Chapter 60: Difficult Choices
“You...” Zheng Ren was slightly puzzled. He still vaguely rembered that one of these two ladies ntioned sothing about coming back for training.
He did not expect it to be true.
“We’re back,” said the twins in unison.
Old Chief Physician Pan smiled and said, “Even though we don’t have EICU, they can still engage in anesthesia first. You’re lacking anesthesiologists, right?”
That was true. An anesthesiologist seconded from the operating theater would not be as attentive and diligent as his own.
Moreover, he had heard through the grapevine that the anesthesiologist was about to resign and move to a new unit sowhere in the South. Otherwise, it would not have been so easy to second him to the ergency departnt.
However, were these two ladies up to the task?
Zheng Ren could not refuse Old Chief Physician Pan as the old man had been running around hospital managent all day just to demand more manpower. It was not an easy task, either.
“Can you co to the ergency departnt at night?” asked Zheng Ren directly.
“Yes.”
“Okay. You can leave your numbers and go ho now.” Zheng Ren showed no enthusiasm and was as calm as a millpond.
The Chu sisters, who had t Zheng Ren and frequently grumbled about his emotional quotient for so ti, were ntally prepared to receive this sort of response.
This chief resident was an idiotic pig!
The twins smiled and said, “Don’t forget to call us if there are any ergency cases.”
Zheng Ren was reluctant to speak anymore and rely waved his hand in response. Then, he went back to his room and began reading hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery literature.
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Rather than wasting ti on chatting or cottoning up to the Chu sisters, he might as well utilize this ti to read the book for a couple of hours and gain one or two skill points.
Zheng Ren’s thoughts... No wonder he had not had any girlfriend so far. It would be very strange if he was in a relationship.
It seed that reaching out to the hearts of others had recently fallen out of fashion.
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Once everyone had left the departnt, Zheng Ren went to check on the two postoperative patients again, whose conditions had remained stable thus far. Then, he had dinner with the nurses, went back to his room and started reading the surgery book.
He already had 1931 skill points in his general surgery skill tree. He then calculated the potential rewards of the missions at hand—the long-term main quest and the mission called The Initial Construction of The Ergency Operating Theater.
Whether he could complete five ergency cholecystectomies within one week depended solely on fate and had nothing to do with his skill level.
As for the three skill books and the 930 skill points in his inventory, which were essentially his family inheritance, he felt reluctant to squander them all as they might save him in an ergency.
It was a peaceful night.
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Cen ng was in distress.
Everything had gone wrong ever since Professor Moriyu perford the surgery.
Not only did he fail to acquire a chance to further his study in Japan and enrich his personal developnt, he had actually gotten himself into trouble since.
Chief Surgeon Liu refused to acknowledge Cen ng’s presence during his visit as well. Perhaps Cen ng was going to take the bla for all the failures this ti.
However, this was not the worst issue yet.
He received a phone call from his uncle this morning.
Cen ng’s ho was located out of town and the fact that he was able to work in Sea City General Hospital was all thanks to his uncle.
On the phone, Cen ng’s uncle said that he had abdominal pain and yellowish discoloration of his skin after returning from a al with alcohol.
The symptoms ntioned were simplified but Cen ng imdiately realized that his uncle was likely suffering from acute obstructive cholangitis.
Cen ng dialed 120[1] and called an ambulance for his uncle as it was too late in the day to pick him up personally.
The diagnosis was confird and his uncle required imdiate surgical treatnt, but Cen ng hesitated when deciding who to be the surgeon for the surgery.
In the first general surgery departnt, Chief Surgeon Liu had been hospitalized, and a few deputy chief surgeons... Cen ng figured that they were not up to par since Chief Surgeon Liu had been suppressing them for a long ti. If he was rely performing a simple cholecystectomy, its success rate would be very high.
However, this was a cystic duct obstruction with a high risk of complications such as acute pancreatitis. Even in the absence of complications, the edematous cystic duct alone was enough to give Cen ng a terrible headache.
Cen ng could still give this surgery a try if Chief Surgeon Liu could supervise him.
There was no way he would perform this surgery under such circumstances.
Should he turn to Chief Surgeon Sun from the second general surgery departnt for help?
Cen ng’s uncle had a married daughter who had bought a house in Shenzhen City. Even though Cen ng stayed in Sea City, his uncle still treated him very kindly as if he was actually a son.
A figure suddenly erged and lingered in Cen ng’s mind.
Zheng Ren...
After witnessing Zheng Ren’s performance in cholecystectomy last ti, apart from envy, jealousy and hatred, Cen ng had developed a different emotion as well. Since when did this kid reach such proficiency in surgery?
Surgery skills could be honed only through constant practice. There was no other way.
Both of them had worked together in the sa departnt for several years, but Cen ng had no idea that Zheng Ren was actually concealing his true standards.
Zheng Ren had perford four cholecystectomies in the last three days and each of them had been done beautifully. If the surgeries were considered entertainnt, they would have made viewers relaxed and happy.
Thus, Cen ng suddenly ca up with an idea—let Zheng Ren do it.
This idea was like a devil. It could not be destroyed once it erged.
Subconsciously, he had admitted the truth—Zheng Ren’s standards of cholecystectomy and appendectomy were much higher than those of Chief Surgeon Liu and Chief Surgeon Sun.
As for himself... he was far worse in comparison.
If this had been an ordinary patient, Cen ng would have definitely requested Chief Surgeon Sun supervise his surgery instead of letting him receive treatnt in the ergency departnt.
However, Cen ng hesitated as this patient was his uncle, who had treated him like a son.
After hesitating and contemplating for a few minutes, Cen ng finally made up his mind.
He picked up his cell phone and pressed the dial button fiercely.
“ng’zi, we’re arriving soon.” Cen ng could hear his second aunt crying on the other end.
“Aunt, don’t worry. Listen to first.” Cen ng, who was holding the phone in his left hand, clenched his right fist tightly and buried his fingernails deep into his palm.
“Go to the ergency departnt directly and look for a doctor nad Zheng Ren.” After saying this, Cen ng felt an overwhelming embarrassnt, but finally let go of all his reservations and added, “Go to the ergency departnt and let him do the surgery imdiately. Aunt, please don’t ntion my na.”
“...” The other end of the phone remained silent.
Cen ng’s heart hurt so bad as if he had been stabbed by a knife.
“ng’zi, your uncle treats you very well,” said Cen ng’s second aunt a few seconds later.
“Aunt, that is exactly the reason why I asked you to go to the ergency departnt,” replied Cen ng directly. Once the sha had been dealt with, the rest of it beca easy instantly.
“Doctor Zheng Ren from the ergency departnt is the best surgeon to perform hepatobiliary surgery in our hospital,” Cen ng explained anxiously, “But don’t say anything about because we had disagreents before. I’ll visit uncle later.”
“Okay... Alright then...”
Cen ng hung up and took a few deep breaths, but was still unable to wipe out the resentnt that was buried deep in his heart.
As a surgeon, he had actually inford his closest relatives that his skill level was not up to par. He felt utterly pathetic.
Cen ng, born in the countryside, had been swallowing his pride and giving up his dignity just to seize every opportunity in life, but why was the result still the sa?
He was uncertain about his future.
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The ambulance drove straight to the ergency departnt of Sea City General Hospital. The doctor in the ergency departnt saw that the patient was in a critical condition and imdiately phoned Zheng Ren.
The Initial Construction of The Ergency Operating Theater was almost complete after performing four cholecystectomies within the past three days, and the last three surgeries gave Zheng Ren a 120-percent completion rate according to the terms in the main quest.
In addition, Zheng Ren had perford seven or eight appendectomies these past few days. He had actually completed the main mission twice and received 20 skill points and 2000 experience points as the mission reward.
The patients’ postoperative recovery had been satisfying. The first patient who had undergone an appendectomy had already been discharged from the hospital and returned ho to rest.
Not only had he perford a few surgeries, he had been reading dical books as well over the last few days. Thus, he had accumulated 1945 skill points in his general surgery skill tree and was about to break through the 2000-point mark.
Zheng Ren was reading a book when he received the call. After knowing that a patient with obstructive jaundice had been sent to the ergency departnt via ambulance, he took Chang Yue downstairs imdiately.
Acute appendicitis and acute cholecystitis were not life-threatening diseases, but a patient with obstructive jaundice might pass away at any ti. Negligence was unacceptable.
[1] Telephone number for ergency dical service in China.
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