Golden Time (JungYong)

66

Resident Im Gyungsu smiled at Suhyuk.

When Suhyuk was completing his one-month internship at the surgery department, Im was in charge of him.

He reached out his hand to Suhyuk.

He was wondering which 'monster' Kim was talking about, and now he figured out who it was.

"My service to you, young man!"

He held Suhyuk's hand.

"I welcome your great teaching, sir," answered Suhyuk.

At Suhyuk's words, Im was shaking his head slowly.

Is there anything I can teach him?

When Suhyuk was an intern, Im showed him all the charts about his patients. Then Suhyuk instantly found out which surgery a patient had underwent or which treatment given. Im still vividly remembers the feelings he felt about him back then.

So, Im sorted out the nicknames that Suhyuk carried with him and summed them up in one word: alien.

"Welcome to the thoracic surgery department. I have no doubt at all that you won't adapt well here."

"I'll try my hardest."

"Follow me, guys. You have to at least be able to recognize other doctors' faces, right?"

The new residents, guided by Im, went to meet the other doctors to say hello.

Going around the hospital wards, Suhyuk looked around slowly.

Was it because he became a resident?

He felt a sort of different feeling compared to what he had felt when he was an intern.

As it happened to be his first day as a resident, it was passing slowly with no specific assignment. He just went around the patients' rooms to say hello to the doctors in charge.

"I'm Lee Suhyuk. My service to you, sir."

Looking at a patient's chart, a senior resident raised his head, saying,

"Oh, I'm glad to see you."

He was Chief Resident Kang Mingyu.

"You've come a long way, but keep in mind that it is a fresh start from now on. As you've made the decision to work here, you won't be free even to go to the restroom."

Suhyuk nodded his head. Actually he was already fully prepared for it, so the chief's remarks were not that scary.

"Take a good rest today. See you tomorrow." Saying that, Kang left the place. He was in charge of as many as 12 patients' rooms. He was just too busy.

***

Coming back to his lodging, Suhyuk lay on the bed and closed his eyes.

He thought every day was a new beginning, and that now was the real beginning.

'Prof. Han Myungjin...'

He heard that he would serve as a resident with Prof. Han for one month.

He recalled Mr. Han's image.

He heard it before that it's like picking a star from the sky to see Prof. Han in the hospital.

Prof. Han would often go out to move an emergency patient to the hospital or spend most of his time in the surgery room.

It was still vivid in Suhyuk's memory that Prof. Han took care of a wounded patient inside a helicopter, or watching the sleeping patient's face quietly while performing the surgery.