Savannah’s head snapped up at the tone from the attending physician across the table. “Don’t you think you need to pay attention to the case at hand, Doctor?” She trembled slightly at the piercing look he gave her over the blue mask covering the lower half of his face. Damn! I need to quit dillydallying. I wish I knew why Mom and Dad insisted we all come home for the weekend. I hate when they call us all together like this. It usually means another lecture on why we aren’t married with children on the way. I’m only thirty. “Yes, sir.” “Then pull that retractor back so I can see what the hell I’m cutting.” Savannah tugged at the metal retractor in her hand hard enough to expose the tissue in the patient’s abdomen. Doctor Richardson cut away the fatty lining covering the liver. The surgery being performed couldn’t have been simpler. They were only there to take a biopsy of the tissue and remove the gallbladder and appendix. Her rotation was almost complete and this was her last surgery.
