The Doctor

"Sorry?" Josh had to ask again as Mindy recalled what had happened. By this time, he was hurrying to the room to grab his coat and phone. He checked and saw ten missed calls!

"Wow, I wasn't with my phone. I didn't know they had called me before." He muttered to himself.

"I have called my driver to drop you off at the hospital. Please be safe." Mindy said warmly to him as he hurried off. Once in the car, he dialed the number he'd missed.

"What is going on? Mindy came in to announce the matter of urgency." Josh asked.

"It's our dad! He's having a reaction!" Sofia cried out. "Please we need you here."

"Okay. Tell me his symptoms and what you've administered to him." Josh said simply.

"He was administered an antibiotics and I guess he just reacted to it. Badly. Penicillin, I guess."

"Is your dad allergic to nuts?" Josh asked.

"Yes! His skin is all swollen and itchy. My sister, Isadora is helping calm him down. Please hurry." She said.

Josh quickly knew what to do to stop the allergy and had called for the necessary herbs he would be needing. After getting his delivery, he hurried into the room.

A man was there putting something in a drip that he passed through Mr. Sanchez veins.

"Take that away. I need you to leave right now." Josh ordered.

The man frowned at Josh. "Who are you supposed to be?"

Isadora and Sofia walked in. "Oh thank goodness, you're here."

"Ladies, please let doctor Martins treat my husband. I knew we shouldn't have trusted this man." Margaret said with detest.

"Why would you administer antibiotics to him? Is there any form of bacteria infection or any sign of weakened immune system? Why would you give him antibiotics!" Josh hollered at him. "You could have harmed him! How long has he been like this?"

Josh walked over to the man on the bed who was now in a coma. But the doctor soon stopped him.

"Hey, stay back!" He shouted irritatedly like he had met Josh before and decided to hate him. "So it was you who tortured this man and took him off all of his drugs? What kind of human are you, you fool!"

"Hey, watch the way you're talking to him." Sofia stepped forward.

"This man will kill your father. I'm just doing my job as a certified doctor with more than four years of experience." The doctor said proudly.

Josh on the other hand, he had been a native doctor who specialized in treatments with certain varieties of herbs for more than half of his life, which was going to fifteen years. Since he was barely ten years old, he had been mastering this skill from his grandfather and uncle.

"You will kill this man if you don't let me quickly take care of his allergies. We're talking about severe damage to his internal organs." Josh said, revealing the urgency in his tone.

But the doctor was not having any of this. Even Margaret sided with him.

"You have seen me effective in my diagnosis, and you will still doubt me?" Josh asked Margaret with a serious look.

The woman evade his gaze and stared at the floor. She couldn't admit that she trusted someone like Josh in the presence of the great handsome doctor Martins!

"Miss Isadora, Sofia, I need to treat his allergies before they get more serious than this. Remember, you called me with an urgency." Josh said calmly.

"Mr. Martins, please step aside right now--" Isadora was still saying when her younger sister stepped forward and gave the doctor a sounding loud slap.

"I will sue your ass if you don't get the fuck away right this instant!" She raged out. With her small stature, she sure controlled a decent amount of power and authority.

"You move away right now!" She pushed the man away, clearing a path for Josh. "I swear it. If anything goes wrong with my dad, you will spend the rest of your life in jail paying for it! You understand me?"

Suddenly, everyone was silent. Martins decided not to keep quiet and accept defeat that easily. He straightened his posture and adjusted his now rough shirts.

"This man will not last another hour, I'm sorry to break it to you ladies." He said, hardening his face. The truth was that he had been ashamed he didn't know what to do to the man with his allergies, despite being a somewhat a

good doctor.

There was a soft gasp from everyone at the mention of the doctor's comment, and it produced a proud smile on his face. "If you trust this quack over here, this man will die. He's dying already now."

"Will you shut up already?" Josh frowned as he mixed his potion. "What kind of a doctor are you if you will nearly kill a man and proudly admit that you had just committed murder?"

"I didn't commit murder! This man will die soon. Bet it with me. If he doesn't with the rubbish you're administering, then go ahead and take my doctors license." Martins said with so much pride. He could never imagine Mr. Sanchez would make it.

"Didn't you see some improvements last night?" Josh asked the sisters.

"We did! And we were waiting to call you to share the good news, until Margaret here brought this doctor Martins to start injecting some toxins into his body." Isadora said fiercely, not hiding the anger in her eyes.

"That is so rude of you. I am only doing what is best for--" as Margaret started to say, something went horribly wrong so fast that nobody was expecting.

Suddenly, Mr. Sanchez began to gasp and shiver so much that everyone were instantly scared. Only Josh remained firm in his position as he tried to keep Mr. Sanchez's body calm.

"Ha! I said it. You'll kill this man! What a fool you are." Martins roared out.

"Oh no. What have you done to my husband!" Margaret cried out.

"Mr. Josh? Is everything okay!" Isadora said, though she was trying hard to put her trust in the treatment process.

It was only Sofia who fully believed in Josh's treatment and guessed that Martins had made some pretty wrong moves trying to harm their father.

With gritted teeth, she advanced closer to Martins and grabbed his collar so tight, forcing him to face her. "You had better be ready to face the wrath of the Sanchez. What you have done to my father, you will pay for it!"

"He's stable now." Josh announced, making everyone turn to face him.