The elevator dinged as it stopped at the eleventh floor. Dr Moonbyulyi was tired. It had been her 3rd 24 hour shift this week and she was exhausted. But she loved her job. Maybe a bit more than other doctors but it still counted. And it was much better than staying at home doing nothing. Or so she told herself.  ​​​​​

Byulyi​​ was a professor at the RBW university medical center, Faculty of Cardiology and Cardiothoracic surgery. She was the youngest professor in the department and also the most skilled at her job. She was the most sought after surgeon in the Seoul metropolitan area. Her minimally invasive procedures had gotten her much fame and she never took it for granted. She'd honed her skills after years of practice. Even now, she worked twice as hard as the other doctors in her department and that was exactly why she was being offered the post of HOD of the Cardiology department. 

She'd told the director she'd consider it, but deep down she knew she was going to take the post. It was all she had worked for. As she made her way to the wards for one last briefing, her pager went off. There was an emergency. It was 2 am in the night, and cardiology being paged was a bit out of the norm. She sighed as she paused her briefing and proceeded towards the Emergency room. 

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Dr Jung Wheein was fully prepared for a chill night shift at the emergency department. It was a school night and hopefully people would stay in their ho