Dr. Shin Seonhan: The Doctor Who Sees The Future [EN]: Chapter 97

97. Reversal of Fortune (6)

“A vlog?”

“Yeah. I suddenly got interested.”

I held back from saying anything specific.

It’s a plan I can’t explain to anyone anyway.

Then Yeon-seo looked at me with a suspicious expression.

“That’s strange. What’s gotten into you all of a sudden… But why do you look like that, Oppa [term of endearment used by younger women to address older men]? Are you having another split personality moment?”

Huh?

I touched the corners of my mouth.

It seems I was unknowingly wearing a wicked smile.

I can’t help but laugh already when I think about what’s going to happen.

“I just think it’ll be fun.”

I don’t have a particularly good temper.

Of course, I’ve been behaving myself since becoming an intern, but…

I have no intention of putting up with bad people like Teacher Choo.

I need to pay back those who abuse their power in kind.

Several times over.

* * *

July 15th.

Choo Geun-deok was sitting leisurely at a hotel lounge bar.

A hotel with a view of the Han River.

And a beautiful woman next to him.

This was the life he had dreamed of since he was a medical student.

“But Oppa, didn’t you say you were getting a divorce? When are you going to split up?”

“Oh, you’re nagging again. You’re young, so you don’t understand, but divorce isn’t easy.”

Choo Geun-deok smiled slyly and stroked the woman.

Let others watch if they want.

There’s no one here who would recognize him anyway.

“Is your wife more important, or am I more important?”

“Of course, it’s my pretty baby~ Can’t you tell by the fact that I’m with you on our engagement anniversary today?”

“Really?”

“Of course.”

Choo Geun-deok whispered to the woman with a greasy expression.

‘Hehe. Life is good.’

Choo Geun-deok, 38 years old.

His life was on a roll.

Once he secures a professor position, a smooth road to the top 0.1 percent of life will unfold.

He married his current wife for the Yonsei University connections, and thanks to that, he became a doctor at Yonsei University Hospital this year.

So, of course, divorce was not on his mind.

“Let’s go up to the room quickly. I wanted to play with you so much that I finished my hospital work hastily.”

As he was about to wrap his arm around the woman’s waist and go up to the hotel, he heard a voice from behind.

“Teacher Choo Geun-deok?”

“Huh?”

Startled!

Choo Geun-deok’s heart almost jumped out.

Who is it?

There shouldn’t be anyone here who knows my name…

Choo Geun-deok calmed his trembling heart and slowly turned his head.

And soon his eyes widened.

“You, you are?”

He was definitely familiar.

The neurosurgery intern this month.

It was a face he couldn’t easily forget.

It was the guy who brought the reading request form in the middle of the night a few days ago and glared impudently.

“Y-you… Why are you here?”

Choo Geun-deok’s face turned as white as a sheet.

He was caught having an affair by someone from the same workplace.

But more importantly…

The intern is holding a camera.

It seems to be recording at this moment, as a red light is on.

“I was filming a vlog.”

“V-vlog?”

“Yes. ‘Hocance’ [a portmanteau of ‘hotel’ and ‘vacance,’ referring to a vacation spent at a hotel] is popular these days.”

Hocance? Vlog?

Why here at this time of all times?

A million questions ran through his mind, but that wasn’t important right now.

“D-did the camera catch me?”

“Well, Teacher Choo Geun-deok might have been caught on camera for a moment, but I’ll edit it out before uploading it to my channel.”

What? Upload it where?

Choo Geun-deok’s eyes widened.

His hair stood on end, and cold sweat streamed down his face.

Regardless, Seon-han bowed politely.

“Then have a good time.”

“Hey, wait! Just a minute!”

Hurriedly!

Choo Geun-deok turned pale and chased after Shin Seon-han.

Leaving the woman he was with behind, he rushed to the elevator and said urgently.

“Hey, erase that quickly!”

“Why would I?”

“You said I might have been caught on camera. Don’t you know this is an invasion of privacy?”

Then Seon-han tilted his head.

“That’s strange.”

“What is?”

“It doesn’t seem like you should be so angry about being accidentally filmed… Do you have something to hide?”

Twinge.

Choo Geun-deok’s face contorted.

Was he overreacting since he hadn’t been caught having an affair yet?

“Come to think of it, were you perhaps with someone earlier…?”

As Seon-han tilted his head with a suspicious expression, Choo Geun-deok jumped up and interrupted.

“You little punk. I told you to erase it, why are you talking so much! Are you not going to see my face at the hospital anymore?”

Choo Geun-deok threatened.

He thought he would listen if he said this much.

How could an intern dare to disobey a fellow like him?

That’s what he was thinking.

But the answer that came back was shocking.

“Why are you so angry? Are you afraid I might send this video to your wife?”

Crack.

Choo Geun-deok’s face froze like stone.

The intern in front of him was by no means as innocent as he looked.

He was speaking naturally, but he was hiding a scheme behind it.

“Y-you little… Are you threatening me now, as an intern?”

“Threatening? How can an intern threaten a fellow?”

“You bastard!”

Grab!

Choo Geun-deok grabbed him by the collar.

But, before he knew it, Seon-han’s expression had changed.

The smile on his face was gone, and a cold, expressionless face was in its place.

Choo Geun-deok flinched without realizing it and took a step back.

“I’ve never threatened people with something like this before in my life…”

Thud!

His body staggered.

The arm he confidently reached out was already caught in Seon-han’s hand.

“Ah, ah! My arm!”

“It seems like the people below you at the hospital have been quietly putting up with it. I don’t think you understand the situation very well?”

Choo Geun-deok struggled to shake off Seon-han’s hand, but the more he did, the tighter it became.

‘Damn it, this guy… His hands look so delicate, but why is his grip so strong?’

Choo Geun-deok’s face turned red.

This was the first time in his life he had been humiliated like this.

To be subdued by an intern who was ten years younger than him!

It was already embarrassing, but he could see the hotel staff whispering and approaching him.

In the end, he was bent over with his arm twisted and begged.

“Ah… I understand, so let’s put this down and talk! Please, Intern Teacher!”

* * *

The next day.

An article with exploding recommendations and comments was posted on the hospital’s internal bulletin board.

And people were busy talking about it all day long.

“Hey, that’s awesome.”

“Did you see that post on the bulletin board earlier?”

“For once, that Choo Geun-deok wrote an apology?”

Interns who were gathered in groups of three or five in the cafeteria were sharing interesting gossip.

“Did everyone see the apology earlier?”

Yeon-seo said with a beaming face as she brought her tray.

Then Sodam opened her eyes wide.

“An apology?”

“You haven’t seen it yet, Unnie [term of endearment used by younger women to address older women].”

Soon Yeon-seo smiled and showed us a captured image.

[Apology]

Hello, this is Choo Geun-deok from the Department of Radiology.

In the meantime, I have repeatedly used abusive language to trainees and residents.

And I have also given sexual humiliation to my colleagues.

I sincerely apologize to those who have been harmed by my inappropriate words and actions.

I will be careful with my words and actions in the future, and I promise the following…

“It’s really an apology?”

Sodam had a dumbfounded expression.

Next to her, I leisurely chewed on my sandwich.

Although it’s not quite satisfactory, it can be seen as fulfilling the contract to this extent.

I’ll have to see how he acts in the future.

“But why an apology all of a sudden?”

“I don’t know.”

“There’s no way that human would upload something like this voluntarily… Did he have a change of heart?”

“Or did he get scolded by the professor of the Department of Radiology? To stop abusing the people below him.”

Soon all sorts of speculations were going back and forth on the table.

“Maybe he got beat up by someone? He got properly educated and came to his senses.”

Yeon-seo said, clenching her fist and waving it playfully.

I chuckled to myself.

Violence? What a disappointing thing to say.

I used a more sophisticated method than that.

“Oh, I used the camera well. Thanks, Yeon-seo.”

Yeon-seo accepted the camera I handed her.

Of course, the memory card is empty.

Instead of releasing the video I took, I set a few conditions for Choo Geun-deok.

[Contract]

– Post an apology for his past words and actions on the company bulletin board.

– Stop verbal abuse, assault, and sexual harassment against interns and residents in the future.

– In the future, when I receive a patient number from me via text message, I will interpret it within 5 minutes. In addition to chest images, I will somehow receive interpretations from other detailed specialists in charge.

A few days ago, Choo Geun-deok nodded frantically at what I said in the hotel lobby.

It seems he was terribly afraid of his wife finding out about the affair.

And he added one more thing.

I said I understood.

Why would I need to step in?

Around the end of this year, Choo Geun-deok will be caught having an affair.

And his teeth will be knocked out by his wife’s frying pan with Christmas carols as BGM [background music].

I’ll leave the punishment for the affair to his wife.

‘I can use him usefully during my internship this year.’ I have a new slave number 1 who listens well.

And that, with quite a high utilization value.

* * *

Two weeks later.

My daily life became a little more comfortable.

The pre-op, which is the main task of neurosurgery, became much easier.

One peaceful afternoon.

Teacher Heo Gi-jin was speaking with a worried expression.

“I sent a spine MRI request, but it hasn’t come up yet… It’s ambiguous how far the tumor has spread, so the professor told me to get an interpretation… Seeing that it’s later than usual, it must be Teacher Choo Geun-deok again…?”

Because the interpretation is empty before the surgery.

“Intern, what should we do? There’s not much time left for the surgery, so we need to get it quickly…”

“Just a moment. I’ll take care of it.”

I took out my cell phone and sent a text message.

[Seon-han]: Teacher. The spine MRI interpretation for patient Joo Shin-hyung, which Teacher Heo Gi-jin sent you a little while ago, is late.

I sent the text message and watched leisurely.

The wait was not long.

Ting-.

I checked the message box.

There was a text message that looked like it had been written in a hurry.

[Geun-deok]: Sorry I was in the bathroom I’ll go right now!!

[Seon-han]: Hurry up.

[Geun-deok]: Can’t you give me 10 minutes?

Another message notification rang.

Beyond the screen, I could feel the urgency of Choo Geun-deok, who was sitting in the bathroom and tapping his feet.

I answered concisely.

[Seon-han]: I’ll give you 5 minutes. Hurry up and run out.