Perfect Surgeon 136
Perfect Surgeon chapter 136

Episode 135.

135.

“???? stitch ?? … … ??”

When a doctor from Korea suddenly spoke Khmer, the local doctor’s eyes widened.

Hyun-jun nodded his head with an expression of still disbelief at Hyun-jun’s explanation.

Khmer was a very difficult language to learn, let alone to pronounce.

A little commotion arose as the local doctor told the truth to a colleague next to him.

“What happened?”

Manager Noh, who watched the scene, turned to Hyun-jun.

“Ah, that… … . Dr. Kirisan here doesn’t seem to understand the operation very well, so I did some interpreting.”

“Are you an interpreter?”

After the operation was stopped and the conversation continued, all eyes turned to Hyun-jun.

“Master Jang, do you speak Cambodian?”

“… … I can do a little.”

Assistant Kim Jae-myung snorted in the mask.

It was a natural reaction for him to see Hyun-jun studying on the bus.

“Mr. Kim. But why?”

“no. Manager. Just because you know the meaning of hello doesn’t mean you speak a little English. I don’t know because it seems that Hyeonjun Jang is overdoing it… … .”

“????”

At Kim Jae-myung’s words, Hyun-jun looked at Dr. Kiri-san next to him and asked, and he gave a thumbs up.

“very good!”

There was a lot of laughter among the locals.

Manager Noh asked on behalf of the curious Koreans.

“What did you ask?”

“I asked you how good my Khmer language is.”

“very good?”

“You say so. haha.”

Except for one person, this time the whole operating room burst into laughter. Sunye Yoon’s eyebrows were curved like a crescent moon.

“Good. Mr. Jang, please continue to interpret.”

“all right!”

When the operation was finished, Manager Noh Joo-hoon approached Hyun-jun.

When it was just the two of them, he relaxed.

“It was something I was worried about, but it turned out well.”

“If you are worried… … .”

“I want to pass on the surgical technique as much as possible, but there is a language barrier, so I have been feeling the limit for several years.”

After all, Manager Noh had the same thoughts as Hyunjun.

“I would like you to continue interpreting for the rest of the time. I’m sorry for asking like this, even though it’s not from our dental office.”

“If even one can help, that’s enough for me. Also, I am a doctor at Daehan University Hospital. You don’t have to be sorry.”

“haha. Is that so?”

Hyeon-jun quickly became a popular person following Manager Noh Joo-hoon.

It was natural for the local medical staff to feel favored by a Korean doctor who could speak their own language.

After work, Dr. Kirisan offered a coffee to Hyun-jun, who had cleaned up the operating room.

He, who is fifty this year, took care of Hyun-Jun secretly after interpreting in the operating room.

“Is this Cambodian coffee?”

“Is it delicious?”

“It really is. it’s delicious.”

Hyunjun took a sip of his coffee and sat down next to him with a proud expression on his face.

It wasn’t like the first day, but it was still raining heavily from the dark sky.

“Compared to Korea, there are not many medical facilities, right?”

“It’s probably like that.”

Hyunjun honestly nodded.

“There are so many sick people in this country, and as a doctor, it is always a pity.”

“Yeah… … .”

“The children who have surgery today are really lucky. Most of them don’t go through surgery and they become adults.”

“… … .”

“Cleft palate is actually a medicine. Thirty people per 10,000 people in Korea are disabled due to landmine damage. A third of them are children.”

While studying Khmer, Hyun-jun also learned a little about Cambodia.

50 years have passed since the end of the civil war, but the scars still remain.

In particular, the problem of landmines and unexploded bombs was serious.

More than 100 people die each year from landmine blasts and the number of wounded remains uncounted.

“Do landmine patients come here to the hospital?”

“Yeah. There was a patient who had an accident a week before the volunteers came. I heard that the explosion caused the bottom of the ankle to disappear.”

“Did the treatment go well?”

“… … no. The leg surgery went well, but he died of septic shock a few days after the operation.”

“… … That’s right.”

“So it’s even more unfortunate. If our medicine had been a little more advanced, there would have been many people who would not have died.”

After the conversation with Dr. Kirisan, Hyunjun, who was lying on the bed with the sound of rain, muttered.

“Our country is doing really well. Landmine explosions are a common thing… … .”

It’s a story I’ve heard occasionally on the news, but hearing it from the person in it was a completely different feeling.

“I should volunteer abroad whenever I have time.”

[The region most affected by landmine damage is Afghanistan. Next is Colombia, followed by Cambodia in third place.]

“Ronnie, are you telling me to go to volunteer in those countries now?”

[As long as I am there, Hyun-Jun will not take damage from landmines. I’ll warn you.]

“Thank you… … . It’s very comforting.”

It seems like yesterday that I arrived at Phnom Penh Airport, but a week had already passed.

The plan was to move to Prey Bang, 100 km southeast of Phnom Penh tomorrow, but the faces of the volunteers gathered in one place were not bright.

“It was the beginning of the rainy season, so I thought the rain would stop soon, but I didn’t think it would come all week.”

“Chief, how are you doing? I think it would be difficult to move.”

Kim Jae-myung, who had dashed towards Yun Seon-ye for a week as much as the rain, secretly expressed his wish that he did not go.

“Still, I made a promise to the residents a year ago, shouldn’t I keep it? There must be patients waiting for us to come… … .”

A family medicine specialist who participated in the volunteer service last year also gave an opinion.

Manager Noh looked out the window and couldn’t come to a conclusion easily.

As the pros said, I can’t forget the eyes of the children I met at Prey Bang a year ago.

However, as the person in charge of leading the corps, he could not ignore safety.

“Mesa, how are the road conditions?”

Mesa is a young friend who works at the hospital and was acting as a guide.

“I can go. You have to take Road 1, but the problem is that you have to cross the Mekong River in the middle. If the water level has risen to the top of the bridge, you cannot go.”

“Umm… … .”

The sound of footsteps broke the silence when conclusions were not easily reached and the night was getting longer.

Soon after, a local medical worker with an urgent expression ran into the room.

“Doctor No! Doctor No!”

“Doctor, what’s going on?”

“Help! Doctor No! A friend’s son was brought to the hospital after a landmine accident!”

In a hurry, English with a messy arrangement of sentences came out.

But no one understood the meaning.

“A land mine?”

“You seem to have injured your leg here and there, Dr. Noh, please take a look!”

“Doctor, yes. Calm down for now. I am a dentist, not a surgeon. Here is the surgeon… … .”

Manager Noh’s eyes turned to Yoon Seon-ye. She was already getting ready to leave.

“I will go.”

“okay.”

Hyeon-jun got up following her out with Dr. Eung.

“Chief, I’ll go too. I don’t even know if I’ll have to be an assistant.”

As Hyun-jun stood up, Kim Jae-myung nervously kicked Zara and got up.

“Master Kim, why are you here?”

“Even if the specific majors are different, I am not a surgeon either. There will be help.”

Kim Jae-myung’s character changed in an instant, and people put on an astonishing expression, but they couldn’t stop him from saying that he would help.

The sound of four people running echoed through the hospital with a time lag.

They arrived at the front of the surgery, but, perhaps of course, the party did not go inside.

Dr. Ng, who asked for help, explained the situation to the local medical staff, but it was too harsh for Hyun-jun to see.

No matter how poor Cambodian medical care was, the Khmer Soviet hospital was a medium-sized hospital.

Outsiders were not allowed to enter the treatment room at will.

Even if permission was obtained from above, it could harm the pride of the local medical staff.

“What the hell are you talking about?”

Kim Jae-myung was annoyed when he couldn’t do this or that.

When Hyeonjun explained the situation, he just blinked without answering.

Seon-ye Yun went out and Hyun-jun followed after him, but I didn’t know that it would have worked out better.

Yoon Seon-ye, who was watching the patient’s mother, who was weeping endlessly at the news like a clear blue sky, asked.

“Hyunjun-ah, what about the patient?”

“It’s an 11-year-old boy. It is said that the muscle on the right thigh was ruptured (ruptured) and landmine fragments were lodged all over the body. First aid has been given, and it seems that the surgeon to perform the operation has not arrived yet.”

Hyeon-jun, who overheard the conversation of the local medical staff, reported his condition.

“What about imaging tests?”

“Wait a minute… … . I think it’s still there. There is no story.”

“If there is a wound on the abdomen, I would have to check the ultrasound first… … .”

Hyunjun had the same idea.

Leaving behind Yoon Seon-ye, who was anxious, Hyun-jun approached Dr. Ng and spoke her words in Khmer.

“I keep explaining, but the chief of surgery said he couldn’t make a decision because he didn’t come.”

As time passed vaguely, Kim Jae-myung shook his head.

“Mr. Yoon, let’s go back. I don’t think there’s anything we can do.”

“Wait a little longer. At least until the doctor arrives.”

“Anyway, given the current atmosphere, I wouldn’t be able to enter the operating room.”

Yun Seon-ye’s expression hardened.

“Mr. Kim, please go back first. You don’t even have a major.”

“What are you talking about? It takes a thread to sharpen a needle. If you are there, I will be there too.”

A few minutes after Yoon Seon-ye’s speech was silenced by that brazenness, a man soaked in rain rushed into the surgical station.

“Come!”

“I’m sorry. It was late because the car stopped and just ran.”

It looked like the surgeon he was waiting for.

“What about the patient?”

“I am in the treatment room.”

“How is it?”

“It is similar to the landmine patient who came to the hospital last month.”

The surgeon’s complexion darkened slightly in response.

“Did you see the ultrasound?”

“Not yet.”

“I need to see the ultrasound, what are you doing? What else are these people doing?”

Even just looking in front of the treatment room, three foreigners were staring at him, so he couldn’t help but notice.

The local medical staff explained the situation with an annoyed expression.

“Korea? Why Korean doctors?”

Hyun-jun, who had not seen it, came out again.

“The female teacher here is a pediatric surgeon who has only 30 in Korea. She will definitely help. We just want to help.”

The man’s eyes widened at the fluent Khmer language and its contents.

Dr. Ng added flesh to Hyun-jun’s words.

“They are the most famous university doctors in Korea.”

“Daehan, university, school hospital?”

An unexpected Korean word came out of the mouth of the local surgeon.

“Do you know Daehan University Hospital?”

“Yeah. I know.”

A rare sight unfolded where Koreans asked questions in Khmer and Cambodians answered in Korean.

“Seven years ago, I received a one-year fellowship training at Daehan University Hospital Surgery.”

The surgeon spoke this time in English.

It didn’t seem easy to accept the fact that Hyun-jun, a Korean, spoke Khmer.

“I also work in surgery.”

“Five. okay? I don’t know if it’s still the case, but most of the Korean sergeants didn’t have a good personality.”

He seemed to have suffered quite a bit in the operating room.

In the surgical operating room, where life can go back and forth with a moment’s mistake, roughness was a basic element installed for Sergeant.

He shook his head at Hyun-jun, who was anxiously waiting for the next word because the meaning was unclear.

“… … My answer is ‘no’. We cannot bring outsiders into the operating room.”

Perfect Surgeon chapter 136

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