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“...Six cans?”

I thought I was hearing things.

This twenty-year-old had slammed down six cans of energy drink or coffee at this hour of the night, supposedly to study for a test?

Does he even have a liver left?

No, does his heart even have any left?

It's tachycardia, sure, but the cause is obvious.

Caffeine overdose.

I let out an inward sigh.

The worst miseries you run into in the ER usually happen when you can't tell the cause or can't do anything about it.

At least the cause was clear this time...