How much time must have passed?
Dowook put a stethoscope inside the space supported by the airbag to hear the patient's breathing. His condition, which had been recovered for a while, was gradually deteriorating.
Dowook pressed the walkie-talkie button when he saw the patient's lips shaking.
"When exactly will the rescue begin?"
-Bzzzt.
-The crane is tied up at the interchange due to traffic conditions in the south. The traffic police say it's 15 minutes. The newly requested crane is approaching from the north, and it will also take 20 minutes.
"There's a risk of shock, so I'll prescribe fluids. Please get rid of the debris as soon as possible."
The patient, who heard the radio, looked at Dowook with a fearful look.
"Doctor, I…… Am I going to die?”
Dowook turned his head to the patient who recognized him as a doctor and spoke to reassure him.
"You’re not going to die. I'm just adding fluids just in case."
"My chest. Whoo. Whoo. There's a hole and blood is flowing."
"It's true that there's a hole, but the blood has already stopped. Lung tissue is rich in substances with hemostasis.”
Now, the problem was that secondary infection and oxygen supply were not being carried out smoothly, not bleeding.
"It's going to sting."
A fluid needle was inserted into the wrist where the disinfectant cotton was rubbed.
One in the lungs and one in the arm.
The needles supporting the patient's lifeline had a fixed time in which they had an effect. He needed to be sent to the hospital for proper treatment before the timer ran out.
–Bzzzt.
-Captain! There's someone buried under the debris!
The voice of the firefighters was heard from the walkie-talkie on Dowook’s shoulder.
-Where are you searching?
-It's just below the collapse of the outer wall. He was buried while in an SUV, and you can see him breathing. He's still alive.
-Can you approach?
-There's no room from this side at all. The exterior wall is covering the vehicle.
-Jeez! Hurry up and bring any crane!
The situation over there also seemed urgent. The patient who heard the radio with Dowook spoke lamentably.
"If I'm fine……. I can move my arms and dig it all up. Whoo. Whoo."
Tingle.
DowookI felt a sense rushing through his fingertips. Naturally, it was this patient's sense.
"What's your job?”
"An excavator. It’s somewhere around here. Whoo. Whoo. I was coming down from there.… Some truck suddenly rushed in and caused the accident….”
Perhaps because of the patient's concentration, the impulse that stimulated his nerves was intact. This patient was a professional engineer who manipulated heavy equipment at the construction site.
Dowook thought about helping for a while.
There was nothing more a doctor could do here. However, as someone with a special sense, there might be something he could do.
Pressing the walkie-talkie button, Dowook spoke.
"This is the airbag installation point. Please send a person here to check the patient's condition."
-Bzzzt.
-Understood.
In a little bit.
"Dr. Dowook. I’m here to take over."
Dowook twisted his body at Lee Ji-seok’s voice as he crawled in from the entrance, then Dowook moved under the steel frame. The headlights shone on each other's faces covered with dust.
"Oh my god. I didn't know you would be in a place like this."
"I also didn't expect I’d be in a place like this either. Check the patient's oxygen saturation periodically and attach a respirator if it falls below 87%. My bag is next to me."
"Okay."
Dowook, who quickly crawled out of the debris passage, stopped his gaze at the end of the accident site, where people worked to remove the steel frame.
In the dark, there was an excavator that was swept away by the collapsed material at the bottom.
"Doctor."
Han Min-gyu approached Dowook as he tried to get closer.
"Jiseok will continue to wait in there until the rescue work begins. You've done a great job.”
Dowook shone a headlight toward the excavator he just discovered.
"Team leader, if we use that, won't we be able to rescue them quickly?"
"That forklift? It's also a job to put up a lifting rope, but I don't know if there's a firefighter on the scene who can operate the machine."
Dowook reached out once again through the cracks of the collapsed building. He felt that the sense of a heavy equipment engineer completely dominating his neural circuit.
"I'll try it."
"Doctor, that's not a normal vehicle."
He had been borrowing all the senses he could to save patients and squeezed through that gap. The first decision was difficult and the second one was easy.
"I can drive this. In this situation, shouldn't we use all the resources we can?”
Dowook, who crawled up on the collapsed excavator and opened the door, looked at Han Min-gyu.
"Should I stop?"
"There's no reason for me to stop you because you're so sure. See if it works first. Please."
Dowook closed the door and leaned sideways to fit the tilted seat.
When the starting switch was turned on, various indicators turned on normally.
He then turned the starting key to START. The engine shook and died while warming up.
Tingle.
The sense of the heavy equipment engineer led his hand.
With the coolant lever pulled all the way, the starting key was continuously turned so that the cooled engine could heat up. In addition, he stepped on the accelerator several times while praying at the same time.
"Please move, Gongpal."
[T/N: Gongpal seems to be part of the model number (08) and used as a nickname for the machine.]
Kurung. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
"Done!"
The engine started.
Then he touched the rod that manipulated the main arm, he felt that he could get the excavator out without a lifting rope. His hand reacted right away.
Shim Jae-man, head of the rescue team, shouted at the radio.
"They’ll send it within 10 minutes! What are you doing?"
The noisy population density of Seoul had a very big headache because of this accident.
"Seokwon, hang a chain on the inner structure, not there! How will the wall move with that!"
The limitation of wrapping the lifting chain on the structure and pulling it with a hydraulic pump was clear. Due to the absence of larger towing equipment, not only it aggregated the collapse site, but three large vehicles that were overturned by the crash were left unattended on the road.
If this intersection was not organized, traffic paralysis in Seoul would end up not just a problem in the south.
Hell would unfold, where it was difficult for people who needed to be saved and even those who were alive to move.
Shim Jae-man, who was sweating, approached the first aid team leader at the Yongsan Fire Station.
"Captain. We have completed the transport of critical patients at the intersection. From now on, we will transfer patients with lower priority."
"There are two critical patients left. Are you going to hand it all over to the Seodaemun team?”
"Two?"
Shim Jae-man pointed to the rescue workers scattered into two teams and working. The first aid team leader, who looked through the collapse area, immediately answered.
"We need to deploy our 1st and 2nd teams this way. We can't keep the supporting team for so long."
"Before the Seodaemun team withdraws, take over the patient's information from the doctor."
"Doctor? Is a doctor here?"
"He came to Seodaemun-seo as a volunteer. It's Park Dowook. He has a great mind. He voluntarily went in there to save the patient."
Shim Jae-man looked around the scene.
"Where did he go? I heard he came out earlier."
Just as he was about to look for Dowook with his radio.
Ddddrrrrrrrr―!
Shim Jae-man and the head of the emergency team looked over at the loud machine sound.
Far away, an excavator that had fallen stretched its arms forward.
The driver's room turned around and the part where the soil was dug, the bucket, hit the floor.
Whoosh一!
When the cylinder connected to the excavator’s arm exhaled compressed air, the collapsed body changed the angle smoothly.
Tap
An excavator settled on the ground light as a feather, approached in front of Shim Jae-man. And the driver's door opened.
The protagonist, who elaborately manipulated the 14-ton excavator and brought it forward, stuck his head out.
"Team leader Shim, can we replace crane work with this?"
"Huh?"
Shim Jae-man looked speechless when he saw the doctor he was looking for sitting in an excavator. Dowook, who was puzzled by the glance, spoke in a low voice.
"I'm sorry, I can manipulate it, but I don't have any qualifications. If there's anyone who can drive, you can continue right away. Only the right side mirror is broken, and the other parts are fine."
"That's not a problem right now…… First, sit there. Attention! Kisoon and Seokwon, run away! A damned crane fell from the sky!"
Bzzzt.
-Yes, captain!
-We’re leaving!
The lifting chain attached to the end of the excavator was pulled tightly.
That…
An arm popped out between the lifted steel structures.
Subsequently, firefighters covered with dust appeared. The firefighter, who completely came out, turned right away and pulled a rope connected to the inside.
While the rope and the stretcher slowly came out, other firefighters also approached in order to provide help with taking out the patient.
"Secured the survivor! We'll transfer them!"
When the last patient trapped at the collapse site came out safely, all the firefighters breathed a sigh of relief.
-It's not time to rest yet. Check your surroundings to see if there are any undiscovered survivors.
At the radio from the site manager, the firefighters scattered in all directions.
"Where's Dowook? I heard he went in there, too.”
Seong Chang Soo, who ran to the collapse site after hearing the news, looked around for Dowook and stopped at the driver's seat of the excavator. And he rubbed his eyes once.
The driver, who manipulated two levers to move the excavator's arms around, looked familiar.
"Do-Dowook?”
"Where?"
Seong Chang Soo turned the head of Noh Myeong-deok, who was looking at the steel structure, to the side.
"Can you see it? It’s Dowook, right?"
"Uh… That's right, Dr. Park. He is over there."
"What do you mean ‘he’s over there?’ Can't you see what he's doing? He's controlling that big thing!”
"Dr. Park is good at everything. I guess he learned it somewhere.”
A man wearing horn-rimmed glasses approached Seong Chang Soo, who was watching Dowook in a daze.
"Excuse me, sir."
"Huh? Who are you?"
"I'm reporter Yoon Jin-hyo of News Seoul. Can I ask you a few questions about Dr. Park Dowook, who is helping with rescue work there?"
Seong Chang Soo looked at Yoon Jin-hyo with vigilance.
"What is it?"
"First of all, what the doctor said, about him being good at everything. In the previous hospital coverage, there were many people who evaluated Park Dowook as a genius surgeon, and I want to know what the doctors think."
Seong Chang Soo laughed as if he was dumbfounded.
"Genius? Dowook is just Dowook. What?"
Noh Myeong-deok nodded.
"I'm sure he’s really a genius. He’s also considered one of the best in Neurosurgery, which is said to be the most competitive.”
"Really?"
"I heard this from an intern who worked on duty with Dr. Park, but he is also in charge of patients at the professor level. The difficulty of care is crazy because the cases they operated on are all serious."
Seeing Yoon Jin-hyo writing furiously, Seong Chang Soo snorted quietly. Noh Myeong-deok caught it and immediately continued to talk.
"Of course, our senior Seong is not ordinary either. He is an ace among the fourth years who remained in the hospital after being called by Chief Ji.”
"Oh, really?"
Seong Chang Soo's expression brightened up when Noh Myeong-deok sneakily praised him.
"Hey, what~”
"So I respect them a lot in the hospital."
"You're making me feel awkward. Well, I and Dowook are very outstanding among our peers. Hehe."
Seong Chang Soo, who was smiling happily, asked Yoon Jin-hyo.
"Reporter, do you know this?"
"What?"
"I'm a doctor who’s been on TV. To tell you about myself…….”
Seong Chang Soo's mouth began to move quickly. Yoon Jin-hyo, who was writing it down, thought he caught the wrong person, but he couldn't get out of it.
