The emergency dispatch alarm at the Truck City Emergency Medical Center went off.
Chaos had already broken out at the site.
Two foreign workers were carrying steel rebar on their shoulders.One of them slipped.
The rebar fell through the air,aiming straight at the lower body of one man.
It pierced his groin.
For a moment, time seemed to stop.
Site managers flailed their hands in panic,but no one moved properly.
The siren of the Doctor Truck cut through the parking lot.Song Jaemin and the medical team jumped out.
"Stabilize the patient. Prepare for immediate surgery."
The truck doors opened.Mobile surgical equipment unfolded.
An emergency specialist checked the patient's condition.
"Severe bleeding. We operate now."
Nurses and paramedics moved together.They carefully fixed the rebar, monitored blood pressure and pulse,and transferred the patient into the truck.
Doyoon watched the scene, holding his breath.
Inside the truck, the patient lost consciousness,but with precise equipment and coordinated teamwork,the bleeding was brought under control.
Song Jaemin spoke calmly.
"Good. Stabilized.We can transfer him to a hospital now."
The patient slightly lifted his head and looked at Doyoon.He said nothing,but his eyes held every word of gratitude.
Doyoon bit his lip.
"We saved him… properly."
At that moment, he knew.
Truck City and the Doctor Truck were not ideas.They were reality—saving lives.
Doctor Truck Dispatch Records
After that day, the calls never stopped.
1. 2:00 a.m., roadside highway shoulder
A passenger car crashed into the median.Driver semi-conscious. Chest compression injuries.
Nearest hospital: unable to accept.Second hospital: CT waiting time, three hours.
The Doctor Truck arrived first.Chest tube insertion performed beside the car door.Breathing returned.
Transfer completed.
All that remained at the scenewere shattered glassand the trace of a heartbeat that had once stopped.
2. 4:00 p.m., redevelopment zone
Demolition site. Scaffolding collapse.Fall height: five meters. Head bleeding. Unconscious.
A paramedic said,"Forty minutes to the hospital."
The Doctor Truck arrivedwithin ten.
Airway secured. Hemostasis. Oxygen supplied.
The patient opened his eyesbefore reaching the hospital.
3. 11:00 p.m., semi-basement alley
Elderly person living alone. No response at the door.When opened: hypothermia, irregular pulse.While contacting hospitals—
Cardiac arrest.
Doctor Truck arrival.CPR. Defibrillation.The heart started beating again.
That night,the man said from his hospital bed,
"I'm not cold."
4. 6:00 a.m., behind a factory cafeteria
Foreign worker. Acute abdominal pain.Too much pain to speak.
Three hospitals refused admission.
Ultrasound performed inside the Doctor Truck.Intra-abdominal bleeding detected.
Immediate stabilization,then transfer to a regional trauma center.
The physician recorded:
"If arrival had been delayed by 20 minutes,probability of death would have been high."
5. 10:00 a.m., in front of an elementary school
A parent collapsed. Suspected myocardial infarction.Children were crying.
The Doctor Truck stopped at the school gate.
Emergency treatment performed in front of the children.ECG stabilized.Patient handed over to an ambulance.
One child asked,
"Is that truck…a hospital?"
Someone answered,
"No.It gets herefaster than a hospital."
6. Unrecorded dispatches
People who fell and broke bones.People who couldn't breathe.People turned away at hospital doors.
In many cases,there were no newspapers.No interviews.
Only a single line in the dispatch log:
Stabilized. Transferred. Completed.
Doyoon looked at the logs and said,
"This isn't a miracle.We just weren't too late."
The Doctor Truck returned to standby.
The city was not complete yet,but at least one reason people diedwas disappearing.
And the records continued.
That evening,a headline appeared on the main portal.
〈Mobile Hospital? Surgery in a Legal Gray Zone〉
The subtitle was sharper:
"Who Takes Responsibility?"
On the news screen,the anchor's expression did not change.
"Did you know that truck-shaped mobile medical facilitiesare now performing surgery on site?"
The screen switched.
Doctor Truck footage circled in red.Sirens.Opening doors.Lights.
A caption appeared:
'Illegal Medical Practice Controversy'
The reporter continued,
"When incisions and sutures are performedoutside of a hospital,critics argue this constitutes a clear violation of medical law."
Medical Community Response
The Medical Association issued a statement immediately.
〈A Dangerous Precedent Undermining Emergency Medical Systems〉
The language was definitive.
Medical care cannot be mobile
Surgery must be performed in hospitals
Allowing exceptions collapses standards
A professor interviewed said,
"It may have started with good intentions,but this misunderstands the essence of medicine."
Another was more blunt.
"You cannot justify breaking the lawjust because you want to save lives."
Comments
Under the article, comments poured in.
"Who takes responsibility if something goes wrong?""Is a medical license just decoration?""Stop playing hero."
Among them, one quiet comment:
"That truck saved my father."
It receivedno likes.
Inside – The Meeting Room
The news footage remained on the screen.
Someone said,
"They're trying to stop this."
Another flipped through legal clauses.
"At this level of emergency response,we'd win a lawsuit."
Doyoon said nothing.
He was watching the caption.
'Mobile Hospital Controversy'
After a moment, he spoke quietly.
"This was expected."
Song Jaemin
Song Jaemin was sitting at one side of the room.
He opened his mouth slowly.
"You know…"
Everyone looked at him.
"Who decidedthat hospitalswere never supposed to move?"
No one answered.
That night,the Doctor Truck did not deploy.
It wasn't suspension.
It was standby.
And for the first time,the city understood.