Chapter 62 (1/2)

Chapter 62

Those interns were just following the resident’s opinions blindly.

The professor shook his head and laughed. And he came into the hallway to see the next patient. Han Myungjin quietly spoke to Lim Kyungsoo, who came close to him,

“They are horrible interns you know. They just accept the resident’s opinion like a law. Don’t you think so?”

Lim bowed his head with a bitter expression. He knew the professor was scolding him quietly so that the nurses and interns in the back would not hear. Lim recalled Suhyuk, who was walking behind.

What he said was the right answer. He later found out that it was a perforative peritonitis rather than a duodenal perforation. He personally checked and inferred from the answer from a huge numbers of CTs circulating on the internet and studied them hard enough, even to the point of having nosebleeds, but he did not offer the right answer in actual practice.

Did Lee Suhyuk look into and study CTs alone? If that’s the case, how hard did he study? Probably thousands more CTs than himself? He might have looked into it much more than that, otherwise it was impossible to understand his ability.

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It took 30 minutes for them to make the rounds.

Suhyuk answered without any hesitation at the professor’s questions.

On such occasions the fellow interns studied Lim’s face.

For Suhyuk seemed to offer his opinion tactlessly. Lim Kyungsoo’s face was getting harder and harder. After the rounds, the professor patted Suhyuk on the shoulder a few times.

And he, with a mysterious smile, turned around and walked away.

Suhyuk looked at his back quietly.

The professor’s att.i.tude toward patients was different from other professors’. It was seen when he got on the helicopter and even now.

Professor Han, who got on the elevator, was seen smiling between the closed doors.

So when the door was completely closed, Suhyuk recalled the image of him when he met Prof. Han for the first time: a real doctor.

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During the next three days, the interns followed Lim Kyungsoo and experienced various things. They learned a lot about symptoms, diseases, disinfection, and treatment.

On such occasions, Lim would ask Suhyuk a question while examining the patient,

“Why would I give the patient a herniotomy?”

“You would do it very rarely and only when you suspect the possibility of a hernia.”

“What can you confirm by doing ultrasound?”

“If there is a lump.”

Lim could not help but shake his head. For Suhyuk answered his patient’s medical history without any hesitation.

“What about the gallbladder?”

“It’s located at the bottom of rib nine. It can move with one’s breathing.”

“What about solitary? What about diabetic nephropathy?”

Lim named all the diseases his patients were suffering from.

‘Please say you do not know at least one! You are an intern, not a resident!’

His dear wish like that did not come true, because Suhyuk did not hesitate to open his mouth for a second, and he had no more charts to show him. He showed all his patients to Suhyuk.

Late in the evening he released the interns.

“You guys did a good job today. Go home and relax.”

n.o.body believed his words because they had to wake up in the middle of sleep anytime when they had a call from him. Giving greetings to each other, they went back to their lodgings.

No, Suhyuk was an exception.

“Follow me,” said Lim to Suhyuk.

Suhyuk followed Lim without any objection to the veranda at the end of the corridor.

Lim offered a canned coffee to Suhyuk.

“Thank you.”

“What the h.e.l.l kind of person are you?”

Suhyuk laughed bitterly, saying, “I’m just an intern, Lee Suhyuk.”

‘Yeah, you’re an intern in name only.’

It seemed as if a senior resident was acting like an intern.

How much did he study before he could become an intern like that?

Of course, the situation would be different when it came to actual surgery or when he was in the operating room. But he was really great as far as his medical knowledge was concerned.

Lim, after taking a sip of coffee, said implicitly, “Did you study medicine by yourself since high school?”

Suhyuk was troubled for a while.

Have I ever studied? No. After the traffic accident, he lost all his memories. There was only one thing left. Medical science. Yes, medical science.

“I studied it from my middle school days.”

That was right, because he opened his eyes at that time.

Lim would not have believed it even if he had mentioned ‘I learned it in my dreams.’

Lim’s eyes glared slightly.

‘How can you study medical science from so early on? Is he a genius that comes into the world on occasion? A genius, who, without a calculator, answers a sum of astronomical figures. A genius who precisely plays the same tunes on the piano that he has heard only once.

It’s possible he belonged to such a genius group.’

While he thought about such things, Suhyuk opened his mouth, “Sorry.”

“What?”

“In front of the professor…”

“Oh, you don’t have to feel sorry. You just answered the professor’s questions. My answer was wrong, and that’s all. I’m not a timid guy, so never mind it!”

Lim laughed bitterly when he said that.

It was true that he felt offended at the time.

For the intern gave the right when he himself was wrong, and did that in front of the professor and the interns he should be teaching. Nonetheless, he blew away such a feeling.

He admitted that Suhyuk was better than him at deducing the disease of a patient by checking a CT or the patient’s condition.

‘Did he not say that he studied medical science since middle school? How much did he look into CTs and studied diseases?’

Though his pride was hurt a bit, he had to admit it that Lee Suhyuk was better at deducing the disease.

Of course, he was much better than Suhyuk in other areas, such as when it came to the technique of touching the patient directly in surgery or the treatment in the operating room.

His thinking reaching that far, he smiled bitterly, because he was comparing himself to an intern with only two months of interns.h.i.+p. Drinking up the coffee, he erased such thoughts.

“Don’t be proud of your ability, and study hard to the end. I called you to say this.”

It was a piece of advice with his sincerity.

Suhyuk heard so many times about those who, called a genius, set foot on the path of a medical doctor. But their pride ruined themselves and led to the patient’s death sometimes. Rather than a piece of advice, it was a counsel for him. Did Suhyuk feel his sincerity?

Suhyuk bowed his head slightly and said, “Thank you.”