Chapter 62: Ren Po Lie is Right Before Our Eyes

【Emergency Task: Minor illnesses can also be fatal.

Task Content: Treat a patient with a Ren Po Lie.

Task Duration: 24 hours.

Task Reward: 5000 Experience Points, 20 Surgical Points.】

The task reward was very ordinary, lacking what Ji Xiang wanted.

His gaze landed on the words "Ren Po Lie"; as the name implied, it should be an emergency.

Although the Urology Department claimed to have no emergencies, patients with Urological Calculus would all receive symptomatic treatment in the Emergency Department.

But trauma such as Ren Po Lie also existed, along with rarer conditions like GW Torsion and necrosis.

Since it was a Ren Po Lie, it must be a car accident, Ji Xiang judged immediately.

The location of the Kidney was safer relative to the Spleen, surrounded by layers of fat pads. Therefore, Spleen Rupture was more common than Ren Po Lie, with a probability of occurrence at least 10 times higher than that of Ren Po Lie.

Liu Zhuren went downstairs on his own, with Ji Xiang following behind him.

Originally, Ji Xiang was going to return to the ward to learn how to write Medical Records from Wang Daxiao and Mo Chenggui, but the System Task told Ji Xiang from the side that following Liu Zhuren might lead to the emergency patient mentioned in the task.

Walking straight to the ward, Liu Zhuren didn't even knock, pushing the door open and entering.

"Brother Lao Liu, you've finally come." A middle-aged man saw Liu Zhuren enter and said with an anxious face.

"What's the rush." Liu Zhuren didn't care, looking at the Patient leisurely, having a good idea of the situation.

The Patient was lying on the hospital bed, with a bedpan placed beside it, containing bright red liquid.

Liu Zhuren had seen similar situations many times and had long since become accustomed to it.

"Brother Lao Liu, weren't the stones all removed? Why is there still blood in the urine?" the middle-aged man said, filled with worry.

"Don't be anxious." Liu Zhuren knew the Family Member very well at a glance and didn't stand on ceremony, sitting down on the sofa with a thud after entering the private room. "Didn't I tell you before the surgery that some patients would have blood in their urine for 2-3 days?"

The middle-aged man nodded, but when his gaze landed on the bedpan with bright red urine, he remained filled with worry.

"How do you feel now?" Liu Zhuren asked.

The middle-aged man let out an "Ah."

"I wasn't asking you, I was asking your younger brother."

"Liu Ge, my waist feels very bloated." The Patient answered honestly while lying on the bed.

Ji Xiang observed carefully; the Patient's breathing while speaking showed no signs of weakness, so he guessed it was just being frightened by the hematuria.

"When the Ureteroscope enters your Kidney, there will inevitably be some edema. Plus, the Laser Stone Crushing causes a little damage to the Kidney, so feeling bloated and uncomfortable after surgery is a normal reaction." Liu Zhuren comforted him simply.

"Brother Lao Liu, is it really okay?"

"Of course." Liu Zhuren said, "Look at the patient next door; he had an incision to remove stones last night, and he can already walk on the ground now."

"Your hospitalization fees are so expensive, my brother doesn't dare to walk on the ground easily." Seeing Liu Zhuren's relaxed, unfazed appearance, the middle-aged man felt a little more at ease and began to joke with a grin.

"Staying in the hospital will bankrupt the family; if we really died, the two of us wouldn't even be able to afford a cemetery plot now."

"..."

Ji Xiang was speechless.

Although his Clinical experience was not rich, even so, Ji Xiang knew that patients and their Family Members were quite sensitive about the word "die."

Sometimes on the internet, the word "die" even had to be replaced with the character "mouth."

He really didn't know if future generations would be misled when studying the Chinese language years from now.

The person in front of him had no filter when joking, saying things like death or cemeteries right off the bat.

Liu Zhuren laughed, "Don't buy a cemetery plot; a piece of land the size of a palm is more expensive than a damn mansion, isn't that a scam?"

"In our Provincial Hospital's Badaokou area, there are many apartments sold that no one lives in; they put an urn inside, with electronic incense and looping electronic chanting sounds." The middle-aged man grinned and started spouting nonsense.

"It's just, damn unreliable." Liu Zhuren curled his lips.

Having performed surgery for a day, his lower limbs were swollen and sore, no more comfortable than the Patient's.

Sitting on the sofa with his legs stretched out, Liu Zhuren knocked on his legs with his fists while holding court, "Let's not even talk about using loudspeakers to loop chanting; there are also Prayer Wheels and such, just the burning of incense alone isn't standard."

"Burning incense, that's opening an Information Transmission Channel between Three-dimensional Space and Higher-dimensional Space through a Distributed Condensed Matter Reaction!"

"..."

"..."

Ji Xiang sighed in his heart.

He didn't know if Liu Zhuren drove fast, but his train of thought when spouting nonsense was truly damn divergent.

"Hahaha, I've heard people say that this kind of electronic chanting is also wrong." The middle-aged man clearly had a special relationship with Liu Zhuren; his interest piqued, he said with a smile, "If you get merit for every turn, some people are already preparing to engrave scriptures onto the memory of a Mining Machine. Once you turn it on, it goes buzz-buzz-buzz, and one day equals ten thousand years for others."

"..."

Ji Xiang looked at the Patient helplessly.

The Patient was lying on the bed, looking like there was no problem, listening with great interest to his older brother and Liu Zhuren chatting and spinning yarns.

Seeing that there was nothing wrong, Ji Xiang, preoccupied with the upcoming Ren Po Lie patient, listened to Liu Zhuren and the Family Member's nonsense in a distracted state.

"Buying an apartment to put an urn in is already outdated." Liu Zhuren knocked on his legs with a thud-thud-thud, "I heard a while ago that some people have already started renting bank safe deposit boxes."

"Ah? Safe deposit boxes?" The middle-aged man was startled.

"The cheapest storage box at the Agricultural Bank of China, with specifications of 50.5cm x 105cm x 6cm, has an annual rent of only 127 yuan."

Liu Zhuren said triumphantly.

The middle-aged man looked somewhat bewildered.

"Partition it into small grids of 5x5x6, and for an annual rent of only 127, you can fit a dozen people from the whole family. Plus, it's neat and tidy, fireproof and theft-proof, with professional security and national credibility. You go once a year, take them out of the safe to pay respects, and soak up some prestige."

"..."

"..."

"..."

Except for Liu Zhuren, the three people in the room, including Ji Xiang and the Patient, were all stunned.

"Soaking up some noble aura," soaking up my foot.

"The most awesome thing is, when you drink with people in the future, you can tell them that the president of such-and-such bank visits your father's grave every day."

"!!!"

Ji Xiang scratched his head.

This line of thinking was a bit too unrestrained.

Liu Zhuren regained some strength, held his waist, and stood up slowly from the sofa with a grunt.

Men who have reached a certain age are all like this; middle-aged men understand.

Only then did Liu Zhuren go to perform a physical examination; the Patient had no special positive signs, and Liu Zhuren believed the discomfort in the Kidney region was a normal post-operative reaction, mainly caused by the Patient and the Family Member scaring themselves after seeing hematuria.

Leaving the ward, Ji Xiang did not go to the office with Liu Zhuren; he ran to the Nurses' Station to ask about the situation, and no Patient with Ren Po Lie or suspected Ren Po Lie had appeared.

No wonder they gave a one-day time limit; it was likely the Patient hadn't arrived yet, Ji Xiang pondered to himself.

Consulting Wang Daxiao about the Medical Record, Ji Xiang helplessly discovered that Wang Daxiao's level of writing Medical Records was at least three grades weaker than his own.

If he were a person from the Medical Records Room, there would be no problem at all with marking Wang Daxiao's Medical Record directly as a Grade B Medical Record.

This group of Surgeons really didn't write Medical Records... During his internship, Ji Xiang had been tempered in the Internal Medicine Department, and coupled with his high Comprehension, his level was truly not low.

But Wang Daxiao didn't care, nor was he ashamed; it seemed his inner thought was—as long as the surgery is done well and the communication with the Patient is good, the Medical Record is actually not important.

There was still some time before getting off work, and Ji Xiang waited quietly for the emergency Patient to arrive.

This feeling was quite bad; he knew there would be a problem, yet he couldn't stop it.

More than an hour passed, and the Patient with Ren Po Lie still hadn't come. Ji Xiang found a quiet place, held his breath, and entered the System Space.

Actually, it didn't take much time for Ji Xiang to enter the Meditation state now, but he still subconsciously looked for a quiet place.

"You're here," the System NPC greeted.

"Teacher, I am waiting for a Patient with Ren Po Lie." Ji Xiang walked over and bowed, "Regarding the Emergency Rescue and surgery for Ren Po Lie, what can I do?"

The System NPC looked Ji Xiang up and down and shook his head slightly.

Ji Xiang felt a bit strange.

"It's not trauma; you should have seen the Patient with Ren Po Lie just now," the System NPC said slowly.

"What?!" Ji Xiang was startled.

He had just walked around the ward and there were no critical Patients.

"Recite the complications of Lithotripsy," the System NPC asked.

Ji Xiang immediately stated the possible complications of Lithotripsy, but when he mentioned Ren Po Lie, he stopped abruptly.

In fact, the current Ji Xiang was just reciting from a book and didn't understand at all when or what kind of complications would occur.

Moreover, he didn't know the probability of each complication.

"Want to try?" The System NPC knew Ji Xiang realized what he had forgotten and asked with a smile.

"Okay!" Ji Xiang said without hesitation.

The System NPC looked at Ji Xiang with a very gentle gaze, carrying a bit of approval.

Arriving in the next room, Ji Xiang entered the scene of Empathy.

"Here, this is your stone."

For a Surgeon, the light from the shadowless lamp had long been ignored; what they cared about was the angle of the light and whether it would cast shadows.

Ji Xiang lay on the operating table, feeling the light dazzling and a bit cold.

A hand wearing a sterile glove reached over and placed it to the side; on the glove was a strange-shaped little stone less than 1cm in size.

He didn't know if this stone could be used as a medicinal primer; a thought suddenly flashed through Ji Xiang's mind.

"Look, how many sharp spikes it has grown," the operator laughed, "This is only less than 1/3 of the stone; it's impossible to pass on its own. The Ureter has 3 narrow spots, and it can't even get past one."

"Thank you," Ji Xiang said politely while lying on the operating table.

Because it was Continuous Epidural Anesthesia, Ji Xiang did not feel any pain.

And the stone had already been taken out... No! Ji Xiang immediately thought that what the System NPC let him experience through Empathy was the Ren Po Lie after Laser Lithotripsy!

"It's nothing; there might be 1-2 days of hematuria after it's taken out, don't be afraid," the operator only let Ji Xiang take a look before taking the stone back and continuing the surgery, "Normally you'll be discharged in about 3 days."

"Was it done with Laser Lithotripsy?" Ji Xiang asked anxiously.

"Of course, but don't worry, it's not the Laser you're thinking of; it won't pierce through," the operator laughed, "It's already very impressive to be able to break the stone; it will absolutely not damage the Kidney, I have a sense of it."

A sense of it?

Ji Xiang didn't think so.

Otherwise, why would the System NPC want him to come and experience Ren Po Lie?

(End of chapter)