Chapter 12 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Er… Chief Surgeon Liu was taken by surprise.

He had the impression that Zheng Ren was an honest conformist, quiet as a lamb.

It was easier to oppress a mild-tempered man of straw and Chief Surgeon Liu was aware of it.

That was exactly why he stopped arguing with Chief Physician Pan. If anyone found out that he had actually supplanted his mentor, who was also the former chief surgeon in the general surgery department, his reputation would be damaged.

However, Zheng Ren’s huge att.i.tude change upon transferring to the emergency department, even making such an arrogant announcement, was completely beyond expectation.

Not everyone was capable of performing a surgery. Fault-finding, though? That was easy.

What a small-minded imbecile! Chief Surgeon Liu gave Zheng Ren a contemptuous gaze. Then, he smiled and replied immediately before Chief Physician Pan could disagree: “Okay! You’ll handle all appendicitis cases for the next few days. If you do well, the general surgery… The first general surgery department will never perform an appendectomy again. Otherwise, haha!”

Smiling wickedly, Chief Surgeon Liu turned around and walked away without giving Chief Physician Pan a chance to refuse.

Chief Surgeon Sun from the second general surgery department could not understand Zheng Ren’s motives for such an overconfident decision and was immersed in his own train of thought as he followed Chief Surgeon Liu out of the emergency department.

Finally, some peace and quiet, but Chief Physician Old Pan could not but feel helpless.

“Little Zheng, that was a little too big for your boots,” said the perturbed Chief Physician Pan.

“Chief Physician Pan, if my skills aren’t up to par, we won’t be able to carry out our plans for emergency surgery anyway. However, they won’t find any mistakes at all if my standard is good enough. Rest a.s.sured, I’ll complete the task that you a.s.signed to me,” Zheng Ren promised, happy that he found a way to live.

Rest a.s.sured? How? Chief Physician Old Pan had used a scalpel for more than forty years. Surgeries without any mistakes… they existed, but were very rare.

“Let’s go to the general surgery department. When it’s time for me to perform surgery, I’d like to request the honor of your presence to prevent them from bending the truth.”

The source of Zheng Ren’s confidence remained a mystery to Chief Physician Old Pan, but what could he possibly do when the deal was on? Sighing heavily, he instructed all doctors on duty in the emergency department to transfer every acute appendicitis case or similar they had to the ward for consultation.

After that, the duo headed straight toward the first general surgery department in silence.

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Zheng Ren recalled multiple patients with abdominal pain in the first general surgery department, waiting to be examined for educational purposes in live surgical demonstrations.

He went straight to the wards first instead of entering the office upon arrival at the general surgery department.

Whenever Zheng Ren stared at a patient, their relevant diagnostic information would appear at the upper right corner of his vision, which signified that the System was still operational.

However, the words were slightly blurry and seemed faded.

A countdown timer was hovering at the highest point of his vision. Two days and twenty-two hours left.

“Yo? A chief resident from the emergency department is here for a ward round in the general surgery department?” scoffed Cen Meng—a chief resident in the first general surgery department—after witnessing Zheng Ren’s patrol around the wards.

Apart from a few experienced senior consultants, no one dared to do ward rounds in other unrelated departments.

This a.s.sault of mockery was fired at full power, and Cen Meng had a lot more ammunition waiting to be launched at Zheng Ren.

Pretending as if he heard nothing at all, Zheng Ren continued to walk around and check every patient with abdominal pain to be examined before saying to Cen Meng, “Chief Cen, the patient in bed number three-seven is suffering from an acute appendicitis in the ectopic position and requires immediate surgical intervention.”

Cen Meng was stunned momentarily. The ward round he mentioned just now was meant to be a taunt and he had not expected Zheng Ren to take it seriously at all.

Was Zheng Ren looking for a fight?

Cen Meng recalled that the patient in bed three-seven was a forty-year-old male admitted on the first day of the month due to upper right abdominal pain. B-scan ultrasonography findings included an inflammatory ma.s.s at the right hypochondrium region with gallbladder wall thickening, which was suggestive of acute cholecyst.i.tis.

He diagnosed an acute cholecyst.i.tis patient with acute appendicitis? What an idiot…

“Where did you learn surgery from? An appendix lies in the right iliac fossa region, not the right hypochondrium region,” sneered Cen Meng.

“I told you, an ectopic appendix.” Zheng Ren walked past Cen Meng towards the workstation in front of Chief Physician Old Pan and brought out the patient record of bed three-seven.

“Chief Physician Pan, please take a look at that patient. I think this is a misdiagnosis in the first general surgery department,” said Zheng Ren.

Chief Physician Old Pan was at a loss for words.

Misdiagnosis? d.a.m.n, that was humiliating. Reconciliation would be impossible from now on.

Whose humiliation it was would be a mystery until later.

How much resentment had he built up to accuse the general surgery department of a misdiagnosis?

An ominous feeling came over Chief Physician Old Pan as he read through the patient record.

Was it possible that he misjudged Zheng Ren when the man was actually a brainless b.a.s.t.a.r.d? He took a lifetime to build up a good reputation; was he going to lose it due to this foolish imbecile? There was an inflammatory ma.s.s at the anatomical position of the gallbladder. An ectopic appendix was a possibility but honestly, it was at the bottom of the list.

Well, it was alright to proceed for surgical intervention since an incision would be made on the right upper quadrant of the abdomen anyway. Cholecystectomy and appendectomy were just names. The true operation for this patient was an exploratory laparotomy.