Golden Time (JungYong)

67

Han Myungjin was washing his forearms with a cleaning brush, when Suhyuk came in. 

"I've got the surgery consent form."

"We'll begin the surgery right now, so wash quickly."

Suhyuk began to disinfect his hands, and closed his eyes.

"What are you thinking?"

"I'm thinking how to save the patient, sir."

Han shook his head because Suhyuk was acting as if he was a surgeon performing the surgery.

A resident in the first year was supposed to do only the job of an assistant in the operating room.

However, Han did not say anything about it to him.

"Do you think the patient can open his eyes?" asked Han. 

Washing his fingers hard, he replied, "I'm not sure. Oh, actually yes, I think he can. Because his family is waiting outside for him."

Han, wearing an operating gown, shook his head from side-to-side a bit. It's the first time he heard a doctor saying something like that. Other doctors would have made a stochastic judgement on his question, citing all kinds of medical terms. Probably they would say he had no probability of opening his eyes.

Suhyuk, now in an operating gown, said, "Let's go."

The sound of the monitor checking the patient's condition began to vibrate.

Han, moving to the operating bed, said to Suhyuk,

"Stick with me."

The medical staff were surprised. This was an emergency situation, with the outcome of the surgery already presumed to be very bad.

In an important surgery like this, Han was ready to give Suhyuk an assistant's role.

But nobody dared take an issue with that because it was Han's decision.

"Give me the scalpel. We'll open up the patient's abdomen right away," said Han, with a deep breath.

In just a moment, the patient's belly was swollen like a watermelon. 

That meant bleeding was continuing inside his abdomen. 

Han said, putting the scalpel to the patient's abdomen,

"Get ready, as we will search for the damaged organs after blood suction."

In no time, the scalpel pierced his belly. It was pierced, not opened up.

Then blood was gushing from inside as a result of the high pressure inside his belly.

Drops of blood scattered onto the medical staff's gowns. 

Then Suhyuk began to move, pressing the patient's belly slowly.

The blood was gushing out more and more.

"What the hell are you doing, man!"

Someone with a mask shouted at him. 

"The pressure is very high. If we open it up in this condition, we're going to see a blood pool all around us." 

Actually, if blood was gushing out at such a high pressure, the organs pushed by pressure of the blood would most likely burst out, which could then lead to damaging the blood vessels and nerves connecting the organs. 

The resident who shouted at Suhyuk once again said,

"What are you doing in front of Prof. Han…?"

"He's doing a good job," said Han, cutting off his remarks, and he looked at the blood pack. He could not figure out how many packs were used already.