Chapter 242: Blue Ears

"Is Doctor Xiao Ji in?"

The door to Liu Zhuren's office was pushed open directly, and Lu Gang walked in hurriedly.

"Old Lu, what's the rush? Slow down." Liu Zhuren sat leisurely in his chair, looking at Lu Gang with a smile.

"Doctor Xiao Ji, the surgery you just performed went so smoothly, it wasn't high difficulty, right? Was the surgery very simple, to the point where you could put a dog up there and it could do it?" Lu Gang asked directly, bluntly, and with a biased tone.

Ji Xiang spread his hands and looked at the ceiling.

It made sense that this person was kicked to the Medical Affairs Department; he didn't even understand the most basic social nuances, coming over to ask directly if the difficulty was low.

And that last sentence... Ji Xiang thought of a Sha Paozi.

"Of course." Liu Zhuren chuckled, "Old Lu, those journal papers you read are all nonsense. The surgery itself is simple; I could do it with my eyes closed."

"You?" Lu Gang squinted at Liu Zhuren, "You started bleeding as soon as you touched it, and you're still here bragging."

Liu Zhuren's old face flushed, but his skin was thick, so he pretended nothing happened, "It was Xiao Ji who caused the bleeding, what does that have to do with me? You saw it wrong. Besides, am I not better than a dog?"

Ji Xiang watched Liu Zhuren talk nonsense with his own eyes; if he hadn't performed the surgery dozens or hundreds of times himself and just finished it with his own hands, he would have surely believed it.

"Hm? Really?" Lu Gang had been fooled by Liu Zhuren; he looked at Liu Zhuren in surprise, struggling to recall the situation of the surgery at the time.

"Of course." Liu Zhuren said, "How simple is the surgery? You know what surgeries a Standardized Training Doctor can perform in the Medical Affairs Department, right?"

"I know, Gastrointestinal can do Appendectomy, at most they can also do Hernia Surgery."

"Right, the surgical treatment of Giant Hydronephrosis in our Urology Department is equivalent to Appendicitis and Hernia in Gastrointestinal. In fact, the level is even slightly lower. Old Lu, you read literature every day and have been fooled by the literature."

Liu Zhuren teased.

He held grudges and settled them; earlier Lu Gang had belittled him by saying the surgery definitely couldn't be finished, and now he was paying him back immediately.

"..."

Given how this was said, Lu Gang definitely wouldn't believe it unless he was a fool.

"Nonsense."

"You watched with your own eyes as Xiao Ji finished the surgery, what's nonsense about that? By the way, I didn't completely let go, I was holding the Endoscope the whole time. If Xiao Ji had any slip-up during the surgery, I would have taken over immediately."

"Uh."

Lu Gang's brain was spinning.

Ji Xiang snickered; he knew Liu Zhuren wasn't stealing credit, he was just teasing Lu Gang.

"The surgery is indeed..."

Before Liu Zhuren could finish his sentence, Lu Gang's phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Oh, what? Blue ears? Are you a human doctor or a veterinarian! Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome is a disease for veterinarians to look at, it has nothing to do with us human doctors at the Second Affiliated Hospital."

"Why do I know? Haven't you ever seen a pig run even if you haven't eaten pork? What are you all doing for a living?"

"I'm coming right now."

Lu Gang hung up the phone and said angrily, "The medical standard at our Second Affiliated Hospital is getting worse and worse, and even with this, they still act all high and mighty every day saying they're awesome."

"Old Lu, impressive, you even know about Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome." Liu Zhuren was truly impressed this time, the kind that bows down in admiration.

"My family used to raise pigs, I saw it when I was a kid, that's what the veterinarian said." Lu Gang said irritably, "How could a human have blue ears."

"Which department is the consultation for?"

"The Otolaryngology Department."

Lu Gang used a pun to show his contempt for the Otolaryngology Department.

"Hurry up and go take a look."

Ji Xiang's heart stirred, "Teacher Lu, can I go take a look with you?"

"What's there to see? You don't even know how unreliable clinical doctors are. I suspect the Patient is wearing a blue hat and it's fading."

"..."

Ji Xiang spread his hands.

"Doctor Xiao Ji, don't you disbelieve it. You think it's like what's said in crosstalk and skits, like testicles changing color, but it turns out to be underwear fading, right?" Lu Gang walked out while talking. Ji Xiang gestured to Liu Zhuren, and Liu Zhuren waved with a smile.

"This kind of thing is very common in Clinical, it doesn't count as a matter at all." Lu Gang rambled, "Some doctors don't even bother to wipe it with a glove; they see the color is wrong and immediately call for a consultation. Wait until I go scold them."

"Teacher Lu, you..."

"What about me?" Lu Gang turned his head and stared at Ji Xiang, "Want to say I have a bad temper?"

"Why are you so interested in Giant Hydronephrosis?" Ji Xiang asked.

Lu Gang looked Ji Xiang up and down, very seriously, for a full 2 seconds.

"The book says this disease is very difficult, but you, a little Standardized Training Student, did it quite well. By the way, Bai Chuzhang went to pull the recording of your laparoscopic surgery, and I feel like something is off."

"Pull the recording?"

"They said there's some kind of surgery competition recently, and Bai Chuzhang wants to accumulate some materials. But don't get your hopes up too high; I think he just wants to take a look, and it's most likely he's still looking for Liu Zhuren's surgery."

Bai Chuzhang really has an eye for talent, Ji Xiang thought with a smile.

"Blue ears, I think they look like blue ears." Lu Gang walked quickly toward the Otolaryngology Department while cursing.

"Old Lu, you're here, help me take a look, take a look." A middle-aged female doctor stood in the hallway waiting for Lu Gang. Seeing him walk in hurriedly, she immediately said apologetically.

It seemed different from what Lu Gang had described.

"Where is the Patient?"

"In the Treatment Room."

Lu Gang didn't waste words and walked into the Treatment Room in a rush.

A female Patient in her twenties sat on the bed in the Treatment Room, her face full of panic.

She didn't look like a real person, but rather like a 2D paper character.

Her ears were a bit pointed, and that wasn't all; the color was also abnormal, presenting a faint blue.

"Huh?" Lu Gang was taken aback; this was not what he had imagined.

"Has the ear always been this color?" Lu Gang asked.

"No, Doctor," the female Patient said timidly, "I caught a cold a few days ago and took some medicine, then my ear started hurting constantly, and the color changed too."

Lu Gang tore open a pair of sterile gloves, put them on directly, and tore open a bag of Iodophor cotton balls to wipe the female Patient's ear.

"Ouch!"

The female Patient shuddered.

"It really isn't fading," Lu Gang confirmed, then took off the gloves and threw them into the medical waste bin.

"Old Lu, don't let the Head Nurse see; these are all costs," the professor from the Otolaryngology Department said, his eyelids drooping with fatigue.

"Tch," Lu Gang said disdainfully, "Can't they be used again after washing?"

Ji Xiang suddenly thought of the joke about turning a used condom inside out to use it again, and he didn't know if Teacher Lu Gang was joking or if he really did that in Clinical practice.

But he probably couldn't; if costs were saved that way, it could potentially cause infections, transmission, and so on.

"Strange, tell me in detail exactly what the situation is." Lu Gang looked the female Patient up and down, his gaze finally landing on the blue ear.

The long hair on his forehead had fallen down, looking like half an eyebrow, which was truly funny.

(End of chapter)