Phones have been beeping off the hook at the waiting room with the earthquake alert blasting on all networks. He’s had patients admitted with mild cases of pneumonia from the storm, but otherwise the hospital wasn’t entirely too busy lately--unless you counted the occasional hypochondriac who usually wasted most of his valuable time. He checked the front desk for the line-up of patients in the emergency room before he walked back in to the first unattended patient he found. “Hello, I’m senior clerk Shim. How may I help you?”










