Chapter 2 – "First Patient of the Day"
Luka walked out of the lounge and walked over to admit. He dragged his slender fingers through his dark, wet hair and picked up his first patient of the day. He scanned through the chart while making his way over to curtain 2.
Name:Burrow, Andrew James
Age:12
Complaints:Sore throat
Luka was confident that he had picked an easy case to start his shift, but was prepared not to be too optimistic as sometimes even the simplest cases could be the hardest and in the end the saddest. Luka unconsciously shivered as a memory assaulted his mind, he physically shaked himself before going to talk to the patient.
"Hello I'm Dr. Kovac. I hear that you've been complaining of a sore throat?"
Mrs. Burrow now took full liberty to inform Luka of every time 'Little Andy' had been sick in the previous 12 years of his life, or, was he 15 now, cause Luka was pretty sure he had aged a couple of years after Mrs. Burrow was finished.
"O.K, well I'm gonna take a look at your throat now, see if everything is O.K"
"Kay" Andy rasped out, followed by a coughing fit.
Yes, so this is going to be one of those cases isn't it! Luka thought as he waited for the boy to finish.
After 20 minutes the exam was done, after several interruptions from coughing and Mrs. Burrow, a CBC, chem. 7, and chest x-ray had been ordered.
Luka walked over to admit and was about to lift a new chart when a gurney burst through the ambulance bay doors.
"We need a doctor over here!" screamed Doris the EMT.
Luka ran over by the gurney as they began reading the bullet.
"33 year old male, GSW to the chest, stab wound to the belly, Pulse 70/ 100, resp. 87"
"OK, trauma one, Haleah, Lydia, and someone page Benton, this guy willneed surgery"
The team had assembled in trauma 1 and were slipping into the controlled chaos that was so natural to those in the ER.
"OK, on my count, 1…2…3"
As soon as they had transferred the patient onto the gurney and started to hook him up to the various machines.
"I want 4 O-Neg. type and cross matched, a tox- screen and a full chest panel"
Just as Luka had finished speaking the man started trying to get off the gurney.
"OK sir, calm down, let the doctors help you" said Halaeh in her motherly/nurse tone.
"OK, what have we got?" question Benton in his superior voice.
Just as Luka was about to answer Benton when the fist of the man connected with his jaw.
Luka was standing outside trauma 1, holding his jaw with his left had, when Benton came out and shouted over his shoulder,
"You really need to learn how to control your patients, he could have damaged himself because of you!"
Luka looked on with a shocked expression on his face, I swear to God I will punch that son of a bitch so hard…Luka's thoughts were interrupted when he felt hand on his arm; that hand belonged to no other than Halaeh,
"Don't worry he gets like that with everyone"
"Sure"
With that Luka set off down the hall.
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