SAGA- THE REVENGE STORY OF A BLO0DY SURGEON

CHAPTER 7

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here was no point in arguing with them. Surya left the mess and walked back to the OT. Luckily, the operating table was available now. He took a No. 22 scalpel blade and reluctantly began cutting all the bandages to expose the wound. The wound was moist and a greenish fluid was oozing from it. Wazir came and scolded Surya "If you want to be taught, you should obey our commands blindly"

What the hell does he think of himself? Is he a dictator?

Who was the guy he harassed now? Vishnu rose from his sub consciousness asked inquisitively.

He’s harassing me, Boob! Surya thought exasperatedly.

Nothing interesting then. It happens every day doesn’t it?

I won’t let it happen anymore. Why are they so eager to operate on the patient? Don’t they care about the safety of the patient?

He wanted to lash out at him. But he meekly said "Okay sir!” and moved on. Surya had lost all respect for Wazir. He just wanted to perform surgeries without getting the necessary pre-operative screening done. He had tossed every safety protocol to the wind in the haste to begin the surgery. He hadn’t even waited for the HIV and Hepatitis B serology reports to arrive. It was mandatory to get that tested before every surgery. These were hazards to the surgical team because HIV and Hepatitis easily spread through blood spills and needle-stick injuries.

The patient seemed malnourished. Surya suspected that the patient had HIV. He actually hope that this patient was positive so that the professor would reprimand Wazir for his callous attitude. Surya asked an intern to immediately fetch the serology reports from the lab.

Positive was for both Hepatitis B and HIV! Surya was shocked and also elated. He now had evidence against Wazir. He showed the report to him and said "How do you answer to this? You made me open the wound of a double positive patient, that too, over the trolley in the corridor! This is criminal negligence! This hospital is not your private property to do as you please!" Surya blasted away at him.

Wazir was stunned for a moment and was intimidated by Surya's confidence, "You have to follow seniors' orders... If we...ask you to break a rule you have to do it! That's it!" he sputtered.

Surya lost his temper! But he made a herculean effort to control himself.

A while later, Taniya asked "Who was going to assist for the amputation case?" sitting beside Wazir. Surya had already decided to assist for the case. So he had gotten all the necessary investigations done. He had even asked the anaesthetist for clearance.

Surya told "I am assisting for this operation."

"How can you assist? You didn’t even collect the CT reports” questioned Wazir. He threw a dirty look at Surya. How dare you?

"Vishnu, you are going to assist us with the surgery. Surya, you stay outside and get all the blood samples processed. Also, fetch one unit of blood from the blood bank. I want you to go in person. Don’t send an intern"

Vishnu accepted reluctantly feeling sorry for his friend Surya.

After a while when Vishnu returned from assisting the operation, he sat beside Surya who was melancholic and lost in his thoughts. Vishnu sat beside him and held his arm over his shoulder. Surya flinched a moment and became aware of Vishnu’s presence.

“See, this is why I hate our seniors. They are too bossy and stupid. On the day of the attack, nobody bothered to help me. Later, when the same attack happened in other state, they acted as if they condemn such attacks” Surya hit the table before him out of frustration recalling the events happened in the past.

Later, another patient was rushed into the emergency ward moaning with pain guarding his abdomen. His seniors already examined the patient in casualty and turned up there for further evaluation to operate. Surya approached the patient to examine. It was a case of hollow viscus perforation, or simply put, a hole in the stomach or intestine. All the acid and fluids in the stomach leak into the abdominal cavity and cause inflammation. This can be further complicated by infection.

Taniya and Wazir decided to operate on the patient. Vishnu was exhausted after having assisted the previous surgery and reluctant to get up from his chair. Surya devised a plan and went back to whisper it in Vishnu’s ears.

"I think it's very risky! Think again." Vishnu said hesitantly in a low tone.

"It will go well. Don't worry! Trust me! And you wanted me to have a distraction, didn’t you? Taking revenge is a perfect distraction”

The twins were also celebrating their birthday that day. Wazir had ordered a cake. He was waiting for the delivery agent to arrive. Wazir placed the cake in the refrigerator of the staff surgeon’s lounge. His phone started ringing. He answered the phone call.

" I am the ‘only’ father of Taniya and Soniya," Surya mimicked in a thick accented voice with a newly acquired sim-card.

Only Father? Crazy world! " Please tell uncle."

"Can you give them the phone? Their phones are out of coverage area. I just wanted to wish them."

“Sure uncle! I will give them the phone" Wazir went to the female surgeons’ lounge. In the meantime Vishnu put his covert plan into action. He sneaked into the surgeons’ lounge and laced the cake with a sedative that he had nicked from the anaesthetist’s drug kit. He ensured that no one was looking and quickly left the room.

Wazir opened the Female Surgeon’s room while Taniya and Soniya were hugging each other intimately! They were taken aback to see Wazir and took their normal detached composure of an Emergency Doctor before asking furiously.

“i***t! Don’t you know to knock the door?” Soniya blurted. Wazir who was dumbstruck took his disposition. Crazy world!

"Your father wanted to wish you as your phones were not working" “Which i***t told you that?" Taniya retorted.

"Your father!" said Wazir shrugging his shoulders.

"It's not possible! My father called me a minute ago. Show me the number" Soniya asked inquisitively and rolled her eyes.

Soniya was about to check when Taniya interrupted her. She really wanted to finish the cake. "Let's cut the cake. It's 11.55pm already"

Everyone rushed to surgeons’ lounge. The orthopaedics residents had anticipated their arrival. They abhorred the twins. The lounge was vacant. They preferred to relax in the old lounge, which didn’t have an AC. They could adjust to the sultry weather by taking off their shirts. They’d do anything to avoid being in the same room with the twins.

Everyone assembled to cut the cake. Surya and Vishnu watched with bated breath. Taniya and Soniya cut their cake and merrily fed the cake to each other. Wazir pounced upon the cake as if he was starving for days. Other interns were about to take a piece of cake. Surya stepped forward to stop them. But he didn’t have to do much. The interns were already frightened by Wazir’s hyena like greedy eyes. The red cream around his lips made him look like a blood thirsty predator who had just devoured the carcass of its prey. The poor interns simply wished the twins and left the room. Surya felt bad for making Soniya the victim of his scheme. He had no enmity with her. But if this plan had to success, even Soniya had to sleep. Everything was going according to the plan.

Surya and Vishnu took each piece of cake and feigned as if they were eating and threw it in a dust bin. “Yummy! It was so delicious” winking at his buddy which motivated Taniya and Soniya to pounce upon the cake besides Wazir. Surya was eagerly looking for the right time to implement his plan. Wazir drowsily commented on Taniya

“Your face was as white as the cream of the cake.”

“That’s the cream of the cake. i***t!’ Taniya laughed hysterically. “But your nose is looking like the cherry on the cake” and broke into giggles with Soniya and they high-fived each other.

“Why don’t we pair up like a cake and cherry?” Surya and Vishnu who were chuckling at their conversation until then suddenly felt nauseated. Vishnu noticed that Surya was secretly recording everything with his phone. They exchanged evil grins.

“I will divorce my scumbag husband” Surya and Vishnu both of them burst into laughter.

“Oh! Taniya! I thought you are Soniya! But no problem” said Wazir as he advanced towards Taniya. Wazir was just about to embrace her. All of a sudden Taniya puked up on Wazir’s shirt.

“Yuck!!’ Surya and Vishnu said in unison. Taniya and Wazir were also beginning to feel nauseous as their stomachs churned.

“What’s happening” Taniya mumbled incoherently holding her head.

“It’s Karma at work ma’am.” Surya jibed under his breath as Vishnu laughed.

Soon the right time came as the last one of the persons who ate the cake dozed off holding their head and ended sleeping on the floor haphazardly.

“Do you remember our pharmacology viva? We’d reply with ‘nausea and vomiting’ whenever we were asked the side effects of any drug. It’s fun to see that practically” Surya winked. “Hence proved”

Both of them chortled into laughter.

Surya locked the door from outside while Vishnu kept a watch.

The female intern who assisted Surya in the OP was passing by. “Why are you locking the door?” She asked out of curiosity.

He said "If you go inside, your head get banged just like my seniors and you’ll shed more tears than the judges on reality shows!" Surya said whimsically.

“Your seniors?! Are they grievously hurt?” she asked out of concern.

“I wish” Surya said half mindedly. The girl looked puzzled. “I mean... I wish them to get recover soon” Surya said with baffled expression.

The intern didn't speak anymore and left at once. He hung a placard ‘Ceiling under reconstruction.’ In Osmania Hospital it happens quite often so none suspects.

The first plan of their step was successful.