Medical Discussion in a Classroom Setting

That’s Dr. Gye Su-yeong.

Hey, um... Let me see your face. Okay?

I said, she’s here. Isn’t that her? There, there.

Oh, that’s right. This is her, right?

Right, right. That answer was so spot-on. Dr. Gye Su-jeong.

Huh? Dr. Gye, what’s going on? Why are you all like this?

Dr. Gye,

what were you doing before we met at that café earlier?

I was in the hallway.

What were you doing in the hallway?

There was a patient with dizziness lying down,

so I asked a few quick questions and sent them to ENT,

because it was Ménière’s disease.

What would a part-timer know about Ménière’s disease?

Huh?

Keep your voice down, please.

Is this really something to make a scene about here?

That patient was waiting to see Internal Medicine.

But now they’re lying on a couch in ENT.

So I asked, “What about the tests?”

They can’t hear low frequencies and have eye symptoms.

It is Ménière’s disease. Then there’s no issue.

No, that’s not the problem.

The problem is that you interfered with another department’s treatment.

She’d been going from one local clinic to another in the countryside, being told

she was weak, getting IV drips and taking strong medication for years,

until her child brought her to a large hospital in Seoul for the first time.

She doesn’t need to be sent around in circles.

Even her child didn’t believe her symptoms, talking about depression in old age.

That’s what happened. So the mother grabbed me and cried.

She said it was the first time she’d received such a clear diagnosis.

She cried as she thanked me.

I was so embarrassed, it was awful.

But you just spoke to me informally, didn’t you?

Yes. Uh-huh.

Oh, just like the rumors say, you have no manners.

Oh, fascinating.