“Got another one,” I heard from behind me and like a robot I washed my hands, put on new gloves, and moved to the next emergency.
“You again,” our head nurse Angela Webber said as I made my way over to them. I didn’t like Nurse Webber’s tone towards the patient but this was not a time to teach.
Save.
“Screw you, this wasn’t my fault. That punk fucking stabbed me!” the patient snapped.
It was a woman.
A small brunette woman that was trying to stretch her head up to get a glimpse of my first patient being wheeled towards surgery, she was the shooter if I had to guess.
“What do we have?” I asked like clockwork expecting my normal triage information.
“Who the hell is this?” the woman asked and Angela chuckled. The woman had fire in her eyes, and from what I could tell a deep laceration just below her left rib cage turning her white shirt a familiar dark red.
“This is Dr. Cullen our new ER doc, behave,” Angela answered as the woman raked her eyes across my face.
“Aww hell, I need an actual doctor, not some newby intern, where’s Dr. Whitlock?” the woman asked, and since I was getting a hard time and not any answers, I stepped forward to assess the wound. As I reached for her it took all of a half of second for her stop my advances with what was a rather strong and quite impressive wrist bar. It would have taken me less time to snap her small wrist in half, but I try not to hurt patients at all cost no matter how difficult they are. Plus I’m sure that would have been a great first impression on my new staff. “Crazy Dr. Cullen abuses his patients”… rumors would start up in no time.
“Hands to yourself,” the bleeding woman hissed as I broke free from her hold.
“I am new here, ma’am. Not a new doctor. Now stop getting in my way so I can patch you up so you can go shoot someone else,” I replied coldly, and I heard the rest of my crew gasp as she huffed at me. I had dealt with difficult patients for far too long, no one impressed me.
“You better not fuck this up or you will be that someone else,” she muttered under her breath but loud enough for me hear, on purpose no doubt.
Full first chapter will hopefully be posted tomorrow... let the fun begin...
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