Chapter 47
At that moment, silence settled in.
Bang!
The door to the doctors’ office swung open, and Yu Gwanggu frowned, motioning with his hand.
“There’s a department meeting. Get ready, quickly.”
“Suddenly?”
“Ugh, I said get ready first! Hey, everyone, come on, hurry!”
Yu Gwanggu, clearly annoyed, stomped down the hallway, gathering the residents who were rushing along.
A little later,
All the doctors were seated in the Emergency Medicine department office.
The atmosphere was heavy, tense.
Breaking the silence, Deputy Chief Lee Geontaek spoke.
“So, Chief, what’s happening with Kim Kyungsoo’s emergency surgery?”
“I heard it hasn’t finished yet.”
“Still ongoing?”
“Yes. I even heard the CS surgical team switched shifts two hours ago.”
Yu Gwanggu stared intently at his notebook as he answered.
The atmosphere in the office was so tense, it could almost be called brutal.
Then Lee Geontaek’s sharp voice cut through again.
“Is it even reasonable that there’s no imaging data in a situation like this?”
“......”
“With no information, how can anyone even guess how the emergency surgery is going? What kind of situation is this?!”
Bang!
Lee Geontaek slammed the conference table in anger.
Everyone fell silent.
The residents, especially, were frozen stiff.
But one person wasn’t.
Da-ho.
He didn’t have the patience to endure unreasonable scolding.
Flash!
Da-ho’s eyes hardened as he immediately spoke up.
“Deputy Chief, Kim Kyungsoo was a severe trauma patient, equivalent to Level 2, when he arrived.”
“I know how to read EMRs too!”
“For a patient like that, tests? There wasn’t even time for that.”
Da-ho spoke firmly, standing by his conviction.
A few specialists and Park Youngjun frowned.
“So arrogant.”
“How dare a resident speak back to the Deputy Chief, tsk.”
You could even hear the clicking of tongues.
At that moment, Professor Kim Cheolyong glared at them.
Zap.
“It seems like many of you have a lot to say.”
“Ahem. No, that’s not the case.”
All the specialists who were about to complain quickly shut their mouths as attention focused on them.
Silence returned, and Lee Geontaek continued.
“I admit there wasn’t time. But…”
“......”
“What were all of you doing? While Dr. Richard was doing emergency care, what were the other residents doing?!”
Bang!
Lee Geontaek slammed the table again in fury.
“......”
From Park Jinkyu to all the night shift staff, everyone remained silent.
Da-ho sensed the conversation was going in the wrong direction.
“They can’t touch me.”
So they were intimidating the innocent residents.
They must have endured this kind of treatment before.
Park Jinkyu’s earlier desperate scream still echoed in Da-ho’s mind.
Da-ho hated feeling helpless.
Being forced to endure repeated unfairness just because they were residents made his anger boil.
Fueled by this, he scolded Park Jinkyu and the residents.
“Why are all of you silent? If it’s wrong, you should say it’s wrong!”
“R-Richard…”
“You’re doctors. Even if your head gets smashed, you have to say what’s wrong is wrong!”
Da-ho’s intensity was extraordinary.
Park Jinkyu and the night staff were flustered, not knowing how to react.
“W-Well…”
“Uh, um…”
The specialists were equally stunned.
“What is he saying?”
“How dare a resident talk back to the Deputy Chief?”
In their perspective, this was an extreme act of insubordination.
Da-ho couldn’t watch any longer.
“Deputy Chief, and seniors.”
“......”
Lee Geontaek and the specialists all looked at Da-ho.
Da-ho didn’t blink, revealing his thoughts clearly.
“I took the lead on this case entirely.”
“Now?”
Before Lee Geontaek could finish, Da-ho spoke.
“I take full responsibility.”
“Responsibility?”
“If saving the patient is a problem, then maybe you should take off your doctor’s coat.”
Boom.
His words shook the room.
Lee Geontaek held his head, opening his mouth.
“Are you serious?”
“Yes. If a manual is more important than a patient’s life, then that person isn’t fit to wear a doctor’s coat.”
Da-ho spoke confidently, without hesitation.
With Da-ho stepping forward, even Lee Geontaek and the other specialists had no words.
They weren’t wrong.
If Da-ho hadn’t stepped in?
The patient would likely have died.
However, the problem was that it was a resident, and a transferred one at that, doing it.
While everyone was lost in thought, Da-ho looked at his watch.
“Time to leave.”
“What?”
“See you later. Oh, and the other residents only followed my instructions. That’s all.”
Da-ho bowed slightly and turned away.
“Hey, Richard.”
