Chapter 103 - Dwindling Manpower In The Emergency Care Department (1/2)

Abnormalities to one’s thyroid function would result in bulging eyeb.a.l.l.s.

However, the pregnant woman earlier simply had a huge pair of eyes with double eyelids. They were far from what a person’s eyes would look like if they suffered abnormal thyroid function.

“Are you being serious right now?” Chief Surgeon Su began to sound impatient.

She had actually considered the possibility of a rare disease; if the patient’s eyes had actually been protruding, a thyroid function test would have been done long ago.

However, the patient had not shown any symptoms, and this man had the audacity to be so certain of his judgement. Had it not been for his huge contribution a few days ago, Chief Surgeon Su would have brutally kicked him out of her office.

At this moment, Old Chief Physician Pan walked in. Upon noticing the tense mood building up in the office, he began to ask for what exactly had happened.

When he understood it to be a disagreement over the patient’s diagnosis, he waved his hands and said, “The patient is getting an abortion soon, is getting a thyroid function test too much to ask? Chief Surgeon Su, we’ll be taking our leave now; there is still another patient waiting to be transferred over to the ICU.”

After he was finished, he left Chief Surgeon Su’s office with Zheng Ren in tow, and as usual, Su Yun followed closely behind Zheng Ren like a ghost.

“Chief Physician Pan…” Zheng Ren hesitated.

“Don’t worry, be a little stronger, alright? From your display of confidence, they will go through with the test.” Old Chief Physician Pan cracked a subtle, sly smile on his face.

This was the confidence of an experienced man. A single statement was enough to completely shatter any doubt or hesitation; saying anything more would be excessive.

Thus, Zheng Ren simply followed Old Chief Physician Pan to the ICU. On their way there, Zheng Ren felt nothing but pure admiration toward the single gesture earlier. The more he thought about it, the more he respected the man.

He was only a junior doctor and all he did was to offer the Chief Surgeon advice, nothing more. It would be a complete joke to expect a senior chief surgeon to take anything he said seriously.

The patient who had undergone liver restoration surgery and splenectomy yesterday was in the ICU, being prepped for extubation as he was now stable with a very mild fever.

It would not be an issue because as long as he was stable, the patient would be allowed to transfer out of the ICU.

Liver restoration and splenectomy were viewed as simple general surgeries, like appendectomies. This was merely a minor ailment.

The only problem was ICU Chief Qian bearing an extremely bitter look on his face when he noticed Su Yun.

Still, it was merely a stare of resentment and not one of betrayal.

However, when he looked at ICU Chief Qian, Zheng Ren could somehow feel… a significant, menacing aura directed at him.

Zheng Ren wanted to explain to ICU Chief Qian that he, too, never wanted Su Yun to shadow him like a ghost.

‘You a.s.sumed I accepted that willfully?’

However, ICU Chief Qian could not read his mind.

Su Yun seemed completely oblivious to ICU Chief Qian’s glare as he casually tailed Zheng Ren, his bangs swaying back and forth.

After a single inspection, the trio returned to the intensive care ward at the same time as the nurses. Chang Yue was busy typing her progress notes for the day at a computer.

Upon noticing Zheng Ren and Old Chief Physician Pan’s return, Chang Yue cracked her usual smile, which was different to that she had whenever she was in a patient’s ward.

As he felt his heart strings tighten, Zheng Ren knew for a fact that it was impossible that her smile was directed at him. He wondered what exactly this little moth was planning.

As he recalled everything Su Yun had told him, he a.s.sumed that being a persuasive speaker, Chang Yue was responsible for convincing Old Chief Physician Pan to demonstrate the surgical method of interventional embolization for hepatocellular carcinoma.

However, before Chang Yue could speak, Old Chief Physician Pan revealed a piece of hard, red paper that resembled a wedding invitation card.

“Zheng Ren, this is for you, just prepare for it later.” Old Chief Physician Pan gave Chang Yue a gentle nod before handing the card to Zheng Ren.

“This is…”

After accepting it, he realized it was not an invitation; written on that paper was ‘National Preachers of Emergency Care Tour. Sea City Stop’.

“Emergency care doctors are dwindling and there are plenty of hospitals below the second grade that have closed their emergency care departments.” Old Chief Physician Pan continued, “Hence, the emergency care lecture pioneered by the old Cui Group has been implemented into a tour with a series of talks. This was spearheaded by a man famous around the country in order to teach everything about emergency care.”

Zheng Ren shook his head in response.