Chapter 56: Small Incision Stone Crushing Technique

Operating room.

Wu Zong, accompanied by Lu Kai and Liu Yunqing, prepares for surgery.

It is just a stone crushing and stone removal surgery; the procedure itself is not major, and Wu Zong is not particularly concerned.

Emergency cases in the Urology Department are relatively rare, and they are all minor tasks.

Moreover, this surgery is different from GW Torsion; it is not that urgent.

For example, with the current Patient, if Wu Zong did not want to perform it, he could give them a painkiller injection and wait until tomorrow morning.

But Wu Zong is a rather simple and honest person; the Patient is in severe pain, so why wait another night? Plus, the examinations are already complete, and there are no surgical contraindications.

It is not as if he cannot perform it himself, even with two Standardized Training Students in tow.

The Nurse is busy, and the Anesthesia Doctor begins administering general anesthesia to the Patient.

"Little girl, are you used to your Standardized Residency Training in the Urology Department yet?" the Nurse says while busy. "The doctors in the Urology Department don't say pleasant things; if you don't want to listen, just don't."

"By the way, little girl, what is your name?" the Nurse asks.

Liu Yunqing is a bit dazed as usual; while curiously looking at the equipment in the operating room, she answers offhandedly, "Teacher, I didn't call out."

"..." The Circulating Nurse is left speechless by Liu Yunqing's answer.

"Her name is Liu Yunqing; she is usually a bit muddled, but her exam scores are quite good." Wu Zong explains for Liu Yunqing, then gives the Circulating Nurse an apologetic smile.

Circulating Nurses are fierce, especially the night shift emergency Circulating Nurses; they are like mother tyrannosaurs. If you say one wrong word, not to mention a Standardized Training Student, even he himself would get yelled at.

Let alone himself, they would scold an Attending Professor or even a Director if they felt like it, showing no leniency at all.

Wu Zong is also afraid that the Circulating Nurse will get annoyed by Liu Yunqing and kick her out of the operating room.

"Exam?"

"The one with the top score is Ji Xiang." Liu Yunqing adds.

"Oh, Ji Xiang, that's a nice name." The Circulating Nurse is clearly in a good mood today and says with a chuckle.

Wu Zong curls his lip; he does not have a good impression of Ji Xiang.

Relying on knowing a few things and not even coming down to the Clinical floor—what does it matter if exam scores are good?

But he cannot think about this too deeply. As soon as he ponders it, Wu Zong thinks of the time yesterday when, during the rescue of a burn Patient, Ji Xiang performed a Cavernous Body Puncture to leave a needle and established Intravenous Access at the most critical moment.

That young man is not simple.

"Perform the surgery on the Patient first; you can order food when we get off the table." Wu Zong shifts the topic away from Ji Xiang, whom he dislikes, and looks at Lu Kai. "Order whatever you want to eat; just report the bill to me."

"Teacher, I want to eat king crab." The lecherous little short, chubby man chuckles.

"I told you to order food, not to make a wish." Wu Zong knows Lu Kai likes to joke, so he laughs and says, "If you can't guess that we're eating spicy hot pot tonight, you can keep guessing."

"You're so stingy." The Circulating Nurse says. She glances at the Patient, who is already under general anesthesia, and says, "The kid is working the night shift with you, and they don't even get a bite of meat, just spicy hot pot."

"It's normal; you get fat if you eat too much meat."

"No matter how fat you get, it's not as bad as you getting fat from staying up late. You must have gained ten pounds since becoming Resident Chief."

The Circulating Nurse's words seem to touch a sore spot for Wu Zong; he is slightly dejected, but he refuses to concede verbally.

"What can I do? Obesity from overwork should count as a work-related injury."

"Work-related injury, my foot; you're just lazy." The Circulating Nurse laughs. "Hurry up with the surgery, finish it quickly; I believe in you."

"As for surgery, one still has to take it slow and be steady. Our Director said, 'Go slow, and it's faster.' What's the use of just doing the surgery fast? If you're clumsy and careless, you'll end up with a 'second palace visit' 【re-operation】, wasting even more time, and it won't be easy for me to explain to the Family Member later."

This time, the Circulating Nurse does not "argue" with Wu Zong. She opens the surgical kit, organizes the items to be used, and turns back to see the bewildered-looking Liu Yunqing.

"Your name is Liu Yunqing, right? The Urology Department is full of bad seeds; don't be like them."

"Li Jie, is that any way to talk?" Wu Zong says, displeased.

"Last year... the year before, your Lao Zhuren was driving with a student and made a little girl cry, and she went straight to complain about him. Have you forgotten?"

Lu Kai is curious, "Teacher, what happened? Did he harass a female student?"

Liu Yunqing takes half a step back, moving a little further away from Wu Zong.

"No, it was just the usual things everyone says. She wasn't used to the Clinical environment when she first arrived, and she was just told off until she cried."

"What was said?" Lu Kai is wearing a cap and mask, but his lecherous, oily nature is already showing.

"During morning rounds, a Patient was looking for Mo Jiaoshou, and the student Mo Jiaoshou brought said, 'Wait a moment, the teacher will come to see you soon.'"

"That's nothing wrong." Lu Kai is somewhat disappointed.

"Liu Zhuren heard it and casually said, '2-4 is waiting for you in bed, be gentle.'"

"..."

"..."

"Originally, those words were meant for Mo Jiaoshou, but that Standardized Training Student thought they were said to her. How could a little girl handle that? She went crying to the Department of Science and Education to complain."

"It's just that you people have no gatekeepers on your mouths." The Circulating Nurse says with disdain.

"What we in the Urology Department encounter is just like that; it belongs to 'open lewdness.' Other departments don't say it out loud, but they think it in their hearts; that's called 'hidden baseness.'" Wu Zong says dismissively. "Besides, who said our department can't have female doctors?"

"Oh?" The Circulating Nurse looks at him curiously.

"Pelvic floor function examinations can fall under Gynecology, or they can fall under our Urology Department. The Director said that in the future, we need to find 1-2 female doctors to be specifically responsible for this direction."

"Scrub in, open the table."

The Anesthesia Doctor is satisfied with the anesthesia and turns to speak to Wu Zong.

"Hurry up and get it done. It's just a stone crushing and stone removal; if you drag it out for three hours, I'm not done with you." The Circulating Nurse says fiercely.

"Don't worry, it'll be done in an hour and a half." Wu Zong confidently leads Lu Kai and Liu Yunqing to scrub in and take the table.

Disinfection, placement of sterile drapes; the surgery begins after the Patient changes position.

"Teacher, how many days until this surgical Patient can be discharged?" Liu Yunqing seems to perk up all of a sudden after scrubbing in and taking the table; the dazed look from just a moment ago is completely swept away.

"About 3 days." Wu Zong replies.

"Anyone can be called 'teacher' these days." The Circulating Nurse sits on a stool, leisurely waiting for the call from the table; hearing Liu Yunqing address Wu Zong as 'teacher,' she says this with a sense of irony.

"Those selling cosmetics, those selling health supplements, even the person doing open-air haircuts next to my house is now called 'Teacher'."

"And AV," Lu Kai muttered in a low voice.

Wu Zong was in a great mood and looked at Lu Kai with satisfaction, "You do the skin suturing after the surgery is done."

"!!!"

Lu Kai hurriedly said in a low voice, "Teacher, I have a 3TB hard drive of that."

"We'll talk about it later," Wu Zong hurriedly cut him off.

If this were heard by people in the operating room, his reputation would be ruined to the Extreme Point within a few days.

Those people really dared to say anything, especially behind someone's back.

He was talking about a hard drive, but if this spread for three days, it could turn into him flying to Japan to meet AV actresses for face-to-face exchanges.

The surgery began, and Wu Zong stopped talking, focusing on the operation.

While performing the surgery, he intermittently explained the surgical process and his objectives to Lu Kai and Liu Yunqing.

It was just a minor Stone Crushing and extraction surgery, nothing difficult; Wu Zong was familiar with the process and it went very smoothly.

The stone was shattered by the Laser, the debris was removed, and they began flushing.

With victory in sight, the atmosphere in the operating room began to relax.

Wu Zong's phone rang, and he sighed, "Li Jie, help me answer the phone."

"Is it for inserting a urinary catheter again?"

"Damn it!" Wu Zong couldn't help but curse, "As long as they are a bit older, they come to our Urology Department for urinary catheter insertion. As a Resident Chief, I do the work of a Nurse every single day."

"Hahaha." The Circulating Nurse fished the phone out of Wu Zong's back pocket.

"The most ridiculous thing is that there was a Patient in Neurology who needed a urinary catheter, and the new Nurse couldn't get it in no matter what. I went to take a look, and she hadn't even applied Paraffin Oil, just trying to force it in."

"That's because she doesn't have a boyfriend," the Circulating Nurse said with a smile, "It'll be fine once she has a boyfriend."

As she spoke, she answered the phone.

"Who is this?"

"Wu... Hello, I am the Standardized Training Student from the department, Ji Xiang. Where is Resident Chief Wu?"

"Ji Xiang?" The Nurse felt the name was a bit familiar and quickly realized it was the one who had just been mentioned as having the top score in the Standardized Training Exam, "He's in the operating room, on the sixth floor. Just come over, I'll go find you some scrubs."

"Coming only when the surgery is almost finished, lazy and slippery," Wu Zong muttered in a low voice.

"How did this kid offend you?" the Circulating Nurse asked, looking at Wu Zong with curiosity.

Wu Zong didn't speak and continued the surgery.

A few minutes later, the Circulating Nurse brought Ji Xiang in, looking high-spirited.

Doing emergency surgery at night was very boring, but with such an easy-on-the-eyes young man around, the long night had some fun.

"Doctor Xiao Ji, where did you go?" the Circulating Nurse asked while walking.

"I ran into a Patient with Urological Calculus in the Emergency Department, so I helped with registering, queuing, and paying," Ji Xiang said politely.

Wu Zong's mask moved again; clearly, he had countless complaints on his mind.

But he had the most basic manners, and coupled with the shock the events of last night had caused him, he didn't immediately lash out at Ji Xiang.

Ji Xiang entered the Operating Room, stood behind Wu Zong according to the rules, and looked at the Monitoring Instrument.

The Patient's vital signs were stable, and no abnormalities were visible.

But Ji Xiang had an emergency task issued by the System, and since the System NPC had also spoken to him, Ji Xiang just waited quietly.

Ji Xiang was also curious; it looked very quiet and nothing was wrong, so where exactly did the problem lie?

After the surgery, the whole process went smoothly, and Wu Zong was quite happy, chatting with Lu Kai.

Because the Patient had Kidney hydronephrosis, Wu Zong left an F14 Right Renal Fistula Tube in place and performed Dressing fixation.

The Fistula Tube just needed to be pulled out after a few days, which wouldn't affect anything.

Wu Zong wasn't in a hurry; he had promised Lu Kai the suturing, and he taught Lu Kai step-by-step during the final step of fixing the Right Renal Fistula Tube.

Because it was the last step and wouldn't take more than a few minutes, the Circulating Nurse and the Anesthesia doctor weren't in a hurry either, chatting and laughing.

Just after fixing the Fistula Tube, the Monitoring Instrument suddenly emitted an alarm sound.

Wu Zong didn't pay attention; he assumed the Circulating Nurse had moved the Cardiac Monitor. If something were going to go wrong, it would have happened long ago, not now.

However, the Anesthesia doctor suddenly froze, staring blankly at the Cardiac Monitor.

"What's wrong?"

"Something's not right, the Patient's blood oxygen saturation is dropping rapidly!"

(End of this chapter)