Dr. Shin Seonhan: The Doctor Who Sees The Future [EN]: Chapter 53

#53 Stove League (3)

The intern bamboo forest [an anonymous online forum for hospital staff] was filled with warm dating stories.

―Does everyone know that a couple was born at the dispatch location this time?

―Mr. Song and Ms. Lee?

―I heard it was Mr. Kim and Ms. Cheon?

―What I know is Mr. Jin and Ms. Jeong.

―So, are there three couples? ㅋㅋㅋ

―ㅋㅋㅋ Amazing

―As expected, there seems to be something magical about the dispatch location. Does going to the sea with fellow interns make your heart flutter?

―I need to get a dispatch schedule too.

―Looking for a dispatch next month!

It seems that couples are rapidly increasing among the interns.

The fruits of the ‘some’ [a Korean term for the ambiguous stage between friends and lovers] they exchanged during the spring are appearing.

Everyone is diligently enjoying their youth even in the midst of their busy hospital life.

“I’m not interested in other people’s love lives.”

“Why? It’s fun.”

“Where do I have time to care about others? I’m too busy with my own work.”

At my words, Geun-wook pouted.

“You’re such a cold guy. When I look at you, you have a surprisingly heartless side.”

Is that so?

I scratched my cheek.

Anyway, what’s so special about dating?

It’s natural for hospital staff to date each other in a closed environment.

There’s no need to make a fuss about who’s dating whom.

“Anyway, there have been five couples born at the dispatch location so far. So, the value of the dispatch schedule is suddenly rising.”

Geun-wook says as if it’s fun.

‘Dispatch duty’.

As the name suggests, it’s a job that temporarily leaves Seoul.

It’s a month-long business trip to Yonsei University Hospital in other regions where manpower is lacking.

Currently, my changed schedule also includes a month of dispatch.

‘Dispatch… It would be nice to change the mood.’

In fact, the first year of internship is a period that can be considered as good as dead.

Like being trapped in a prison, you have to work non-stop inside the hospital.

In the meantime, dispatch may be an opportunity to feel like you’re going on a trip for a while.

“Seon-han, your dispatch is in August, right?”

“That’s right. I took it over from Hyung Joong-won after handing over the psychiatry department.”

“For your information, Seon-han, you’re going on dispatch with me in August! Hehe.”

“Ugh, disgusting.”

“Who are you to say that? To have to see the face I see here every day for another month there, I’m already sick of it.”

Geun-wook and I exchanged friendly insults.

Of course, it’s not sincere.

It’s like going on a trip with a close friend, so it’s already fun just thinking about it.

Then, Geun-wook snapped his fingers as if he had a good idea.

“Hey, since we’re talking about it, shall we enjoy our youth at the dispatch location? August firework festival! Aren’t all the pretty girls gathering around this beach? Hunting go go [Let’s go pick up girls]?”

“No.”

“Seon-han, please! It’s been my dream since I was a kid to go hunting at the beach!”

Geun-wook comes down from the bunk bed and clings to me again.

What a lot of dreams.

What kind of boy was Geun-wook when he was young? Last time, he said his dream was to meet a flight attendant…….

Anyway, all he had in his head was how to pick up girls.

“Think about it. We had fun in Gangnam Station last time, right? It’ll be boring for us to be alone in a remote dispatch location.”

“Where’s the time to be bored when we’re working? And we’re not the only two going on dispatch anyway.”

Dispatch usually goes with 4 people.

In other words, it means that two other intern colleagues will go with Geun-wook and me.

Of course, I don’t know who will go with us among the hundred or so colleagues.

“Then let’s all play together! I don’t know who the other two are, but I hope they’re fun people to play with. Hehehe.”

Geun-wook smiles with a very expectant expression.

I chuckled.

I gave Geun-wook a scolding, but in fact, I’m also looking forward to it to some extent.

It seems that many interesting things will happen in August.

Of course, I have to get through June and July safely before that.

* * *

The next day.

I headed to the office with the changed schedule.

I could already see some interns coming and going.

It seems that everyone has finished the fierce schedule exchange.

Then someone tapped me on the shoulder.

“Hyung [older brother/male friend], it’s been a while.”

I turned my head.

Ryu Myung-in.

A guy I met at a bar before.

A guy who is also called because he is so obsessed with grades.

Even after a long time, his unique strange impression has not changed.

“I heard you changed to thoracic surgery next month?”

“How do you know that?”

“I heard rumors.”

Has the rumor already spread?

Every time this happens, I think the hospital is small.

Rumors spread about everything, even trivial things.

“The rumor is that you gave up dermatology and got thoracic surgery.”

Ryu Myung-in smiles.

Of course, strictly speaking, I didn’t give up dermatology.

In return, I got the honey schedule [desirable schedule] for November and December from Jo Jin-ki.

But I’m too lazy to explain in detail, so I answered appropriately.

“I’ve always wanted to go through thoracic surgery.”

“So I changed too.”

“What?”

“I was originally in another department in June, but I put in thoracic surgery.”

What are you talking about?

You changed your schedule because of me?

When I looked at him with strange eyes, he smiled and said.

“I wanted to go through the same department with you once.”

His expression is meaningful.

What should I say…….

It’s like gum stuck to the bottom of my shoe.

It doesn’t get in the way much, but it’s subtly annoying.

“Then, let’s work hard together next month!”

He disappeared with an expression burning with fighting spirit.

He’s a unique guy no matter when I see him.

Why did he suddenly target me as a competitor?

I scratched my cheek.

“An annoying guy is sticking to me.”

Well, it doesn’t matter.

Interns are ultimately in a competitive relationship with each other.

Everyone works hard to seize the limited opportunities in the hospital.

Ryu Myung-in is also working in his own way.

‘No matter what others say, I just need to focus on my goals.’

My goal is simple.

First. To survive at Yonsei University.

Second. To become a cool surgeon like Dr. Baek.

I don’t care about other miscellaneous things.

I just need to trust and follow the voice in my heart when I first dreamed of becoming a doctor.

#Thoracic Surgery is the First Time, Right? (1)

When I was young, the Dr. Baek documentary that shook me featured this question.

Then Dr. Baek answers.

<5 years of general surgery?>

Dr. Baek was lost in thought.

After a while, his mouth opened.

It’s a somewhat unexpected question.

The reporter said with a slight embarrassment.

Dr. Baek asks again.

The reporter is embarrassed and answers a few words and then smiles.

The reporter’s awkward smile continues.

But Dr. Baek has no particular change in expression.

He should laugh at least once, but he says with an expression that doesn’t move.

While saying that.

For a very short time, a smile appeared on Dr. Baek’s lips.

Dr. Baek paused for a moment.

And, he said with a definite authority in his voice.

“Keu [an exclamation of admiration], it’s cool even if I watch it again.”

I lay down in the dormitory and admired Dr. Baek in the smartphone screen.

In the meantime, I have always drawn in my head.

The moment I work in the thoracic surgery department of Yonsei University, which Dr. Baek led.

‘Finally, the opportunity has come!’

Next month, June, is thoracic surgery.
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Literally, it refers to the department (科) [section] in charge of surgery on the chest and cardiovascular system.

In the hospital where I did my student internship, it was called CS, taking the first letters C and S, but here at Yonsei University, it was called TS, taking the letters T and S.

Anyway, both are words that refer to thoracic surgery.

‘Of course, I haven’t decided on a career path yet.’

I still have a few options.

There are various sub-specialties even among surgical fields.

Of course, if Dr. Baek was a professor of thoracic surgery at Yonsei University, I would have all-in on thoracic surgery without hesitation.

But now that Dr. Baek has retired, I am leaving the possibility open a little more.

‘First of all, identifying aptitude is the first thing!’

I spent the last week of May with vague expectations and curiosity about thoracic surgery.

As usual, I was trying to log in to the EMR (Electronic Medical Record) and issue a prescription when an alarm rang.

It was an alarm that a message had arrived in the EMR system.

The message was from a 4th year resident of thoracic surgery.

[Intern Notice]

Thoracic surgery is in full swing.

We are informing you of the June intern assignment.

Adult Heart ― Yoo Young-joon/Lee Joon-hwa/Kim Soo-kyung

Pediatric Heart ― Kang Joo-yi

Pulmonary Esophagus ― Son Ji-min/Shin Seon-han/Ahn Cheol-min/Ryu Myung-in

There were minor and major intern mistakes last month as well.

You must work with a sense of responsibility as you become the attending physician.

Be sure to receive a clear handover from the May interns in each part, and be sure to familiarize yourself with the handover report.

―TS R4 Jin Dong-joong

‘I’m in the pulmonary esophagus part this month.’

Commonly, thoracic surgery is thought of as a place that only performs heart surgery.

However, thoracic surgery deals with not only the heart but also the lungs and esophagus.

The scope of treatment also includes chest wall, mediastinal diseases, and various vascular diseases.

Accordingly, the thoracic surgery department at Yonsei University is largely divided into 3 parts.

1 ― in charge of heart and aortic vascular surgery in adults.

2 ― dealing with congenital heart malformations in children.

3 ― And in charge of surgery on thoracic organs such as the lungs and esophagus.

‘I wanted to experience the heart part first.’

I felt a little disappointed.

Of course, I knew this would happen, so I put the thoracic surgery schedule in twice.

In other words, I can experience the heart part next time.

Anyway, I’m interested in the pulmonary esophagus, so I thought I should learn well this time.

‘By the way, Ryu Myung-in and I ended up in the same part?’

An annoying guy who feels competitive with me.

Then, a message arrived on my phone.

[Yeon-seo]: When shall we meet today?

It’s been a while since I’ve seen Yeon-seo.

Yeon-seo was a thoracic surgery intern for the past month.

So, on the last day today, she was going to hand over the work to me.

I replied.

[Seon-han]: I have to adjust to your time. Contact me when you can hand it over.

[Yeon-seo]: I think I’ll be free around 5 pm later, is that okay then?

[Seon-han] Okay, I’ll go to the thoracic surgery ward at 5 o’clock.

I was contacted to gather the pulmonary esophagus interns at 6 o’clock anyway.

I was thinking that.

Suddenly, Yeon-seo’s profile picture catches my eye.

What is it?

Until a month ago, it was a selfie taken with cherry blossoms…….

Now it has been changed to Munch’s painting.

[Yeon-seo]: Read the handover report and come~

[Seon-han]: Yeah, I read it 3 times

[Yeon-seo]: ㅋㅋㅋ Okay, see you later~ Oh, and don’t make fun of my appearance too much!

“Don’t make fun of me?”

I tilted my head.

What is there to make fun of?

I soon went up to the ward to receive the handover.

And I was surprised.

Yeon-seo’s appearance, which I saw after a long time, was quite unconventional.