Queen of The Scalpel - Chapter 27
Translated by Skye
Without her advice, the Imperial Army who are entering the peninsula would have been hit in the back of their head helplessly.
No, not just the back of the head. They would have suffered a fatal blow from neck to the waist.
‘She’s great.’
The emperor recalled the last time he met Elise.
She had a quiet attitude that looked like she had completely abandoned her immature past, kind heart and wise insights.
She used to be a dear child like his nephew, but that day he was just too greedy.
“I’ll have to beat her and make her the crown princess and make sure she gets out of the hospital as soon as possible.”
After that, the emperor and the crown prince talked about political stuff.
The emperor buried himself in a chair and said,
“Linden.”
“Yes, father.”
“When is the next secret trip scheduled?”
“I’m thinking of going out soon.”
Secret Trip
It is a secret tradition and duty of those who ruled the empire by hiding their identities through disguises and observe the lives of the citizens.
“Where are you going to look this time?”
“I’m going to visit Heranro.”
Heranro is a place where the new civil class, bourgeoisie, emerged as the new main axis of the empire, riding on the wind of industrialization after the fall of feudalism, and lived all together.
But the emperor shook his head.
“Why don’t you go to Pierre’s district, not Heranro?”
“You mean Pierre District?”
Pierre’s district was a relatively poor community.
“Okay. I will. But is there any special reason?”
“Isn’t Teresa Hospital located there?”
The emperor grinned.
“I haven’t heard from her…Elise, go and see if she’s doing well.”
***
Elise is an official apprentice and began to follow Baron Graham and receive teachings from him.
Of course words are considered as teachings, but Graham gives her teachings one after another instead.
Precisely, through observation.
She followed him like a shadow and watched him treat the patients.
Graham looked at her and asked questions as if he had only occasionally thought of her.
“Do you know what this patient’s disease is?”
Elysee replied with a polite voice, as he did to his teacher.
“It’s bacterial pneumonia.”
“How come it’s not colds?”
“Purulent sputum, given the induration findings shown in the test, the possibility of pneumonia is higher than that of colds.”
It was the correct answer.
After such a short question and answer, Graham turned to her again and focused on the treatment.
Elise watched him again from behind without a word.
‘It looks like I’m back as a medical student.’
She thought to herself.
When I was a medical student at Seoul National University, I followed behind professors like this.
At that time, I had a lot of long bowel movements and was surprised by the patients I met for the first time.
A smile came out when she thought of that memory at that time.
‘I’ll get a doctor’s license as soon as I can and get into medical treatment.’
It’s good to look at it like this, but I wanted to see patients in person. I want to do surgery.
‘You’ll have a chance.’
Meanwhile, her teacher, Graham, was in silent disarray.
‘Who the hell is this kid?’
‘Even though he seemed indifferent, he was observing the girl meticulously. How could she do it?’
At first, he started with a question and asked about her medical knowledge.
They weren’t easy questions.
In his case, he needed to know the exact details so he could answer them.
But the girl answered all the questions correctly. Exactly as if he was looking at a textbook.
‘So I asked her questions about the patient’s diagnosis…’
The result was even more spectacular.
She heard of the patient’s symptoms from behind and answered correctly, as if she was an experienced doctor.
She answered his questions easily, and there were times when the two complications, and later when he checked the results of the test, the girl’s diagnosis was correct.
‘How could she do it?’
Graham was thrown into confusion.
‘Have she ever had a patient before?’
But there’s no way that little girl had a patient experience.
‘Or is she really a…genius?’
Such a thing sometimes appears in this world.
A rare gift beyond age and experience.
Just like the Great Alchemist Fleming, and so is Count Graham, who renewed the foundation of medicine 80 years ago.
‘I don’t know. I don’t know. That girl is a real genius?’
Graham sighed.
The prejudice he had that an aristocrat lady came to the hospital out of interest had slowly disappeared.
He was just confused by the girl’s appearance that was beyond common sense.
“Well, sir. What should I do now?”
When the treatment was finished, Elise asked.
“There is no more special schedule today. Go back home.”
“Yes, thank you for your hard work. See you tomorrow.”
She greeted and turned around.
But it was then.
“Wait, Rosé.”
“Yes?”
“…… ”
Graham hesitated for a long time, didn’t talk immediately.
“Teacher?”
When Elysee looked puzzled, he said in an awkward voice.
“…I’m so sorry.”
“What?”
“I’ve been prejudicing you and was being lazy.”
“……!”
The unexpected apology embarrassed her.
“Oh, no, sir.”
“No. I think I misunderstood you just by looking at the outside. I’m sorry.”
Contrary to his initial impression, the girl is not just a noble lady.
Rather…
He recalled what she had done in the beggar’s ward.
Even at Theresa’s Hospital, they are beggars who were almost neglected. What kind of doctor can do it like her for all the beggars in the world?
“Let’s do well in the future anyway.”
She smiled at the sincere apology.
“No, sir. I’ll work hard from now on, so please take care of me.”
Graham is embarrassed and coughed in vain.
“Go to the relief center tomorrow, not here.”
“…!”
Elise had her eyes wide open.
“You mean the shelter?”
“Yes.”
The relief center is like an emergency room in modern times, where trauma patients and emergency patients are treated. It is a place where patients gather around.