"Dr. Knight, Dr. Hardy!" Connie calls over to me and Ethan. "We've got an incoming RTA. ETA 5 minutes. I want you two, to take charge."
Connie leaves me and Ethan to deal with the arrivals. I place an arm around my brother's shoulders.
"Ready, Nibbles?" I ask.
Ethan looks at me with raised eyebrows.
"Really?"
"What?" I ask pretending to act innocently.
"Cal, the nickname. It's Dr. Hardy when we're at work."
"Ah, right. Sorry" I reply holding my hands up in mock defence. "Well, then Dr. Hardy are you ready?"
Ethan nods. Just then the doors to the ED burst open and in come Dixie and Iain with the first patient.
"Alright, this is..." But, Dixie doesn't finish her sentence because the moment they come through the door both me and Ethan immediately recognise who the patient is. I stand frozen for a moment not quite believing what I'm seeing. Suddenly, I come out of my thoughts and my brotherly instincts take over.
"Eth, go to cubicles. I'll deal with this." I whisper to my brother.
"No way, Cal! Connie told us we both need to deal with this RTA." Ethan replies back.
"I said I'll deal with it! Just go to cubicles." I order.
Ethan huffs and walks away. I hear him mumble to himself, "Connie isn't going to pleased."
I sigh. You know Connie isn't going to be pleased, but at that moment in time I don't really care. I slowly take the trolley as the two paramedics come up and roll into RESUS.
"Can we get him over to Bay 4." I instruct.
"Alright, on my count. 1...2...3" Dixie calls.
The two paramedics leave me to deal with the patient. Lofty hooks the patient up on to a machine.
"Lofty, I want full FBCs, U & Es and 1 litre of saline. Can you also fast scan CT and full chest and neck x-ray." I order.
"Hello, I'm Dr. Knight. Can you hear me?" I ask, remaining professional as I shine a torch in my patient's eyes.
My patient looks up at me and smiles.
"Hello, son."
