My New Doctor

Chapter 45

Harry's POV

When I was finished with Sophie and her sister, Lucy ran in looking all flustered "Harry quick" she said
"What is it? What's wrong?" I asked calmly
"There's a child with heavy bleeding from his stomach outside and is freaking out"
"Okay send him in" I told her and she ran off "rach do you mind waiting out side for me?"
"Okay" she said and left, seconds later the young boy was brought in
"Hello? My name is Harry can you tell me yours?" I asked him as I took over from the nurse who was putting pressure on the wound. He shook his head no
"Okay can you tell me what happened?" And again he shook his head no and started crying
"Okay mate I know your scared but I'm a doctor and do you know what doctors do?" He shook his head "we help people, we help anyone who is hurt or sick or scared" I smiled
"No you don't" he spoke, I was a bit shocked to hear him speak
"I promise we do"
"Well my dad said your all out to hurt us" he sobbed
"Maybe your dad meant someone else because we are here to help"
"No! He said its you lot!! That's why we ain't allowed to come and see you when we are sick because you will make us worse and that's why he wouldn't bring me here after he did this" he froze after he finished speaking as if he had said something wrong and he then started crying uncontrollably
"Hey it's okay, calm down!! Why did your dad do this?" I asked "it's okay to tell me I won't hurt you"
He calmed down a little bit and said "I didn't get him his beer as soon as he came home"
"Okay now you know your dad shouldn't do that to you? You could have told someone and we could have made it stop"
"But he will hurt us" he cried
"Who's us? Who do you live with?" I asked
"My mammy and daddy" he said
"And where is your mammy?" I asked
"Daddy doesn't let mammy out, he says she isn't good enough to go out"
"Okay, so how about we get your tummy sorted out and then we go and get your daddy out of your house so he won't hurt you again?"
"Yes please" he smiled
"Good boy, so can you tell me your name now?" I asked swapping the gauze for a new one as the other one was soaked through
"Josh" he answered
"Okay josh, I need to take a look at your tummy now okay? I'll be gentle" I said and he nodded.
I looked at his wound and it wasn't as bad as I first thought, it isn't too deep but it's about 3inches long. I went over to my phone and called for a nurse to bring me a suture kit so I wouldn't have to leave him.
A few minutes passed before the nurse brought the equipment through and left, "now josh I need you to be really brave okay? Can you do that?" He nodded "good boy, so all you need to do is lay really still and stay calm, I'm going to put something in your tummy which is going to hurt a little bit then it'll feel much better okay?"
"Okay" he said as more tears fell
"Close your eyes for me and I want you to take ten really big breaths in and out like this okay?" I said as I breathed in and out to which he nodded "okay ready?"  He nodded again and shut his eyes tight so I picked up the syringe and got ready and as soon as he inhaled I injected the area he yelped at first but kept breathing, "your doing really well I'm almost done" I said and seconds later pull it out and put the cap on it before getting josh a tissue.
"You did so good! Now it's going to feel a bit funny soon and you won't feel it anymore but that okay, can you tell me how old you are?" I asked getting the thread ready, "I'm 9" he said proudly
"Wow such a big big now" I smiled "and where do you live?"
"We live in frances street"
"Who brought you here today?" I asked as I touched the skin with the needle and when he didn't react I knew I could start
"I tried to walk here but I got lost a the nice lady outside found me"
"Okay, your okay now, your safe" I smiled as I continued stitching, he looked down noticing I was doing something and the fear returned to his eyes "hey it's okay, just relax you've been so good that I've almost finished okay?" And he nodded and waited for me to finish and put a plaster over the top, I cleaned everything up and went over to the computer to complete the forms to give to Lucy, "I have to give these to my friend a second can you wait here for me?" I asked josh and he nodded so I left the room and headed for Lucy.
When I got there I handed her the forms and she thanked me "I need a favour, I need you to call the police and social services and tell them I have an emergency with a 9 year old boy that I am unhappy to send back to his parents, I'll be in my office".

30 minutes later I had all the information off josh that I needed to pass on when a police officer arrived, after explaining everything to them and social services josh went with them and I was ready to leave for the day.
I took Rachel home and we had food and a movie night before heading to bed, Rachel started back school tomorrow so I got her uniform ready and put it on her dressing table ready, I headed for my room and got into bed when the phone rang.
"Hello?" I answered
"Hi this is Dr George"
"Oh hi, how can I help you?" I asked surprised by the call
"I was due to be a part of the fernhill high school medical checks tomorrow and I have a family emergency and was asked to sort my own replacement and o thought of you, would you be willing to take my place, it pays like a day in the office" he asked and I could hear the hope in his voice
"Sure o have the day off so I'm free, what is required of me?" I asked
"You will get given a group of 6 students and you will do the talks about healthy living and the importance of check ups as you do in any other school, you will then teach them a bit about the basics of first aid, no demonstrations just the talk and then you will give them all a basic physical with their tetanus vaccine" he answered
"Okay that's no problem, be there for 9?" O asked
"Thank you so much Harry and yes 9 o'clock start, see you around"
"Bye"
Now I now tomorrow will be exhausting because you must have guessed, that's Rachel's school.