30 Folie A Who? (1/2)
The door handle turned, everyone held their breath's as the door slowly opened.
They all watched as Elder Qin, Qin Song, director Qin and a cute little stuffed bun filed into the room.
The doctors that were sitting on the largest sofa all stood up to grab chairs at the side. The Qin's sat on the now empty sofa.
The air became so tense you could cut the tension with a knife.
Everyone was now even more scared that they would get fired.
After a few minutes they heard a cute little voice.
Little 4th asked his father sweetly: ”Daddy, where is sister YingYing?”
Elder Qin patted Little 4th's head: ”She should be on her way, she went to go talk to some patients.”
Little 4th: ”How long do you think she'll be?”
Elder Qin: ”I'm not sure, she should be here soon.”
Little 4th screwed up his little face: ” How long is soon?”
Elder Qin sighed:” Little 4th, have some patience.”
There was a minute of silence.
Little 4th whined to his eldest brother: ”Elder brother, when will sister YingYing be here?”
Qin Song: ”5 minutes.”
Little 4th started looking through his father's pockets until he found his mobile.
He lifted it to his father to be unlocked it.
Little 4th then looked through the apps until he found the clock, he opened it and set the timer for 5 minutes. He looked at his elder brother and showed him the timer, his little face saying you better not have lied to me big brother.
Qin Song smiled at little 4th's antics.
Little 4th stared hard at the phone screen, as the timer started counting down.
6 minutes and 30 seconds later. Little 4th was staring daggers at his elder brother.
His face said; how could you deceive me elder brother, I'll never trust anything you say again.
Qin Song didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
I understand now why father had been ambiguous with his answers.
The door handle turned again. This time Li Xiuying stepped into the room.
Li Xiuying looked around and was surprised to see the Qin's in the room.
Little 4th immediately jumped down from the sofa and ran over to Li Xiuying and gave her a smile that could outshine the sun.
Li Xiuying patted Little 4th's head with her gloved hand.
Little 4th was so happy he could burst.
Big sister YingYing patted me! I'll never let anyone else pat my head except Big sister YingYing.
Li Xiuying: ”Since everyone is here let's begin.”
Li Xiuying went over to the white board. Little 4th followed behind her like a little chick.
Li Xiuying looked down at her little shadow, who looked up at her with puppy dog eyes.
She looked around the room and spotted an empty chair, she went to it along with her little shadow. Then she put the chair next to the whiteboard, picked up little 4th and put him on the chair and patted his head twice.
Little 4th was so happy he giggled.
Li Xiuying: ”We are here to talk about the events from this evening. Lets start with the phone call, who's Yang Rong?”
Yang Rong lifted her hand up tentatively.
Li Xiuying: ”What do you think you should have mentioned during the phone call?”
Yang Rong nervously answered: ”I should have mentioned that I was a first year resident?”
Li Xiuying: ”Yes. Also, the type of injuries the patient's had and that there where only residents in the emergency department.”
Li Xiuying: ”Next, Xǔ Luli's 3rd year resident, what should you have done differently?”
Xǔ Luli's 3rd year resident: ”I should have assessed the patient more thoroughly, I messed up taking her respiratory rate and failed to listen to her heart sounds.”
Li Xiuying nodded: ”When assessing a patient its good to have a systematic approach such as ABCDE. Airway, breathing, circulation, disability and exposure. There are lists of certain things to check under all these subheadings. Stopping a bleed when the patient has stopped breathing is not going to keep the patient alive. Accurately measuring a patients respiratory rate is important, it can often be a major indicator to how unwell a patient is. Make sure you always assess the patient accurately, the patient's life is dependent on it. You should practice assessing patient who are not in a critical situation. For the whole of next week I want you to find me and present a patient to me.”