Chapter 318: I am a Patient too, and I hurt too! (Alliance Leader Xiao Xiao 51)

Ji Xiang lay on the ground, enduring the pain, hoping for the ambulance to arrive soon.

He knew that when the Emergency Vehicle doctor arrived, they would still likely puncture the subclavian vein, but at least they could reach the hospital at the fastest speed, and even if there was bleeding, they would immediately pump crystalloids and colloids into the blood vessels to maintain vital signs.

But soon, Ji Xiang realized he was wrong.

The night wind was cold, whipping against his body like a lash; Ji Xiang felt his body temperature fading bit by bit, already frozen into a block of ice.

Damn it all!

Ji Xiang hadn't expected this; he was on the verge of tears.

Just endure it, what other choice was there?

However, Ji Xiang had one piece of good news—he had found a position where the irritation of the bone fragments against his flesh seemed to have lessened significantly; the pain was not as intense now and was bearable.

Or perhaps, under the cold wind, his senses were not as sharp.

But regardless, 20-plus minutes later, Ji Xiang heard the sound of the Emergency Vehicle approaching again.

In the past, Ji Xiang had always felt the siren of the Emergency Vehicle was too piercing, but this time when he heard it, his eyes grew moist.

Although the pain in his left shoulder remained when he changed positions to be lifted onto the stretcher, Ji Xiang vaguely saw a glimmer of hope.

After getting into the Emergency Vehicle and lying on the hard bed, the Nurse placed a nasal Catheter on Ji Xiang for oxygen and checked his blood pressure.

"Nothing major, probably just a fracture." The Emergency Vehicle doctor let out a sigh of relief and sat down with a thud.

"Li Ge, how did you get sent to the Emergency Vehicle? I thought you were about to lead a team." After checking Ji Xiang's blood pressure and seeing it was stable, the young Nurse was no longer nervous and began chatting with the Emergency Vehicle doctor.

"I saw you come out today and it gave me a start; I thought I was hallucinating."

"Sigh, don't mention it." The Emergency Vehicle doctor sighed. "I said the wrong thing."

"What? Said what wrong?" the Nurse asked in surprise.

"I was performing surgery on a Patient, using the centralized procurement Compound Tropicamide, and the damn pupils wouldn't dilate; when the light hit them, they even constricted! I cursed right then and there, what the hell is this." The Emergency Vehicle doctor cursed unconsciously.

"Is the medicine not good?" The Nurse didn't understand, so she asked.

"Yeah, it's not good at all. Then I told the Standardized Training Student under me to go on JD. com and buy Mydriacyl; I was paying for it myself, wasn't that enough? Then I got caught and was reported."

"..." The Nurse was stunned.

Ji Xiang was also stunned.

A Doctor paying for medicine out of their own pocket, and that's not allowed? And they get reported, sent to the Emergency Department, sent to the 120.

"So I was kicked to the Emergency Department," the Emergency Vehicle doctor said helplessly.

"The centralized procurement Compound Tropicamide isn't good? The effect is that bad?"

"Yeah, the medicine for treating hepatitis, Entecavir, you know it."

"I know it."

"After switching to the centralized procurement medicine, many people's viruses can't be suppressed. Forget it, it has nothing to do with me, I'll just buy the imported original drug myself. But I was damn well buying medicine to perform surgery on a Patient, and then..."

The Emergency Vehicle doctor cursed indignantly.

"It's all the same, just muddle through it," the Nurse said. "Our director said that in the last few years, media mouthpieces will definitely shift the conflict onto Doctors and Patients; medical disputes are about to escalate, so we should all be careful when on duty."

"That's right, take care of yourself first."

Only then did the Emergency Vehicle doctor notice that Ji Xiang was listening with his ears pricked up.

Ji Xiang was also embarrassed; he quickly endured the pain and said, "Teacher, I am a Standardized Training Student."

"How old are you, and still a Standardized Training Student?" The Emergency Vehicle doctor looked Ji Xiang up and down.

"I heard from my teacher that there was an imported original drug that didn't win the bid, and a domestic substitute won the bid at 2 cents a pill," Ji Xiang said. "When prescribing medicine to Patients, my teacher sighs and explains the situation to the Patient first."

"If you're not afraid of liver and kidney damage, then take it," the Emergency Vehicle doctor was still angry.

"My teacher said he isn't against centralized procurement, but the premise of centralized procurement is that efficacy and safety must be guaranteed. For a 2-cent pill, if he can guarantee the efficacy, he'll rip his head off and use it as a chamber pot."

"..."

"..."

The Emergency Vehicle doctor and the Nurse were both stunned for a moment.

They had actually encountered a knowledgeable Patient in the Emergency Vehicle.

The atmosphere was a bit strange; in fact, he wasn't against centralized procurement, and the Emergency Vehicle doctor knew he had said the wrong thing, but just now, no one expected that a Patient with a Clavicle Fracture could understand and even chime in.

Truly damn it.

The Emergency Vehicle doctor fell silent.

Ji Xiang didn't dare to say anything either; he knew this topic was taboo, and saying too much wouldn't be good.

"Bang..."

The Emergency Vehicle jolted, and Ji Xiang broke out in a cold sweat from the pain.

He had encountered a similar situation with Urological Calculus, and Ji Xiang cursed the road administration department in his heart once again, wishing their ancestors' graves would smoke.

Arriving at the hospital, blood was drawn and X-rays were taken.

After the films came out, Ji Xiang saw his left clavicle broken beyond repair and was filled with worry.

He was very worried that the bone fragments would puncture the subclavian artery and vein, causing his "minor" illness to become a major one.

After being sent to the Orthopedics Department, he was admitted.

Fortunately, there was a Standardized Training Doctor helping him run around, which made Ji Xiang feel much more at ease.

Ji Xiang supported his left arm with his right hand; the pain wasn't that severe, but his movement was restricted, especially his neck.

Turning his neck caused intense pain, something Ji Xiang hadn't known before.

No wonder Patients with Clavicle Fracture looked like puppets; it was just an injury to a clavicle that didn't move, yet the whole body was affected.

It wasn't being pretentious, but rather that one hadn't been injured oneself; if one were truly injured, one would be just as pathetic, or even worse.

Because lying down was painful, Ji Xiang gave up on that idea after a few attempts and sat on the bed, leaning against the wall and taking out his phone.

The wall was hard and cold; the seemingly smooth and flat wall was torturing Ji Xiang's fragile body with invisible edges.

Scrolling through his phone, Ji Xiang had no heart for it under the shroud of pain.

It wasn't like scrolling after a circumcision, where as long as it didn't stand up, it was fine. Now, no matter what he did, that kind of pain would arrive unexpectedly and land on his body.

Sigh, it really was miserable; Ji Xiang couldn't help but want to lose his temper, yet there was no target for his anger.

Blood was drawn again, an Electrocardiogram was performed, and preoperative preparations were made.

The Nurse said there were three cesarean sections in the operating room, and the surgery for the Clavicle Fracture was delayed because it was not urgent.

Ji Xiang wanted to curse, but he held it back.

There was no help for it; even though he himself saw this as a minor ailment, but! He really felt it was very painful.

Compared to a cesarean section, he was indeed negligible, but Ji Xiang grumbled in his heart—he was a Patient too, why couldn't they open a few more emergency tables.

He knew the reason, but under the reinforcement of the pain, Ji Xiang still complained to himself for a long time.

At two in the morning, Ji Xiang finally signed the papers, changed into a hospital gown, and was wheeled into the operating room.

The light from the shadowless lamp was very bright, but this time Ji Xiang felt quite warm.

With light and shadows flickering, Ji Xiang did not undergo the surgery and returned directly to the System Operating Room.

When he saw the System NPC, Ji Xiang's nose felt sour, and he almost cried out.

(End of this chapter)