Chapter 273 - Looked down upon for being too young (1/2)
For emergency treatment at the hospital, normally after one doctor spoke up, there would be several or even more than 10 nurses helping out. Although the surgery plan was now confirmed, everyone could only perform basic emergency treatment for the teenaged girl, fixing the patient’s shock while preparing for the surgery.
Normally, it would be best in such a situation to perform surgery as quickly as possible. However, the patient’s family hadn’t arrived yet! In China, as long as there wasn’t a patient’s family member’s official signature of approval on the surgery paperwork, no doctor, not even Superintendent Ouyang, would dare to start the surgery! This was because the hospital wouldn’t get in trouble for the patient’s death, but the hospital might get into trouble if the patient died after surgery! The majority of reasonable people would be really grateful to the hospital and doctors, but there were always certain special people who would want to start a medical lawsuit instead!
And even if the patient was saved after the surgery, there were also some ingrates who would claim that they hadn’t consented to the surgery for the family member, and thus refuse to pay the hospital’s medical fees! Thus, actual emergency treatment was quite different from how it really was supposed to be! Quite often, intern doctors and nurses who had just recently graduated wouldn’t be accustomed to this!
Still, things were much simpler for Old Yang. He was a widower with no children or relatives at all. In such a scenario, usually the workplace would be contacted first, and if there was no set workplace, only then could the hospital directly decide whether or not to perform surgery! China’s medical system was indeed full of problems, but at the very least, the hospital could decide on the surgery if there were no family members to contact! The hospital could make the decision to perform surgery even if it knew it wasn’t likely to get paid! But, for any patient who had family that could be contacted, the hospital would have to be extra careful about starting a surgery!
These types of severe traumatic injuries would be very difficult to deal with. Sometimes, maybe the patient would appear alright on the surface, but the internal organs might have been shattered by the impact! To give an example, if the doctor needed to stick the liver with a needle, or remove some tissue with tissue forceps, that wouldn’t be a big deal at all. The liver could automatically heal itself from such small injuries. However, the liver would be really afraid of such direct and powerful impacts. The liver was really fragile, so it would shatter easily. To give an analogy, it would be like squeezing instant noodles to pieces through a plastic bag, with the plastic bag representing the liver’s membrane. This was probably why the liver was hidden inside the ribcage. Back when humans were evolving, it was likely that the ancient humans who didn’t have their liver protected by the ribcage wouldn’t even have the chance to spread their genes!
Old Yang’s boss was a small-time contractor. The contractor was so scared after receiving the phone call from the police that he literally peed his pants! Making money and surviving weren’t easy. The contractor was really scared about the accident with more than 10 deaths. Even though the contractor wouldn’t be held responsible for this accident at all when the government started to assign blame, this contractor was the cowardly type who decided that he needed to immediately get out of the contracted street cleaning business.
After it was confirmed that Old Yang had no family members, an obviously wealthy woman and a man with a strong aura arrived in the emergency department right before the surgery on Old Yang was about to begin.
The wealthy woman immediately had a breakdown when she saw her daughter in such a bloody condition on the examination table. “Yaya! Yaya! It’s mom! What happened to you, Yaya!? Mom has done wrong by you!” As the woman cried and shouted, she tried to pounce on her daughter!
“Stop! Her life is in a great deal of danger right now. She needs immediate surgery. You should sign the surgery paperwork!” The operating room head nurse immediately stood in front of the mother and blocked her. The teenaged girl’s rib bones had already been shattered into tiny pieces. If her mother recklessly pounced onto the girl and pressured the shattered bones, then the shattered bones would likely pierce into the heart and lungs, which would directly kill the teenaged girl! There would be no need for surgery then!
The man with the strong aura ignored the woman. He directly headed for Superintendent Ouyang. This man was the teenaged girl’s uncle, not father. This uncle was the vice president of the largest nationally owned company in Chasu City, so he had quite a high status. This nationally owned company was quite large and powerful. Its president would have equal status to Chasu City’s city leader.
“Superintendent Ouyang, this girl is my niece. Sigh! I’ll really be troubling you!” The vice president had a really humble attitude. Right now, his niece’s life was at stake. He didn’t dare to act arrogantly here.
“Rest assured, Vice President Chen. We’ll do our very best. You should immediately sign the paperwork as time is of the essence.” Superintendent Ouyang knew who he was, and was quite polite to him as well!
“Alright.” Vice President Chen pulled his sister away to go and sign the surgery paperwork. Old Yang had been pushed out of the emergency department and moved to an operating room by now. General surgery Director Zhao Quanping and the others for Old Yang’s surgery were also preparing to go to the operating room. Vice President Chen noticed this, and spoke up. “Superintendent Ouyang, Director Zhao isn’t the one who will perform surgery for my niece?”
“Doctor Zhang will perform surgery for this girl! Rest assured, Doctor Zhang is really amazing.” Superintendent Ouyang pointed at Zhang Fan.
As Vice President Chen was a leader from a powerful company, he had plenty of power and influence himself. Before he arrived at the hospital, he had long since learned that there were only two injured patients, who were his niece as well as a street cleaner. When Vice President Chen had entered the emergency department, he had taken a glance at both patients. He saw that Old Yang had a very bloody metal wheelbarrow handle stuck in his stomach. Meanwhile, he saw that his niece had lots of tree branches stuck in her stomach! From his layman’s point of view, he felt that Old Yang’s condition seemed to be obviously more severe than his niece’s condition!
The tree branches still had young leaves attached to them. The teenaged girl’s face was still covered with glass shards and blood! This wasn’t because the doctors didn’t want to clean her up, but rather that they didn’t have the time to do so. They were focusing first and foremost on saving her life, so who would have the time to care about the glass shards on her face?
General surgery Director Zhao Quanping was far more famous among Chasu City’s ordinary citizens compared to Zhang Fan. The wealthy woman didn’t recognize Director Zhao Quanping like her brother had, but she did know who Zhao Quanping was. In any small city, a famous doctor would be able to conquer a great share of the market. Anyone who was a friend or relative of a famous doctor would be able to brag about it!
The rich woman was also a layman who felt that Old Yang’s condition was more severe than her daughter’s. Additionally, she knew that her older brother was quite powerful. She had originally been fully focused on her daughter, but now she turned around to look at Zhang Fan, the doctor assigned to her daughter’s surgery. She saw that Zhang Fan was really young, and that he seemed only a few years older than her daughter.