All Patients Lie (3)

“You, you need to tell me the moment the CT comes out! And get the on-call surgeon down here! Tell them to look at it right now, no matter what!”

“Yes, doctor! I’ll call right away.”

Baek Eun-seo picked up the phone.

I shot to my feet without even looking back.

I hurriedly put my coat back on and sprinted toward Zone B, where the patient was.

‘AST, ALT in the triple digits.’

Those were numbers that should never appear in simple bowel obstruction.

Even if the bowel twisted and necrosis set in, even if sepsis developed, liver enzymes would not spike this sharply on their own.

It meant the liver itself had taken damage.

Physical or chemical...