Perfect Surgeon 135
Perfect Surgeon chapter 135

Episode 134.

134.

Seeing Jae-myung Kim flirting with Sun-ye, Hyun-jun suddenly remembered the story of Lee Geun-suk at a drinking party last month.

“You and I are very busy. When was the last time you asked for a drink?”

Hyun-jun poured soju into Lee Geun-seok’s empty glass.

“It was a week after the ILTS conference, so nine months? Time is fast. Let’s have a drink.”

Two people handed over a glass of wine at the same time at a carriage in Daehangno.

Lee Geun-suk’s eyes, looking at Hyun-joon as if he had undergone a change of heart after ILTS, were different from before.

Lee Geun-seok, who looks happy, opened his mouth first.

“Isn’t this the first time the two of us drink together?”

“That’s right. When I think about it, my high school classmates, college classmates, and even jobs were the same, but I never had a chance.”

“It’s not that I didn’t have the opportunity, it’s that I didn’t want to.”

Lee Geun-suk refilled the glass and drank it again.

“what. Why are you in such a candid mode today?”

“Why? then no?”

“no. good.”

Hyunjun smiled.

“Then have a drink.”

As the night progressed, the conversation between the two of them, giving or receiving one drink at a time, deepened little by little.

“You still can’t go into the operating room?”

“Yes. What.”

“I hear voices here and there, but it won’t be easy unless Director Pyo is there. He hated you more than I thought.”

As a sophomore as a fellow, the stories he heard directly from the professors had to be denser than the information he could get from his resident position.

My heart felt tight for a moment, but because there was nothing I could do about it, Hyun-jun passed it on with a light smile.

“Gosh. Thank you.”

“There are two years left. Just hold on until you graduate.”

“I didn’t know that person would even become a director.”

“I already knew. If it was a novel or a drama, bad people would be punished with punishment, but this is the reality. It’s normal for the bad guys to rise to the top.”

“That’s it. After all, it’s been two years… … I don’t know if I can stand it.”

“Actually, if you look at the moving scene… … tt It’s completely stamped out and no professor wants to take it. It will not be easy even if I try to find a job at another hospital after graduating.”

“I felt that Professor Joo Kwang-wook was amazing in that respect.”

“what?”

“I knew what Lee Dong-shin had done, but he didn’t say anything to me until the end. He never told me to leave the team.”

“Hmm… … . Why?”

“If you think about it now, I think it was because Lee Dong-shin predicted what kind of situation he would be in after he left.”

“You don’t want to get your hands dirty?”

“no. He won’t be able to learn properly in the fourth year, so I think she was just trying to teach her fast food properly even when she was in the hospital.”

“Ah… … .”

Lee Geun-suk’s eyes and mouth widened at the same time.

“Lee Dong-shin must have felt that kind of Professor Joo’s heart. Professor Joo got down on his knees and cried profusely during the last dinner before he left.”

“… … I also thought he was a rough-tempered person only after hearing the story, but after hearing what you said, I think he is a really respectable person.”

“You can say that he is a true teacher.”

“It’s a comparison, but when I think about it that way, Director Pyo Jin-young seems like a really scary person. He even lets him change his glasses and pretends he doesn’t know.”

Hyeon-jun, who was listening to Lee Geun-suk’s story, asked a question he had been curious about.

“So, wouldn’t it have been embroidered on the glasses themselves?”

“Yes? In 3D glasses? Was it strange during the operation?”

Hyun-jun was the first to talk about what happened at ILTS.

Of course, I couldn’t say anything about thermoscan-like abilities, but Professor Joo Kwang-wook even said that the reason he couldn’t do it until the end was in the fluorescent film.

“Umm… … . That’s what happened… … . You mean the surgery went so well though?”

“… … I was lucky enough to figure it out at the beginning. Anyway, the president of the medical device company said he did it, but I am suspicious of Director Pyo. Have you heard anything?”

Lee Geun-seok shook his head as he recalled his memories.

“There was no such story. Even if that were the case, you wouldn’t even talk to me like that.”

“Uh-huh, that’s right. Without proof, I can’t do anything… … .”

“I can’t imagine. If President Pyo made it, it is not a matter of the academic level.”

“I know yeah.”

There was silence over the table.

The two of them, whose minds became complicated, continued to bring the glasses to their mouths without saying anything.

As the atmosphere grew heavy, Hyunjun changed the subject.

Director Pyo Jinyoung’s intervention was something that should be revealed someday, but it didn’t have to be now.

“By the way, you said you were offered a scout at Johns Hopkins.”

There was a bit of envy in the boy’s eyes. The Johns Hopkins Liver Transplant Center has been the premier location for hepatobiliary and pancreatic specialists.

“Who is it?”

“Song Seon -hee said that.”

“He got it wrong.”

“Yes?”

“If you go to Johns Hopkins with Professor Joo this year, the 1 year internship and 2 years residency in Korea will just pass away.”

Even if he wanted to learn trauma surgery other than hepatobiliary pancreas there, he could not accept Hyun-jun, a general practitioner.

“Oh, that’s right. Then, after two years, you can go get a specialist.”

“How is the military doing?”

“Ah… … military… … Yes.”

“It’s a suggestion that even Professor Lou Kalik didn’t even know about. Prof. Joo will tell you the details later, so he said that we should talk again after we finish military service.”

“I’m sorry. It’s Johns Hopkins.”

“It’s half and half. I have a desire to learn there, but that puts the trauma surgeon a little further away. To be honest, I don’t even think that even Johns Hopkins would have a better biography than Professor Joo.”

“Well… … .”

“Why don’t you come out under Professor Woo Je-young? Professor Woo also said that he was filmed by Director Pyo as an ILTS.”

“Ah, that. Professor Woo’s robotic surgery skills are the best among the hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgeons. But I can’t quit.”

“Don’t you hate Jinyoung Pyo?”

“Now I have decided not to pay attention to politics in the hospital. it doesn’t fit me My only goal now is to become the best robotic surgery surgeon.”

“Hey.”

“Why?

“You’re pretty cool.”

“You talk nonsense.”

After taking a deep breath, Lee Geun-seok looked at Hyun-jun.

“You know Hyun-jun is your father, a member of the National Assembly, right?”

“Yes. You’ve been famous since college. You’re a member of the National Assembly, you’re also a minister.”

“I didn’t say anything, but where did the rumors spread? After all, the father I saw growing up was a man who would do anything to get things done.”

“Well… … .”

Hyeon-jun, who had nothing to say after dissing his father himself, simply nodded.

“I didn’t want to live like that father, so I went to medical school to become a doctor that had nothing to do with politics.

He seemed quite drunk.

One by one, Lee Geun-seok loosened the locks that had been tightly closed.

“That’s why I only looked at my skills and stayed under Professor Woo.”

“Yes. therefore.”

Lee Geun-suk paused for a moment.

“So what?”

“sorry.”

“… … Hey. Why are you like this?”

“Before ILTS, it was hard to admit you. Just because I was lucky, I overtaken me in college, graduate high school, meet Sunye, and come back to the hospital to get attention… … I was lucky enough to brainwash myself that way.”

“… … .”

“By the way. After the ILTS conference, I saw a video of the surgery you performed. There was no such thing as luck. It was all skill and hard work.”

Hyunjun’s heart fluttered slightly at the honest compliment. He didn’t even know that his opponent was Lee Geun-suk.

“Why all of a sudden, man. may you… … Aren’t you afflicted with an incurable disease?”

Despite Hyun-jun’s rude joke to cover up his embarrassment, Lee Geun-seok had a serious expression until the end.

“It must have been difficult, but how did you survive?”

“… … what?”

“It is not easy to act according to your beliefs. Everyone knows it in their head, but they can’t do it in reality because they think about the relationships in the hospital.”

There were names that immediately came to Hyeonjun’s mind.

Ronnie, mother, Sunye, Professor Choi, Professor Joo… … . Without them, they would not have survived.

And.

“I know that doing what I think is right makes some people uncomfortable. But you can’t be loved by everyone. Because I can’t throw away another chance to show others well or to get along well with others.”

It was Hyeon-jun who gave up the path of Seo-jeon due to his mother’s illness.

I thought that it was the last chance that the heavens gave Ronnie a chance to come into my head and go on the path of true sergeant again.

An opportunity like that could not be blown away.

Therefore, Hyun-jun had no choice but to do his best according to his beliefs.

“One more chance? Ah… … It’s about your mother.”

“… … Did you know?”

“I heard from Yeon-wook a while ago. I understand why he made that choice, but he didn’t leave without a word.”

“sorry. At that time, I was immature, and after that, I regretted it a lot.”

“What are you going to do with the past? But, be kind to Sunye as much as you are sorry.”

“… … .”

“The reason I changed my mind during ILTS is because of Sunye.”

“What?”

“Sunye came to Roset to cheer. Seeing both of us, they said they were proud of us as mates.”

“It was… … .”

“But I wasn’t proud of myself at all.”

Lee Geun-suk, who had not been able to speak for a while, spoke with difficulty.

“So, be nice to Sunye even for my share.”

“… … .”

“Sunye, I still like you a lot. But it’s going to be very difficult because you’re in an awkward attitude.”

He couldn’t answer, and Hyun-jun picked up a drink.

“Do you know how popular Sunye is at the hospital? Do your best before the tough guy goes away.”

“… … Let’s have a drink.”

* * *

“Hyunjun, what are you doing? Let’s get off.”

“Oh, okay.”

Hyun-jun, who was distracted by Yun Seon-ye’s summons, got off the bus and packed his things.

The staff of the Khmer Soviet hospital welcomed the volunteers almost as if they were a state guest.

In particular, Noh Joo-hoon, an oral and maxillofacial surgeon who visited Cambodia without exception for 10 years, was the most popular among locals.

Needless to say, Cambodia’s medical environment is comparable to that of Korea in the 1960s, and the volunteers’ help was a great gift to local medical staff.

Starting with the anesthesia machine, he has donated surgical equipment as well as taught how to use it.

Other than the dental hospital staff, others felt a bit alienated, but the steady volunteer work for 10 years was well worth it.

Medical tools and materials airlifted from Korea through the heavy rain were transported to the hospital.

The patients who heard the news of the corps’ visit were already filling the waiting room.

“Hyunjun-ah.”

Sunye Yoon’s expression hardened as she checked the condition of the children who came as patients.

“Yes.”

There were many patients with cleft palate and cleft palate congenitally.

‘It would be like this… … .’

Although cleft lip and cleft palate occurred, most of them were corrected surgically between 3 and 5 months of age in Korea.

Most of the children who came here were seriously ill because they did not receive proper treatment when they were young.

The situation in Cambodia came as a shock to Hyun-jun, who only thought about the medical blind spots in Korea.

After a meeting with the local medical team and a team was assigned, treatment and surgery started immediately.

Yoon Seon-ye was assigned to the surgical anesthesia team, and Hyun-jun took on the role of an assistant, including the preparation of tools and blood needed for surgery.

“Because this is the first time, some of you may be unfamiliar with the role, so please attend the first operation on the surgical team.”

Hyun-jun entered the operating room after disinfection with local medical staff who were also observing.

Even though it was an outdated operating room, chicken meat grew on Hyeon-jun’s forearm in the unique air.

‘How much is this?’

[After 162 days.]

Apart from Hyun-jun’s emotion, the operation started immediately with the assistant of Manager Noh Joo-hoon and Kim Jae-myung’s assistant.

Big Man was installed in the mouth of the child who had been anesthetized, and Manager Noh’s hand moved.

“As you can see from here, you have to sew the nose and the roof of the mouth to avoid scarring.”

Manager Noh occasionally explained his techniques in English while watching the local doctors with a serious expression.

Hyun-jun, who has nothing to do right now, also concentrated on surgery.

‘That’s how you do it.’

The first thing that caught my eye was a surgical instrument called Big Man that opened its mouth and pulled out the tongue.

Then he heard the murmur of an old local doctor in his ears.

“????????????.????????????”

‘What are you talking about, Ronnie?’

[Literally translated, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about. It would be nice if you could explain it in our own language.’]

It was because of Roni that Hyun-jun devoured the Khmer dictionary.

Ronnie was able to speak Khmer to some extent within a day, and Hyun-jun had an interpreter in his head.

‘Is English difficult?’

Looking at the faces of the people, only the local doctors who belonged to the younger axis were nodding their heads.

If the local medical staff had learned and mastered cleft lip surgery for 10 years, there should not have been a rush of patients to coincide with the visit of the volunteer group as it is now.

It would be difficult to close the medical gap of several decades, but it could be seen that the surgical method was not properly handed down.

‘Would you like to try it? Ronnie, can you?’

[Available.]

“You have to sew along two layers. And there is a muscle in the middle, and you have to reorient it and sew it.”

After Manager Noh Joo-hoon’s explanation continued, Hyun-jun carefully tried to interpret.

Perfect Surgeon chapter 135

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