An elderly Black man with dreadlocks was carried out of the ambulance by the orderlies.
A long, slanted knife scar ran from the corner of his right eye to the base of his right ear. With his two heavily tattooed arms, he clearly did not look like a good person.
Then three young Black gangsters jumped out of the ambulance.
"Nick, what happened?"
Seeing this, Richard moved closer to Doctor Nick West, who had accompanied the ambulance, and asked quietly.
Doctor Nick glanced at the three young gangsters and whispered in Richard's ear.
"The boss of a gang in Queens. Someone kicked his balls open."
Richard raised an eyebrow and asked.
"Are his injuries serious?"
"Both testicles are completely ruptured..."
Richard nodded in understanding.
"Frank, notify the operating room to prepare for an orchiectomy."
Just ruptured testicles. Small case~
He had even seen someone take too many little blue pills and have a catheter explode...
The three young gangsters who had come with the ambulance gathered together and muttered quietly.
"Tommy, I heard Fiona ran into White Ghost Gang territory..."
"Isn't Fiona the boss's woman? Why did she kick the boss's balls?"
"You idiot! Didn't you hear them say Fiona cheated on the boss?!"
"?? So what? Why did she kick the boss's balls?"
"...Don't fucking talk to me!"
"Why?"
"My mom told me not to talk to idiots!"
"Stop arguing, you two! Eddie called!"
The bespectacled young gangster answered the phone.
"Brother Eddie!"
"Simmons, how is Boss Quinn's condition?"
Simmons glanced at his boss, who was being pushed into the hospital building, and answered.
"He was just taken into the operating room. They're about to perform an orchiectomy."
"What? The boss's balls can't be saved?!"
"Seems like it..."
"Fine. You three get back here quickly. White Ghost Gang sent people to seize our territory!"
"What about Boss Quinn?"
"Here's what we'll do. You stay at the hospital, and have Joe and Tommy come back."
"Okay, Brother Eddie!"
After hanging up, Simmons said to the other two young gangsters.
"Brother Eddie said you need to get back to the bar right away. They need more people there. White Ghost Gang has attacked!"
"What? Those White Ghosts are crazy! Joe, let's go!"
The two young gangsters turned and ran.
Simmons opened his mouth, but even after their backs disappeared from view, he did not say anything.
He glanced toward the hospital, then turned and walked toward the small garden across the street.
While examining the patient's injuries, Richard discovered that a tumor had actually grown inside his scrotum.
"Tsk, I don't know whether this guy is unlucky or lucky..."
Richard sighed.
Doctor Nick did not understand and asked.
"Why do you say that?"
Richard pointed at it.
"There. I just found it. There's a tumor in his scrotum."
"Hiss!" Doctor Nick sucked in a breath and looked sympathetically at the unconscious gang boss. "This guy really is... hard to judge."
"Exactly. If his testicles hadn't ruptured, this tumor might have become cancerous." Richard's expression was complicated. "Now the tumor can be removed, but he can no longer be a man."
Richard's words made everyone else in the operating room feel the same.
Doctor Nick was right. It really was hard to judge...
Just as Richard was preparing to operate, Christine suddenly appeared.
"Wait, Doctor Richard!"
"What is it?" Richard turned to look at her, puzzled.
"Nurse Lina, notify Milu and Reed and have them come over immediately. A rare Level Three surgical teaching session."
Richard looked at Christine speechlessly. "With one sentence from you, a surgery that would have taken me twenty minutes is going to be delayed by more than half an hour."
Christine's eyes curved into beautiful crescents. "Yes, yes, Doctor Richard, thank you for your hard work. I'll treat you to dinner after work tonight?"
Richard perked up and hurriedly settled it. "It's a deal. I'll book the restaurant."
Soon, a male and female intern arrived.
Milu was Christine's intern, Reed was Nick's intern, and along with Frank Chen, whom Richard mentored, they were currently the only three resident doctors in the Emergency Department.
Reed, who had just arrived, looked resentfully at his supervising doctor.
Doctor Nick coughed dryly and gave him an instruction.
"Ahem, study hard. It's not easy to come across one of Doctor Richard's teaching sessions."
With that, Doctor Nick quickly walked out of the operating room.
Before leaving, Christine said sternly, "An orchiectomy along with lymph node tumor removal. Doctor Richard will explain every step in detail during the procedure. Milu, Reed, and Frank, listen carefully and take notes."
The three interns answered in unison, "Yes, Doctor Palmer!"
It took nearly an hour for the teaching surgery to finally end.
After the unfortunate gang boss was pushed to the inpatient department, he was soon pushed back.
"Doctor Richard, the patient has not paid the emergency fee, surgery fee, or hospitalization fee. The inpatient department refused to admit him."
Richard froze. "Didn't three people come with the ambulance earlier? Where did they go?"
Nurse Lina shook her head. "I don't know."
Richard looked down at the still-unconscious gang boss. Since he had served as free teaching material for the surgery, Richard would help him out this once.
"For now, um, arrange for her to stay in a charity ward. We'll figure things out after she wakes up tomorrow."
"Okay, Doctor Richard."
Not long afterward, Simmons sneaked into the charity ward and found the sleeping gang boss.
"Boss, Boss Quinn!"
When the gang boss did not react, he quietly slipped back out.
At the convenience store beside the hospital, he bought a loaf of bread and a bottle of water, and also asked for several newspapers.
As he ate, he returned to the small garden.
After finishing his food, Simmons called Brother Eddie.
"Huff, Simmons, huff, what is it? Damn it, stop that bastard!" Eddie was panting on the other end, with occasional screams ringing out.
Without changing his expression, Simmons said, "Brother Eddie, Boss Quinn's surgery is finished, but he's still unconscious."
"Huff, did the doctor say when he'll wake up?" Eddie asked while hacking at someone.
Simmons gave an evasive answer. "Maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow."
There was silence on Eddie's end for a moment before he said, "Then let's do this. Tomorrow, I'll send two more people over, and you can secretly bring Boss Quinn back."
Simmons said, "Okay, Brother Eddie."
Even after hanging up, he never asked about the medical bills.
Brother Eddie on the other end did not bring them up either.
Simmons found a sheltered spot, spread a layer of newspaper over a long bench, and lay down.
This would be where he slept that night.
After work that afternoon, Richard and Christine Palmer walked out of the hospital hand in hand, chatting and laughing.
Stephen Strange, who was returning to the hospital from outside, saw this scene, and a flicker of Envy flashed through his eyes.