|
Richard graduated from a medical academy three months ago. |
|
He passed the exams perfectly. |
|
He's been working as a cardiosurgeon for a week now. |
|
He was to face his very first patient at a |
|
September night. |
|
He was dashing and yet fearful. |
|
His bread and cheese for saving other people's lives. |
|
The patient is 68. |
|
It is his second heart attack. |
|
Richard makes the first cut. |
|
Scalpel in his hand moves smoothly like a conductor's baton. |
|
Arteries make visible. |
|
Richard feels warm blood drops on his forehead. |
|
Then he feels his stomach in his mouth. |
|
He used to see intestines when he served his apprenticeship. |
|
But today he couldn't stand it. |
|
The dinner he ate an hour ago flows down from his covered mouth onto the patient's torso. |
|
Pieces of semi-digested meal mingle in a seven-centimetre long surgeon cut. |
|
Vomited matter ornaments the patient's torso and soothes him. |
|
Richard though his job would be different. |
|
His conscience exhausted him. |