Chapter 278 - Warm hand (1/2)

Chapter 278: Warm hand

Zhang Fan and the other doctors had all been woken up a bit past 4:00 a.m. to come to the hospital and perform surgery. The surgery on the teenaged girl hadn’t finished until past 9:00 p.m. on the same day. The doctors hadn’t seen the light of day for all this time. Was this normal? It could be said that it was common for most Chinese surgeons to see no sun at all for at least 20 days of each month. For resident doctor slaves at a large hospital, they usually wouldn’t be able to see the sun for 10 months out of the year. This was no exaggeration. Chinese doctors would know this!

The surgery was now over. The older doctors, especially Director Zhao and Vice Director Song who had gotten no rest at all, lost all of their energy. Since this was quite common after a major surgery, the head nurse had long since already prepared two cots for them to sleep on right in the operating room.

“Director Zhang, how about I prepare a cot for you as well? You should take a small rest while I go prepare some food for everyone. The hospital has prepared dinner for all of you. The patient’s family also paid for some Kentucky Fried Chicken. Which would you prefer?” The head nurse acted in a fawning manner towards Zhang Fan.

Meanwhile, the operating room nurse helped the surgeons to take off their surgical attire. “I’ll eat Kentucky Fried Chicken! The hospital cafeteria food tastes really terrible,” Vice Director Song commented.

“I’ll also eat some Kentucky Fried Chicken. Prepare a cot for Doctor Zhang. Let’s all rest a while!” Director Zhao told the head nurse. The hospital cafeteria’s food was prepared by a private contractor. The food’s taste wasn’t very good, although it was edible. The cafeteria contractor was someone incredible. He had maintained his control over the hospital’s food throughout several different generations of hospital superintendents already!

The doctors hadn’t felt tired while performing the surgery, but now that it was over, the doctors were all like robots who had been unplugged. The men all listlessly lay together on the plastic cement floor of the operating room. Their green scrubs were a contrast against the blue-colored floor. They all lay together in a row and stretched themselves out as straight as possible, splaying their limbs everywhere!

Their legs were all so sore that they didn’t even dare to touch them. Their feet felt as if they had fallen off. Their backs were really stiff. Standing for more than 10 hours in succession was really hard already, even if you weren’t doing anything at all. This was also part of why being a surgeon was really labor-intensive work!

The teenaged girl patient named Yaya suddenly became rather valuable after the surgery. The metal plates in her chest, the imported absorbable threads in her abdomen, and the metal plates in her legs all added up to be more than 100,000 yuan’s worth of medical equipment. It was as if she was wearing all of her valuables!

Outside the operating room, the girl’s mother was completely exhausted. She had been highly nervous for more than 10 hours already. All of the worry made her seem as if she had aged four or five years in a single night.

Since the girl’s uncle had been unable to succeed in pressuring the hospital from above, Vice President Chen decided to go through the lower-ranking hospital personnel. Successful people like him would often have a common trait of being persistent and unwilling to give up.

The nationally owned company that he was vice president of had more than 100,000 employees. It wasn’t strange for some of those employees to have a family member who worked at Chasu City Hospital. Vice President Chen had long since contacted a young nurse working in the operating rooms to be his contact. When the surgery ended, Little Li, his nurse contact, also came out of the operating room.

“Leader, the surgery is over now. Everything is alright. The surgery was really successful.” Little Li had a bright smile!

“What about Yaya? How come she’s not out here yet then?” The girl’s mother struggled to get up and hurriedly ran over to the young nurse’s side. The girl’s uncle also hurriedly came over.

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“Yaya was taken to the ICU department. You’ll be able to see her by tomorrow morning. There’s no need for you to worry. Doctor Zhang Fan, Director Zhao, and the other doctors were all smiling and laughing!”

Yaya’s mother couldn’t help but feel awkward as she asked, “Doctor Zhang?”

“Yeah. Doctor Zhang performed the surgery for Yaya. He’s currently the best surgeon in our entire surgical department! He’s really amazing, and he’s also quite nice!” Little Li was quite proud as she said this! All of the young nurses really liked Zhang Fan as he was really skilled as well as a nice doctor who never got angry with any of the nurses like some other doctors would.

‘It’s such a pity that he’s already taken, sigh!’ Little Li couldn’t help but think this to herself.

“Oh!” The mother wanted to say something else, but her older brother interrupted her.

“Little Li, we’ve truly troubled you this time, asking you to come here from your home so late at night. I’m so sorry!”