Spring Conference (2)

I had seen only a sliver of hope to escape this hellish situation.

So this professor had accepted my reasonable argument.

Right, we had to avoid friction with surgery.

I thought Professor Cheon had finally decided not to send me to the conference.

No, if you thought about it rationally, would they really make a resident give a presentation on such a crazy topic? Especially in a situation they themselves found awkward?

If I were the professor, I'd be too worried to ever send me out.

Exactly.

If I were the professor, I wouldn't send me either.

There was no reason to needlessly increase friction with another department, or to destroy a fellow resident's social life in the same department.

But why wasn't this conversation ending...