These weren't doctors dressed in blue, wearing caps and face masks, as seen in dramas and some movies to emphasize that doctors recover straight from surgery. One of them was in a blue suit, but he was wearing a doctor's smock with a lot of ballpoint pens tucked in a breast pocket.
"Steve Paxton's family?" He asked.
That simple, normal question chilled Martin's blood in his veins. Why does the doctor's voice sound so cruelly ominous?
"I am his guardian," Karl announced without going into detail.
"The operation was successful. We managed to stop the bleeding and the knife did not damage any internal organs. The patient has lost a lot of blood so I cannot guarantee his safety yet, but the prognosis is good. "
Did Martin hear well? Didn't he misheard something? The operation was successful? It was really successful?
The boy looked at the faces of the gathered men. There was a slight anxiety on all of them, but also a clear relief.