lips, and Choi Ki-seok couldn’t bear to look at her and was nervous.
I felt like I would rather sit on a thorn cushion.
“The cat was at fault.”
“huh? what?”
“It was the cat’s fault.”
Jeong Seol-hwa returned the cell phone and didn’t say anything, but Choi Ki-seok was even scarier.
* * *
That evening.
Choi Ki-seok barely consoled Seol-hwa Jeong and went down to the treatment room.
Obeid Hospital did not have an emergency room, but doctors took turns on emergency duty.
On duty today was Choi Ki-seok.
Sitting on a chair in the clinic, he opened an obstetrics and gynecology book among the armfuls of books he had brought with him.
According to Abna, obstetric patients will be flooding in for the time being.
As a thoracic surgeon, it is natural that he lacks knowledge of obstetrics and gynecology.
To make up for this, I decided to study obstetrics and gynecology in my spare time.
As he became immersed in his studies, his eyes changed 180 degrees.
I scanned the content as if I was scanning it, and even underlined the necessary information.
After winning the triple board, I always kept my thesis close, and it felt special to read books from other departments for the first time in a long time.
Knock knock.
When I heard a knock on the door asking me to come in, Abna appeared.
“Are you tired? “Please at least have a cup of coffee.”
“thank you.”
Choi Ki-seok smiled and continued speaking.
“But Abna doesn’t work shifts? “I think I’ve been watching you for over half a day?”
“Since Dr. Choi is on duty, I have to stay up all night with him. “There is also a shortage of nurses.”
“You must be tired. “I can’t even work a second shift.”
“It’s okay because it doesn’t happen often. Isn’t Dr. Choi tired? “As soon as the round of treatment is over, you’re on duty.”
“You have to endure it for three months, but you can’t worry about it from day one.”
A soft smile appeared on his lips as he took a sip of coffee.
The reason why he was able to survive until now.
It was thanks to the patient wishing item and Pet Hatti’s stamina recovery effect.
Patient Hope had the function of recovering stamina during treatment, and Pet Hati had the function of increasing recovery during daily life.
If it weren’t for these two things, it would have stretched out a long time ago.
Like Jeong Seol-hwa, who collapsed on her bed as soon as she returned to her lodgings after finishing her medical tour.
“As expected, it’s amazing. Triple board thoracic surgeons are different no matter what.”
“When you think of someone as special, they seem special.”
“Are you claiming that you are ordinary? “No one else would think that way.”
The two drank coffee while exchanging jokes.
In the friendly conversation, Ki-Seok Choi came to a small realization. The location doesn’t really matter, whether it’s in the U.S., Korea, Sudan, etc.
Everyone working in the medical field is experiencing the same hardships.
But while we were in the middle of a conversation, a loud buzzing sound suddenly hit my ears.
“What does this mean?”
“Wouldn’t it be quicker to see it in person?”
Hearing Abna’s words, Choi Ki-seok opened the window and looked toward the direction from which the sound came. Nareka was carrying a quarantine equipment on her shoulder and was working hard on quarantine work.
Wherever he passed, white smoke rose like a cloud.
Additionally, a musty smell that was difficult to describe in words penetrated my nostrils.
“How amazing.”
Nareka, who was doing quarantine work, was Choi Ki-seok, who looked like he was from another world. Normally, quarantine is carried out with a quarantine vehicle driving around the neighborhood.
This is the first time I have seen people directly taking on quarantine efforts like now.
“There is nothing we can do because we do not have the means to properly quarantine. “I guess I should do that once a month or not.”
“….”
“For your information, Dr. Choi, be careful of bugs too. Some of the staff suffered from malaria for several months. “I take my medicine regularly.”
“Keep that in mind.”
No sooner had I finished speaking than there was a knock on the door.
I thought it was a patient, but Anton, one of my fellow doctors, came inside. Anton was a German man with an impressive mustache.
“Nice to meet you Mr. Choi.”
“yes. hello.”
“Is it worth your first shift?”
“what. “It’s hard to say anything because there are no patients yet.”
“You may feel tired, but you won’t have to worry about the patient. It takes a long time to walk from the village to here. “There are not many night patients because they are already tired from work.”
“I hope so. By the way, Abna. Could you please make me some coffee? “I’m really thirsty today.”
“Anton. “That won’t work.”
Choi Ki-seok spoke clearly and grabbed Abna’s wrist as she stood up.
“If you want to drink coffee, brew it with my hand and drink it. “Why do you ask nurses on duty to do chores?”
“ha ha ha. “This is embarrassing.”
Anton smiled bitterly and stroked his beard.
“Everyone is like that at our hospital. That’s because Mr. Choi doesn’t know. And is it really that difficult to make you a cup of coffee?”
“It’s something I don’t want to know forever. One thing to add is, why doesn’t Anton do that simple task himself? “I just don’t understand.”
“what the. “Is the doctor taking the nurse’s side?”
“Don’t obscure the essence. Do you think I’m taking sides now? “There is nothing in a nurse’s duties that requires her to make coffee for the doctor.”
Anton’s face turned bright red at Choi Ki-seok’s point.
He silently glared at Choi Ki-seok, slammed the door, and left the treatment room.
“Does this person usually take care of nurses like that?”
“…yes. “In fact, other than the doctor, he doesn’t see other staff as people.”
Abna answered cautiously, and Choi Ki-seok took a deep breath to calm his anger.
Among some doctors, there were those who looked down on medical technicians such as nurses and radiographers.
Should I say that I am a person with a sense of privilege in my profession as a doctor?
Every time I see people like this, a fire rises inside me.
Just as no one is born alone in the world, medical activities cannot be carried out by doctors alone.
Shouldn’t there at least be a patient?
I wonder why he acts like a maverick just because he’s a good doctor when he’s not good at communicating with people around him….
“I’m going to quit and go out. “I don’t know if I was disturbing my studies for no reason.”
“you’re welcome. “If a patient comes, please let them in right away.”
After Abna left, Ki-Seok Choi devoted himself again to reading obstetrics and gynecology books.
How much time has passed?
Knock. Knock. Knock.
Abna visited the clinic with the patient and guardian.
The moment I checked on the patient, the drowsy feeling was instantly washed away, as if I had been hit with cold water.
There was a gunshot wound to the patient’s right wrist.
There were two gunshot wounds: one bullet penetrated the wrist and the other was lodged in the wrist. The spot where he was shot was charred black and gave off the smell of burning meat.
The patient’s face was pale and he didn’t know what to do, and the guardians, who seemed to be friends, were constantly pouring out words that Choi Ki-seok couldn’t understand.
“They said the police shot the patient. “I asked for money as protection money, but he refused.”
“crazy!”
Choi Ki-seok bit his lip as he disinfected the patient’s wound and put a bandage on it.
Minimum first aid was completed.
“Abna. “Please go to the operating room and take the patient’s blood test and ankle X-ray.”
“All right.”
Soon, Choi Ki-seok took the patient who had completed the examination to the operating room.
There were a total of three staff members capable of performing the surgery, including surgeon Choi Ki-seok and surgical assistant Jeong Seol-hwa and Abna. The hospital director is also available to perform the surgery, but was away today to attend a meeting.
“Dr. Choi. “I don’t have type O blood.”
Abna, who was preparing for surgery, said with a worried expression.
“We ask the blood types of the guardians who came with us, and if their blood matches, we transfuse them.”
“All right.”
Choi Ki-seok and Jeong Seol-hwa looked down at the patient and waited anxiously for Abna. Ten minutes, as long as a year, passed and Abna returned to the operating room panting.
“We have matching blood types, but blood transfusion is not possible.”
“Why?”
“That…”
Abna continued speaking with difficulty.
“I took blood tests for the guardians who came with me, and they both tested positive for AIDS.”
“Ah…”
Unexpected bad news hit the back of his neck.
