Chapter 65: Next Time, For Sure!

How did this damn sense of familiarity come back again!

General Manager Wu felt a river of sorrow flowing backward.

However, what was meant to come would come, and he had no way to resist it.

"General Manager Wu." Ji Xiang gazed at General Manager Wu's figure and asked softly, "I feel like there might be a problem with the patient's waist pain. What do you think?"

A powerful pressure appeared inexplicably; General Manager Wu stared blankly at the patient, as if he had returned to his graduate student days, doing rounds with his mentor.

"Mentor," General Manager Wu said subconsciously, "I'll perform a physical examination."

Lu Kai was a bit dazed; he was closest to General Manager Wu and heard it most clearly.

But what was the meaning of that "mentor"?

Last time, he seemed to have called him Director.

General Manager Wu quickly began the physical examination, following every step, standard to the Extreme Point, even appearing somewhat rigid.

Lu Kai found it familiar; this wasn't the technique doctors usually used during rounds, but rather like a teacher teaching or facing a Judge during a competition.

Only during the most serious, most rigid exams would one perform a physical examination like this.

"General Manager Wu, you really are earnest," Lu Kai praised, "This physical examination is simply... too much like a physical examination."

"..." General Manager Wu turned his head, glared fiercely at Lu Kai, and then smiled apologetically at Ji Xiang.

This generation of bootlickers is difficult.

Lu Kai wasn't discouraged, just very confused.

What exactly was the meaning of that apologetic smile on General Manager Wu's face just now?

General Manager Wu continued the physical examination, standard and meticulous.

Seeing General Manager Wu sticking his butt out and looking earnest while about to take off the patient's pants, Ji Xiang almost kicked him.

It is indeed post-lithotripsy; just look at the kidney area and the waist, why go that far!

"General Manager Wu, do you think it looks like Spontaneous Renal Rupture?

Under normal circumstances, when the rupture is minor, the symptoms are atypical, and subsequently, due to a large amount of urine entering the Retroperitoneal Cavity, persistent pain similar to an Acute abdomen appears."

Ji Xiang said softly.

The skill time was still active; General Manager Wu nodded repeatedly, "There are indeed signs of Spontaneous Renal Rupture, prepare the flat cart!"

The Family Member was startled.

Although he didn't understand, he could understand what "renal rupture" meant.

How did it rupture?

General Manager Wu didn't listen to his explanation; once Lu Kai pushed the flat cart over, the few of them scrambled to lift the patient onto it, and General Manager Wu pulled the flat cart and ran wildly out of the ward area.

But that detestable sense of familiarity still hadn't disappeared; the power of the bloodline suppression was strong to the Extreme Point, and no matter how General Manager Wu wanted to resist, the information transmitted in his DNA was to obey.

General Manager Wu was tearful.

"Mentor..."

Turning his head, General Manager Wu shouted subconsciously.

But General Manager Wu was under bloodline suppression, not losing his mind; he immediately realized something was wrong!

The other party is just a small Standardized Training Student, why is he so afraid of him!

I must toughen up!

If the little Standardized Training Student doesn't listen, I'll report to the Director tomorrow, complain to the Department of Science and Education, and kick him away!!

General Manager Wu's heart was in chaos, countless thoughts rising and falling, all messy.

Right, must toughen up, definitely!

"Ji... Mentor, I'll go, you watch the place. If anything happens, tell me immediately, and I'll run back."

Facing Ji Xiang's bloodline suppression, no matter how much General Manager Wu wanted to be tough deep down, he softened in the end.

He didn't even change the form of address.

"..."

"..."

Lu Kai and Liu Yunqing were startled and almost bumped into each other.

What is wrong with General Manager Wu? Could Ji Xiang be his long-lost biological father?

This is truly hellish!

Ji Xiang scratched his head and stopped his steps.

The patient's vital signs were stable, and it was still in the early stage of right-sided Spontaneous Renal Rupture; early diagnosis and early treatment would suffice, so there was no need for him to follow.

Watching General Manager Wu, Lu Kai, and Liu Yunqing leave, Ji Xiang looked at the task on the System Panel in the top right corner of his field of vision, wondering in his heart when this task could be successfully completed.

Leaving the effective range of Ji Xiang's skill, General Manager Wu finally relaxed.

That feeling was particularly bad,

like being caught red-handed smoking in the bathroom by the Director of Teaching in middle school.

Like puppy love in high school, holding hands with his first girlfriend, closing his eyes in a romantic scene of falling snow, preparing to offer his first kiss, only to find the girlfriend's father suddenly appearing opposite them.

Just like in college, when the mentor was about to let him perform a surgery, but he made a mess of the carefully prepared surgery, and the mentor had to clean up his mess with a dark face.

Just like...

Countless scenes that seemed familiar, but each scene was different, and each scene could not fully describe the heart-pounding fear he felt when seeing Ji Xiang.

What exactly is going on? General Manager Wu pondered this while running wildly, pulling the flat cart.

Am I out of my mind, taking a post-operative patient from a Ureteroscopic Lithotripsy that I performed with the Director to get a CT scan?!

The more Wu Zong thought about it, the more depressed he became.

But what could he do now!

Having run halfway, with the atmosphere already built up to this point, was he supposed to tell the Family Member that he had been possessed by a ghost?

Forget it, better to just do a CT scan first.

At the very least, the Patient has abdominal distension and pain; if he does a CT, even if there is nothing wrong, he will have an explanation.

Damn it!

Truly damn it!!

The more Wu Zong thought about it, the more furious he became; he gripped the flatbed cart so hard that the creaking sound was clearly audible.

It must be because he hadn't slept well lately, leading to being possessed by a ghost.

Next time for sure!

Arriving at the CT Room, the roaring sound of the flatbed cart drew the attention of the Doctor in the CT Room.

He poked his head out, and seeing his own Resident Chief running over panting while pulling a flatbed cart, his heart immediately tightened.

There was only one possibility for a situation like this—an emergency!

An emergency where every ten or eight minutes could be a matter of life and death!!

"Next patient, you all wait a moment, do the emergency one first!" the Doctor in the CT Room shouted loudly.

The waiting Patients and Family Members were also reasonable; facing the sight of three doctors running wildly while pulling a flatbed cart, they knew what had happened without needing to be told.

The Patient was immediately sent up to have a CT scan done right away.

Seeing that the Patient's condition was stable, the Doctor in the CT Room had a look of complete confusion on his face; he turned and walked out, closing the lead door.

"Chief Resident Wu, what kind of patient? A car accident? Doesn't look like it."

"..." Wu Zong didn't know how to answer.

"Hey, I'm asking you a question." The Doctor in the CT Room asked unhappily while operating the machine.

"A patient who had Ureteroscopic Lithotripsy done yesterday," Wu Zong answered sheepishly.

"Are you fucking crazy!" The Doctor in the CT Room turned his head in surprise, looking at Wu Zong.

Sharp, surprised, and disdainful gazes converged, making Wu Zong blush with shame.

Indeed, rushing a patient with absolutely nothing wrong to the CT Room was a sign of insufficient Clinical experience; it was his own damn incompetence.

"What are you doing?" the Doctor in the CT Room said disdainfully, "Who performed the surgery?"

"Liu Zhuren."

"Old Liu Zhuren punctured the Ureter? Impossible. Besides, if it's punctured, let it be; it will heal slowly. Why are you in such a rush?" the Doctor in the CT Room was puzzled.

Wu Zong was speechless.

"Could it be that the Medical Affairs Department had nothing better to do and organized an Emergency Rescue drill?" The Doctor in the CT Room immediately dismissed his own theory, "If it were a drill, wouldn't any other Surgery Department have more emergencies than your Urology Department?"

"..."

Wu Zong was just a hair's breadth away from being moved to tears by the Doctor in the CT Room.

It wasn't that he was fragile, but that what he had done today was irrational and stupid to the Extreme Point.

Damn it!

This matter would surely become an Urban Legend in the hospital in the future—a moronic Resident Chief running wildly after work with a patient who had absolutely nothing wrong to get a check-up in the CT Room.

"Sigh, do you have some mental issues?" The Doctor in the CT Room didn't continue to mock Wu Zong; he turned his head, full of worry, "The Resident Chief position is indeed not a job for a human; could it be that you don't go home or go out every day, and your girlfriend cheated on you?"

"!!!"

"The Resident Chief of Respiratory Medicine Department Two was cheated on by his boyfriend; he was over there happily preparing for marriage, and then..."

The voice of the Doctor in the CT Room grew quieter as he spoke, finally turning into a sigh.

A Resident Chief getting cheated on was practically a matter of course.

There were too many similar incidents, so many people would rather resign than be a Resident Chief.

Whoever established this inhumane system back then was truly devoid of humanity.

"Sigh." The Doctor in the CT Room sighed deeply and fell silent.

After the CT scan was finished, the images appeared on the screen frame by frame.

"Tell me, what could possibly go wrong with a Stone Crushing procedure you guys did." The Doctor in the CT Room was quiet for a moment before he started nagging again.

"It's not GW Torsion; how could your Urology Department have any emergency? Yet you come here in such a rush with a patient."

Wu Zong was left speechless.

"Fine, you did one, so you did one. Once you confirm there's nothing wrong, go back, take a shower, and get a good sleep. Living in the hospital every day makes people abnormal, acting all neurotic..."

Just as he was speaking, the neck of the Doctor in the CT Room seemed to be gripped by an invisible giant hand, gripped tightly.

On the screen, an abnormal signal shadow came into view.

Like the Doctor in the CT Room, Wu Zong stared at the image on the CT operating room screen, dumbfounded.

The right Kidney was swollen, having lost its normal shape, and a strip-like density shadow higher than the soft tissue was visible!

The image meant—spontaneous rupture of the right Kidney!!

How could it have ruptured?

The Urology Department performs hundreds of Stone Crushing cases every year, and there are even more patients who cannot be admitted due to bed limitations.

Some are minimally invasive, some involve a 1cm small incision, but regardless of the surgical method, there are rarely any problems.

Normally, you wouldn't see one... no, you wouldn't see a similar complication in two or three years.

However,

The facts proved it!

Looking at the image, Wu Zong broke out in a cold sweat.

All sorts of legends flooded his mind.

On a certain day of a certain month in a certain year, a municipal-level hospital admitted a patient with a rib fracture, and the examination showed nothing abnormal. But early the next morning, when they were discovered, the patient had already gone cold...

On a certain day of a certain month in a certain year, at a certain Anorectal Department hospital in the Provincial Hospital, an external stripping and internal ligation for hemorrhoids was performed, and the patient was in good condition after the surgery.

But early the next morning, the patient had also, damn it, gone cold...

In every unexpected case, not only did the patient go cold, but the attending doctor and a whole series of people in the department also went cold just the same.

It really is a case of whoever runs into it is out of luck.

Before becoming Resident Chief, Wu Zong did not believe in such things; he felt that a doctor must be careful and conscientious, and if there was the slightest abnormality, they had to investigate it immediately.

But only after he became Resident Chief did he discover that with dozens of patients, plus consultations from various departments and patients in the outpatient and emergency clinics, even if he had three heads and six arms, he could not finish investigating them all.

Patients with a near-zero probability of developing serious complications can be observed.

But today, not knowing whether it was Luck or misfortune, he had truly encountered one!

(End of this chapter)