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Doctor on Call

  Chapter 1 "Chest X-ray, USG Abdomen and a CT Scan just to be sure. Have the samples been sent for Toxicology? Please send it. Stat. I'll be around after rounds to check on him, Sister. And please! That's a Soldier there! Please respect his uniform". She almost yelled at the Nurse who was about to cut through the patient's military honours. The night shift had just begun, and it looked like a long and arduous night. In fact, for Amy, this whole year seemed rather long and arduous. Internship was everything and nothing like she expected. All the hustle and bustle, seeing real people, real patients, her first prescription, her first patient curing, the long long hours, the litany of notes she had to write, gather and submit, and then go attend lectures all day. But this was what she signed up for. And even if she found it difficult, even feeling tempted to just drop out, she knew she had to motor on. She wasn't a quitter. Once she'd done a round of the gene