Chapter 1

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*Palak Pov*


"Ms. Palak!" I turned away from my mobile hearing my name to see my co-worker pointing her hand at the doctor's office.

"I am waiting for a call. Can you take the case?" I asked, walking towards her.

"Even I wish to do that, but he specifically asked for a specialist and your name got chosen." She replied sighing longingly at the door.

"VIP?" I asked her frowning and she nodded.

I am not that keen on working with the VIP as they are never ready to work hard on getting better and whine a lot. Not everyone act in that way, but at least most of them.

Being a physiotherapist, there is a need to hold them or touch them, but many have objected to that and I don't know what type of patient will I be getting today.

I am already worried with none of my calls being picked by anyone for the past two weeks and I don't even know what actually happened. How can they just keep me out of the loop in this way?

I am scared to call others, but if they don't reply to my messages or call me then I will do that no matter what is the result. With all these thoughts I have to work on a VIP?

Shut up, Palak! You are being too much now thinking about patients in a wrong way. I need to finish all this soon and then think again about my personal problems.

"Is there a need to get briefed or you already know what is needed?" I asked, looking at Tina who really seems disappointed right now.

"It is better if you get briefed once as this is a really important case. And many people will be behind you if you make any mistake." She advised and I sighed, walking towards my senior's cabin and found him sitting alone.

"He just got shifted from Mumbai to this hospital following his wishes. We need to take care of this carefully. His ankle got fractured and also had a dislocated shoulder two months back from an accident." He started briefing after passing the file.

I paused, hearing two words and those are two months and accident. I cleared my throat and checked the report to see he is a racer and the accident happened on the field and that brought me too much relief without my conscious.

"He will be staying here for one month mostly. You are in charge of this case." He added looking at me and I nodded before leaving his cabin after he said my patient is waiting in the room.

I glanced at the time and rushed to the room so that I can finish it fast. On my way I decided to check if I have any other patient other than him so that I can just leave for the day.

Tina immediately pointed the table where a man is sitting and found many others, even patients looking at him. I gave her a nod and walked towards the table.

"Good afternoon, Mr. David Mattew! As today is the first day, we will work on the small exercises, but we will not be putting any pressure on the shoulder immediately. We will work on the ankle today and I will check your shoulder to understand the pressure it can bare." For five minutes I talked about the treatment and used the scale to check the point to where he can lift his arm slowly.

I gestured one of the interns I found lurking around to hold the chart and mark the details while I knelt down to check on his ankle.

After some time, I gave the intern a nod to help the patient from the table before walking away holding the chart when I felt my phone buzzing in my coat and that immediately turned my attention back to the problem I have right now.

"Palak! I heard you are in charge of the new patient. How was he to be working with?" I frowned, hearing Veer's words and calmly took out my bag from the locker.

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