This is the prologue of my story
To Whom It May Concern
A House MD Story
Prologue
Kate Ashbrooke’s notebook
13/2/05
Hospital clinic
12:30
To whom it may concern
I am sitting in the clinic at Princeton-Plainsboro teaching hospital waiting for my doctor from a year ago. He wants to check up on my leg which was left crippled after a car accident leaving me with a limp and I am now walking with a cane. People are looking at me strangely especially Dr Lisa Cuddy who is the director of the hospital and is also in charge of the clinic. After the check up I will be having an interview with her about tomorrow when I will be taught at the hospital for two months. Earlier on when I was in the cafeteria with my best friend Scarlet and fellow student Daniel Spencer I kindly gave our table to a nice Australian Doctor who was apparently having lunch with his boss. Well Scarlet got mad because she went back to the table and thought that they had stolen it so she went back to me and told me to get rid of them but I told her that I had given them the table and that I had to go to the clinic….
“Kate Ashbrooke?”
Kate looked up from her notebook and stared at the woman that had called her name. The woman had her long brown hair tied up into a bun, was wearing a pink business suit with a skirt to match and had a very serious face. Kate knew that this person was Dr Lisa Cuddy because she had met her at Medical School when she was given the chance to study at the hospital for two months. But by looking at the red file in her hand she hadn’t called her for a social chat
“Doctor Wilson will see you now in examine room two”
She gave Kate the red file and went back to the desk to see who the next patient was. Kate slowly got out of the chair and walked slowly across the clinic to the room where Dr Wilson was cleaning a syringe. Kate knocked on the frame just as he was finishing and he smiled when he looked at her.
“Hello Kate please pop onto the bed I’ll be with you in a moment” He told her so Kate popped on to the bed while he went back outside to get his prescription book which he accidentally left in examine room one. A few minutes later he was back in the room and was studying the red file that she had given him.
“Says here that you are still in medical school”
“Yeah only a year to go” She smiled
“And that you are taking 40mgs of Vicodin is that still the case?”
“Yes I write down when I take it in my medical notebook and I’ll need a refill”
“Of course I will write you a prescription” He assured her and wrote her a prescription gave it to her and went back to the red file.
“It also says that you are going to be taught here for 2 months”
“Yeah”
“By me of course” He added
“Cool well I’ve got an interview after this with Dr Cuddy” She told him
“Ok now let’s get back to your leg can you lift up your pants”
So Kate lifted up her pants and he examined her crippled right leg after a few minutes she pulled down her pants and waited for his assessment.
“Did you remember to not take your medication”?
“Yeah I did”
“How are you feeling?”
“Well the leg is hurting like hell so I must of doing something right!”
“Of course well that concludes our check up so see you tomorrow ok”
“Ok”
Kate got off the bed and slowly walked out the door. She left the clinic and went to the hospital’s pharmacy, which was actually near the clinic and went up to the counter.
“Hello how can I help you today?” The pharmacist asked her
“Um Doctor Wilson gave me this prescription for Vicodin” She told him and handed over the prescription
“Actually it’s your lucky day since I was just about to open up a new box of Vicodin” He told her then added, “How many bottles?”
“Just the one please”
The pharmacist opened up the new box and gave her a bottle.
“Here you are! Have a nice day”
“Thanks same to you”
She left the pharmacy and walked in the direction of Dr Cuddy’s office. But as she was walking she wondered how Scarlet was doing in the cafeteria
Scarlet Adams’ journal
12/7/05
Hospital cafeteria
12:50
Dear Journal,
Daniel is being a complete idiot again. He is putting chips up his nose and is sneezing them out. People are staring at him especially this very bad mannered man who is sitting at our old table watching General Hospital. He has been there since 12:25 when Kate left to go to the clinic. I am angry with Kate because she gave the table to him but she says that she gave the table to the other person who is sitting with him. Well I find myself looking at the man’s cane wondering why he has it maybe he’s like Kate and was left crippled but Kate told me about infarctions which are blood clots that can happen in thigh muscles….
“Scarlet do you want the rest of these chips?” a voice asked her.
“No Daniel they’ve been up your nose” she told him
“Scarlet I think that you’re paranoid again I never do that!” He protested
Scarlet looked up at Daniel and saw that he was eating his chips as normal. He grinned and pushed the plate towards her.
“Then why did I hear that man say that you were putting chips up your nose?”
“He knows that you get paranoid”
“How does he know that?”
“Well ever since he heard you talking to Kate”
Scarlet scowled at him and took the plate of chips then she got out of her chair and went over to the table where the bad mannered man was.
“How dare you make me paranoid! You wicked old man!”
The man turned away from the TV and stared at her.
“Calling a doctor old! What’s the world coming to?”
“Don’t you be sarcastic with me” She snapped at him
“Cool you brought me some food how thoughtful” he said sarcastically as he took the plate from her
“Yeah I’ve also got something else”
Scarlet grabbed his glass of water and poured it all over the man’s head.
“Never talk to a paranoid woman,” he told his companion who was staring at Scarlet with his mouth open “they always suffer a bad case of PMS”. Scarlet was smiling to herself and felt like doing it again when Daniel brought her back down to earth.
“Kate just texted she’s wants us to meet her at the clinic”
“Ok Daniel I’ll be there in a minute I’m having fun,” she pleaded
“No we have to go now just in case we have to help her with her problem!”
So Scarlet and Daniel left the cafeteria with everyone staring at them as they went past and made their way to the clinic where Kate was waiting for them with three white doctor coats and three folders for each of them. Kate noticed Scarlet’s smile as she handed her the coat and folder.
“What are you smiling about?” She asked her
“Nothing just something I did in the cafeteria,” Scarlet answered
“What did you do, get paranoid again?”
“No well at first but poured over a glass of water onto that bad mannered man who stole our seat”
“Scarlet I told you before I gave the table to his companion” Kate protested “Now he’s going to think that gave to him for a joke”
“No I didn’t do it because of that, I did it because he made me paranoid!”
“Scarlet please try to take your Prozac” Kate pleaded
“I do but I don’t think that they are working” Scarlet explained
“I think they are it’s just you don’t know when to stop being paranoid” Daniel told her
“What about I take you to the pharmacy to get you a refill and a bottle of PMS” Kate asked her
“Are you mocking me?”
“Yes its the best friend’s job to mock his or her best friend” Kate explained laughing
“Well is it mocking if I take your cane and…”
Kate had a that point had put her MP3’s headphones in her ears and walked off in the opposite direction towards the entrance of the hospital where American Idiot was now playing in her ears and into her brain where it would be playing over and over for the rest of the day.
