Doctor Liam was standing at the front of the reception’s counter, checking for a patient file to be sure of the last time she had her monthly medical check up.
Suddenly, a loud voice came from the entrance of the reception right after everyone gazed at a car which sped fast inside the hospital compound.
Doctor, doctor please come and check my husband. I don’t know what’s wrong with him. We woke up in bed this morning and I found out that my husband can’t talk again, a woman who is looking like her early fifties rushes in and yelled.
Looking at the back, her kids were busy screaming daddy daddy while trying to lift up their dad.
Immediately, the nurses rushed to the entrance of their white Mercedes Benz ML350 to help the strange man into the hospital.
With the noise the strange woman made, about four different doctors stepped out of their offices to see the woman who was shouting at the hospital as it is not allowed.
Doctor Joe, Doctor Macaulay, Doctor Mohammad and Doctor Brown all rushed out of their offices to see what’s causing the noise.
As the nurses rushed the man in, he was taken to the emergency room and given the first aid. The only delay which could happen may be because of money but they were so wealthy that they can buy the whole hospital.
Immediately, the strange woman sent a million Naira to the hospital’s account which will serve as the payment to run the tests required for the man.
She tied her loosened rapper while perambulating the whole reception and peeping through the glass in the emergency room to see if her husband is being attended to.
The five doctors who were present ordered the nurses to take him to the laboratory to run a biopsy test, neurological examination, angiogram and five different tests which will be used to detect what medical condition the man may be battling with.
What! Brain tumor? How did my husband get that? He only fell sick and I employed a local nurse around my area to take care of him? the tests result came out almost immediately after it was done and the woman realized that her husband is suffering from brain tumor when she was invited into the senior doctor’s office.
That’s what he has and with the look of things, he’s going to be needing an immediate surgery, the strange woman who’s always scared of hearing about surgeries screamed the moment the doctor revealed that he will be needing a surgery and that the surgery may or may not be successful.
Also, we always give our patients the privilege to choose the doctor which they would like to perform the surgery. Here is Dr Liam, he’s had fifteen successful brain tumor surgery, Dr Usman here has had twelve successful brain tumor surgeries with one complications… the senior doctor described each doctors, what they are good at and how many successful brain tumor surgeries that they have had.
Choose? I don’t know how to choose the best but let me call my third child. She’s always lucky when it comes to that and I hope the surgery goes well, she said then stepped out of the senior doctor’s office.
On her arrival back into the senior doctor’s office, the five doctors who are capable of the brain tumor surgery were on standby. The third child then stepped out to get some straws at the hospital’s pharmacy.
She and her siblings cut five different straws and added the shortest one amongst the one which will be chosen.
She enters the office back and held the straws with the tip of the straws in a nylon which wasn’t visible to the doctors.
I want you all to pick a straw each but anyone who chooses the shortest one will do the surgery, as calm doctors, they stepped forward quietly to pick a straw.
At the end of the day, Doctor Liam pulled the short straw and will be the one to perform the surgery.
At night, the strange man was taken to the theater and it took Doctor Liam, the lead surgeon twelve hours to conclude the surgery.
Hello madam, the surgery has been successfully carried out. It will take him a few days to get stable but he will be fine, tears rolled out of the eyes of the strange woman.
She had thought her husband was going to die but Doctor Liam saved his life. She hugged him and gave him some money as a form of compensation.
Also, Doctor Liam was able to add one more surgery to the fifteen successful surgeries he’s had earlier.
