The Choice

Chapter 12

2 weeks later.

Me and Ava were walking in the hospital. I was thanking God for letting me have two peaceful weeks without any death of any of my patients and well being a neurosurgeon resident it makes my job to witness death every other day. But today feels like its going to be a long day.

We went up to the locker room and changed into our coverall and gloves.
And all of us stood near the main desk so that the nurses would come up and give us our patient's charts.

As we stood there James Porter,
Alex's best friend and one of the best general surgeons in the whole of Arizona Grace. If you did not know him that you might think of him as shy type but if you became his friend then God your world will be full of jokes and happiness, he is my  good friend.

"Heyy guys!" James smiled.

"Yo dude" everyone replied lazy one by one.
He smiled and said
"Our day is getting better."
No one bothered to reply so I replied instead,
"How?"

"Today we are going it have our early psych evaluation." He replied excitedly.

Alex groaned, "Oh no, one more perfect day for surgeries gone."

"Oh geez, Psych evaluation." Replied Ava disappointed.

" Oh yes! At last some test where Hayley might fail. She has seen so many dead people including her family members that if I would be the shrink then I would awarded her 'The Person whose life has been Psych Apocalypse'. Replied Julia laughing.
That made every one laugh and I just stood there wishing that the nurse would arrive and give us the charts.

"Isn't that a long name for an award?" Asked the intern standing next to us in a small voice. Her tag said that her name was Keilin Van and her resident was Ava.

No one paid attention to her but I looked at her and smiled and mouthed 'yes'.

Luckily I did not have to say anything to the others as the nurses arrived handed us our charts.

Ava yelled," Adios".
I collected my charts.
And I turned to face my interns.
Sarah, Sia, Neal and Jake.
"Come walk with me" I commanded.

And we first went to room number 2078 there was a young girl.
"Who is presenting?" I asked.
Jake took the chart from my hand and said,
"Tania Stillwater, age 13, she had a fall and because of that she has tremors in her hand indicating a nerve fracture."

I asked "So what should we do?"

Sia replied, " First take her for CT and then prep her for surgery for a nerve graft on her hand for the nerve to repair."
I replied, " Excellent." And handed her the chart.
Then I glanced and saw that I had one more case left.
So I said, " Sia, Jake take up the case and take this as your solo surgery but you have to text me before you start it as I have to observe and take over if you guys mess up."
Sarah and Neal come with me to the next case.

We walked to the next room, there was a boy who was sleeping.
"Who wants to present?" I asked.
Sarah raised her hand and took the file  from my hands.
"Peterson, age 23, diagnosied of a brain tumor. He has brought the scans from his last visit."
I took out the scans and said,
"Sorry there is nothing that we can do its an inoperable tumor because it is in the frontal lobe but you can stay here for sometime so that we can find somethin that will stop the tumor from growing."

Peterson nodded and said,
" Thank you, you are my only hope. One month ago I was a young adult working late shifts to earn money and now I am diagnosied with brain tumor."
I nodded and smiled.
And we walked out of the room.

"Sorry that there is no case for you two." I replied.
"Its okay." Sarah replied.
Just as I was about to reply our phones buzzed,it was a trauma.
I quickly assigned,
" Sarah go and check all of my post-op patients. If done then come and meet me in the OR when I text you. And Neal come with me."

As we went in the ER.
We saw Dr. Medicus standing there alone.
Dr Medicus saw me coming and told,
" The other residents have five surgeries each today and you had only two so I asked the nurses to text you. This patient is your. And even I have to go because I have four surgeries today and also a consult."

"Okay." I said
Dr.Medicus left.
I told Neal, " This case is on us and make sure the oath we took as interns should stay with us.
Neal's hands were shaking.
"What happened are you not ready?" I asked.

He replied, " No I am ready, it's just that I was hoping for a solo surgery and plus this is the first case that we are both are working on so I am little nervous."

" Don't worry, if its not that life taking then I will give it to you and don't be nervous. All four of you have something different and  something common and that common thing is that you all are surgeons."

And the ambulance was coming in two minutes......

Hello everyone. This day is going to have three parts. Thank you for reading my book and hope you all like it. And I will try to write more frequently...