I Quit My Job and Run a Café - Chapter 438



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Episode 438 Nightingale [3]

Being on duty would not be a pleasant experience for anyone.

I personally had two jobs in my past life, and coincidentally, both of them involved on-duty duty.

Doctors and soldiers.

It’s a tough job.

“Hwaaam… … .”

“My brother just sleeps well whenever he wants.”

“I tend to decide how much sleep I should get each day and then sleep accordingly.”

“Ah… … that’s it.”

If that were something that could be decided, why would there be insomnia in the world?

If that had been the case, the sleep industry, which constitutes a significant portion of the 21st century industries, would have simply collapsed.

Anyway, I couldn’t do that so I just had to endure it raw.

It would have been much better if we had a smartphone, but what can we do in a world without smartphones or even MP3 players?

“Anyway, let’s go.”

“Yeah. But can I watch it secretly… …?”

Neither I nor Liston can ‘secretly’ establish it.

I’m one of the few Asians in London and Liston is… …just Liston.

“I think it’ll be okay to just stay like this.”

“Really? Weren’t you going to see what happens when you’re not watching?”

“Now that I think about it, I don’t think it was particularly wrong.”

“Ah… … I see. I don’t know what to expect.”

Still, my conclusion was that it was okay.

While Liston was soundly sleeping, all I could do was think about it, so I actually killed time by thinking about this and that, but no matter how much I thought about it, it seemed like it would be the same.

Isn’t there bound to be a difference between the mistakes made by someone who is aware that they are wrong and the mistakes made by someone who isn’t?

The victim’s murderous intent is naturally projected much more strongly onto those who are aware of it, but in reality, the ones who cause much greater harm are those who are unaware of it.

In my view, the major and minor accidents that are occurring in our ward are caused by the latter.

Knowing this… … .

‘If you knew and did it, you should really kill them all.’

I don’t say anything.

Don’t really kill me.

“You’re having evil thoughts again.”

“No?”

“Don’t lie. If you do, you’ll go to hell.”

If you go to hell for just telling a lie… … .

Am I already a bad body?

Whether I drown at 3 meters or 3,000 meters, it’s the same thing, but I feel like I’m already at 3,000 meters.

So I headed to the ward without much reflection.

Since it was a newly built hospital, the first floor had outpatient clinics, operating rooms, and an emergency room, while the second floor and above had wards.

It is said that outpatients and ward patients are separated, and this is a more important part than you might think.

This is because it can minimize exposure to all kinds of miasma and pathogens that people who come and go from abroad have.

“Hmm.”

“Hmm.”

“What’s going on?”

Anyway, when the two of us went up to the ward, the nurse greeted us with surprised eyes.

Well, that was bound to happen.

At that time, doctors did not stand on duty at the hospital.

They usually have a system where they stay at a house near the hospital and wake up the sleeping patient and bring him in when an urgent patient arises.

This will have to be fixed someday, though… … .

‘If I keep my position, what more can I do than just become a totem?’

It’s a real totem, unless it’s Nana Liston.

When I was a military doctor, I went to volunteer for shooting duty and thought about that a lot.

Do you know what’s in the ambulance?

There isn’t even that common blood.

The tourniquets weren’t the good ones used by the US military, they were just cheap old tourniquets that were used for tying and pressing.

surgery?

I think the only person who can perform surgery on the spot is Baek Kang-hyuk.

Professor Yang Jae-won, if you really give me a generous amount?

‘We are also totems at times.’

In the 21st century, hospitals are places with well-established systems, so the power of on-duty duty in hospitals rather than in the wild is enormous.

People live only if there is a doctor.

It literally means that a person who is about to die can live, but it is no exaggeration to say that there is none of that here.

First of all, it is truly pitiful that we have to rely on our eyes to determine where and how much a trauma patient is injured.

Well… … Even if you say it’s pathetic, it’s not like the X-ray will just come out, so all you have to do is wait.

For this reason, our hospital is not on-call yet.

So it’s no wonder the nurse was surprised.

“Oh, I was just looking around. I don’t have time during the day.”

It’s obvious that Liston was sleeping and didn’t have anything to say.

It probably would have been the same even if I hadn’t slept.

It’s not usually the case that problems are solved through talking.

“Huh? Why?”

“You know I’m interested in hospital interiors, right? Don’t worry about it and just do your work. You must be busy.”

“Oh, yes. Well… … I’m not that busy.”

So I talked around.

It didn’t have to be that plausible.

Anyway… who would want to have a long conversation with someone of higher status?

The wish would have been to do it roughly and go quickly.

So we could have a nurse on duty and just wander the hallways.

I was chewing on the words that I wasn’t busy in the meantime.

‘There are two nurses on duty per ward… … and four including the one on the upper floor, and the average number of hospitalized patients is around 100.’

You might be wondering, “What the heck are these many hospitalized patients?”

Especially if you know the size of our hospital.

Space… … .

That’s because if we fill the six-person rooms we’re familiar with, there will never be space for 100 people to be hospitalized.

They said it starts from the 2nd floor, but at best it ends at the 3rd floor, and it’s not even 100 pyeong at most, so it can’t be helped… … .

Surprisingly, our hospital also has 20-person rooms.

That means there are 20 people in one room.

‘I just can’t convince myself of this… ‘

The main topic of discussion was why we had to separate patients of the same age into different wards and cause inconvenience.

I am proud that I was able to secure enough space between the beds for a person to stand.

There was a pretty strong argument that we should get rid of that too, so that we could have at least ten more people per floor, and that it was all for money, but I stopped them.

Persuasion was difficult, so force was used.

‘I said that people with money would prefer single rooms and that we could make them more expensive… … but that also fell through, eventually.’

The main opinion was why a rich person would be admitted to the hospital.

In fact, this was true, as it was a time when there was almost nothing to do in the ward.

Even the care was often better done by the servants or family members who originally did the job.

But even so, there’s a nurse here, so isn’t it a little different?

no.

In fact, only our hospital calls us nurses, and in other places, even the names aren’t unified.

“It’s too noisy… … .”

Not long after I started thinking about this and that, a patient came staggering out of the hospital room.

It can’t help but be noisy.

If you gather 20 healthy adults, some of them will toss and turn and snore, but aren’t they all sick?

Even the ward the patient came from was the internal medicine ward, that is, our director’s ward.

In the 21st century, internal medicine has many branches and treats all kinds of diseases, but the most serious internal disease considered at this time is digestive disease.

It is a disease that causes diarrhea, but since it is still a time when we cannot even dream of things like diarrhea treatment, we end up fighting day and night.

“Oh, bear with it.”

“It’s too loud to bear.”

“Then what? Go and tell them to stop fighting? Aren’t those people hospitalized because they can’t do that?”

“That’s true, but… … hmm.”

“Just go and fight. Don’t even think about sleeping.”

“Ugh.”

But if it was a 21st century ward, they probably would have given me earplugs.

But our ward doesn’t have that.

Aren’t we living in an age where patience is a virtue?

However, I don’t think it’s right for medical staff to just tell patients to endure it… … .

When I see that neither the talking nurse nor the listening patient seem to have any particular issues, I think that times really are different.

I also wonder if that is possible due to the cultural relativism that has been instilled in the 21st century.

but…….

“They could just give me something to plug my ears with, but they don’t.”

“But wouldn’t this be an opportunity to develop patience?”

“I was hospitalized because I thought I was going to die from pain, but what can I do? How long do I have to live?”

“People don’t die that easily.”

“You don’t know. You die in the hospital.”

“Well… … I guess that’s because someone who is about to die has come.”

“No, so you’re not going to give me anything to plug my ears with?”

“That’s not what I meant. But it feels a bit… … joking… … joking.”

I don’t think it’s right to dismiss it as a joke.

In a situation where there is no other medicine, wouldn’t you need to get some sleep to recover?

However, it is also absurd to send them home just to sleep.

Judging by the speed at which they go in and out of the bathroom, it’s obvious that half of the patients in that ward will be dead by the time they get home and are exposed to dirty water in the next day or two.

Even now, the theory that “If you don’t eat something, you won’t get diarrhea” is prevalent, so even patients with severe diarrhea are restricted from drinking water, and some die simply because they can’t vomit enough water.

“Ugh… … It hurts so much.”

“Oh, that patient is the one whose arm I cut off earlier.”

Leaving Liston’s ramblings behind, I focused on the conversation between the nurse and the patient.

“I cut off my arm, it hurts.”

The nurse had an indifferent look on her face again.

“No, I said it hurts!”

“Then what can I do for you? Can I help you?”

“that…….”

“Are you praying? I saw it earlier, but when the pastor and priest came, you didn’t even come out.”

No, should I say it’s a case of the enemy being defeated?

I was casting ‘What can I do when I’m sick?’

Actually, that could have been possible.

We are watering the willow tree, but… … .

As is always the case with herbal medicines, the dosage is often insufficient.

Now, we need to chemically identify which component of willow bark is effective, isolate it, and increase the dosage to create an effective drug called aspirin.

Of course, it’s unlikely that a patient who has had an amputated arm will be satisfied with just being given an aspirin.

‘I really shouldn’t get hurt… … .’

It makes me realize once again that we live in an era where painkillers are in short supply.

“At that time… … .”

“You said it didn’t hurt because you didn’t fully recover from the anesthesia? That’s why I told you, right? It would hurt.”

“But… … .”

“Hold on. What do you want me to do?”

“Ugh.”

In comparison, patience seems to be amazing.

This applies not only to physical things, but also to psychological things.

How can one tolerate such sarcasm?

I thought that the patient was truly a gentleman.

“This is crazy.”

Of course, Liston was not a gentleman, so he was furious.

“We’re observing. We’ll get together tomorrow and say something.”

“No matter what, they do that to my patients.”

“Then what are you going to do for me?”

“that…….”

Getting angry and increasing your abilities is something that only happens in boys’ comics.

These days, the quality of comics has gotten so high that in most comics, when you get angry, your abilities usually regress.

Liston was no exception.

I continued speaking to him, who was speechless.

“First, we need to check the wound. There may be a problem and it may hurt.”

“Oh, I see.”

“We need to provide this kind of education. The prognosis of patients will greatly depend on how the nurses behave in the ward.”

“How on earth did you know that?”

“The calling that the Lord has given me… … I guess that’s what it is for nurses. I just follow the words that I must be thorough in my profession.”

“Ah, as expected, Lord… … .”