1014 The Art of Praise (1/2)
The set-up of the surgical floor at the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City was not much different from Yun Hua Hospital, except that the surface area of the surgical floor was smaller, the grade of the operating theaters was lower, the equipment in the operating theater was less advanced, the experience of the Department of Surgery was lower, the qualification of the Department of Anesthesiology was lower, the control of nosocomial infection was weaker, and the commonly used instruments were older…
Other than that, the operating theaters between these two hospitals were not much different.
After Doctor Qu watched the patient enter the operating theater, confirmed his identity, and examined him, he took out a stack of documents, smiled, and said to the circulating nurse of the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City whom he was not familiar with, ”Nurse Li, please send the MRI scans from our side to Doctor Ling. I've put on a sticker on the scans, and I also wrote the order and bed number.”
Doctor Qu's attitude was docile, and he wore a gentle smile that only appeared when he faced his boss.
The medical staff of the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City still respected the doctor from the Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center in Shanghai to a certain degree. They also felt a certain degree of affection toward Doctor Qu since he categorized the scans, put on the labels, and arranged them accordingly.
The circulating nurse of the operating theater immediately agreed, smiled, and said, ”Then, I will bring them over. Do you have something you want to say to him?”
”Just say that I'm asking Doctor Ling for guidance.” Doctor Qu was also a middle-aged adult. Although he was able to say something even more embarrassing, since Ling Ran was not around, he did not find it necessary to say the even more embarrassing words.
Nurse Li smiled and took up Doctor Qu's request before she took the stack of scans and left.
”I'll go and wash my hands.” Doctor Qu breathed a sigh of relief before he gave a few more instructions and got ready to go out.
”Then, shall I anesthetize the patient first?” the anesthetist asked.
Doctor Qu stopped moving, thought about it, and said, ”Wait for me to come back first.”
”Alright.” When the anesthetist saw Doctor Qu stepping on the door and leaving, he mumbled, ”As long as you're not worried.”
Normal freelance surgeons would just blaze through the surgery. When they entered the operating theater, they wanted their patient to be anesthetized to the point that they were like a drugged Wu Dalang. They also wanted their blood pressure to be so stable that it resembled a bedridden Pan Jinlian, and they wanted their instruments to shine as brilliantly as Ximen Qing's sword would when he drew it.
”I'll take a nap,” the anesthetist said to the nurse by his side. He crossed his legs and laid down. He looked exactly like the lame version of the tiger with a white forehead and fierce eyes, who lived six miles behind Jingyang Hill, at the sixth hollow of the cave 1.2 miles up the slope. [1]
The patient lay on the cold operating table. The circulating nurse had just confirmed his particulars on his wristband, such as his name, and he felt mentally and physically ready, but at this time, for some reason, he felt slightly abandoned.
”What's going on now?” The patient raised his head and looked at the doctor's assistant, who was still working at the side.
The doctor's assistant today was an attending physician from the Orthopedics Department in the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City. He understood what Doctor Qu meant, so he dragged over a stool with his leg, sat near the patient's leg, and calmly said, ”Wait for the doctor to come back. Don't move around, or else the draping will move out of position.”
”It's slightly cold.” The patient moved a little again.
The attending physician from the Orthopedics Department calmly said, ”Let me rephrase my words. If you don't move, no one will see your nuts.”
The patient thought about what he had said, and the scuffling sounds disappeared.
The operating theater was as quiet as a classroom, and even the set-up was exactly the same. There was a student there who scored among the first tier during the national college examinations and was taken to a ket university, one of them scored among the second tier and got into an ordinary university, one of them got into a specialized school, and one of them was sick.
In a while, Doctor Qu returned to the operating theater.
”Wake up the anesthetist.” Doctor Qu had his hands positioned in front of his chest, and he started to put on his scrub and gloves.
The assistant woke the anesthetist from his nap, and he started performing spinal anesthesia on the patient.
The patient curled up his body and had his back face the anesthetist. His thighs stuck to his tummy, and he could not help but feel nervous.
The anesthetist was used to seeing this. He could not even be bothered to comfort the patient, and he used the usual intimidation tactic he used. ”Don't move. If I inject the wrong nerve, you may need to spend the rest of your life in a wheelchair…”
The patient trembled even more greatly.
The female nurse walked over and said softly, ”Relax, it's just a small thing. We are now sanitizing your back.”
The patient trembled slightly less, just as they expected.
As Doctor Qu watched, he found the sight pitiful but also aggravating. He thought. 'You're in this state right now because you were overthinking. If you're so worried, then you should have searched for more information.'
The idea just flashed in his mind briefly, and Doctor Qu's facial expression never changed.
He would not hand his life over to some idiot and let them decide his life.
*Shick*
The circulating nurse entered the operating theater. There were two orthopedists behind her, and they were both associate chief physicians in the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City.
”Nurse Li, you're here. Any news from Doctor Ling?” Doctor Qu immediately asked. He did not try to hide the fact that he had asked for guidance just because two associate chief physicians of the Orthopedics Department in the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City were in front of him.