Queen of The Scalpel - Chapter 97
“Another one died again.”
Graham said while he had a serious look on his face. He is a young professor at Theresa Hospital.
“How many is it so far?”
“There are four people in total.” the nurse replied.
“Hmm—.”
Graham knocked on the desk and is visibly worried.
“That’s terrible. There are already four people died in two days due to diarrhea.”
“Isn’t it because they’re weak old people?”
“That’s also possible.”
Graham nodded to the nurse’s opinion.
They are poor people who have poor health in the first place. Death from severe gastrointestinal inflammation or diarrhea is not uncommon.
But how should I feel as a doctor? The feeling of it doesn’t make me feel good.
He turned his eyes towards the corpse.
The corpse, which was cold and hardened, and the body whose soul had left, was horrifying to see a doctor who experienced countless deaths.
But next to the body stood a totally unexpected figure.
She is as pretty and tender as a silver-haired, she looked like she would faint at the sight of single drop of blood, let alone a body, but instead she was looking at the body with her eyes wide open.
Graham asked that girl, namely Elise.
“What do you say, Dame Clarence? Do you find something suspicious or special?”
He used polite idioms unlike before.
“Ah, teacher. Just say it comfortably as you used to.”
Elise said that honorifics make her feel burdensome, but he shook his head and drew a line.
“No, it’s okay. Rather, I want you to speak to me comfortably.”
“But…”
Graham was actually right.
Elise is appointed as the direct descendant of the Great Clarence family, and at the same time as the emperor’s benefactor.
In terms of her status alone, she is far higher than Graham, who is a former aristocrat.
‘But you’re too good to feign politeness.’
She knew it all along. Graham’s attitude is not simply to set an example.
There was an invisible wall and a line that separates them.
‘You are hiding your feeling of being betrayed isn’t it? I have nothing to say because I know it’s my fault.’
Elise sighed inwardly.
Maybe the reason he drew the line was probably because I concealed my true identity.
It is inevitable that she would have to hide her identity because she wanted to experience a normal apprenticeship, but then again she had nothing to say about it because she know it’s her own fault.
‘Maybe someday he’ll release his distaste?’
But there is something she didn’t know.
Graham is not just simply drawing lines for that reason.
He had been looking for that someone but that person doesn’t know anything about his feelings. She doesn’t know that for a very long time.
“Is there anything strange, Dame?”
“Ah…”
Elise expressed her opinion.
“They are dehydrated.”
“Isn’t the given?”
Graham had look at her in curiosity.
Acute gastroenteritis, but died due to diarrhea, but isn’t it natural that dehydration is in the opposite direction? Why is it that she is referring to such an obvious cause?
But that is only Dame Clarence’s opinion.
Realizing that there must be a reason, Graham waited for her next remark.
“They are dehydrated in comparison with my clinical prognosis. Even though it was rarely accompanied with sepsis, and also there is also strange thing about this.”
Elise hesitated and said…
“From the latest four deaths, all of them are not normal dehydration compared to the pattern of the disease. It’s as if they had the same special illness all at the same time.”
“…!”
Graham’s face hardened.
“What does that mean? Does Dame believe that their disease could be a plague?”
The plague!
The word itself has meaning that is as heavy as it is.
The plague in Londo, where 2.5 million citizens live in one place to only die, where in 100,000 hundred people died.
For now, Elise shook her head.
“I’m not sure. But I think we’ll have to check for possibilities.”
“How will you do it?”
“Rosedale Hospital, Imperial Cross Hospital, Lygo York Hospital and Croidon Hospital and all of the hospital are in Londo. I think we should contact all the hospital facilities in downtown to see if they have the same cases just like us. Oh, and make sure there are no patients that should be near this corpses who have the same diarrhea.
Graham admired her.
What Elise said was simple but had sure method of epidemiological investigation used in modern eras.
“I understand. I’ll check it out right away. It won’t take long because I just have to go each hospital in person.”
Graham went out to get the things done.
And at that moment, Elise was left alone.
Her face darkened.
‘By any chance…does the epidemic is going to happen around this time, is it?’
In my previous life, around this time of the year, a great Londo epidemic had ranged.
The second Londo epidemic had 100,000 deaths.
“No, I’m still not sure. And there’s no saying that history repeats itself.”
In fact, she still doesn’t know when the plague took place and went wild. It all happened when she was still not in Londo, and she wasn’t interested about medical facts.
However, she was told that people died in severe diarrhea at that time.
‘Enteritis. What if the epidemic at that time is really happening now?’
Her expression went serious.
If the epidemic is happening, there will be numerous victims these time, just like what happened in the past.
What do we do?
Later she shook her head.
“What do you mean what will you do? Elise.”
She said to herself.
“You have to stop it at all cost.
She exclaimed like it’s natural.
“I don’t know exactly what disease spread at that time.
Still I have to stop this.
She still couldn’t help but just watch the numbers of victims increases as in her past life.
‘Of course it won’t be easy as 1 2 3’
Still we have to succeed. The lives of over 100,000 people are at stake after all.
Fortunately, she had a lot of modern medical knowledge.
They’ll be able to come up a solution for it somehow.
‘And also, this is a different case, but if I were able to solve this crisis, she will win the bet with His Majesty.’
They have to save the lives of at least tens of thousands of people after all.
The emperor will not deny the value of life.
The bet against the emperor is a must-win for her.
‘Of course it’s not great to wish for an epidemic in the first place. But if it will come true, then they have to try their best to fix it.’
I have to prevent tens of thousands of people from losing their lives and win the bet with His Majesty to save their lives regardless of what the crown prince’s opinion.
And there she made a commitment with a hint of determination.