Code Blues by Melissa Yi

Author:Melissa Yi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, suspense, womens fiction, medical, doctor, chick lit, hospital, suspense thriller, nurse, womens fiction chicklit, physician, medical humour, medical humor, medical care, emergency, emergency room, womens commercial fiction, medical conditions, medical care abroad, medical claims, physician author, medical student, medical consent, medical billing, medical coming of age, suspense action, emergency management, medical controversies, physician competence, resident, intern, emergency response, hospital drama, hospital employees, emergency care, doctor of medicine, womens drama, emergency medicine, emergency medical care, emergency department, medical crisis, romance adult fiction, womens fiction with romantic elements, physician humor, womens pov, womens point of view, medical antagonism, emergency services, medical ignorance, emergency entrance, romance action, emergency room physician, hospital building, emergency assistance, romance action adventure, doctor nurse, medical complications, hospital administration, physician specialties, womens sleuth, hope sze, dave dupuis, david dupuis, morris callendar, notorious doc, st josephs hospital, womens adventure, medical resident
Publisher: Olo Books

Chapter 13

In the emerg the next day, I was too busy to brood about the boy. Anu showed up in her white coat. She rolled her eyes and fanned her three geriatrics consults at me. "That's the problem with geri at St. Joe's. There are too many patients!"

"Yeah, sorry," I said, since two of them were ones I'd referred to her. But Dr. Wiedermeyer had pointed out, "If they can't walk, they can't go home. Any elderly patient with no pressing medical issues, or with multidisciplinary problems, goes to geri."

I tugged at the sleeve of my white coat that I didn't normally wear. I whispered to Anu, "This is so I'll get more respect from patients."

She laughed and held out her hands toward me in a grand gesture that showed off her own white coat. Mine had a worn iron-on transfer for St. Joe's above the front pocket, but hers had McGill embroidered in black and red thread. Hers looked more expensive. Anu said, "I think it helps. But they still ask me how old I am!"

One of the R2's had told me she now wore pantyhose on internal medicine and the patients had stopped asking her age. So, in addition to my white coat, I had abandoned my greens and was wearing a fitted, ultramarine blouse and white, pleated skirt which fell about mid-thigh. I drew the line at the pantyhose, since it was July, and St. Joseph's didn't seem to have any functional air conditioning. I usually saved this skirt for going out, but the female doctors in Montreal wore sexier clothes than I was used to. I figured the skirt was legit, especially under my white coat, but kept the coat partially buttoned, just in case.

Anu grabbed the chart for bed number 11, and said hello to Tucker, who was further down the counter, in the psych corner. He grinned at us. "Hello, ladies." He stood up and moved closer to me. He'd cut his hair into a flat top, with the gelled ends sticking up.

"Hi," I said, trying not to stare at the tips of his blond hair. They reminded me of a stiff field of wheat. Maybe wheat after it had been attacked by freezing rain.

"You like my hair?" His hand rose up toward the back of his head.

I recognized the self-consciousness of the gesture. "Kickin'."

He smiled. "Yeah?"

I had to smile back. "Yeah." I'd seen him around a fair amount, working on the psych patients, but we hadn't really talked.

He rested his elbows on the white block in the middle of the nursing station. It was like a rotating shelf for forms, a paperwork lazy-Susan. "Can you tell me anything about the guy in 14?"

I shook my head. "Not my patient. Sorry." He seemed to want more, so I added, "The psych nurse probably knows all about him, though."

"Yeah." He didn't take his elbows off the shelf-thing.

I glanced around. I didn't see Dr. Wiedermeyer, but I didn't want him to think I spent all my time chatting with my friends instead of working.

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