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After the nephrology fellow took the patient up to the dialysis room, the ER was peaceful again.

With the diagnosis and treatment done, maybe because the tension had finally eased, it was so quiet I could feel my shoulders getting stiff.

Then I sensed a hesitant presence beside me.

It was Baek Eun-seo.

She was still standing there with a complicated expression, a mix of regret and self-reproach.

“Doctor.”

“Yeah.”

“I... I really thought it was a brain problem.”

Baek Eun-seo confessed honestly, her lips trembling slightly.

“The patient's breathing pattern and the fact that she was completely out of it mentally were so similar to the central hyperventilation we saw in textbooks that I didn't even think about drugs.”...