Chapter 600: Saving Lives
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
In normal hospitals, the Gynecology Departnt and the Ergency Departnt were renowned for working their doctors to death. This was especially true for the Gynecology Departnt because most childbirths occurred at night. Hence, the doctors of the Gynecology Departnt had to work frequent night shifts.
Besides, unlike departnts like the Departnt of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery where the doctors on night shift got to sleep through the night 90% of the ti, the Gynecology Departnt was always flooded with patients at night. It was rare for doctors of the Gynecology Departnt to get a good night’s sleep while they were on the night shift.
When Ling Ran woke up at three or four in the morning to carry out surgeries, the doctors he encountered the most frequently were those from the Gynecology Departnt. Certain doctors of the Gynecology Departnt were capable of performing seven or eight Caesarean sections a night, and it was normal for them to do so from sunset to sunrise. They stay up through the night so much that their biological clock was the sa as those who went clubbing at night all the ti.
Of course, the Gynecology Departnt was not peaceful during the day either.
The mont Ling Ran arrived at the Gynecology Departnt, two pregnant won were being wheeled into the elevator at the sa ti.
There were so many patients’ family mbers standing in the corridor that they looked like weeds that had grown haphazardly. They were scattered all over the place and were a total hindrance to those who wanted to make their way through the corridor. All of them were holding gifts and fruit baskets in their hands, and they were so elated that they were not there to visit soone in the hospital at all.
“Doctor Ling, co over here,” an experienced departnt director of First Division of Obstetrics Departnt, Fang Pingzhu said. She was so plump that her adipose tissue had smoothed out the wrinkles on her face.
Just like other departnts in the hospital, the Obstetrics Departnt underwent another division a few years after the Gynecology and Obstetrics Departnt were divided into the Gynecology Departnt and Obstetrics Departnt. At the end of the day, it was because a few assistant departnt directors had gained more experience, and they want to beco departnt directors. A series of conflicts ensued. Yua Hua Hospital did not want any assistant departnt director to jump ship to another hospital, as this would make the hospital less competitive. Hence, they had no choice but to divide the Obstetrics Departnt into the first division, the second division, and the third division. When this happened, two of the assistant departnt directors who had their own treatnt group were promoted to departnt directors.
As for the two assistant departnt directors who had their own treatnt groups but were unable to rise in the rankings and beco departnt directors, they had no choice but to leave in dejection and head to hospitals lacking manpower so that they could beco departnt directors.
However, being a departnt director in Yun Hua Hospital was obviously not the sa thing as being a departnt director in so random local tertiary Grade A hospital.
Fang Pingzhu was the departnt director of the original Obstetrics Departnt, and she was old friends with Departnt Director Hong. This, coupled with the fact that Departnt Director Hong’s eldest niece was the patient who was suffering from postpartum hemorrhage, gave Fang Zhuping no choice but to let Ling Ran treat the patient even though she was very reluctant to.
Aside from this, Fang Zhuping had to make things as easy as possible for Ling Ran so that he would not end up with proof that Fang Zhuping treated him badly.
Doctors were unlike other occupations. For those working most jobs, helping or bending the regulations for other people would only bring them monetary gains or help them forge relationships with those people. In nicer terms, it involved matters related to reputation, dignity, happiness, and other such matters. and happiness.
Things were different for doctors, as they often had to deal with matters related to life and death. Take what was happening right now as an example. If Fang Zhuping were to stop Ling Ran from helping out, and Departnt Director Hong’s eldest niece ended up dying because of this, Fang Zhuping would not know how to explain things to Departnt Director Hong. And the woman’s parents would definitely feel extrely bad.
Ling Ran was recognized in Yun Hua Hospital as an expert in bleeding control, and the fact that he was able to do what a specialist who ca over from Beijing to perform a freelance surgery was incapable of doing was proof of that. Even though there were certain differences between postpartum hemorrhage and hemorrhage experienced by patients in the General Surgery Departnt as well as the Departnt of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, difficulty-wise, it was much easier to deal with postpartum hemorrhage. Fang Zhuping did not have the intention to test out Ling Ran’s abilities when it ca to bleeding control either.
What was the point of testing him, anyway?
Why was the freelance surgeon hired in the first place? The patient’s family mbers wanted him to treat their father, who was in a critical condition. And even though it was against the hospital’s regulation, the hospital and the doctors had no choice but to give way to freelance surgeons from other hospitals, or even other regions.
Fang Zhuping was not so shaless to the point that she would stop the hospital’s bleeding control expert from treating a patient.
Of course, she was not too happy about it.
Fortunately, the patient had not arrived yet, so she had not started treating the patient. Hence, she did not need to suffer a loss of reputation.
“The ambulance ETA in two or three minutes,” a junior doctor reported.
Fang Zhuping humd in acknowledgnt. She glanced at Ling Ran and said, “Doctor Ling, do you want the patient to be sent over here or to be sent straight to the operating theater?”
She was referring to the operating theaters on the surgical floor.
“There’re two operating theaters in the Obstetrics Departnt, right? If any of them is vacant right now, just send the patient over here.” If the patient were to be sent to the surgical floor, what was the point of Ling Ran coming over here? He could have just treated her in the Ergency Departnt.
However, there were still certain differences between working in the Obstetrics Departnt and working in the Gynecology Departnt. The biggest difference was that they were dealing with two lives at once. No matter what surgical thod was being used, not only did the doctor has to ensure that the mother stayed alive, but they also had to make sure that the baby was safe.
Facility-wise, especially when it ca to the quality of the nurses and other assisting dical staff, the Obstetrics Departnt was more suitable than the Ergency Departnt.
Fang Zhuping humd in acknowledgnt and said, “Nowadays, all Caesarean sections are carried out in the operating theaters on the surgical floor. Hence, there’s an empty operating theater.”
The operating theaters in the Obstetrics Departnt of Yun Hua Hospital were constructed when Caesarean section was all the rage. Unlike the Orthopedics Departnt where doctors got to make plenty of money through the use of dical consumables, and the Neurology Departnt where doctors profited greatly from the dication prescribed, the doctors of Gynecology and Obstetrics Departnt neither got to prescribe a large amount of dication nor use a lot of dical consumables. Hence, Caesarean sections were basically the main source of inco for doctors working in the Obstetrics Departnt.
Before the health system limited the number of Caesarean sections doctors that were allowed to be perford in proportion to the total number of pregnant won, hospitals like Yun Hua Hospital could perform an unlimited number of Caesarean sections.
At that ti, the new ward building had not been completed yet. As the Obstetrics Departnt was dissatisfied with the number of operating theaters on the surgical floor available to them at one ti, they built their own operating theaters so that they could operate on more patients. Aside from the Caesarean section, they also carried out surgeries on patients with ectopic pregnancy, hysterectomy, and other related surgeries. Aside from this, it was true that certain surgeries carried out by the Gynecology and Obstetrics Departnt could not be delayed. Fang Zhuping was able to make a na for herself because she completed a Caesarean section in twenty seconds and saved the life of a hypoxic baby.
After strict regulations on Caesarean section were imposed, the operating theaters in the Obstetrics Departnt were only used for surgeries such as hysteroscopy. Even though the operating theaters were much less frequently used, they were well-equipped. It was just that the facilities and equipnt were a little dated.
“Prepare more bags of blood,” Ling Ran said and turned to look at Fang Zhuping. “Chief Physician Fang, can you check on the patient later? If the patient’s pain tolerance is low, administer general anesthetics before carrying out exploratory laparotomy. Zuo Cidian, talk to the patient’s family mbers and let them sign the notice of critical illness and inford consent forms. Aside from this, you must tell the patient’s family mbers that the patient is in a critical condition, and we’ll have to carry out a hysterectomy if there’s a need for it.”
“Roger!” Zuo Cidian answered loudly. Even though he was forty-three years old, his expression was so determined that he looked like a student undergoing military training. The doctors and nurses of the Gynecology and Obstetrics Departnt turned to look at him when they heard his voice.
Zuo Cidian tilted up his chin proudly. He had been waiting for a chance to butter up to Ling Ran for almost a month.
He found it a lot more useful to make Ling Ran look good in front of the doctors and nurses of other departnts compared to saying flattering words to Ling Ran.
Suffering a slight loss of dignity in front of other people was the least of Zuo Cidian’s concern.
He was a forty-three-year-old resident doctor, and even though he had almost completely gone bald, he still had to carry out the sa tasks as junior doctors who were only a little over twenty years old. Why would he care about his dignity?
The young doctors whispered to one another, and Fang Zhuping was not surprised at all as she looked at Ling Ran.
Fang Zhuping was an experienced departnt director of the Obstetrics Departnt’s First Division, and she was once the only departnt director in the Obstetrics Departnt. Even before the associate chief physicians working under her started their rebellion, no one had ever flattered her like that.
“Departnt Director Fang, I’ll have to ask for your help if there’s a need for hysterectomy.” Even though Ling Ran was very familiar with the structures in the human abdon, he had never carried out hysterectomy before.
Fang Zhuping humd noncommittally. She was more or less affected by what Zuo Cidian had just done.
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