Changing Faces – by Brownie and noisemaker
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"Dr. Lewis.
The films are back on the guy in Exam three," said Frank, handing her the
x-ray envelope.
"Thanks Frank,"
she said taking it from him and going to see the patient. Chen was already in
there applying a cast to his ankle. "Jing-Mae, I have the wrist
films." she said putting it on the view box. "What do you
think?"
"Wow, I
don't know," answered Chen looking at the films. "If i didn't know better
I'd say it was a bone tumor which shattered the radius. But thats more of a
break than a shatter. Extreme calcium defiecency?"
"That's
the only thing I could think of," replied Susan. "He's got the broken
tib/fib and then there are healed fractures all over the radius and ulna."
"Mr.
Bronstein, we have the films back on your wrist," said Susan sitting down
on one of the stools. Chen took the other one, with the films in her hand. "We are going to need to put a cast on
it, but we would like to talk to you about why it happened."
"You
have a disease called stasinacism," continued Chen. "It is a extreme form
of calcuim deficency. We are going to write you a prescrpition for Clasitron.
It provides an large dose of calcuim into the blood stream to rebuild your
calcuim supply."
Chen wrote
down the perscrpition. "Dr. lewis will explain all the side effects and
things you need to be doing while you are on this meidcation. I'll go put in
the perscription."
Chen exited
the room and saw Mark in the hallway. He was staring in the window of the exam
room watching Susan work. "Mark, I thought you resigned."
"Umm..."
he said, coming out of his gaze. "I did, I did. I'm just emptying out my
locker. Is that my replacement?"
"I
wouldn't think of her as a replacement, Mark," Chen said, "Do you
want me to introduce you?" She started to turn back to open the door.
"No,
no," Mark said quickly, "Maybe another time. I'll probably drop by
now and then to pick Elizabeth up." He looked through the window once more
before disappearing into the lounge. "Empty," he said into the
silence of the lounge. He was glad that there was no one else around while he
was cleaning out. He went ot his locker and played with the combonation. He
stared at the pictures of Elizbaeth, Ella, and Rachel that were hung on the
door. His hand shook as he took them down, thinking of how the trial effected
Elizabeth. He pushed those thoughts out of his mind as he grabbed his lab coat
off the hook and slammed the door shut. He tossed it over the couch and stared
at the name tag on the locker door. He reached to take it off, but decided
against it. He exited the lounge and looked back throught the window of exam
three, making sure that he just didn't imgaine seeing her there. He shook his
head slightly when he couldn't find her. He said his good-byes to the people
that
were standing
around the admit desk. He walked past the ambulance bay and stood on the
corner. He just stood there not looking for anything in particular.
"Mark,"
called Elizabeth from where the car was parked jsut a few feet away.
"Coming,"
he replied. He walked towards the car and stopped outside the passanger's door.
He took one last look back at the doors to the ER, then got into the car and
drove off.
CLOSING CREDITS
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