Queen of The Scalpel - Chapter 24
When he arrived at the ward, he didn’t believe his eyes.
‘What is this? Did I come to the wrong room?’
He looked at the sign on the door. It was the right room. But…how?
‘How did it change so much?’
The room was clean. It was like looking at the hospital of the palace. And patients’ conditions! They were all without hope and looking forward to dying…but now, they looked alive.
‘Just what is this?’
He saw someone familiar. Rose. She was falling asleep in the corner of the room. ‘So she didn’t run away. But why is she sleeping?’ He tried to ask her what happened.
“You…”
But just as he opened his mouth, a hard voice blocked him.
“Look here, doctor. What are you trying to do?”
“….?!”
It was a patient in the ward.
“You’re going to wake that girl up? You should leave her alone.”
“What…?”
“She didn’t get a wink of sleep looking after us yesterday. She barely fell asleep, so come back later.”
“…!”
Grayam opened his mouth in shock. What? But another patient spoke up.
“Yes, I don’t know what you’re here for, but come later. That lady needs to rest.”
Grayam didn’t understand what was happening. Usually, these patients that didn’t have any hope were rude to doctors. So it was obvious they were rude to him, but why were they taking care of that girl? Not able to do anything else, Grayam left the room and looked for the staff members in charge.
“What happened?”
And he couldn’t believe the answer that came back.
“That girl did everything?”
“Yes, doctor. Lady Rose is really incredible.”
They told him everything she did. With that small body, she cleaned the dirty room, took care of the patients’ condition, disinfected the wounds…
“She even cut the dead skin off?”
“Yes, and not only that she treated the other patients’ in bad conditions without sleeping.”
Their voices were filled with admiration. They were touched by Elise’s determination and effort.
And it wasn’t just the staff that was touched. The patients looked at her like she was a saint.
However…Grayam had another reaction.
‘I left her alone too much.’
He frowned.
‘She did a debridement after reading a book? How brave. What if something went wrong.’
He didn’t believe everything the staff said, because it was unbelievable. A girl that worked at a hospital for the first time used a scalpel with ease and took care of patients. Did that make sense? ‘She probably messed something up. If she did something wrong, the patient will be worse than before.’
He regretted leaving her alone. He thought she would leave, not cause this mess. ‘I’ll have to scold her so she doesn’t do this again.’ Patients were not a testing experiment. He needed to stop her from approaching them without having any knowledge. ‘Let’s see what she did.’ He stood up. After he confirmed everything she did, he was going to discipline her..
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Elise tiredly opened her eyes at the approaching footsteps. ‘Did I fall asleep? I’m so tired.’ Her head felt heavy. She tried to focus her vision. ‘Elise’s body is definitely weak.’ Even though her past body was small, she was healthy. Since she was fine after doing several surgeries in a row without getting any sleep. But Elise’s body was extremely weak. To think that she would be this tired after just that. She sighed. ‘Let’s wake up.’
But it was then.
“Just what did you do to the patients?”
A displeased voice. It was her teacher, Baron Grayam. Elise blinked her eyes and replied.
“…I took care of the patients’ discomforts.”
“So you treated them? You, who had no medical knowledge? Debridement? What if something went wrong?”
She understood why he was angry. It was dangerous for an intern to do what she did, because something might go wrong. But she didn’t feel sorry.
‘I don’t think that’s something that someone who neglected me in this ward should say.’
But she hid her thought and politely answered.
“I’m sorry. But the wounds were so bad that I rushed to treat them.”
Grayam frowned.
“Then let’s see how you did it.”
He checked the patient on the second bed that she did the debridement on. But…
“…!”
Grayam was shocked. ‘Why did this patient’s condition improve so much?’ He knew that he had been badly infected. ‘It was so bad that there was nothing we could do. But how?’ There wasn’t any pus, and there was new skin growing.
“Did Sir Barrett come by?”
Baronet Barrett was one of the top surgeons in Terera Hospital. He could do something like this. But the staff answered from his side.
“Lady Rose did it.”
“!!!”
Grayam’s face was filled with disbelief. This? That girl? No way. But his surprise didn’t end there.
“Why is this wound dressed this way?”
In the wound, there was a gauze soaked with disinfectant.
“It was a bad infection, so I applied soaking dressing to the wound.”
Taking the gauze out, he could see that it was a lot better.
“…! Then what about the saline?”
“Recently, he’s had bad diarrhea. I gave him the saline for that.”
He checked the other patients, but they were all the same. ‘What?’ Grayam couldn’t believe it. ‘How can this happen?’ There wasn’t a single mistake in everything this girl had done. No, it was perfect. The right treatment methods were applied to the right patient.
“Who is it?”
“Excuse me?”
“There’s no way you did everything by yourself. You must’ve been taught. Who in this hospital helped you?”