Flowers from the Doctor by Lucilla Andrews

Author:Lucilla Andrews [Andrews, Lucilla]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Maggie Hope, Jean Fullerton, happy ending, nurses, medical romance, Nadine Dorries, 1960s, romance, Donna Douglas, hea, doctors, hospital romance, Nightingales series, happy ever after, casualty, nursing
Publisher: Wyndham Books (Medical Romance)
Published: 2018-06-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

NO PARTY IN THE THEATRE

‘We’ve a boy here,’ said Johnny, ‘whom you’ll have to take in Mark, someone’ll have to move out into Simon Ward. The S.M.O. says we can borrow a medical bed. Now, about this boy. Name, age, unknown. He’s just come off his motor-cycle on the other side of this hill. The cops brought him to us as they didn’t think he’d last the journey to Hilldown General. They could be right.’ And he gave a list of injuries that made me wince even though I was accustomed to road accidents.

‘Obviously, no helmet.’

‘No. Luckily for him he got flung clear of the road and among the trees, or he wouldn’t be here at all. He hit one of the trees with his head, and that did for his skull.’

This was routine. It still hurt, and I suspected always would. ‘What about his family?’

‘The cops are checking. If that bike was his they’ll contact them soon and bring them up. They ought to be here. He’s only a kid.’ He was briefly silent. ‘He’ll have to go to the theatre from here ‒ if we can get him there. That impacted skull can’t wait. We’ve sent for Mr Bernard Kidd, but can’t wait until he gets here. He can’t get down from town in under two hours.’

Mr Bernard Kidd was the cranial surgery specialist at Simeon’s. The Senior Surgical Officer at the annexe was a sound, experienced young general surgeon, but the kind of operation that would have to be performed on that unknown boy’s brain would, from the details Johnny had given me, be right out of the S.S.O.’s class. It was a job for a cranial expert.

‘So the S.S.O.’ll start and hope Mr Bernard Kidd’ll be down in time to carry on?’

‘The S.S.O.’s left for Bournemouth with the Professor about an hour ago. He’s not back until to-morrow morning. I’m standing in for him, so I’ll have to do this boy.’

I had forgotten the S.S.O. was having an extra evening to attend one session of the Conference with the Professor, and that consequently Johnny as stand-in had no right to spend more than five minutes at Dolly Gray’s party, much less go walking in woods out of reach of a telephone. I was very shaken. It was the first time I had ever known him take his official job so lightly. Even when I had disliked him I had had to admit Johnny Druro was as conscientious as they came.

Then I realized what his acting S.S.O. meant now. I felt rather sick. ‘Who do you want shifted to Simon?’

‘How about Parsons? He’s an old hospital bird, so won’t mind as much as a first-timer, and he is a semi-convalescent. Will you explain to him? And Sister Mark?’

‘Yes, of course. Will it be all right with you if we send him along to Simon in his bed, and then have the Simon bed ready to send down to the theatre? You’ll obviously need the bed, and may need it in a hurry.

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