42 Please maintain kindness in your hear (1/2)
Zhang Fan only treated Li Xiao with rehabilitative massaging because she was terrified of surgeries. However, Director Chen of orthopedic department #2 had been completely accurate in his diagnosis of Li Xiao's situation. If it weren't for Zhang Fan's System from the future, performing surgery would have been the only possible way to resolve Li Xiao's back pain. With her current condition, if any orthopedic expert was told to treat her with rehabilitative massaging, they would laugh at you and think you were an idiot. This was because there were plenty of examples out there where improper massaging led to the patient becoming paralyzed.
Later that night, Zhang Fan finally returned to his apartment for the first time in a long while. His apartment was covered in dust, so he cleaned it slightly before sleeping. But, in the middle of the night, his cell phone rang. ”Zhang Fan, there's an emergency patient. Want to come?” Zhou Chengfu was currently on the night shift. It was now around 3 a.m., and Zhang Fan was quite sleepy. ”I'll be right over, Brother Zhou.” Zhang Fan immediately rushed to the hospital after washing his face.
In the nearby Chark City, a villager had been riding a motorcycle together with his wife and child to go visit a relative. He had turned a corner too quickly, and crashed into a large truck parked on the side of the road. The border province was truly large. This Chark City was more than two hundred kilometers away from the bigger Chasu City, yet this still didn't count as ”far”. The man was the most seriously injured—he had internal bleeding in his head and a fractured skull. The child was riding in the middle and was only shaken, not injured. The woman had been tossed off the motorcycle, so as a result she had severe road rash, and her right humerus bone and collarbone had been shattered. They had been brought to the local hospital in Chark City, where they were given IV drips before directly being sent via ambulance to the much bigger Chasu City Hospital two hundred-plus kilometers away.
The man was currently in the brain surgery department, receiving emergency surgical treatment. The woman was sent to orthopedic department #1. The truck from the accident had been parked in a no-parking zone. Luckily, the truck's owner had full coverage insurance from his business. All doctors would love treating these types of patients as they weren't limited by personal medical insurance, and business insurance would fully cover their treatment costs. The female patient was registered as Zhou Chengfu's, which meant that he could fully decide which medicines and medical equipment would be necessary. Gao Shijun was rather loose on controlling others in his department—the only rule about medical equipment fees he had was that all spine-related treatments needed to be reported to him, and he would determine the medical equipment for those surgeries. Gao Shijun basically let the other doctors freely decide everything else for their own surgeries and medical equipment.
Zhang Fan was the primary surgeon for the woman's surgery. When he saw the medical equipment for the woman's treatment, damn, she would be using only the best imported surgical metal plates. There were two metal plates, which would cost approximately 20,000 yuan. Plus, there was the surgery fees, medicine fees, and hospitalization fees, which meant that the total cost of treatment would exceed 30,000 yuan. ”Brother Zhou, will this really be alright?” Zhang Fan asked.
”What?” Zhou Chengfu didn't understand what Zhang Fan meant. Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
”You're using imported metal plates for the surgery. Won't the medical equipment department give you trouble for this?”
”Not at all. These types of car accident victims are the best type of patient. There won't be any trouble with their medical fees, because it's all covered by insurance. This means that it's easy to use the best and most expensive medical equipment and medicine for them. Just rest assured and begin the surgery.”
Since Zhang Fan was the primary surgeon, Wang Yanan also rushed over. Although it was difficult for her to wake up in the middle of the night, she truly loved surgery. Zhou Chengfu was quite nice and knew that Wang Yanan really wanted to improve her surgical skills, so he let Wang Yanan be the primary surgical assistant as he directly went back to his office to sleep. ”Zhang Fan, you can go back home and rest right after you finish the surgery. I've already chosen all the necessary medicine, so don't worry about a thing.”
”Old Zhou is really black-hearted. He'll definitely use third-rate medicine and report it as the most expensive medicine,” Wang Yanan whispered to Zhang Fan after Zhou Chengfu left.
”Forget it, just go wash your hands. Will you or I be doing the disinfecting?” Zhang Fan was unwilling to talk bad about others behind their back. Besides, there was nothing he could do about it. All he could do was perform the surgery as best as he could.
Western medicine had already developed for several hundred years, and China had only recently started catching up. Western medicine and medical equipment was simply of higher quality than their Chinese counterparts. It wasn't because China wasn't able to do a good job, but rather because of patent limitations. Even something as tiny as a surgical metal plate with a specific shape, holes, and material would be protected by patents. That was why imported metal plates were better for surgery patients, but of course they would also be more expensive.
The surgery was successful. When the female patient was tossed off the motorcycle, the friction of her skin against the road had absorbed a large portion of the impact, so her bones weren't shattered severely. After the metal plates were inserted successfully, Wang Yanan shouted, ”Let me sew up the fascia, muscles, and skin! I came all the way over here in the middle of the night just to sew up some skin! Would you dare to treat me like this!”
There was no helping it. Zhang Fan understood how it was for her. She wouldn't feel at ease staying in the surgical department if she didn't quickly improve her skills. After Wang Yanan began sewing the surgical sutures, the nurse for this operation began complaining. ”You guys need to hurry up. I still need to clean up and organize the medical equipment. Orthopedic department #2 has reserved this operating room for a scheduled joint operation this morning, and I still need to disinfect the medical equipment.”
Wang Yanan had just started working. Not to mention, her family was fairly well off, so she was somewhat prideful. Not only would she not care about a nurse, she was also disrespectful to Zhou Chengfu. So, she treated the nurses coldly.
Now, this nurse was complaining precisely because she didn't like Wang Yanan! Wang Yanan didn't even have a medical license yet, but since her pride flared up, she felt that a little nurse couldn't make any requests of her like that. She intentionally started sewing slower, which made the nurse even more displeased.