Chapter 408: Surgery Completed in the Time it Takes to Chat

"Go!" Ji Xiang said with certainty.

Director Wang of the Vascular Department stared blankly at the small blue booklet in Ji Xiang's hand; he also had an Intermediate Certificate, but he had long since thrown it into some unknown corner.

It was only when he occasionally missed the young face on the Intermediate Certificate that Director Wang of the Vascular Department would find it to take a look, but it was of no use to him.

Yet for Ji Xiang, a Standardized Training Doctor who had just finished the medical licensing exam and barely possessed the qualifications to practice medicine, he could not yet perform high-level surgeries.

This Intermediate Certificate was of vital importance.

That an Intermediate Physician Certificate had arrived even earlier than the Physician Certificate was something Director Wang of the Vascular Department had never seen before.

He wanted to say something, but the words stuck in his throat and he swallowed them back.

Bai Chuzhang had already found a scapegoat; if he voiced a different opinion, he might end up taking the blame himself.

Sui Zhuren was already anxious to the point of desperation; the color of the patient's lower limbs after the surgery was getting worse, visibly progressing toward necrosis.

Although the preoperative disclosure had been conducted with the Family Member, and postoperative thrombosis was the most critical point of that disclosure, once something happened, the Family Member would lose all reason.

Sui Zhuren knew that at this moment, the preoperative disclosure was too stiff to even be used as toilet paper; it was basically useless. It was best that Bai Chuzhang was willing to stand up and take the fall; as for whether Ji Xiang lived or died in the end, it had nothing to do with him.

He immediately led people to send the Patient to the Interventional Catheter Room to prepare for surgical treatment.

As for whether the Patient would have other complications after the surgery... as long as Bai Chuzhang took over, it would be the hospital's problem. Even if something went wrong, when the hammer fell, he would be able to take fewer blows.

"Liu Zhuren, the little guy you brought up is truly capable." Seeing that Liu Zhi was also there, and knowing roughly that this guy was with Bai Chuzhang, Director Wang of the Vascular Department said to Liu Zhuren.

"Heh, he's alright." Liu Zhuren was not worried, but smiled instead.

"But the little guy is truly arrogant," Director Wang of the Vascular Department said with disdain. "Bai Chuzhang told him the truth, that he was preparing to make him the scapegoat, and he actually said 'Okay'! He is truly worthy of being the number one Standardized Training Student in the country."

Number one in the country—this adjective was indeed accurate; Ji Xiang had placed first in the national exam, and everyone of status in the entire hospital, and even the entire medical circle of the Provincial Hospital, knew it.

But at this moment, coming from the mouth of Director Wang of the Vascular Department, it carried endless mockery.

Liu Zhuren was unhappy the moment he heard it, and he glanced at Wang Zhuren. "Yanjun, that's quite a thing to say."

"Isn't this clearly setting Ji Xiang up? I... sigh, there's a problem with the vascular intima after the thrombectomy; it definitely requires a covered stent. Dazhi, you know what a surgical contraindication is, this is it!"

"If Xiao Ji says he can do it, he definitely can." Liu Zhuren tried to keep his tone as calm as possible. "The last person who said it couldn't be done has grass growing a meter high on their grave."

"Pfft, who?"

"Qin, the boss of Shanghai Hepatobiliary Hospital," Liu Zhi said coldly.

"..." Director Wang of the Vascular Department was speechless.

Besides surgical operations, the Vascular Department also performed interventional surgeries; whether it was thrombectomy, thrombolysis, or stent placement, all were part of it.

So he remembered that Qin had wanted to take Ji Xiang as a student, but had been so rebuffed by Ji Xiang that he was still depressed to this day, and it was estimated that the man didn't have many years left to live.

Grass on the grave... Director Wang of the Vascular Department recalled the Patient's condition and said with certainty, "Even if Doctor Xiao Ji can remove the thrombosis, the Patient will inevitably have problems 3 days after the surgery."

"Yanjun, are you unable to perform the surgery yourself?" Liu Zhuren was truly a bit impatient, and he retorted with a smile.

"..."

Director Wang of the Vascular Department fell silent for a moment.

"Xiao Ji's level was already demonstrated during the last heart transplant, so don't worry. You... what we can do, Xiao Ji can also do; what we can't do, Xiao Ji can still do."

Although Liu Zhuren had changed "you" to "we," Director Wang of the Vascular Department still felt extremely uncomfortable hearing this.

Ji Xiang could perform surgeries he couldn't? Even though Ji Xiang had demonstrated it, Director Wang of the Vascular Department still didn't believe it.

He had his pride and dignity.

Even if it wasn't much.

If any director from the First Affiliated Hospital had said it was possible, Wang Yanjun would have endured it, but what was Ji Xiang?! The number one Standardized Training Student in the country?

This title was a joke.

The Patient was sent to the Catheter Room, and everyone followed to change clothes. Liu Zhuren was not in a hurry either, moving slowly behind, not rushing in immediately.

At the beginning, there was positioning, disinfection, draping, and so on; the work was heavy and fragmented, and it couldn't be finished in less than 20 minutes.

"Dazhi, how did Doctor Xiao Ji get an exception?" Seeing that everyone had left and not wanting to go in immediately, Director Wang of the Vascular Department started chatting with Liu Zhuren.

Liu Zhuren's mood had clearly been off just now, and Wang Yanjun also wanted to ease the awkward atmosphere.

"Bai Chuzhang handled it. Xiao Ji has a paper in The Lancet and a provincial-level natural science project; his credentials are definitely enough. Whether he can get an exception depends on the maneuvering. Since Bai Chuzhang was willing to act, just an Intermediate Certificate—isn't that simple?"

Seeing Liu Zhi's smugness, Director Wang of the Vascular Department still felt uncomfortable and naturally retorted, "Why did you people in the Urology Department let Bai Chuzhang poach your talent?"

"Heh," Liu Zhuren laughed. "It's just because our hospital's interventional capabilities are weak, and Bai Chuzhang doesn't like to ask for favors. Look, he just got the certificate, and it's already come in handy."

The expression of Director Wang of the Vascular Department was ugly, but he knew what Bai Chuzhang meant; he could not refute it, nor was there any way to refute it.

"Yanjun, sit down and rest for a while," Liu Zhuren said. "We'll just go in after waiting 20 minutes. By the way, do you have many surgeries on your side now?"

The brief confrontation just now seemed to have been forgotten.

Leave a way out for others, and you'll have an easier time meeting them in the future; who knows when one might need to ask the other for a favor.

Director Wang of the Vascular Department also seemed to have forgotten, and began to chat with Liu Zhuren.

It was just that the two of them kept watching the time while chatting.

18 minutes later, Liu Zhuren stood up.

"Let's go, the surgery should have started, let's go in and take a look."

Wang Yanjun nodded.

The two walked out and were met with the door of the Operating Room opening; Xu Leyu was pushing the flatbed cart.

"General Manager Xu, what is this for?" Liu Zhuren was stunned for a moment.

He vaguely guessed the answer, but he could not believe the truth of this answer.

"The surgery is finished, I'm taking the Patient back," Xu Leyu said the very answer that was in Liu Zhuren's mind.

"!!!"

"!!!"

"General Manager Xu, did the surgery fail?! I knew it, I said it would..."

Finishing so quickly, failure is inevitable.

It's just like a Surgical Operation; the fastest ones are always the open-and-close procedures—you open it up to take a look, find the tumor is different from the preoperative assessment and can't be removed at all, so you can only close it back up and announce the end of the surgery.

"The surgery went very smoothly, the Thrombosis was removed intact, about 8cm or so."

Xu Leyu said, brushing past, having already pushed the gurney inside.

"Holy crap!"

(End of chapter)