Chapter 110 - Challenge the god of death (1/2)
By now, everyone could tell that the injured patient definitely had some type of special status. However, the high difficulty of the surgery required for the patient would be no joke. Even if the position of hospital superintendent was offered as reward for success, it still would be impossible for the orthopedic vice directors to accomplish this surgery.
The orthopedic vice directors and the director of neurosurgery all fell silent. Ouyang Hong had now given up hope on being able to save the patient. She mentally prepared herself to face her bosses' fury or potentially even being fired from her position of superintendent. But just as she turned around to leave, orthopedic surgeon Li Hongtu suddenly spoke up.
”If there's no other way, how about we ask Zhang Fan? I feel that he's already reached the peak of orthopedic surgery. In fact, I'm even a little insufficient as his surgical assistant.” Li Hongtu was truly the nice person type. At a moment like this, nobody else dared to say anything, because they would have to take responsibility.
”Contact Zhang Fan immediately!” Superintendent Ouyang ordered the director of the hospital administrative department.
Actually, Zhang Fan had already been woken up by all the sirens and ruckus at the hospital. His apartment was quite close to the hospital, and he could tell that something major was going on there. He had already put on his clothes and was walking towards the hospital.
Zhang Fan saw many military cars, police cars, and military personnel when he arrived at the hospital. He could also smell the scent of smoke that seemed like it came from a battlefield. At this moment, his cell phone rang. Zhang Fan saw from the caller ID that the call was from the director of the hospital administration department.
”Hello, Director?”
”Where are you? Hurry and come to the hospital right now. There's an emergency.”
”I'm already at the hospital entrance.”
”Excellent. Hurry and run!”
The director of the hospital administrator hung up, and then happily told Superintendent Ouyang, ”Doctor Zhang is already at the hospital entrance.”
However, Ouyang Hong's expression didn't change one bit. Since even the veteran orthopedic vice directors weren't confident that they could successfully accomplish this orthopedic surgery for the patient, she felt that putting her hopes on a fresh rotation doctor would be nothing more than a joke.
”Hurry, check the patient's condition immediately! Is there any hope left?” Right when Zhang Fan arrived at the emergency department, the emergency department's head nurse immediately dragged him into the emergency treatment room, while Li Hongtu handed Zhang Fan the patient's CT scan and MRI images.
After two minutes of checking the patient's medical information, Zhang Fan said, ”It will be difficult!” Ouyang Hong's disappointed expression changed to an expression containing some anger. ”What percent chance do you think you have to succeed?”
”10%. The medulla oblongata is considered a taboo location for surgeons to interfere with. Luckily, the shattered bone absorbed most of the impact from the bullet. It's likely that edema has already started appearing. When the edema surpasses a certain level, the patient might die at any moment. And if anything at all goes wrong with the surgery… There's almost zero room for mistakes in this surgery. We can't afford even a single mistake,” Zhang Fan said after some consideration.
Ouyang Hong felt her hopes suddenly reviving. A 10% chance was already quite high when considering the fact that neither orthopedic vice director dared to accept this surgery. Meanwhile, Zhang Fan had pointed out the dangers of this surgery the moment that he arrived, and even indicated that there was a low success rate, which meant that he at least had a low guarantee, which was better than none.
”You must take responsibility for your words. Keep in mind that this is no game!” Ouyang Hong informed him with a steely expression.
”I understand. I'll take responsibility,” Zhang Fan said while directly facing Superintendent Ouyang.
Time was of the essence here. Nobody dared to waste any time. Superintendent Ouyang said, ”Immediately draft up the surgery plan. I'll go report to my superiors.” Ouyang Hong then left the room. Xue Fei, who happened to be on night duty tonight, took advantage of her momentary absence to secretly come up to Zhang Fan and squeeze his arm twice, whispering to him, ”It really will be highly difficult. Be careful!”
This was friendship, true friendship. Xue Fei was risking antagonizing Superintendent Ouyang for the sake of reminding Zhang Fan. Xue Fei had observed the entire incident so far from the sidelines. He understood quite well that perhaps everything would go excellent for Zhang Fan if the latter successfully completed the surgery, but that there would be dire consequences too heavy to bear for an ordinary civilian doctor should Zhang Fan fail the surgery on someone with such a special status.
”Thank you, Brother Xue!” Zhang Fan whispered back to Xue Fei.
Zhang Fan felt that it was his responsibility as a doctor to try his best to save this patient. If he didn't have his System, he wouldn't speak up or try anything, but since he had his System, no matter who the patient was, as long as the patient was right before him, Zhang Fan would simply treat him as a patient who needed his best treatment. Zhang Fan would try his very best for the sake of any patient, even if there was only a 1% chance of success.
The moment that Zhang Fan gained his Medical System, he would only proceed forward on the path of medicine while never retreating! He would hot-bloodedly charge forward! Since the heavens had given him such a miraculous opportunity with his System, he would be willing to challenge even the god of death for the sake of the patient's life.