Chapter 63 - Jim

“Your frequent flyer is back.”

“Are you serious?” I look up from the paperwork I’ve been filling out for the last twenty minutes, knowing by the nurse’s face she is.

“Popped stitches. ER sent him up.”

“They can’t do stitches down there?” I grumble.

The nurse rolls her eyes. “Apparently ‘it’s internal,’ and he needs to see a surgeon. Like we can just put him in front of our other patients. Do you want me to send him back down?”

“No, I’ll deal with it. Thank you, though.”

I finish my paperwork and deal with the difficult patient, who had a hernia repaired a month ago and hasn’t followed post-op instructions at all. He’s been in three times since his operation. I do rounds after that, finish my paperwork and finally go home after a twenty-six-hour shift.

Another resident who’s been in the program with me sin