“Status”, Edward asks the paramedic who wheels in a badly wounded guy in to the emergency room at 3:30 am in the morning.
"Highly Unstable. Blood pressure is rapidly falling. Excessive bleeding", replied the paramedic as he ran into the ER.
Dr. Edward Moor was busy reading a report of a patient whose heart surgery he is to perform in 3 hours. He takes a sip from his coffee cup only to realize it’s empty. He throws the cup in the trash while rushing out the room to go meet his patient. As he closes the door, his phone rings. He hurries back into the room and just manages to answer the call. After a few words are exchanged, he slumps into his chair as tears run down his cheeks.
“What happened?” Edward asked as he checks the man’s pulse.
“Multiple gun shot wounds to the lung and stomach”, the paramedic replied as he and his partner shift the man on to the hospital bed.
Edward sees the police cars as he drives up to his house. He gets down and rushes to his house. Detective Wellings and Glover indicate to follow and escort him through the door he has been entering for the last 10 years, but this time it was different. He learnt to grow indifferent to the terrible things he saw in the emergency room of the Boston Medical Center everyday for the last 17 years but nothing prepared him for what he saw today. He stares in shock and falls on his knees and cries.
“His blood pressure is rapidly falling. He is going into cardiac arrest. We need to perform an emergency surgery. Wheel him into the OR”, Edward told the nurses as they start wheeling him down the corridor towards the OR.
The images of his wife and two boys lying in the pool of blood with their necks slit open troubles Edward even today. Extensive therapy helped him cope with his loss but nothing could replace the agony and suffering. Investigation of the murders met several road blocks and was eventually given up due to lack of any substantial evidence. Police said that the victims were killed during a burglary and there were no more leads of the culprit except a ring that couldn’t be traced. The case was closed.
The guy was in a very serious condition and had lost a lot of blood. He would have lost his life for sure had it not been for Edward, a very skilled doctor. After 3 hours of surgery, the guy was stable and out of danger.
“A couple months of rest and a lot of Physiotherapy, the guy can go on to live a long life”, thought Edward as he finished stitching his wounds.
Edward walked out of the OR pleased he was able to save a life today.
Edward had always been a very dedicated doctor. After the tragic loss of his family, he buried himself in work with a passion that bordered on obsession. He started spending almost 18 hours in the hospital’s emergency room where he believed he could do more, he could save more people. He hardly went to his empty house and if he did go it was only to shower and sleep. He became a recluse and refused to go out with friends or meet his family. He was obsessed with finding the man who killed his wife n sons. His emotions of revenge overwhelmed him and he wanted closure.
He sees detectives Wellings and Glover standing outside the OR waiting for him. They indicate to follow and escort him to a more secluded place in the hospital corridor and for a second he gets transported back in time. He walks up to them, shakes their hand and prepares himself for the bad news.
“Hello Detectives. What brings you here?”, he says to them with a heavy voice.
“Hello Doc. We have some good news for you. We found the person who murdered your family 2 years back”, said detective Glover with a heavy British accent.
Edwards shifts uncomfortably in his place and struggles to get the words out. He has been waiting a really long time to know the identity of the person who destroyed his life. He wanted to kill him and wished he would die as brutally as his family did. But none of these thoughts mattered anymore.
He just wanted closure. Peace for his family and more importantly himself.
“Well.. Who is he?”, Edward asks in a voice that did nothing to hide the shiver he felt.
Detective Wellings turns and points to the guy being rolled out of the OR, Edward just came from.
“That’s him. The man you just saved. ”
"Highly Unstable. Blood pressure is rapidly falling. Excessive bleeding", replied the paramedic as he ran into the ER.
Dr. Edward Moor was busy reading a report of a patient whose heart surgery he is to perform in 3 hours. He takes a sip from his coffee cup only to realize it’s empty. He throws the cup in the trash while rushing out the room to go meet his patient. As he closes the door, his phone rings. He hurries back into the room and just manages to answer the call. After a few words are exchanged, he slumps into his chair as tears run down his cheeks.
“What happened?” Edward asked as he checks the man’s pulse.
“Multiple gun shot wounds to the lung and stomach”, the paramedic replied as he and his partner shift the man on to the hospital bed.
Edward sees the police cars as he drives up to his house. He gets down and rushes to his house. Detective Wellings and Glover indicate to follow and escort him through the door he has been entering for the last 10 years, but this time it was different. He learnt to grow indifferent to the terrible things he saw in the emergency room of the Boston Medical Center everyday for the last 17 years but nothing prepared him for what he saw today. He stares in shock and falls on his knees and cries.
“His blood pressure is rapidly falling. He is going into cardiac arrest. We need to perform an emergency surgery. Wheel him into the OR”, Edward told the nurses as they start wheeling him down the corridor towards the OR.
The images of his wife and two boys lying in the pool of blood with their necks slit open troubles Edward even today. Extensive therapy helped him cope with his loss but nothing could replace the agony and suffering. Investigation of the murders met several road blocks and was eventually given up due to lack of any substantial evidence. Police said that the victims were killed during a burglary and there were no more leads of the culprit except a ring that couldn’t be traced. The case was closed.
The guy was in a very serious condition and had lost a lot of blood. He would have lost his life for sure had it not been for Edward, a very skilled doctor. After 3 hours of surgery, the guy was stable and out of danger.
“A couple months of rest and a lot of Physiotherapy, the guy can go on to live a long life”, thought Edward as he finished stitching his wounds.
Edward walked out of the OR pleased he was able to save a life today.
Edward had always been a very dedicated doctor. After the tragic loss of his family, he buried himself in work with a passion that bordered on obsession. He started spending almost 18 hours in the hospital’s emergency room where he believed he could do more, he could save more people. He hardly went to his empty house and if he did go it was only to shower and sleep. He became a recluse and refused to go out with friends or meet his family. He was obsessed with finding the man who killed his wife n sons. His emotions of revenge overwhelmed him and he wanted closure.
He sees detectives Wellings and Glover standing outside the OR waiting for him. They indicate to follow and escort him to a more secluded place in the hospital corridor and for a second he gets transported back in time. He walks up to them, shakes their hand and prepares himself for the bad news.
“Hello Detectives. What brings you here?”, he says to them with a heavy voice.
“Hello Doc. We have some good news for you. We found the person who murdered your family 2 years back”, said detective Glover with a heavy British accent.
Edwards shifts uncomfortably in his place and struggles to get the words out. He has been waiting a really long time to know the identity of the person who destroyed his life. He wanted to kill him and wished he would die as brutally as his family did. But none of these thoughts mattered anymore.
He just wanted closure. Peace for his family and more importantly himself.
“Well.. Who is he?”, Edward asks in a voice that did nothing to hide the shiver he felt.
Detective Wellings turns and points to the guy being rolled out of the OR, Edward just came from.
“That’s him. The man you just saved. ”
Nice narration, for the flashback and the present scenes. I like that part.
ReplyDeleteI guess, you are way too obsessed with 'classy' names for your characters. Keep it going, I think you are watching lot of TV and the jargon is showing in your stories. Nice :)
Fan of Twilight?? ;)
ReplyDeleteHmmm... Fate and its ironic twists... But wonder what he would have done, had he known the truth earlier! Probably whatever he did, saved him and cursed him to have a life that held no meaning, but would have saved him. Or probably, would have killed him, cold blooded murder and let it be, an eye for an eye and would have esaily got away with it.
I would love to read the second part of this story...How did the Doc take it? Will he operate the patient again and leave his scissors in the stomach.Will he commit suicide for not taking his revenge.Will he slap those detectives for not telling him earlier.Anyways your writing makes sense. Keep it up.
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ReplyDelete@adarkmarshbench: Thank you :)
ReplyDelete@Mahita and Rahul: Well he could have taken it in anyway. I know it would be cliched if we say he would have killed him. What probably would be a poetic ending this is him doing his duty as a doctor and saving "a" life not his or her's :)
"Highly unstable..." :p
ReplyDelete@Bunty: What is highly unstable? You or me? :P
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