Baby, It's Cold Outside: An Enemies to Lovers Holiday Medical Romance by Kimberly Kincaid

Author:Kimberly Kincaid [Kincaid, Kimberly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-19T18:30:00+00:00

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Their patient needed surgery. Even Sofia, whose mind was still reeling and whose cheeks were still tingling from the brush of Emmett’s day-old stubble rasping over her face as he’d kissed her senseless, could see that the second paramedics had wheeled the woman through the ambulance bay.

No. Not Emmett. Dr. Mallory. Attending physician. Immediate supervisor.

Fan-freaking-tastic kisser, and God, she had to stop.

Her job was more important, and right now she had to do it.

“My name is Dr. Mallory, and I’m here to help you,” she heard Emmett tell the woman, who was alternating between glassy, wild-eyed stares and cries of pain. Small wonder, considering the upper bone of her arm had broken badly enough to puncture her skin. Of course, Emmett’s demeanor and his tone were smooth sailing, as if this were simply a stroll in the park. “Can you tell me if you’re experiencing any pain?”

“M-m-my arm. Oh, God, my arm.” The woman wrenched her head to the side to try and get a look at the limb in question, but instinctively, Sofia slipped into the woman’s field of vision.

“We’re going to help you with that, I promise. But Quinn here”—Sofia nodded at the paramedic helping them wheel the gurney into the trauma room, and Quinn looked down so the woman could see her without moving—“put this C-collar around your neck to protect your spine, so we need you to try to be really still while we assess your injuries, okay?”

She tried to nod before thinking better of it, then blinked up at Sofia. “O-okay.”

They arrived in the trauma room, a flurry of one-two-three lift, gurney transfer, and monitors being hooked up happening in seconds.

“Dr. Vasquez, can you get a status on our other patient, please?” Emmett asked, his gaze skating briefly to the adjacent curtain area, where two nurses and a third-year surgical resident tended to a man brought in by another paramedic. As the attending, his priority had to be to treat the patient with the most life-threatening injuries first.

After a lightning-fast check-in with the other resident, Sofia relayed, “Restrained SUV driver, no LOC, no obvious head or neck trauma. Bunch of lacs from the broken glass and some mild chest trauma from the seatbelt and airbag deployment. GCS 13 in the field.”

“Dr. Gerardi will have that well in-hand,” he said, as Quinn quietly slid her gurney out to the hallway with a wave. Emmett looked at Sofia, then down at his patient. “Okay, Ms. Polk. I know your arm hurts, and we are going to take care of that for you. Dr. Vasquez here is going to do what we call a rapid trauma assessment so we can make sure your arm is your only injury.”

“I am?” Too much shock had popped her in the sternum not to make it sound like a question. She’d taken point on plenty of RTAs, but they’d all been on patients whose injuries were far less severe. She’d certainly never run a trauma before.

But she wasn’t about to back down

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