All Patients Lie (2)

“Why? Suddenly why?”

I was just finishing up the basic prescriptions and about to send the patient off to radiology.

The patient assessment was done, tests were ordered, painkillers were given, and then it was just a standard wait-and-see flow.

But what could it possibly mean for her to volunteer to go back and see the patient I’d just examined?

Calling it curiosity or scholarly zeal wouldn’t fit, because her expression was far too serious.

That meant she’d found something in my briefing that bothered her.

“No, the weird mark you mentioned, Dr. Han.”

Baek Eun-seo said without taking her eyes off the chart.

“You didn’t really look at it very closely, did you?”

“Ah... that?”...