Doctor's Orders: A Doctor Intern Secret Pregnancy Romance (Forbidden Doctors) by Sofia T Summers

Author:Sofia T Summers [Summers, Sofia T]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-05T00:00:00+00:00

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The minute I finished the lecture on the new mnemonic device we'd be using at times to diagnose patients, we got a hot case. A young boy presented with hallucinations and lacerations to his hands after breaking a mirror at home. I pored over the tablet, as did each of the interns. The case was strange. The boy was being treated for cancer, and while taking his pills, he hallucinated that the school bully was there mocking him. He punched the mirror and tried to strangle the bully, but it was his own reflection.

"Here," Dr. Cooper said, pointing at the tablet in front of her on the table. "He has terminal cancer, Dr. Park. Why are we doing this? It's just the cancer. Probably spread to his brain now."

Dr. Cooper's callous treatment of our patient's future was frustrating. "Because we treat all patients with the same amount of care and attention to detail." I looked at Lauren, who seemed upset or distracted. I knew she'd lost both of her parents and at times, certain cases came into the hospital that triggered some pain for her, but she'd never said anything.

"It's got to be a tumor in his brain. What else would cause psychological symptoms like that?" Dr. Cooper continued down her path of thinking, but I was watching Lauren.

"He's on fourteen different chemotherapy drugs." Dr. Holt shook his head. "It's just a side effect. Some hallucinations aren't entirely unheard of."

"No, keep thinking." I was distracted, something I promised myself and Lauren I wouldn't be when it came to patients, but something was bothering her.

"Then it's neurosyphilis." Dr. Baine nodded his head as if triumphant, and I had to resist rolling my eyes.

"He's nine years old, Dr. Baine. Nine-year-olds don't have sex." Dr. Holt corrected him for me, and I added my thoughts.

"We've ruled out infection too, so let's stick to what we know. His O2 stats are dropping slowly. It's almost impossible for one person to develop two different types of cancer simultaneously⁠—"

"Not to mention the chemo would have killed it," Dr. Cooper said, interrupting me.

"He has bleeding in his eyes. I think what we're looking for is a brain bleed or a clot. We need a contrast MRI." Dr. Holt offered his assessment, and I almost agreed instantly, but Lauren bolted to her feet and out the door so fast it made my head spin. She never even said where she was going.

"Where'd she go?" Dr. Cooper asked, scowling.

"Focus on the patient," I ordered, though my mind went with Lauren too. I turned to them and again scanned the patient's file on the tablet. "I agree with Dr. Holt. I think we're looking for a blood clot in the brain."

"But Dr. Park, chemo doesn't usually cause blood clots. That would be the only reason. A completely secondary condition occurring concurrent to the cancer seems unlikely." Dr. Cooper stood and hugged her tablet to her chest.

"But blood clots are a side effect in some people. He's on fourteen different kinds of chemo, Ginny.

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