Chapter 136: Crying sounds so wonderful!
Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Kurisu
Zhang Fan was rotated to the gynecology departnt. There were only two male doctors in this entire departnt. All other doctors were female.
The gynecology departnt was also looked down upon in Chasu City Hospital.
The surgical departnts would claim that gynecology was an internal dicine departnt. The internal dicine departnts would claim that gynecology was a surgical departnt.
There was a rotation doctor whose first rotation was in the gynecology departnt. He learned so sutures there. For his second rotation, he went to general surgery. The doctors in general surgery laughed at him for so long because of his problems with sewing sutures! That was just how condescension in the hospital was.
The gynecology departnt had its own small operating room. Most smaller surgeries would be perford here, rather than in the shared operating rooms. The sll of blood was quite heavy here. In fact, the sll of blood here was different from the regular sll of blood, as the sll of blood was far heavier.
The female doctors in gynecology were typically physically stronger than female doctors in other departnts. Many of them were quite manly. This was because obstetrics required physical strength. Won with weaker bodies wouldn’t be able to handle the job.
The female doctors in this departnt also had loud voices. Right when Zhang Fan entered the departnt, he heard a female doctor shouting loudly, “Hurry, gauze!”
Gynecology and obstetrics was a departnt with serious responsibilities. If any dical incident occurred, it was common that there would be two lives lost, both mother’s and child’s. China’s governnt was placing more and more importance on pregnant won and newborns. In most normal departnts, even if the patient died, the departnt wouldn’t need to report it to the hospital leadership unless the patient had died due to a dical incident. But, things were different in the gynecology and obstetrics departnt. If a pregnant woman died, that would be a major incident. Not only would the departnt have to report it to the hospital leadership, the hospital would also have to make a report to the Bureau of Health. In addition, the gynecology and obstetrics departnt often had a high rate of patient disputes.
A newborn would need to exit its mother’s body and suddenly change environnts. From pregnancy to childbirth, all sorts of hormones in the mother’s body would be elevated. There would be too many biological changes to list. It truly could be said that mothers giving birth would need to crawl through the gates of hell in order to survive. There were far too many changes in the body as well as unpredictable occurrences.
No matter how careful the doctor was, it would still be possible for a dical incident to occur. The mother and child both dying would obviously be a trendous shock and calamity to any family. This was why the doctors in the gynecology and obstetrics departnt were under trendous pressure. After being under such pressure for too long, very few doctors in this departnt would have good tempers. They weren’t naturally like this to begin with. This was a helpless side effect of the situation! Please understand how it is for them.
Zhang Fan was assigned to Xiao Hong, a middle-aged female attending physician. She had a thick and strong body. She also spoke, acted, and walked especially quickly. Shao Hong was currently on duty for half a year in obstetrics.
The crying sounds in pediatrics were still tolerable. At most, the children crying there would make you slightly frustrated. However, the crying and screaming in obstetrics were truly heartrending.
On Zhang Fan’s very first day in gynecology and obstetrics, which was a full day shift combined with a night shift, he experienced how hard it was for mothers. Shao Hong’s patient #9 was a pregnant woman who was 28 years old. She had been in labor pains for two days now, but still didn’t show signs of going into labor. She was in such pain that she constantly sweated.
Her husband was all in tears from watching his wife like this. However, this pregnant woman was quite strong. Since the position of the fetus, the fetus’s health, and everything else was quite good, the pregnant woman absolutely insisted on a natural childbirth.
The woman was all by herself on her bed in the delivery room. She was in such pain that she kept twisting and turning. The delivery room was a room for expectant pregnant won who were giving birth soon. Family mbers weren’t allowed in. The doctors and nurses were all quite busy and didn’t have the ti to comfort her. Only a nurse would co by periodically to checkup on the won here.
Patient #9 kept gritting her teeth and moaning from the pain. Her husband brought her so food and pulled the curtain around her bed.
“Liping, how about we just do a C-section? I feel like I’m about to die myself, seeing you in so much pain. Honestly, let’s just do a C-section!”
“No! I’m really fine! Naturally born babies will have a stronger sense of direction, and it’s harder for them to get pneumonia. I’ll definitely have a natural birth!” Although she was saying this, she was grabbing on to her husband’s hand with everything she had.
“Liping!” The husband was crying soundlessly.
“Stop crying! Wait, the baby is coming out, he’s coming out!” The pregnant woman hurriedly told her husband. She could feel a pushing sensation.
“Doctor! Hurry!” The husband stood up in such a hurry that he even spilled the food he brought all over the floor.
“What are you shouting for! Get out!” Shao Hong knew with just one look that the pregnant woman was about to get birth, so she ordered the husband out. However, patient #9’s husband really didn’t want to leave. He was in such pain from seeing his wife in such discomfort.
“Did you not hear ? Get out!” Shao Hong raised her voice several levels and directly pushed the patient’s husband outside the delivery room.
“Use more strength! Use more strength! Hurry! Hold your breath, and push down! That’s right! Just like that! You can do it! Hurry!” The nurse midwife helped the pregnant woman with the delivery. Zhang Fan stood by the side while watching and waiting to assist. He felt his heart clenching up as this was too painful to behold, with how much pain the pregnant woman was in.
The pregnant woman was in such pain that she kept shaking her head. Even so, she did her best to not move her lower body. She was no superwoman. This was simply the power of motherly love.
“Feed the patient so chocolate and a Red Bull energy drink. She’s almost out of energy,” Shao Hong told Zhang Fan.
Zhang Fan hurriedly opened up a can of Red Bull and fed a chocolate bar to the pregnant woman. She was no longer in as much pain for the mont. Her tears and sweat all mingled together. When she saw Zhang Fan bringing her chocolate and an energy drink, she took advantage of this lapse in pain to really eat and drink up. The combination of Red Bull and Dove chocolate was so sweet!
So ti later, the patient started hurting again. “You can do it, push down, clench your anus, and hold your breath! Hurry, you can do it, the baby’s head is showing, hurry, use more strength, hurry! If you don’t use strength, the baby will lack oxygen! Hurry!” Shao Hong and the nurse midwife’s voices were really loud and strict-sounding!
The pregnant woman used all of the strength she had. “Ahhh!” It was unknown whether the pregnant woman was celebrating the end of her pain or whether it was the last of her strength. She shouted once, and successfully gave birth to her child!
Zhang Fan felt his hairs all standing up on end! He also had goosebumps all over. He helped to clear the newborn’s airway, cut the umbilical cord, and slapped the baby’s butt. The baby started crying! “Wahh! Wahh! Wahh!” There was a clear crying sound! Zhang Fan felt for the first ti ever that the sound of crying was so wonderful.
A child’s birthday would be the mother’s day of pain!
“Doctor! Is it a boy or a girl?” The patient looked towards Zhang Fan. He was about to tell her the answer, when Shao Hong interjected, “Shut up! No matter if it’s a boy or girl, it’s your child! Now’s not the ti for you to be worrying about such things!”
Zhang Fan imdiately shut up as well instead of saying anything! The patient was still waiting for her placenta to be ejected. The baby was also quite busy as well, as it was necessary to take the baby’s weight, footprints, and so on. Since this had been a natural birth, the baby’s head seed like a lollipop. Zhang Fan felt that the newborn seed really ugly!
A ray of sunlight now illuminated the delivery room! It was now daylight! The patient had successfully survived the ordeal of childbirth! She was now quietly sleeping, with her baby next to her. The father and both sets of grandparents all quietly surrounded the mother and child, without making a single sound. However, all of them had blissful smiles! Gynecology and obstetrics was just such a wondrous departnt. Pregnant won waiting for childbirth might not actually give birth for quite a while. But, then several might all suddenly give birth all at once. Right after successfully delivering this baby, another two expectant mothers were about to give birth. This was a night shift, so there were only three nurse midwives on duty. That wasn’t enough! There was no helping it, so attending physician Shao Hong acted as a nurse midwife, while Zhang Fan acted as her nurse assistant.
“Doctor Zhang, stimulate the patient’s breasts.” Zhang Fan put on light plastic gloves and averted his gaze as he kept playing with a pregnant female patient’s breasts. The reason why he had to stimulate the patient’s breasts was to help her produce progestins, a hormone which would be useful in expediting the baby’s birth.
The patient kept shouting, resting, eating chocolate, drinking Red Bull, and then repeating this process! For won who had longer processes of childbirth, they would almost always be completely drained of energy at the end of the process.
Television dramas definitely weren’t exaggerating how pale won could be after giving birth. In real life, it would be even worse than what television dramas would show you. The won would often have completely ssy hair, lips completely drained of blood, and be completely listless.
In modern society, pregnant won had better nutrition and would move less than before. However, this would actually make difficult deliveries more common than before. In the past, it would be considered miracle news for a baby to weigh four kilograms at birth. Nowadays, four-kilogram newborns could be found everywhere!
Zhang Fan was having a hard ti already after his first night shift in gynecology and obstetrics. This was far too painful for him. It really would require a heart of steel for a doctor to be able to last long in such an environnt.
Sotis, having empathy wouldn’t always be a good thing. When a pregnant patient ran out of energy, talking nicely to her would be useless. Orders given in a severe tone would actually be the most effective.
“Hurry! Use more strength!” Shouting that loudly could shock the pregnant patient into using a little more strength.
Successfully delivering a baby would obviously be wonderful news for any family. It was only natural for the families to want to thank the doctors.
In other departnts, it was strictly forbidden for doctors to openly receive any gifts. However, Chasu City Hospital didn’t regulate the gynecology departnt in this matter strictly at all. It was quite common that the gynecology departnt would always have plenty of fruits, milk, and other gifts of food from the patients’ families!
So sophisticated families would gift the doctors with eggs wrapped in red paper. There were also superstitious families who would insist on having the doctor in charge of the childbirth give a nickna to the child three days after the birth. The superstition was that obstetricians had powerful energy that could help keep the newborn safe from illness.
Zhang Fan still couldn’t leave even though it was now morning and the end of his night shift. The gynecology and pediatrics departnts combined were doing a major checkup on all patients in unison, with both departnt directors acting together. This was a major event with a huge number of people.
Zhang Fan had bravely fought for the sake of protecting the nurses in the pediatrics departnt. Although he hadn’t won, just his courage was enough for the entire pediatrics departnt to beco really friendly towards him.
“Zhang Fan, it’s my birthday tomorrow. Co sing karaoke, and rember to buy a birthday present!” This was from a young resident doctor who was just permanently assigned to pediatrics.
“Hero Zhang, what’s the matter? You look so tired. That’s not like you at all.” Pediatrics director Tang Liuhong joked with Zhang Fan when she saw that he seed a bit fatigued.
“Haha, hello, Director. It’s just that I was up all night for a night shift!” Zhang Fan chuckled as he responded. He thought that he would get so sympathy, but instead, Director Tang told him, “You’re already like this after just one night shift? You need to exercise more! It’s bad for you to be so weak at your young age!”
The directors’ checkups hadn’t even started yet, but the pediatrics doctors were already joking around with Zhang Fan. Lu Shuyan was incredibly jealous as she watched this. She had permanently joined the gynecology departnt now, having finished with her rotations. Although the gynecology and pediatrics departnts usually did their checkups together, everything was usually quite serious. It was extraordinarily rare to see such a joking atmosphere.
“You’re pretty good! You’re so popular with others everywhere you go! How about you settle down here and get yourself assigned to gynecology? If we team up together, we’ll definitely be the best team in gynecology!”
“Hey! Teacher Lu! I really didn’t expect to see you here!” Lu Shuyan was currently in gynecology, while Zhang Fan was in the obstetrics section of gynecology. This was why the two of them hadn’t t each other yet after both leaving the urology departnt to join gynecology. Zhang Fan felt awkward about directly refusing her, which was why he intentionally changed the subject!
“Damn you!” Lu Shuyan was the one who felt awkward now. Although she had a master’s degree, she was still only a resident doctor. Zhang Fan addressing her as “Teacher” made her feel way too awkward.
Although Zhang Fan was absolutely exhausted after a full day and night shift, today was the weekly Monday major departntal checkup on all the patients. Any doctor who was still capable of moving was absolutely required to follow the directors for this departntal checkup.
The point in common between gynecology and pediatrics was children, especially the newborns. This was why the most importance for this dual departnt checkup was placed on the newborns. Every single room, every single pregnant woman, and every single newborn child was checked up upon.
The departntal checkup finally finished at two pm. Everyone hurriedly returned to their departnts. It still wasn’t ti for them to eat yet, as the major checkup took up far too much ti. There was still so much work left undone.
There was a large group of patients and their family mbers gathered in the gynecology departnt. They either needed discharge paperwork, have their dicine changed, or so on. It would be quite a bit past three p.m. before all of this was finally finished. If a doctor was really starving, all he or she could do was eat so chocolate really fast!
All of this work was supposed to be done by the resident and rotation doctors! Zhang Fan finally finished all this work and went back to his apartnt to take a shower. He then fell asleep on his bed in less than five minutes! Before Zhang Fan went to sleep, he texted Shao Hua saying, “I won’t be at your place for dinner tonight. No need to wait for , I need to sleep!”
Jingshu obtained her driver’s license successfully. Her driving was quite steady, although she still didn’t dare to drive long distances yet. Still, she wouldn’t have any problems driving in Chasu City. Every ti that Shao Hua got off work, if she had nothing to do, Jingshu would drive Shao Hua and the two won would go out having fun together. Although Shao Hua was also busy with her studying to beco an accountant, Zhang Fan was far too busy to accompany Jingshu, so Shao Hua was the only one who could accompany Jingshu. Besides, Jingshu could only stay for a few more days in Chasu City.
The gynecology departnt was run by a group of female doctors who were quite manlike. It could be said that there was little difference between day and night here. What would a doctor be most afraid of? They would be most afraid of being called in to work.
Most ordinary people could enjoy their sleep and turn off their cell phones. That would be impossible for doctors! Doctors would have to put on their clothes while answering their cell phones even if it was in the middle of the night! The call would never be for anything good. There would only be one thing: “Hurry over, there’s an ergency patient.”
The hospital wouldn’t care even if you were currently in the middle of having sex, or if you were feeling tired. An ergency patient would require you to co over instantly! Any doctor who had worked for more than two years already would be especially sensitive to their cell phone ringing. Just the ringtone was capable of causing them to tense up.
A sudden cell phone ring would instantly cause the doctor’s adrenaline to raise and heartbeat to rapidly increase!
There was a certain joke that doctors told. An injured doctor went into shock, and using dicine on him was quite ineffective. While the other doctors were feeling helpless, the superintendent declared, “Sound the alarms! Call his cell phone! There’s a patient that he still needs to save. It’s not ti for him to die yet!” As a result, the doctor in shock woke up!
Each profession would have their own pains. You wouldn’t know unless you were in that profession.
The renovation on Zhang Fan’s new apartnt ho was almost at an end now, with Shao Hua’s father watching over the renovation. Shao Hua’s father felt like he still wanted to watch more, because he was quite bored and had so much fun chatting with the renovation workers! The renovation on the new apartnt ho that Zhang Fan purchased for his parents in Lan City was almost completed now as well, as there were only simple renovations there, which was why things had been so quick.
Shao Hua had already decided for certain that she would take both her own mother and Zhang Fan’s mother together to send Jingshu off to college. She had already purchased the necessary plane tickets. Zhang Fan didn’t have the ti to go, and he felt rather bad about letting his sister go without him. However, he did feel reassured since Shao Hua was going. Shao Hua was indeed stronger than Zhang Fan in many areas.
Li Liang finished his six month study program at Chasu City Hospital. His ti here had been so fulfilling as well as tiring! Although he was still unable to accomplish difficult orthopedic surgeries, he no longer had any problems with handling simple internal fixations. Li Liang really didn’t want to leave, but he had to. There was no helping it, as he didn’t have an official job at Chasu City Hospital.
Zhang Fan treated Li Liang to a al. Shao Hua, Wang Yanan, and Li Hui also attended. The fatty Li Liang’s round face had beco slightly skinnier after half a year of hard work. He was quite a capable worker. Although he wasn’t nearly as ridiculously hardworking as Zhang Fan had been, the doctors in orthopedic departnt #1 had plenty of praise for him.
Although Li Liang wasn’t very handso, he had good emotional intelligence. He was already on texting terms with Wang Yanan now. Although this didn’t count as much progress in their relationship, this was still an important first step.
Li Hui was also much better now than he was before. He had started a relationship with a high school biology teacher. Still, it was only the beginning for now.
The atmosphere at Li Liang’s farewell dinner was quite nice. There was no sadness of separation. Li Liang was quite open-minded. No matter if it was work or finding a girlfriend, he had to have his own abilities first. As long as he worked hard enough, he would have no regrets!
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