The Price (Final)

“No, Mom, why are you doing this? I could seriously collapse from the shock, you know? You were pounding on your chest earlier too, saying it felt tight.”

The son clung to his mother’s arm with a tearful face.

“Junseo. After sending your father off like that, I really thought I was going out of my mind. I couldn’t sleep, couldn’t eat. What on earth happened in the ER that someone who walked out fine came out like this? Am I supposed to know just by looking at this scrap of paper?”

With trembling hands, she crumpled the copy of the medical record and pressed hard against her chest.

“I need to see it with my own eyes.”

“Ma’am, I really am speaking from a neutral standpoint, but watching that video itself could muddle the legal judgment, and above all, it may be too much for you to handle emotionally.”

Even the lawyer added, looking troubled.

“Counsel, please wait a moment.”

The mother cut the lawyer off firmly.

“If I watch the video, I’ll know. Whether he was really neglected and left to die unjustly because it was too much trouble, or whether he truly received the best possible treatment until the very end. That’s enough.”...