Chapter 311 - Using connections already (2/2)

“No, no, I was just curious,” Jiang Nini hurriedly explained.

The more veteran doctors would be a bit more reserved with Zhang Fan and his accomplishments, but all the new rotation doctors viewed Zhang Fan as their role model. Zhang Fan was a rotation doctor who had been amazingly skilled and made a reputation for himself not long after entering the hospital. Most importantly of all, he would always drive to and from work in a luxury car. Although cars were relatively common now, Zhang Fan drove the best car in the entire hospital.

Since Zhang Fan was so outstanding, it was natural that attention would be on him, especially since young men and women of their age would be at a marriageable age. The young men and women would both be choosing their own partners.

“Haha! It’s fine, it’s not like he’s gotten married yet!” Xue Fei was the oldest member of Zhang Fan’s medical team, so with his experience, he could instantly tell that Jiang Nini had been emphasizing things too much, so he snickered at Zhang Fan.

Even though Zhang Fan did hear their conversation, it didn’t register with him at all, as he treated all of this as meaningless noise that wouldn’t affect his performing surgery.

Meanwhile, since Wang Yanan was Shao Hua’s former classmate, and the two had a very good relationship, she immediately retorted, “Zhang Fan and Shao Hua are preparing to get married soon.”

“But they’re not married yet!” Xue Fei loved to argue with Wang Yanan. Jiang Nini kept silent as she held onto the surgical retractors.

“Stop the bleeding!” Zhang Fan raised his voice since he was getting annoyed.

Zhang Fan immediately stopped Xue Fei and Wang Yanan’s argument. The two of them were like mortal enemies who would always argue with each other every day. The patient’s bleeding was stopped, followed by fixation and rinsing. For orthopedic surgery, especially when a major bone was fractured, the most major and severe aftereffect would be fat embolism. This was really severe and impossible to defend against. The doctor would only be able to rinse as a placebo effect. It was difficult to say whether this was actually effective or not.

“Cast.” Zhang Fan began to create a cast after the surgery and suturing was finished.

“You should leave first. Shao Hua’s been waiting for you all morning,” Wang Yanan told him.

“It’s fine. A few extra minutes won’t matter.” Zhang Fan personally finished the cast before he finally started taking off his surgical attire.

This surgery was the last surgery of the day for Zhang Fan’s medical team. Now that the surgery was completely finished, Zhang Fan hurriedly left the operating room without even taking a shower. Xue Fei sardonically remarked, “Weren’t you in no hurry? Why are you running?”

“None of your business!” Zhang Fan answered as he exited. It was impossible to be serious with Xue Fei, although this also made it easy to interact with him. Zhang Fan returned to the department together with Wang Yanan and Jiang Nini. The two women had directly left because there were too many women waiting in line for the showers in the female changing rooms, as almost all of the operating room nurses were female.

Shao Hua smiled and stood up when she saw Zhang Fan appear. Baiyintibu spotted a tale male doctor in the distance and realized that this was Shao Hua’s boyfriend, so she stood up as well.

“Shao Hua, Manager Bai, I’m sorry to have made you wait for so long,” Zhang Fan said with a smile as he nodded towards Manager Bai’s older sister and nephew.

“It’s fine, it’s fine, there’s no rush. You should rest a while as you just finished a surgery,” Manager Bai replied politely.

“There’s no need. Come, let us sit down and discuss things in my office.” Zhang Fan brought Shao Hua and the others into his office. Shao Hua really would have wanted to gently caress the marks left behind on Zhang Fan’s face by his surgical mask if it weren’t for the fact that others were around. That was how she was as a lover. She worried more about his hardships rather than gaining face.

“Where’s your water bottle? I’ll go pour some water for you,” Shao Hua remarked as she noticed that Zhang Fan’s lips were really pale and dry.

“We have water. Please take a seat. Little Li, please bring some paper cups for me,” Zhang Fan requested. He only had to make such a request because Little Li had no interest in permanently joining a surgical department. Otherwise, a rotation doctor would have long since helped pour water for Zhang Fan’s guests already. This was the pity of being a young intern doctor. They would lack the ability to care about their own so-called pride as the intern doctor would have to ingratiate themselves first in order to learn actual skills and be liked by the teaching doctor.

Wang Yanan and Jiang Nini also soon came over to Zhang Fan’s office. “Shao Hua! You didn’t even tell us beforehand that you were coming. You must have waited all morning. What’s with Zhang Fan? He didn’t even explain to you that we usually can’t leave during surgeries in the morning.” Wang Yanan passionately grabbed Shao Hua’s hands and glared at Zhang Fan for her good friend’s sake.

“It’s fine. Look at you, you have the same marks on your face as Zhang Fan from the surgical mask. Does it hurt?” Shao Hua felt awkward about asking Zhang Fan, but she could ask Wang Yanan instead. Wang Yanan’s tender skin showed even more obvious markings than Zhang Fan’s skin.

“It’s fine. I’ve gotten used to it. They’re…?” Wang Yanan asked in a whisper as she glanced at Baiyintibu and her relatives.

“They’re here to receive Zhang Fan’s treatment. I don’t know the specifics,” Shao Hua answered in a whisper as well. They then gathered around Zhang Fan to watch Zhang Fan treating the child.

Jiang Nini stood three meters away at the computer desk as she looked over Shao Hua. ‘All she has is a nice aura!’ Jiang Nini thought to herself.

“Who’s this woman?” Little Li asked Jiang Nini because it seemed like Shao Hua was really familiar with Wang Yanan.

“Someone who used connections to see Zhang Fan!” Jiang Nini answered.

“Doctor Zhang is really amazing! People are even using connections to see him!” Little Li remarked.

Baiyitibu was Mongolian. There were many ethnic minorities in the border province who would usually have their own languages which weren’t Chinese. There were several common languages in the border province. Mongolians were truly amazing at linguistics—many Mongolians were capable of speaking fluently in five or six local languages quite easily. For instance, Batu was fluent in many languages. Zhang Fan was really was really envious of Batu’s linguistic ability. Zhang Fan had been in the border province for more than two years now, but was still completely unknowledgeable in the ethnic minorities’ languages. He didn’t have any natural talent for speaking languages.

Baiyintibu was stocky to the point where her bank uniform was almost about to burst, but she was still within normal limits. Meanwhile, Baiyintibu’s older sister had a rather oily smell to her. The nomadic district wouldn’t lack food or clothing, but there was a lack of water.

“Doctor Zhang, this is my nephew. Please take a look at him.” Baiyintibu pushed over a similarly oily young boy.

The boy wasn’t afraid at all. He widened his eyes with curiosity as he stared at Zhang Fan’s stethoscope on the latter’s chest. Zhang Fan observed the boy as the boy observed the stethoscope.

It was quite obvious that the boy’s shoulders were of uneven heights. “Does this hurt?” Zhang Fan gently pushed the child’s shoulder while observing his reaction. Children would be different from adults, especially young children like this around six or seven years of age. Children were often afraid of injections and medicine, so sometimes they would lie to the doctor, which was why it was highly important to watch a child’s expression.

“Come over here and take off your clothes,” Zhang Fan requested. Baiyintibu and her older sister hurriedly helped the boy to take off his clothes.

In the city, people would wear clothes according to the season as spring and summer would have different seasonal clothing. However, that wouldn’t be possible out in the plains. Even in June, it would be possible for there to be a sudden snowstorm, which was why Baiyintibu’s nephew was wearing a lot of clothing. Baiyintibu and her sister seemed like they were peeling an onion for quite a long while before they managed to remove all of the boy’s clothing.

While standing behind the child, Zhang Fan extended his palms out like a fan and pressed them on the child’s chest along the ribcage, with fingers connecting. To describe this, it would be similar to a position that a man would use when caressing his girlfriend’s breasts from behind. “Inhale! Exhale!” Zhang Fan sensed the changes in the child’s chest as the boy breathed.

“Okay, put on your clothes, let’s not catch a cold.” Zhang Fan then imperceptibly furrowed his eyebrows. The others didn’t notice, but Shao Hua understood Zhang Fan far too well. She knew that his expression meant that this was rather troublesome.

“How is it, Doctor Zhang?” Baiyintibu and her sister asked Zhang Fan in a gentle voice.