Observation (3)

Uh... yes?

For a moment I thought I had heard wrong and blurted out, dumbfounded.

He wants me to pass the EM board exam and then redo thoracic surgery training?

He’s saying I should go through residency twice?

In that notoriously people-grinding thoracic surgery department?

Professor Han I-hyeon laughed behind his mask, as if he’d noticed my brain freeze.

But just because his mouth was smiling didn’t mean his hands were resting.

While I was frantically trying to figure out whether this man was serious or just messing with the rotating resident, his hands were already perfectly stitching up the tear in the lung.

“For now, the hole’s closed. Give me a PGA sheet.”

“Here you go.”...