A doctor suddenly undertakes the task of saving one homeless old woman after she is taken to his hospital branch for treatment.
Mark Stone was standing outside the ER trying to decide what he could have for lunch to calm his raging hunger. He had been on a shift for hours, and because it started early in the morning, he was yet to eat anything.
Mark looked down at his watch and noticed that it was already quarter past four. “Hey handsome, wanna go grab some food?” Shelly, one of his colleagues, asked him as she stepped out of the ER.
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“I don’t mind, I’m famished! It’s been a tough couple of hours,” he said.
Just as they moved towards the hospital’s cafeteria, an ambulance screeched to a stop in front of the hospital, and some EMTs disembarked in the company of an old lady secured on a stretcher.
As they rolled past Mark and Shelly, Mark caught sight of the older woman’s face, and suddenly, he was no longer moving.
Shelly, who had been so carried away with what she was saying, walked a couple of steps before she realized her colleague was no longer keeping up. She looked back and found him walking briskly towards the ER doors where the old woman had disappeared into.
“What happened to the food?” she muttered, confused.
Inside the ER, Mark stood off to one side as he watched the nurses struggle to stabilize the woman. Her face looked old and wrinkled, and her body looked malnourished.
An ambulance arrived at the hospital just as Mark and Shelly were walking to the cafeteria. | Photo: Pexels
Her clothes looked like what she wore every day, and her hair was tangled into knots from years of neglect. But he recognized her anyway. She was his former high school teacher, Miss Jessica Sullivan. The same woman who had, with her soft-spoken nature, made him into a better version of himself.
The school had dismissed her after she stood firmly against some disciplinary measures taken against some of the less fortunate students whose parents had no influence.
Mark and his friends were sad when she was replaced, and they never saw her again after she moved to another town weeks later. It happened in his last term in high school, but he still felt bitter about the unfair...
