The Dentist visit 1.
I sighed deeply when I walked down the road among all the people. It was Friday afternoon after salary, of course everyone was out to shop in the city. And I was the lucky girl living right amongst all the stores. Or, lucky, that's the word everybody puts on me. Because I could shop whenever I wanted by just taking the elevator down from my apartment then poff, right besides JCPenny.
But I never really give it so much of a thought. I'm just complaining about the noise from the balcony.
Now I just went outside into this big mess of people just to get to the dentist. That was the only reason I was letting myself into to this. Because I usually hate too many people in one place. Expect on concerts of course.
But I guess I just have to live with that when I am living in the middle of a big city as Stockholm.
This was the only time I was going out this day and the rest of the weekend. After a long day at the hospital struggling with difficult IV's I was just going to sit in, and absolutely don't watch my favourite show, E.R.
With me as a third-medical student and working all week with long shifts, I'm pretty fucking tired of hospitals. Even if it's on TV in an emergency room in Chicago that I love to watch. I don't want to be a part of anything that has something to do with medicine.
That show actually has a big part of the reason I got into medical-school. When I first started to watch it, it was really just for the cute starring doctors. But later, I got really interested in the medical situations and the traumas. But my grandmother was a doctor and that have of course a lot to do with it too.
And now I just have some months to go before I am graduating into a doctor. God, that's sounds fancy! Me as a doctor, Dr Jojo Anderson. That almost sounds a bit corny.
But now, everything about work was going to slip of my mind and I was just going to take it easy the whole weekend, just after that freaking dentist. Well, that wouldn't really help me get hospitals out of my mind, so I just have to live with that for a while and probably a hole in some tooth.
When I finally got out from the big mess with shopping idiots I walked down a lonely small road seeing the sign of the clinic. I totally hate the dentist.
I pushed the button on the elevator desperately a hundred of times to get it down as soon as possible. I just wanted to get home quickly. But coming up to the right floor as fast as possible wouldn't help it to wait in the waiting room much less.
When the elevator finally got down on my floor it seamed to be very slow to open the doors. Dear, somebody really didn't like me up there. And when the doors had opened there was a really old lady standing in there with a zimmer frame. And she took ages to get off. I was just standing there anxious to get on. I almost felt like ten years old again (fourteen years ago) then I was standing in line to the big rollercoaster just waiting to get on.
One part of me just stood there very anxious to get in with a big smile on my face for the old lady who was half out now. One other part just wanted to scream at her that I was in a hurry and kick her out. But no, she was only an old lady. And I'm not such person who even does that people, who ever it is. I'm in medicine for cry sake!
I'm living on helping and saving people. That's my living bread.
When she after like five minutes got off I almost slipped when I rushed into the elevator. Then I was pushing the eight floor button and felt that gross hospital smell. But it was a more uncommon smell on the dentist than in the hospital.
I looked up and saw the elevator passing the second floor. Then 3, 4, 5, 6… It was stopping, damnit! Nobody could get on now! I was almost certain I was going to strangle that person.
But the doors didn't want to open and I looked with expectation on them for a few seconds before I started kicking them angrily. This wasn't happening! This stupid almost before non-working thing for elevator now didn't work at all. Then I discovered the hand that showed what floor you were on was just between the five and the six. I started to kick again but now harder then before.
"I hate you!" I screamed so load that just somebody would her it from outside. Now I was certain somebody didn't really like me, who ever it was!
After almost an half hour of screaming for help and kicking the doors, I gave up and sat down on the floor exhausted puffing leaning against the wall.
I really had one of the badest weeks in my life. I just wanted to get home to my bed and my popcorn.
I fell half asleep the next twenty minutes. I thought I never were going to get out of here, I was going to rot in here. But when I least knew it the elevator plinged and the doors were opening, but fast this time and I was already on my feet and looked in front of me. Was this the dentist? Awfully too much people for that. It was more people there than it use to be in the hospital and I didn't recognize myself, or yes, but this wasn't at the dentist. This was somewhere else that was very familiar to me. But I couldn't put it right in my head.
But how in the name did I get to this place. I was scared of myself; it felt like I had Alzheimer's or something. Maybe this was the clinic I used to go to and I just didn't remembered. No, it couldn't be so much white coated people and patients running around in a private dentist clinic? How was it possible? I was standing in an emergency room! There wasn't a hospital here, just the dentist. This was really weird, was I dreaming?
But the thought that I recognized it so bad but couldn't put it drove me crazy, where was I?
Soon I tried to pull my self together and walked out the elevator and passed rushing people and heard babies cry. I really was in an emergency room.
Suddenly I was frightened by a hand on my back and I turned around quickly. Just in front of me there were standing a awfully familiar man with round glasses and a white coat with an stethoscope around his neck. What the hell? He really looked like one of the characters in the ER show. It looked like Dr Mark Green. It was almost funny how like they where, and he was a doctor too? But soon it was just scary.
"Hey, you're the new med?" he asked soon after watching me with a confused look. He really sounded like Dr Green too! This was crazy, no, I was crazy! That really were Dr Green from the ER and I could now pick up why I recognized this place, I was in the ER for fuck sake! I wanted to scream, I nipped myself to wake up from sleep or something. I hadn't heard what…Dr Green had said. I just couldn't believe what was happening.
"Are you a med student or not?" he suddenly asked out and I met his eyes. Dear god, what was happening? Where I'm in the studio? Was I coming from a magic elevator or something that took me to America to the ER filming studio? But it felt so real; it didn't felt like it was a scene. And how could he know I was a med student?
"Well, yes…" I answered shocked and he nodded and took a look down his papers on a chart. A chart, why? He was just an actor. Or was he? GOD! Everything was so crazy. This was a dream, by it was so real, it couldn't be. But it couldn't be anything but else either.
"Your name is Dr Green?" I asked fastly, I wanted to know what the hell was going on.
"Yes, good that you knew, and you must be Ms Anderson", he answered and I gasped. He did know my name too!
"No, you just an act…"
But I stopped myself and just nodded. I still thought this whole thing was so crazy. I must be in a dream world. The ER dream world or something. Because nobody didn't really act, there were no cameras; it was just a usual hospital. This was real.
"I'm going to show you around here and get you settled in, okey?" Dr Greene said after a while and I could still not believe any of this. But soon I tried to calm down and just, yeah, enjoy the moment. Well, if it was a dream, it was a really good dream because it was so real. And I got the picture that I was a new medical student here. By stop thinking this was crazy I just started too think how cool it was. I was a character in the ER, without anyone playing. Dr Green really was Dr Green, he wasn't Anthony Edwards who played him. He was really a doctor and real!
In the other moment I thought of every other characters. Where I'm going to see them too?
"Okey, thanks", I just said. I am really bad at English, how is this going to go?
I followed Dr Green down the isle and saw the main board, my stomach tingled. It was so weird; it just looked like in the show. And in the other second I got my eye on another familiar face, Jerry Markovic, with a phone by his ear. I couldn't resist to giggle a little. This was funny. It seamed to me that I was in season six.
"This is the board, where you get your charts, and you know the rest", Dr Green began and I looked curiously in every way after some other big star.
God, I can't wait to see Dr John Carter. He's the hottest guy in the show!
And Dr Luka Covac, he isn't bad either. But I'm afraid Dr Doug Ross (George Clooney) already moved to Seattle, so I won't be seeing him.
"This is Jerry, he takes care of the board", Mark introduced me to Jerry and I shook his big hand. He just gave me a big smile. I know he's a big talker and loves when new girls start working.
I almost said I already knew he's name but stopped myself. That would be so wrong. And in the other second I almost asked for Dr Greens autograph and told Jerry he was funny in "George of the jungle," That would be more than wrong. They were just going to send me up to psych.
"Come on", Green said later and I followed him into exam 6. Oh, here, it reminded me of that scene with the med student Lucy Knight and Dr Carter. She shared a first kiss in here. But not that it seamed to mean anything for them. They just blew it away. I both hated and loved that scene.
"Here's exam 6, not so much to see, expect this beautiful lady." Dr Green walked up on a pink dressed woman with curly hair working with a patient. She turned around and I got to see who it was, Carol Hathaway, Dr Ross's old girlfriend with their too twins back home. She is one of my favourite characters. But now it was crazy, she wasn't a character. She did really exist. I wanted to hug her for a moment. But I really stopped myself and just introduced me with a hand shake.
"I'm Carol, welcome to County General", she said nicely as usual. She had no idea I know everything about her. And I just wanted to say to her to move to Seattle with the girls to Doug, I had hoped for that forever!
"I'm Jojo Anderson", I said nicely back and Green was opening the door again and I was fastly on he's heels, I was anxious to meet everyone else.
"Seeya, Carol!" he said and gave Carol as smile before we were walking out then down the isle. This was so funny!
Suddenly I saw that Dr Maggie Doyle pass us that just use to show up in the show sometimes. Now you just see the actress in CSI.
I continued to follow Mark and he walked up on to Dr Kerry Weaver, the chief of the staff. She's a good character too, but not the best.
"Dr Weaver, this is our new medical student, Ms Anderson."
Weaver turned to me and gave me a smile. It was so weird to see this people in real life. It was cool!
"Hello, I'm Dr Weaver, I'm the chief of the staff", she said shaking my hand.
Dr Green had only showed me and let me met people I already knew everything about and he had no idea. I actually know more than them about themselves and this place. So that made it so fun!
Then Green just showed me all the other places I already knew everything about. Now I just wanted to meet more celebs!
And then when we're we going back to the board we met Chunni, Yosh and the other boring nurses, except, Dr Dave Malucci that Dr Green started arguing with about something. I just stood there and stared at Dave, he's not so bad either. But defiantly an ass, and soon he seamed to notice that I stared so I looked fastly on something else, not good.
"You haven't introduced us", he said to Green that was in the middle of a sentence and Dave was taking a step nearer me. I looked at him with a smile, I couldn't resist it.
"This is our new med student, Jojo Anderson", Green said and Dave immediately took my hand and I could almost bet he was going to kiss my hand in any minute.
"I'm Dr Malucci, pleasure." He smiled flirty and still held my hand. I couldn't resist to smile back. But soon I was thinking about all the episodes he had been an ass in.
And before I knew it I felt Greens hand grabbing my arm and he was dragging me away.
"We are talking later, Malucci", Green said strict and walked away with me behind him as usual.
The only place we hadn't been in was in the lounge and in the same minute I thought of it we walked in there.
By the sink Dr Peter Benton stood and held up coffee in a cup. I like him, a great character. I like him as the father to his deaf son.
And by the locker it stood someone with the back against them. I could tell it was Lucy Knight, the third year student. I love her; she is the best character in the whole show!
But I was a little surprised; I thought she already had quit the show. So that meant she's still Dr Carter's student, damnit, then he can't be my teacher.
But when she turned her back I disappointly saw it wasn't her, it was that other student Abby Lockhart. I didn't like her, not at all. Maybe Lucy where out of the show after all.
"Have any of you seen Dr Carter?" Green asked and Abbey just shook her head a looked tired. I liked that.
"Yeah, I think he's asleep in some exam room", Benton answered and walked up on me.
"Hey, I'm Dr Benton, you must be the new med student", he said nicely and we shook hand. I really like Peter, he's a good guy. Terrible Dr Elizabeth Corday and he didn't work out. I liked that. But I like Elizabeth with Mark together too, so. But I wonder if they still are together.
And then I almost did my third mistake on this tour, I almost asked Mark about it. I really need time to get use to this. To get use to knowing everything about everyone.
"I'm Abby Lockhart. I'm also a student!" Abby rushed up on me and I just wanted to slap her. I don't want to be her friend if that's what she wants. Just because she's a student too.
"Hi, I'm Jojo", I said against my will and she just smiled at me constantly. I wanted her to stop.
"What year are you on?" she asked and I answered proudly.
"I'm on second", she said and I wanted to laugh in her face.
"So, who is going to be your teacher?" she asked, then I looked at Dr Green. I didn't know, he hadn't told me.
"We haven't decided that yet", Green said to Abby that just nodded.
"I have Malucci, watch out for him", Abby said and I couldn't resist give it a laugh.
"But I think Carter is going to get that job. After all, he's had one student before", Green said after Abby and I felt like to jump when I heard Carter's name. He, my teacher, dear god, nice, but I started to feel very nervous.
Suddenly I felt something bumping into my back and it hurted really bad, and I turned around fast and got sight on a dark haired man sticking his head out from the door that had hit me. It was Dr Covac and he looked at me when I started to feel my back hurting.
"Oh, I'm soo sorry Ms", he said and looked at me before he switched to Green that stood besides me.
"Its okey", I said smiling almost like a young school girl at my handsome teacher. He just gave me a quick smile back.
"Dr Green, we need you soon, we have a trauma coming in", he said to Green that just nodded.
I was getting more nervous, was Green leaving me alone now?
God, I kind of feel like Lucy Knight did on her first day, in the first episode, "Day for Knight" in season five. But she had it worse. But I haven't really done so much yet. It's going to be really hard to start helping patients, with me not so good at English and most of all, that I'm in the ER in America. It's not like the hospitals in Sweden. I didn't even work at the emergency there.
This is going to get very difficult I can tell, but yet awfully funny.
"Jojo, you can go to Jerry on the board and tell you need a doctor to be with, just for now. I will get Dr Carter when I have time", Green said to me when Dr Covac where gone and Abbey followed him. I know she's into him, not such a surprise, but I'm not so fond of it.
"Okey", I just said before Green was walking out and I was left alone in the lounge. I started to feel a little ill in my stomach. I was so nervous. Not to just talk about being a good student. I have to deal with the fact that I'm in a show and learn that the doctors I work with not are actors.
I guess I just have to really live into it, like one time when I'm was in front of the TV watching ten episodes in a day. Then you are quite in the show. And now, I'm really in the show!
I walked down to the board and found Jerry behind a computer and I sat down besides him.
"Hello, Dr Green told me that I need a doctor just for now, before he's getting me a teacher."
Jerry just smiled at me and pushed a button on the computer.
"Sure, I will get someone", he said later and I felt my heart bumping really hard. All this was still so scary and unreal, unreal because it was so real!
Jerry walked away and I was left alone again. Everybody were busy with that trauma and I just sighed. I wonder what I will do when I get off for the day. I don't know Chicago, it's a big city!
But that thought soon slipped my mind when I heard somebody scream behind my back. And there it stood a black woman with a baby on her chest.
"Can I get a doctor around here or not!?" she screamed and I didn't know what to say.
"Sorry, I'm new, I don't really know", I tried before she was bursting out again.
"Well, you are going to help me Ms, my baby has a bad stomach!" she screamed and I just walked up on her.
"I can't, I'm sorry, you have to wait just a bit longer", I tried again but she kept screaming at me. Damn lady!
"I have been sitting here for one hour now!" she screamed and my ears hurted.
"What is going on here?" I heard a familiar voice behind me and turned around. There were Jerry and Carol.
"My baby is sick and this young girl doesn't want to help me!" the lady screamed in my face and I took a step back.
"Calm down, she can't help you, come here, I will help you", Carol said with her calm voice and I felt saved.
"Jojo, you can be with me now for a while", she continued and I took a deep breath. Thank good I get to be with Carol. She's so nice and calming.
I followed Carol and that angry lady that just stared at me the whole way down to the exam room. She didn't like me, and I didn't like her either.
Carol opened a door to an exam room and it was pitch black in there.
"Oh, sorry Carter, but you have to get up. Green wants you." Carol said and closed the door. I didn't get the chance to see in and the little while the door was opened it was too dark to even catch anything. I wanted to see him, which was the only thing I wanted right now.
"Sorry, we will go to another room", she said to the lady that kept staring at me. I felt like to hit her if she didn't have a baby in her arms.
We got to just take a bed out in the isle because no room were free and Carol took the baby out of the mothers arms and laid her on the bed.
"Jojo, you can check this little guy's throat and ears", Carol said to me and I didn't feel so nervous anymore. That wouldn't be so hard, and the language weren't so hard either.
So I started to feel the little ones throat while the mother watched me carefully besides me.
"Sure she can help me, look!" she said angrily to Carol that just couldn't resist laughing some.
"She's new and a third year medical student, she can't help anyone without a teacher", she explained and the women got silent. I smiled for myself.
"No signs of illness in the throat", I said to Carol before preparing to check his ears.
Carter got out of the dark exam room and made a big yawn before he was taking on his stethoscope and started off to the board. There he just found an alone Jerry and wondered where everybody was.
"Hey, Jerry, where is everyone?" he bursted out when he got to the board by the charts.
"I think it's a trauma", he answered and looked into a computer. Carter leaned over the bench and felt like to get home. He was still very tired.
"You have been sleeping? Dr Green is looking for you", Jerry said and shared a quick look with Carter before he was looking in the computer again.
"Hey, you met the new med student?" Jerry asked after a long time of silence and smiled at Carter.
"No, why do you ask?"
"Oh, you missed something", he said and moved his eyebrows. Carter just gave Jerry a smile and a head shook. He knew how Jerry was; he thinks all girls are pretty.
"She's over there now!" Jerry bursted out and pointed away to the beds. Carter quickly looked in that direction and got his eye on Carol, a black woman and a short blonde woman with a white coat checking a little babies ears. He couldn't se her face and just looked back on Jerry; he was too tired to even care about anything. Even if he liked blondes, but a med student, who cares?
"I can't see", he said and rubbed one eye and yawned once again and Jerry just sighed irritated.
"But nice ass, you have to admit that?"
Carter just shook his head again, rubbed some more and now saw some doctors and nurses walk down to the board. He was preparing to suck up to Green so he could go home as soon as possible. He saw him coming up right besides him and laid down a chart.
"Carter, where have you been?"
He looked at him a little disappointing and Carter now let the hope to get home pass by.
"Sleeping", he answered sounding innocent and Green just looked down on some paper. Carter was feeling a bit nervous.
"I looked for you, I just need a minute with you", he said after a long nervously silence. And now he was getting terrified, he wanted to speak with him? Was it for his sleep? It couldn't be, he wasn't needed.
"Sure, what about?" Carter tried to not sound nervous and keep his eyes open on Green.
"We go to the lounge", Green said and laid a hand on Carters back and they started off to the lounge. That was a long way for Carter to go, an eternity. And that look Green looked at him with made him almost shaking.
When they had gotten into the empty lounge Green just stayed quiet for a bit in front of him with that same look. Was that his intention, to make him terrified?
"You know we have a new med?" Green asked and Carter immediately looked up on Mark after looking down on the floor like a little nasty schoolboy.
"Yeah?"
"I know you had a rough time about your last student…but", Mark started and Carter could feel what was coming.
"I think it will do you good to teach a new one", he continued and Carter didn't know what to say. He wasn't really against it. He had been kind of good at teaching, and he liked it. So why not?
"Sure, I can do that. What year is she on?" Carter asked after a while.
"Third, and it's not for so long. She's graduating in two months."
That sounded really good. He didn't want a student for a long time either, so it was just sounding really good.
"Yes, I will do that", Carter said with a smile later. He had forgotten about being tired and wanting to go home. He had just a minute ago thought Green was going to put a bad word on him, by now he was doing the opposite.
By making him a teaching resident again was defiantly a good choice. Carter liked this and wanted to meet this student right now.
"When are you off?" Green asked and Yosh walked in and stopped in the door.
"Am I disturbing?" he asked and Green just shook his head and Yosh walked in.
"We're just finished."
"I'm off in two", Carter said and brushed off some crumbs from his tie from a earlier lunch. He was now anxious to see this student
"Then we can go find Jojo", Green said nodding and opened the door and went out before Carter.
"Jojo?"
"Your student", Green said and looked at him as he was stupid. Carter felt that too, but how could he know her name was Jojo?
They passed the board where all the people were crowded and Jerry just gave Carter a look like he was wondering where Green was taking him.
I was holding the little baby in my arms and saw how bad the mother liked that and for now I couldn't find any fault on the little guy. That mother was just too worrying or just crazy.
"I think he's okey, Mrs Andrews", I said to her and she just gave me one of those angry looks.
"How can you be so sure of that, you are just a student right?" she said cocky and now I really wanted to hit her. But let the anger stay inside me.
"She's experienced Mrs Andrews", Carol said quickly and I looked in the little one's eyes who looked into my mine. He was so cute.
Suddenly when I thought Mrs Andrews where going to slap me Green was walking on to us and said hello. I first didn't see anyone behind him but then I got my eyes on a very familiar face, Carter. It certainly was.
He really, really looked much fucking gooder than on the screen. He was with one word, hot!
He wearied a light blue shirt and a dark blue tie under the coat, of course. And to not to forget, those braces, of course. So Dr Carter, so hot.
I was forgetting the reality for a minute by just staring at Carter. He had this perfect haircut right now. A bit long, but not too long, just perfect. I really like that hair and those brown eyes! He is really oh-my-god-wow looking at.
I can't get every nurse is running after Dr Covac in the isles when Dr Carter is in the lounge.
"Is everything alright here?" Green asked and Carter came back from the reality himself. He had made eye contact with Jojo for some seconds; he couldn't resist looking at her. She was beautiful, in many ways.
He that first thought Jerry just talked like he used to, but now he was really right about it.
She had long curly blonde hair that stopped by her waist, glasses that made her look smart, red lipstick on her lips and she was wearing a dark blue shirt under the coat and dark blue jeans and to end with, two converse shoes on her feet.
"Yes Mark, Jojo is really doing well", Carol answered and Jojo just smiled some and stroked the little baby in her arms on his head. Now Carter couldn't stop looking again.
"He's totally fine, Mrs Andrews", Jojo said and Carter couldn't even resist on reacting on her light suiting voice. She was giving the baby back to her mother who looked at her angrily.
"You can really hope you're right!" the mother hissed to Jojo who was stepping back a bit.
"Thank you Mrs Andrews!" Carol bursted out. She was angry at that lady who just kept giving shit to Jojo who was just new in this. But Carol is a calm and nice woman, she doesn't scream angry at patients.
The mother just rushed away and the baby started to cry.
"Poor little one", Jojo said looking a bit sad and crossed her arms. Carter stopped looking immediately when Green made room for him besides him in front of the girls.
"What was her problem?" Green asked and Carol just shook her head and Jojo shrugged her shoulders. They were quiet for a while and Carter and Jojo happened to look at each other at the same time just for some second.
"Anyway, Ms Anderson, here's Dr Carter, he is going to be you teacher", Mark said and Carter felt his heart pumping a little harder. What was the deal with him?
"Hello", Jojo just said when Carter had made at step closer to her and they shook each others hands.
"Hello, I'm Ca…Dr Carter."
"So, you Carter, you're on for two hours now?" Green asked just to inform Jojo and Carter just nodded and felt like he looked like a little shy schoolboy in front of Jojo. For cry sake, she's a med student, and he a doctor. Why was he like this?
"So, Jojo, you can follow Carter for the last two hours then."
Green looked at Jojo that just nodded.
"Good luck, Jojo, happy to help", Carol said and gave Jojo a pat on her back before walking away.