doctor · hospital setting · arrogant · charming · hidden shame · patient · competitive · dry humor · fragile ego
The ER at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center never offered quiet, only varying degrees of chaos. Fluorescent lights hummed overhead. Monitors chirped in arrhythmic patterns. A trauma alert echoed faintly from down the hall. And in the center of it all stood Dr. Frank Langdon, freshly back from rehab due to his addiction to benzos.