Reputation
People all over the world has been coming to St. Thomas Hospital in London for two reasons: People in need of a specialist in neuro that take great risks with a very high success rate and medical students who desperately want a chance to be taught by the goddess of neurosurgery. THE great Dr. Eve Park.
It's the first day of the interns, hospital is burning with passion coming from the young ones starting their journey to being an actual physician. Elena, Hugo, and Kenny along with the other interns are preparing in their lounge. It is a small room with several lockers and chairs in between.
“Kenny Stowton, Hugo Clinton and Elena Felton! Dr. Park is at the end of the hall!”
She hears the head nurse shouting while she takes one of her patient's chart, reading. Back facing the other end of the hall, just to make a dramatic first impression. She hears her interns talking with each other as they walk towards her. They are still few feet away but probably not aware pf how loud they are speaking.
“I heard your mom is the Chief here, must be why you’re under Dr. Park. Huh?” Hugo asks Kenny.
“Oh, come on, don’t be a dick, Hugo. I heard you are under Dr. Park because you are from Oxford and mommy has connections on the higher-ups,” Elena quickly retorts after seeing the embarrassed look on Kenny’s face.
She slowly turns around to face the interns, fixes the position of her square black eyeglasses, and coldly stares at them. They stop in front of her as they can feel the atmosphere changing just being in front of her.
Oh. This is going to be fun.
“Hi, Dr. Park! I am Hugo Clinton from Oxford,” He introduces himself with a smile that intends to charm and reaches a hand out towards her. She just looks at his hand then back at him. Hugo quickly retreats his hand. A little embarrassed on what he did. Eve eyes them like she will burn them alive with her gaze.
“I have five rules and try to memorize them: one, don’t bother sucking up cause I already hate you. That’s never gonna change. Two, answer your pagers at a run like your life depends on it.” She points at the pagers on the nurse station and starts to walk fast. Interns grab their pagers then notice that their attending doesn't wait for them so they literally leap to catch up behind her.
“Your first shift starts now and lasts 48 hours. You are interns. Nobodies. Bottom of the surgical food chain. Run labs. Write orders. Work every second of the night until you drop and don’t complain,” She says as she enters a room and stops at the doorway.
“On-call rooms. attending hogs them and sleep when you can. Which brings me to rule number three: if I am sleeping, Don’t. Wake. Me. unless your patient is actually dying. Rule number four: the dying patient better not be dead when I get there. It doesn’t make sense when you wake me up for a dead patient. Clear?”
Hugo raises his hand.
“Yes?”
“You said five rules, that’s only four.”
Eve’s pager starts to beep.
“Rule number five: When I move, you move,” She starts walking again towards the office of the Chief of Surgery. “I have a patient arriving today. She’s in a coma for almost a year now due to an accident. Recent scans show no indication of abnormalities. She’s being transferred from another hospital. Read her chart and do every scan you can think of to figure out why she is still in a coma. First to know will have the chance to assist me in one of my surgeries.” She says with a smirk is evident on her face. She hates interns because they are nosy, but she finds great joy in teaching them while making their lives a living hell. She knows how this kind of challenge sends interns all over the moon just to find answers.
As they turn right, Dr. Carolyn Martens suddenly appears in front of them.
“There you are! I can see that you started having fun with your interns as early as today.”
“Good morning, Chief.”
“Good morning, Eve. Ready for today?”
She notices how odd her chief is acting and that makes her interested on this case even more.
“Yes. I reviewed her chart this morning and I ordered a new set of scans just to make sure.”
“Meet me at my office after lunch? I would like you to meet her father. A great friend of mine.”
“Sure.”
At that, Carolyn disappears quickly just as how she appeared out of nowhere. Eve starts giving orders.
“Dr. Felton, you are in the pit today. Dr. Stowton, run labs. Dr. Clinton, room 1210 needs assistance on the kid as he tries to poop out the head of his Lego toy. Kindly assist him. I’ll page all of you when the said patient arrives.”
Eve continues her usual routine. She starts her rounds for her post-operation patients and takes her time examining each of them. She is very hands-on with every single case she handles and that is only one of the many attributes that make her a great doctor. She may appear harsh on interns but fellows, nurses, and aids respect her a lot. She is cheerful and easy to work with. No wonder why everyone wants to work with her one way or another.
After several hours, she receives a page to Carolyn's office. She knocks twice before coming in. In the middle of Carolyn’s big office is a man with salt and pepper hair sitting across her. Carolyn gestures for her to sit beside the man and introduces them to each other.
“Nice to meet you, Mr. Astankova.”
“It’s nice to meet you too, Dr. Park. I heard you got a big reputation. I hope you will be able to help my eldest.”
Eve sees the pain in his eyes at the mention of his daughter.
“I will do everything I can, Sir. May I ask what happened? I mean I know about her medical history based on her chart, but it may become handy knowing the whole story.”
“Car accident,” Konstantin simply states but his eyes start to get wet as he reminisces what happened, “My eldest picked up my wife from a social event that night. I was sick but my wife still insisted to go because it’s the fund-raising event that we organized to help orphans. My daughter’s car was an Eleanor Mustang, but she is a safe driver. Always follow the rules. However, on their way home, there’s a truck with a malfunctioned brake. My daughter tried to dodge the car as much as she can, but it was too late. The truck accelerated too fast coming from a blind side of the road to the crossing where the truck crushed my daughter’s car. My wife engulfed my daughter in her arms immediately,” A tear falls on his cheek and he wipes it with the back of his hand.
“She did not make it. Dead on arrival. On the other hand, doctors had to retrieve my daughter twice as she flatlined. They said it’s a miracle when she got through the night due to her body’s extensive damage. From then on, Villanelle’s in a coma. They did every scan on earth but was not able to figure out the reason why she’s still asleep.”
Eve offers the tissue box and Konstantin gladly accepts it. Wipes his face and tries to compose himself as best as he can.
“Sorry for your loss, Mr. Astankova. I will repeat your daughter’s scans and we’ll go from there. Okay?”
Konstantin thanks her and as soon as she walks out of the room; her little puppies are there waiting for her.
“Good, you are all here. Ready to meet our first patient?”