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Chapter 4 Chapter 4

Word Count: 1018 | Released on: 07/12/2024

to focus on her work, refusin

faction of not giving Abby

f throwing unexpecte

rning shift, Callie was looking forward t

f her white coat, she received an urg

the military, requiring all available

iers wounded in a daring mission, their injuri

that every effort mus

ite coat and dashed into the bustling

total of nine pati

and required immediate surgery, while the

urses to wheel two of the four critically

side, seemingly

limits by taking on two surgerie

tified surgeons were still on

fifth-year surgical re

e, 'Dr Hawthorne, you'll have to do this with

checking on the third soldier in critical

Simon jogged off towards the

a nurse asked anxiously. 'H

was lying

t he was suffering from pe

ngs were punctured by a sharp

s becoming incre

, if any. Try emergency decompression if you see signs of a collapsed lung. I'll come and get him

o wait for either you or the other surgeons. We have to op

y's ridiculous request. 'You are a first-year r

ed her chin. 'You ar

ised surgeries. If I remember correctly, that number for you

ber Four. Monitor his condition. Stop the bleeding. Administer pain relief if needed. And I hope you s

Theatre Two, where patient Number T

nomous glare a

woman call h

of so many

ospital direc

was just a firs

rew up in a house

n that age and exper

Wendy, and ordered brusquely, 'Fetch me a set

y's position as the director's daughter, tried to reason with her. 'You c

what you're talking about? If I say I'll do it, then I will. I'll take full re

tuation, but then, she had limited power compared to Abby, who

nto a set of scrubs, and they entered

arge of the surgery on t

cy thoracotomy wasn

erformed one before, she had wa

the patient's chest wall, then gained entry int

, and confirmed her suspicion that Callie's denial of her req

ing fine,

h bated breath, handing her the neces

ogressed relat

naged to stop the internal bleedi

red blood squirted from the patient's open c

of the blood against her skin de

urned pallid, his breath gro

patient's vital signs on the monitor. 'His blood pressure is plummeting! He

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