Chapter 202: Almost! Who invented the phone?
Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Kurisu
In modern society, the power of money was now well known amongst ordinary Chinese people. No matter if a Chinese person was as young as six years old or as old as 80 , they would all know the importance of money. Not to ntion, in China, you would have to first pay money in order to receive hospital treatnt.
The ski place’s boss had no chance to even try and run. The nomads he had hired were no idiots. They would imdiately call the police if the boss tried to run. It would be quite simple to arrest him as he had no proper docunts or licenses for the entire ski place.
In a remote place like the mountains, if you were lucky, you might be able to make several years of good money with sothing like this illicit ski place. You could then use this money to make governnt connections. Maybe you would be able to elevate your wealth greatly after several years. But, if you were unlucky and an incident occurred, then you would likely lose all of the money you made. The police imdiately shut down the ski place and took the boss into custody.
At any Chinese hospital, patients who were able to stay in the ICU departnt for a long period of ti would almost always be one of the following: soone rich, a governnt leader, or soone injured while doing sothing for the public good. This was because the ICU departnt was truly expensive to stay in. The daily cost would typically be more than 10,000 yuan.
Human bodies were complex systems. The collapse of any internal system could easily cause serious problems for the body. Electrophysiology was an important part of the human body which still wasn’t fully understood.
Bayan’s life had been saved. However, the following treatnt would still be really important. He would need a dically precise treatnt for his recovery in order to prevent many possible negative aftereffects.
The ambulance would take any patient to the ergency departnt for the necessary treatnt to save their life. However, for a patient to go to the ICU departnt, the patient would need to either pay the hospitalization fee or have a governnt leader’s approval. The governnt leader would need to be higher in rank than the hospital superintendent. The ski place boss’s family paid 100,000 yuan to start with for the patient’s dical fees. These dical fees couldn’t be paid for by dical insurance, because this was an accident on the job. The insurance wouldn’t pay for this.
Since it was the weekend, only one doctor, attending physician Huang Wenzhi, was on duty today. Zhang Fan brought the patient to the ICU departnt and explained the situation to Huang Wenzhi.
For an electrocution patient, it would be critical to maintain their breathing capabilities. Due to having received pulmonary resuscitation, it would be necessary to check that no rib bones had accidentally been broken, and that he didn’t have pneumothorax or pulmonary edema.
Luckily, Bayan was still young. His rib bones were healthy and flexible. None of these possible aftereffects happened to him. However, the troubleso part was that even though his pulse had returned, he was still unable to breathe by himself without assistance.
Lack of oxygen in the body was incredibly dangerous. Just a few minutes of lacking oxygen would cause the brain to die. Bayan was put on a respirator, yet this was only the first step. After ensuring a cycle of oxygen, the doctor would also need to ensure the oxygen cycle’s stability.
Keeping the cycle stable was the prerequisite to all other recovery treatnt. Even though the chest compressions that Zhang Fan and the others had perford on the way to the hospital had helped to restore Bayan’s internal cycle and pulse, this wouldn’t be the end. The electrocution had ssed up the electrophysiology of Bayan’s body. It was possible that his heart might stop or suffer from heart fibrillations. It would be necessary to strictly check his electrocardiogram, arterial pressure, central venous pressure, and urine.
dicine could be used to maintain a stable cycle for Bayan. However, it wouldn’t be possible to only rely on dicine. It would be best to stop using dicine as quickly as possible. Just as how humans could be lazy, the organs also had a lazy side to them. If the organs were supported by dicine for a long period of ti, they would also beco lazy and stop wanting to perform their original functions.
The first place to focus on when the oxygen cycle collapsed would be the brain. Second would be the kidneys. Kidney failure was one of the most common reasons for electrocution recovery to fail. While the heart was part of electrophysiology, the kidney was part of chemical physiology. It would be vital to monitor the acidity and various macromolecules in the kidney.
Many patients and their family mbers wouldn’t understand why it would be necessary to draw blood and test urine and feces for sothing like a serious cold. Actually, this would be a preventative chanism. Many small illnesses would cause so special biochemical reactions which would then lead to a series of bad reactions. The small problems could easily beco major problems that would then beco fatal.
Zhang Fan helped Huang Wenzhi to deal with Bayan. Although Huang Wenzhi was the only doctor on duty today, there were many nurses. Six ICU departnt nurses were walking around swiftly while caring for the ICU patients.
“This isn’t bad. The patient’s numbers are normal. There’s also no obvious change in his pupils. It’s lucky that you soon arrived to help him, and that you maintained his internal cycle. Otherwise, this patient definitely would have died,” Huang Wenzhi told Zhang Fan.
“Still, we need to continue observing him and see if he makes it past tonight. It will be bad if ischemia reperfusion injury occurs,” Zhang Fan answered while nodding.
Zhang Fan was quite familiar with the ICU doctors. This was because many of his surgery patients would need to spend one or two days in the ICU departnt. Zhang Fan would often co to the ICU departnt to check up on his patients after finishing his current departnt’s daily work. That was why he was acquainted with the doctors and nurses here.
“Yes, indeed. How about you take my night shift for tonight? I hear that you’re transferring to our ICU departnt next week?” Huang Wenzhi joked with Zhang Fan. Since the patient Bayan was now in stable condition, both of them were no longer as tense.
“I truly can’t do it tonight. My girlfriend is waiting for outside. I’ll be troubling you tonight, Brother Huang.”
“I was just joking. No need to take seriously. When did you get a girlfriend? You moved quite quickly!”
“Alright, Brother Huang. I’ll be leaving this patient to you. I’m leaving now, and I’ll report in to you tomorrow!” Zhang Fan joked, acting as if Huang Wenzhi was the director of the ICU departnt!
“You little brat, hurry and go already!” Huang Wenzhi returned to the ICU departnt after watching Zhang Fan walk off.
Work in the ICU departnt was really boring. You would endlessly need to concentrate on watching numbers on countless monitors. The nurses were also really busy. All of the ICU patients were in severe condition and would need special care. If a patient didn’t have bedsores, but started having bedsores in the ICU departnt, that would be classified as a dical incident. It would be impossible for the young nurses in this departnt to get any sleep at all on the night shifts here. It would be common to seem like you aged by two or three years after a single night shift!
Zhang Fan returned to his car and reported to the others on Bayan’s condition. He saw that it seed like Shao Hua had been crying, so he asked, “What’s the matter?”
“She was so worried about you that she was crying,” Jia Suyue answered instead. If this had been a few months ago, she definitely would have tried to insult Zhang Fan, but she understood Zhang Fan a bit better after being through two incidents with him together now. She now gave face to him, and no longer made fun of him.
Shao Hua’s face reddened because of what Jia Suyue said. Shao Hua was rather embarrassed. Since there were several others here, Zhang Fan couldn’t really say anything. He turned and saw that Jia Suyue’s eyes were also rather red.
“Then how co your eyes are red as well?” Zhang Fan imdiately regretted asking this right after he did so. He knew that this was inappropriate to ask! But, there was no helping it now. Instead of waiting for Jia Suyue to reply, he imdiately talked to Li Liang instead. “Both of us should go to the ergency departnt and treat ourselves. Otherwise, frostbite scarring will appear on our ears.”
“I already brought over so iodophor and absorbent cotton. There’s really no other way. Let’s disinfect both of you. Our Yueyue is quite emotional. She was so moved that she started crying when she saw the ambulance,” said Wang Yanan as she started disinfecting Zhang Fan and Li Liang.
She perford so simple disinfection. Although Zhang Fan and Li Liang’s ears really itched, they absolutely couldn’t scratch them right now. Otherwise, the injured ears would scar permanently from the scratching.
Zhang Fan then drove everyone else ho. Just as he and Shao Hua were about to return to Shao Hua’s place, they received a phone call from her parents. It turned out that Shao Hua’s aunt’s child was getting married tomorrow. Shao Hua’s parents went over to that neighboring city for today. Since this was sothing that had been arranged long ago, Shao Hua’s parents didn’t want to trouble Zhang Fan and Shao Hua. That was why Shao Hua’s parents only notified them right before leaving.
Zhang Fan had been really anxious today with all the chest compressions. He then felt great relief after the patient had been successfully stabilized. After these roller coaster emotions were over, he now felt really hungry.
Zhang Fan, who was about to drool, said, “Let’s go eat the big plate of chicken dish! We should also eat so noodles on top with the spicy chicken. I’m starving!”
“Okay! Let’s go, then. I’m also really hungry. Today, when I saw how Li Liang was, I kept thinking that you would be in the sa condition. I felt so bad for you, really!” Only now as she rode shotgun did Shao Hua slowly start to confide in Zhang Fan as to why she had been crying.
“There’s no helping it! What else can we do since we t with such an incident?” Zhang Fan replied gently while caressing Shao Hua’s face.
“Why is it that incidents always occur when we’re out together?” Shao Hua held onto Zhang Fan’s hand which caressed her face. She gently tilted her face against Zhang Fan’s hand and enjoyed his warmth.
“It’s not that incidents always occur when we’re out together. It’s because I’m a doctor. If I hadn’t beco a doctor, I wouldn’t have gone over there to see what happened or tried to save him. There were several hundred visitors at the ski place today. Believe , probably more than half of them don’t even know what happened there today.”
“Yeah. But, you need to promise that you need to take care of yourself in the future while saving others.”
“Yes, I will.” Actually, this was a pure white lie. When saving others, doctors would also be under the effect of adrenaline. At such a ti, a doctor would be just like Superman, bravely charging forward. Such adrenaline-charged situations would often happen outside of the hospital.
The doctors wouldn’t feel as much adrenaline when they were actually working at the hospital. Maybe this was because of human nature. When nobody else could help, and only you could save soone, then it would only be natural to beco hot-blooded. At the very least, it would bring out the courage in soone. If a doctor was still cowardly when soone else’s life was in danger, then that doctor already lost the most important qualification to be a doctor.
Every day, everywhere, it would be common for people to have dical ergencies on planes or trains. At such a ti, as long as the plane or train had a doctor on board, even if the doctor hated their own job, as long as they still had a doctor’s heart, the doctor would definitely still stand up and volunteer to help. At such a ti, even if the doctor was already accustod to seeing death, the doctor would definitely be under the effects of adrenaline. That would be just like trying to arm wrestle with the god of death. Not just anyone could do this! That was why the job of doctor held so much appeal. Doctors would often talk about having a sense of accomplishnt. Saving others would be the greatest sense of accomplishnt in this job!
Here in the border province, big plate of chicken was one of the renowned dishes. Special spicy peppers were used, in combination with tomatoes which had received plenty of sun. The chef would then cook the chicken rather simply, giving it a delicious flavor.
After eating the chicken, you would then place thick noodles on top of the remaining chicken juices. That would be absolutely delicious.
That still wouldn’t be the end. You should also enjoy a glass of honey-fernted kvass at the end. It would really fill your belly and make you so comfortable. You could then belch 1 to your pleasure, so satisfied that you wouldn’t even trade your experience for immortality.
The people of the border province were rather honest, and not that good at doing business. There was an old joke about big plate of chicken here, regarding a group of physical education teachers who were still single. They decided to save so money by only ordering one serving of big plate of chicken.
The group of more than 10 physical education teachers ordered only one serving of big plate of chicken, but they asked for more than 30 bowls of noodles in total. This was a specialty of restaurants here in the border province. You could always ask for more noodles, which would always be free. As long as you were shaless enough to keep asking, the restaurant would always keep giving you more free noodles until you were full, for no additional charge no matter how many noodles you asked for.
Zhang Fan and Shao Hua went back ho after eating as Zhang Fan’s ears were still leaking water from his frostbite injury. Shao Hua sat down at her ho and carefully looked over Zhang Fan’s frozen ears.
She carefully touched his ear, and asked, “Does it hurt?”
“No, but it really itches!” Zhang Fan couldn’t help but embrace Shao Hua as he inhaled his girlfriend’s faint flowery scent.
“Stop ssing around. You’re injured.” For once, Shao Hua didn’t resist. If this was a normal ti, she would never even give Zhang Fan a chance to act perverted with her.
Zhang Fan felt like he was about to explode down there! He took off his pants, and was about to do sothing with Shao Hua when his cell phone suddenly rang!
Should he answer his phone or not? After fighting with himself for three seconds, Zhang Fan smiled awkwardly at Shao Hua, put on his pants, and answered his cell phone.
“Zhang Fan, hurry and co! My wife had a miscarriage!” Li Hui was on the other end of the call. He was crying so much that his words were sowhat unclear.
“What happened?” Zhang Fan asked in so confusion. Hearing a man like Li Hui cry like this instantly cald down Zhang Fan’s libido. Even his erect mber started going down!
“I don’t know! I was busy at work today when my wife’s mother called , saying that my wife was bleeding!” Li Hui spoke rather helplessly. Here in Chasu City, Zhang Fan was his only friend.
Li Hui was at his weakest right now. He called Zhang Fan because he really needed soone to console him. Li Hui had been about to beco a father, but now sothing unexpected occurred!
“Where are you right now?” Zhang Fan asked while finishing putting on his pants. Shao Hua was no longer in a passionate fervor anymore, either. Her face was bright red in embarrassnt as she covered herself with her blanket while curiously listening to Zhang Fan’s half of the conversation.
“I’m at the entrance to the gynecology departnt. I don’t know what I can even do right now. I don’t know!” Li Hui was becoming incoherent.
“Okay! Wait for . I’ll be there as soon as I can.”
Zhang Fan hung up and then awkwardly explained to Shao Hua, “Li Hui said that his wife had a miscarriage. He’s crying so much and really wants to co over.” Although he was saying this to Shao Hua, Zhang Fan felt so awkward that he didn’t dare to look her in the eyes.
“Then you should hurry and go. Do you need to co along as well?”
“No, no need! Um, you should rest well, rest well! I’ll be leaving now!” Zhang Fan hurriedly escaped. He really wanted to smash his cell phone to pieces!
Shao Hua laid on the bed as her lips arched upward while watching Zhang Fan panickily run away. Her smile beca bigger and bigger, until finally she couldn’t help but laugh out loud!
Won would always be such complex creatures.
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