Fifth Vital [EN]: Chapter 61

61. A Doctor of Unknown Origin

“What are you doing right now?”

“What do you think? I’m boarding the helicopter.”

“Dr. Kim Tae-kyung, do you think I’m asking because I don’t know that? I’m asking why you’re boarding the helicopter.”

“I’m boarding to transport Chairman Kim.”

“Excuse me? What, what did you say?”

“Are you going to keep standing there instead of transporting the Chairman?”

“No. I have to. I have to, but are you two really going to accompany us to the hospital?”

“That’s right. We can’t wait for a doctor from Saehee Mang Hospital, and I don’t think the team leader should go alone.”

“I’m not a doctor.”

“Exactly. It’s best if Jung and I go together. There’s no other way right now.”

“Ha! I don’t know anymore. Fine. Let’s go.”

The team leader sighed briefly and boarded the helicopter.

“Pilot, please hurry.”

“Yes, I understand.”

*Whether he throws him up or throws him down*, he’ll get cursed anyway. The team leader decided it was better to go with experienced doctors than with a new nurse.

“Were you very surprised?”

“Ah, yes. But are you two doctors?”

Eui-jin spoke to the new nurse, trying to calm her down.

“Yes, we’re both doctors.”

“Then you must be from Saehee Mang Hospital.”

“Not really. We just happened to be passing by and helped when we saw the emergency.”

“Wow! That’s amazing. I wonder when I’ll become that kind of medical professional.”

“It’ll be soon. I think Su-jin is amazing too.”

“Me?”

“Yes. You were so calm to bring the kit box in this urgent situation.”

“Ah! This?”

Lee Su-jin pointed to the emergency kit at Eui-jin’s words.

“But why are there two?”

“One is general, and the other is for the chairman.”

“For the chairman?”

“Yes. The medical office team leader taught me recently because the chairman had surgery. It was in case an emergency happened when he came to headquarters. I just remembered what I heard then and brought everything.”

“Can I see that kit?”

Tae-kyung, who was listening to the two, showed interest in the kit Lee Su-jin mentioned.

“Of course. Here it is. I really brought everything related to the chairman that I could get my hands on, but I don’t know if I brought it well.”

“No, you brought it very well.”

“Really? That’s a relief.”

Tae-kyung smiled as he opened the emergency kit. The kit, packed by a new nurse with little field experience, was filled with items perfect for the current situation.

“Senior, isn’t this enough?”

“Of course. It is.”

There was no need to waste precious time when the necessary items were right in front of him. Tae-kyung, determined, called the security team leader.

“Team leader?”

“No. Please don’t look at me with those eyes. You caused an accident after looking at me with those eyes earlier.”

“Now that we’ve caused an accident, I wish we could finish it.”

“Finish it?”

“Yes. I’m going to do the rest of the treatment for the chairman.”

“Yes? No, aren’t we going to the hospital now?”

“That’s true, but we can make the chairman’s condition safer with the items here.”

“If you’re going to sew up the stomach again…”

“No. That’s not it. The swelling has to go down before we can sew it up anyway.”

“Oh, my head! I don’t know anything, so do as you please.”

The security team leader shook his head and gave permission. Or rather, he decided to pretend he didn’t know.

It was a strange thing. At first, he thought Tae-kyung was a crazy guy.

But when he saw those confident, trustworthy eyes, he was strangely persuaded.

Honestly, because he saw Kim Geon-hyung’s blue lips return to normal with Tae-kyung’s treatment, the team leader unknowingly began to trust Tae-kyung.

“Eui-jin, sticker please.”

“Yes, here you go, Senior.”

Tae-kyung covered the opened abdomen with the received yellowish, transparent sterile sticker. Then, he mixed a furosemide ampule into 100cc of albumin and gave Kim Geon-hyung an IV.

“It’ll be good to get this for about 4 hours. Now, all that’s left is the Foley catheter.”

“You’re going to do the Foley [urinary] catheter here?”

Lee Su-jin, who was carefully watching Tae-kyung’s treatment, asked in surprise.

“In the helicopter?”

It seemed difficult to insert a catheter in a shaking helicopter, unless it was inserted while standing still.

“No problem.”

Tae-kyung, wearing sterile gloves, finished the insertion quickly and accurately, to the embarrassment of Lee Su-jin’s question.

“I’m done.”

“Wow!”

In fact, catheter insertion was not difficult, but everything looked amazing to the new nurse.

“You’re really cool.”

“Is this the end? So, the chairman’s stomach is left like this?”

Unlike Lee Su-jin, who was impressed, the security team leader, who was watching the treatment with a serious expression, asked.

“Yes. The stomach must be closed after the swelling goes down. I injected the medicine to reduce the swelling.”

“I don’t understand even if I listen. We’re almost there.”

The Saehee Mang Hospital building began to appear outside the window.

“Ah! I almost forgot. Mr. Kim and Pepper…”

“Not Pepper, my name is Jung Eui-jin. Jung Eui-jin!”

“Okay. Mr. Kim and Mr. Eui-jin, there’s one thing you both need to know.”

“What is it?”

“You should both be prepared.”

“Be prepared? What does that mean?”

“Because it’s almost time to meet the witch.”

“The witch?”

While Eui-jin was asking the question, the helicopter was already approaching Saehee Mang Hospital.

* * *

“I’m going to die. Really.”

While the medical staff followed Kim Seo-hyun to the hospital helipad, Lee Ki-sul, who was following in the back, slipped away.

“Answer it. Please answer.”

He stood on one side of the hallway and called Tae-kyung, but unlike his anxious heart, he was not connected.

“Did he do the emergency treatment? Or not? I need to know what happened to make a plan.”

Lee Ki-sul, unable to do anything, felt like he was going crazy.

“No. Tae-kyung’s personality must have led him to do the treatment. Then, did he really throw away his cell phone?”

“Professor? Is everything done?”

The head nurse of the VIP ward approached Lee Ki-sul, who was talking to himself and organizing his thoughts.

“Done? I think there will be a second round.”

“I can’t see him…”

“He went to the helipad to greet the chairman. It’s better to be careful for a while. I think today is the worst ever.”

“Oh, really, I don’t know why she’s doing that. What’s the point of being a *chaebol* [family-owned conglomerate] on the outside? The inside is terrible. But Professor, aren’t you going up?”

“I have to go. I have to go because I’m afraid my cell phone will fly away if I go late.”

“Good luck.”

A message arrived to Lee Ki-sul, who was heading to the roof after greeting the head nurse.

KakaoTalk- KakaoTalk-

-Hyung, it’s me. I was too busy to answer the phone. I did the treatment and I’m going with the chairman now.

It was the contact from Tae-kyung that he had been waiting for. Lee Ki-sul, who was relieved by the sentence that he had done the treatment, did not understand the last sentence.

“He’s coming with the chairman? What does that mean? Does that mean he’s on the company helicopter together?”

* * *

“Why are you telling me that now!!!”

Kim Seo-hyun, who came up to the roof to greet Kim Geon-hyung, was dancing with a sword while shouting like a lion again.

“My father is just being transferred? These guys are really crazy.”

It was because she heard that Kim Geon-hyung was being transferred by a business helicopter, not a medical helicopter.

“The medical helicopter urgently took the heart of a heart transplant patient, so it went there.”

“Heart transplant? What does that mean?”

Kim Seo-hyun looked at the secretary next to her and asked.

“That’s because the hospital has been treating seriously ill children from vulnerable groups for free since this year. But a few months ago, a child who had a heart transplant was waiting because there was no heart to transplant, and a brain-dead person came out, so he was urgently dispatched there.”

“Are you crazy? Is our father worse than that kid?”

“No, that’s not what I mean.”

The hospital director looked embarrassed and didn’t know what to do.

“We couldn’t help it because the helicopter had already taken off, President. And if we turned the helicopter that went to the child patient, the chairman’s image might be bad…”

“That’s enough! Do you think I bought a helicopter worth hundreds of billions of won to do this? How can you be so inconsiderate!”

“President, just a moment.”

“Why? What’s wrong?”

The secretary next to her received a phone call and whispered to Kim Seo-hyun.

“Oh my god! What the hell is this? My father is being transferred without a doctor. Director, is that right?”

“That’s not that there’s no doctor. The doctors who did the emergency treatment are coming together.”

“Ha! They’re making a popcorn show [something sensational].”

Doo doo doo doo-

Fortunately, the helicopter arrived just before the medical staff’s eardrums were about to bleed from Kim Seo-hyun’s tantrums.

“My father is here. Anyway, let’s see!”

Click-

As soon as the helicopter landed safely, the medical staff who were standing rushed to the door all at once.

“Get out of the way! Dad! Dad!”

Like someone meeting a family member they had been separated from for decades, Kim Seo-hyun pushed the medical staff away and took the lead.

“Oh…!”

And when she saw Kim Geon-hyung’s stomach open and covered with a transparent sticker, she staggered and grabbed the back of her neck.

“President!”

“Are you okay, President?”

“What the hell is going on? Oh!”

When the secretaries next to her tried to support her, she waved her hand and glared at the security team leader.

“Why is Dad like that? What happened?”

“He went to see the Blue Moon opening game, but his complexion suddenly worsened and he suddenly lost consciousness and collapsed.”

“Then why did you let him go there? Team Leader Lee, have you been guarding the chairman once or twice? You’re done.”

“I have no face… Ugh!”

A sound of swallowing pain was heard from the mouth of the security team leader, who bowed his head 90 degrees to express his apologies.

Kim Seo-hyun had *jjigeobeorin* [Korean slang for ‘stomped on’] his shin with the heel of her high heels.

The medical staff and security team, who were used to this situation, did not react much, and Eui-jin and the new nurse were watching the situation with surprised expressions.

Lee Ki-sul, who was standing behind the medical staff, looked at Tae-kyung with worried eyes, but there was nothing he could do.

“What are you doing! Aren’t you going to move Dad?”

“Move the chairman quickly!”

As soon as those words were spoken, the medical staff pulled Kim Geon-hyung’s bed and left the roof.

“Move it carefully so that you don’t hear the sound of the wheels.”

Kim Seo-hyun, who was talking nonsense, approached Tae-kyung, who was standing with a calm expression. Then, with her arms crossed, she scanned his entire body up and down with an unpleasant look.

“Tsk, tsk. Look at the way you’re dressed…”

Then, she clicked her tongue at Tae-kyung’s clothes, which anyone could see were neatly dressed, simply because they were not luxury goods, and continued.

“You must be the doctor who accompanied the chairman’s transfer?”

“That’s right.”

As soon as Kim Seo-hyun heard that, she took exactly one step forward in front of Tae-kyung.

“So, you’re the one who made my dad like this.”

“I’m the one who treated him.”

“Ha.”

As soon as those words were finished, Kim Seo-hyun burst into a short burst of laughter, and then an absurd thing happened.

Slap-

Tae-kyung’s head turned with a tremendous sound as he was slapped in the face.

“How dare a doctor of unknown origin touch my dad!”