All Patients Lie (1)

Some time had passed since that incident.

Since that day, we’d been trying to go on as usual...

By the time spring was nearing its end, the rain that had recently been pouring down as if a hole had opened in the sky finally began to let up.

The world visible beyond the ER's automatic doors had been nothing but gray for days, but now faint shafts of light were finally breaking through the clouds.

I took my eyes off the monitor and pointed outside.

“Eun-seo. The sun’s out.”

“Huh? Really? Looks like it’s finally stopping.”

Baek Eun-seo stretched and looked outside.

But that peace was shattered by the TV news anchor’s voice from the ER wall-mounted set.

[Typhoon No. 9, Bamboo, is moving north faster than expected and is expected to make landfall on the Korean Peninsula sometime this week. The Korea Meteorological Administration says that along the southern coast....]...