Chapter 171: Emergency Room Visit Resulting from Faucet Repair (Alliance Leader: Fei Hao Meng)

Meng Qingfei looked smug. "Don't get it, right? Actually, I don't get it either."

"My classmate is at the County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. They do a pretty good job of integrating traditional Chinese and Western medicine, so Zusanli injections are just a very common, minor application for them. But at the Imperial Capital Hospital, including the department directors, no one has ever seen it."

"No way!"

Ji Xiang was truly stunned.

He had never imagined that doctors at a lower-level hospital could teach a lesson to professors and directors at a large Grade A Tertiary Hospital in the Imperial Capital.

"Didn't expect that, did you?" Meng Qingfei said. "That's why I've always believed that you can't look down on small-time doctors."

He carried an air of being fond of lecturing others, a bit like a System NPC. Ji Xiang didn't know if this was a single-target skill aimed only at him or an AOE skill.

"After giving Neostigmine at Zusanli for an hour, you slide the bedpan in, and *gu-chi gu-chi*, they go."

"Teacher, did you say *Gu-chi*?" Ji Xiang was a bit surprised by this homophone.

"That's just the sound it makes. Don't you find the things you care about a bit strange?" Meng Qingfei laughed. "The first time I heard the Head Nurse was carrying a Gucci bag, I found it strange too. Why would someone carry such a weird thing to work?"

"Haha." Ji Xiang thought about it; it did sound a bit like that.

"At the time, the doctors at that Imperial Capital hospital were all shocked. They couldn't believe it could be done like that!"

"Really?" Ji Xiang pondered, asking subconsciously.

"You can go home and look up the data. No matter where you work in the future, try it if you get the chance. Anyway, intramuscular injection of Neostigmine isn't against the rules. According to traditional Chinese medicine, Zusanli is an acupoint, but in Western medicine, it's just a spot for an intramuscular injection."

Ji Xiang felt what he said made sense.

"If that's the case for doctors, patients and ordinary people are surely even more unfamiliar with it. So there's no need to get angry with patients. If they come to have stitches removed, I only do it if I feel it's safe. If there's even the slightest issue, I absolutely won't touch it."

"Meng Laoshi, what if they file a complaint against you?" Ji Xiang was a bit worried.

"Let them complain. Our Emergency Department doesn't have bonuses. If they dare to dock my pay, I'll dare to hold the Dean's child and jump off a building," Meng Qingfei said with disdain.

"That's not necessary, not necessary," Ji Xiang said hurriedly. "Won't there be a disciplinary talk, and then you'll be suspended for a while?"

"Wouldn't that be perfect?" Meng Qingfei said. "Who wants to be on duty in this dump of an Emergency Department? I'm forty. If I don't sleep well for one night, my hair falls out in clumps. I'll be a standard Chief Physician soon enough. Bai Chuzhang is a reasonable person, don't worry."

Indeed, Meng Qingfei had just mentioned the suspension of the Emergency Pediatrics department.

Right now, Emergency, Pediatrics, and Interventional Radiology are the three major minefields in the hospital. As long as they have a choice, no one would choose to work in these three departments.

No wonder Meng Qingfei was so fearless, looking like a hardened scoundrel; no wonder Zhao Xiangming had burst into tears at the department gathering that day.

Tsk tsk, Ji Xiang sighed.

"It's really quiet today..." Meng Qingfei remarked.

Before he finished speaking, the phone at the Nurses' Station rang frantically.

Meng Qingfei raised his hand and slapped himself across the face, quite hard; he looked genuinely regretful.

"Old Meng! Prepare for resuscitation!!"

The Nurse's roar came from next door, and at the same time, there was the sound of slippers shuffling and running in the hallway.

"Damn it! Xiao Ji, remember, you must never say it's quiet. Look, this is the consequence!" Meng Qingfei stood up and habitually wiped his hands on the seat of his White Uniform, as if he had just washed them.

"What's going on?"

Meng Qingfei poked his head out and saw Wu Zong from the Urology Department run in, looking flustered.

"Wu Laozong, why did you get here so fast? Did the 120 ambulance call you? That's impossible, the 120 crew is still here; they haven't gone out on a call."

"Don't mention it, my mouth was too loose this afternoon," Wu Zong said, blaming himself.

"This afternoon? What happened?" Meng Qingfei asked, puzzled.

"Professor Bao's surgery finished late today, and there wasn't much going on, so I went into the operating room to take a look." Seeing that the Emergency Department was quiet and the patient clearly hadn't arrived yet, Wu Zong began to blame himself.

"After the surgery was done, I changed clothes with Professor Bao. I saw he had a new belt, and I even complimented him on it."

"A Gucci one?"

Wu Zong didn't know the meme and was stunned by the question.

"You continue, how did you get to the belt?" Meng Qingfei waved his hand, bringing the topic back.

"Didn't I show off a bit?" Wu Zong said dejectedly. "I saw the belt buckle looked like it had been tampered with, so I messed with it..."

"And then?"

Wu Zong was silent.

"Look at you, coming to my Emergency Department and only telling half the story," Meng Qingfei said dismissively. "Do you think the nurses don't already know everything? Maybe they're spreading something even worse. If you don't tell me, I'm not listening."

"Sigh, the belt buckle had been modified; there was a Locator inside."

"What! A Locator?" Meng Qingfei was startled. "Is your Professor Bao senile? Are you saying he's a spy?!"

But just as he said this, Meng Qingfei froze, then smiled helplessly. "A new belt?"

"Yeah," Wu Zong said. "My mouth was loose. I told Professor Bao to leave his belt in the locker room and go home immediately to check on things."

"You kid." Meng Qingfei raised his hand and slapped the back of Wu Zong's head. "Is that something you can just say casually!"

"This is..." Ji Xiang didn't quite understand.

"Got Faucet Repair-ed," Wu Zong said.

Why was everyone talking in code? Ji Xiang still didn't understand, but Meng Qingfei was able to keep up with Wu Zong perfectly.

Just this scene alone was enough to prove he was a new doctor.

Ji Xiang didn't make himself a nuisance by asking what Faucet Repair meant; he just stood in a corner where he wouldn't be in the way and waited.

Some things, you understand just by watching; there's no need to ask too much.

Soon, a private car arrived, and a stretcher pushed an injured person into the resuscitation room.

Wu Zong went in to take a look, and when he came out, his emotions were much calmer.

Arriving almost at the same time as the injured person was Liu Zhuren; he looked travel-worn and rushed in wearing his pajamas.

The patient's blood pressure and heart rate were stable, and the Resident Chief from Gastrointestinal Surgery who came for the consultation took them to get checked.

Ji Xiang didn't make a sound; seeing that no resuscitation was needed, he hid away.

After Liu Zhuren and Wu Zong left, Ji Xiang pulled Meng Qingfei aside and asked, "Meng Laoshi, what is Faucet Repair?"

"Heh, you really don't know! What were you doing in university?"

"Studying."

"..." Meng Qingfei looked at Ji Xiang helplessly and explained, "This is a meme from your Urology Department; how could you not know it?"

Ji Xiang spread his hands.

"It refers to a man being inadequate in his marital life, mocked by his wife that the faucet is broken and must be repaired in time, otherwise the wife will be very angry and the consequences will be serious." Meng Qingfei laughed out loud.

"..."

"A broken faucet has two meanings; it doesn't have much to do with the faucet itself. As long as you understand the ins and outs, you won't have any major misunderstandings when interpreting it."

"Your Urology Department is always talking about sewers and faucets; it's really boring. Come to our Emergency Department."

"No."

Ji Xiang refused flatly.

(End of chapter)