McFadden, Freida - Dr. Jane McGill 01 - The Devil Wears Scrubs by McFadden Freida

Author:McFadden, Freida [McFadden, Freida]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hollywood Upstairs Publishing
Published: 2013-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

We finish up with rounds and I find a quiet place to get my work done, and after a few minutes, Nina joins me. I have to admit, I look around for Ryan. I know that nothing is going to happen right this minute, me with a ton of paperwork to do and him with… I don’t know, surgery to do. But I want to see him. Maybe sneak one more kiss in the elevator.

I hate myself for liking him so much.

I’m working my way through the long checklist of things I need to do before I can go home and go to sleep when an intern named Dave wanders over to us. His brown hair is sticking straight up and he looks really freaked out.

“Hey,” he says to me, running his hand through his hair, making it stick up even more. “Have you seen Connie?”

I shake my head. Connie is very focused on getting out of the hospital as fast as she can, which means when I see her, she’s often just a blur.

“She signed out to me an hour ago,” Dave says, “but then one of her admissions from last night got his third set of cardiac enzymes back and it was elevated. So… that means he’s having a heart attack. Right?”

“Right,” I say. “I think so.”

I glance over at Nina, who shrugs.

“So I paged Connie to tell her and ask her what to do,” Dave explains. “But she’s not answering, so… I don’t know what to do. What do I do?”

Nina and I exchange looks. “I think you’re supposed to start the patient on a heparin drip?” Nina suggests.

“Maybe you should call cardiology?” I say.

Dave just stares at us.

And then I get this great idea. Connie has been Miss Perfect to this point. If I call Alyssa and tell her that Connie left the hospital before finding out if her patient was having a heart attack or not, that might deflect some of Alyssa’s anger from me. That would be awesome.

Also, we could figure out how to treat the patient. That would be helpful too.

Dave stands by while I page Alyssa. She answers quickly, which is one thing I can definitely say about Alyssa: she is prompt. “Dr. Morgan, returning a page,” she barks into the phone.

“Hi,” I say. “It’s Jane.”

“What is it?” she asks, preemptively disgusted by anything I have to tell her.

“So Connie left about an hour ago,” I say. “She signed out to the on-call intern. But now her patient ruled in for a heart attack. And she’s not answering her pager. So…”

“So…?” Alyssa prompts me.

“So the intern isn’t sure what to do,” I say.

“And what did you tell him?”

“I told him I’d page you,” I say lamely. Alyssa has no answer for that, so I add, “I mean, it’s Connie’s patient, not mine, so I don’t really know him…”

“You don’t?” Alyssa says. “Jane, didn’t we round on all the patients this morning? This is why. So you know how to manage patients that aren’t just your own and not just always ask me for help.

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