King of Organs (3)

As always, you never know whether a treatment worked until you check. Sometimes a patient gets treated just fine, then suddenly falls and ends up back in the hospital.

“We’ll find out when we see.”

Rrrr.

Alice opened the door to the patient’s room.

As expected, the patient’s family member had spent the night wide awake like an owl. The patient was unconscious—or no, probably asleep.

“The patient is asleep, right?”

The family member rubbed their eyes and nodded. I glanced at the patient.

Is everything okay?

That startled me. I thought the patient had passed out.

I immediately shook the patient awake...