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The white man was lying unconscious on the deeply matted floor of the empty room in Dr. Sadao’s house. Dr. Sadao came there with his Surgeon’s emergency bag and wearing his surgeon’s coat. Hana cried and said if he had decided to operate, Sadao simply said yes. He unfolded a sterilised towel upon the floor and put his instruments upon it. He asked Hana to fetch towels and help him to turn the wounded man.
Then he began to wash the man’s back carefully. Dr. Sadao told Hana that she would have to give the anaesthetic if he needs it. When he took out the packing the blood from the man’s wound began to flow more quickly. He found out that the bullet was still there in the wound. Dr. Sadao thought there was no reason why this man should live. But if he stopped now, the man would surely die. Sadao felt the tip of his instrument strike against something hard, dangerously near the kidney.
He took the bullet out. The man vibrated but he was still unconscious. He found his pulse so faint and so feeble. He (old Hana that no more anaesthetic was required. He dressed his wound and injected him on the. patient’s left arm. He felt the pulse that grew stronger. Thus doing his duty as a doctor, Dr: Sadao saved the life of that man, even though he considered him as his enemy.