Chapter 189

"Senior Brother Wu, why don't you rest for a bit? Let me have a go at the remaining two vascular anastomoses?"

"The patient's current blood loss rate is practically negligible anyway." Fang Ziye only took the initiative to suggest this after Wu Xuanqi had sutured two vessels.

Doing the suturing himself wouldn't waste too much time, but it would earn him more Knowledge Points; Fang Ziye felt this was very scientific.

With all hemostasis operations reliable, the patient's current blood loss rate might not even match the amount lost in half a second when the hematoma was opened even after half an hour, and his own Vascular Anastomosis technique had already reached Level 4 — absolutely not the kind that would waste time.

Hearing Fang Ziye's first proactive move since entering the OR, Wu Xuanqi didn't refuse either, just nodded: "Works. Then I'll steal some laziness."

And explained to Hong Du: "Director Hong, Little Fang can even operate on vascular anastomosis for limb salvage surgery like this; the remaining vascular anastomoses should be completable by him."

Hearing this, Hong Du immediately replied with a faint smile: "Doctor Wu, I've never doubted Doctor Fang's capability. It was always me asking him to come help on my side before."

Hong Du said a polite 'please/invite' — who knew if he was saying it for Fang Ziye to hear, or for Wu Xuanqi.

Wu Xuanqi then took a deep breath, looking toward Fang Ziye's direction: "Then I'll have to properly re-examine Doctor Fang."

Wu Xuanqi knew Hong Du quite well, because Hong Du had deep entanglements with his TCM teaching mentor, so they had more contact.

Fang Ziye just focused on operating, striving not to waste time, so he didn't join the conversation.

Wu Xuanqi had the leisure for idle chat because his skill now already exceeded his own by a lot, so he could chat idly with Old Director Hong Du and the others, but this kind of idle chat didn't belong to him yet.

So Fang Ziye also didn't know where the few people took the topic.

Roughly twenty minutes later, Fang Ziye resolved all the vascular anastomoses, released the vascular clamps' occlusion for hemostasis, and after restoring blood flow, the anastomotic ends of the vessel stumps showed no blood seepage or side leakage.

Even when Fang Ziye slightly squeezed with his hand, there wasn't much extra blood extravasation; he couldn't help a slight smile, thinking inwardly that Level 4 Vascular Anastomosis really packed a punch: "Senior Brother Wu, Director Hong, the vascular anastomosis should be about done."

"Just suture the peritoneum up, and the incision can be closed layer by layer."

"Mm, good! ~No problem." Wu Xuanqi saw Fang Ziye's little move of carefully checking the anastomosis effect.

Pinching once to raise the blood pressure, and there still wasn't much oozing — proved Fang Ziye's anastomosis effect was excellent.

"Director Hong, could you trouble yourself to finish closing the incision next? I see it's getting late, and I'd like to invite Doctor Fang out for a meal, and chat a bit more while we're at it."

"What do you think, suitable?" Wu Xuanqi asked.

Hearing this, Fang Ziye hurriedly explained: "Senior Brother Wu, why don't you go rest first? I'll treat you to late-night snacks next time; I'll help Director Hong and Director Huang close the incision together."

What international joke — he was from Director Wu Guo Nan's group; today's all emergencies were his own group's duty.

Huang Kai was someone he called to help; Old Director Hong Du was someone Huang Kai invited again to hold the fort.

Then the surgery was nearly done, and Wu Xuanqi took him away, leaving the people who came to help responsible for cleaning up the mess — even if Fang Ziye were more ignorant, he couldn't do such a thing.

Wu Xuanqi could not know these details because he was from an outside hospital, but Fang Ziye couldn't handle things this way.

Hong Du smiled faintly and said: "Little Fang, since Doctor Wu invites you to go eat late-night snacks, you go; the remaining stuff isn't troublesome — you're not afraid I and Huang Kai can't handle it, are you?"

After speaking, he even winked at Fang Ziye, as if going out this trip with Wu Xuanqi held extremely good benefits.

"I—" Fang Ziye still wanted to refuse when.

Huang Kai also smiled and explained: "It's fine, Ziye, you go; Doctor Wu came from afar as a guest, we're not doctors, so we can only dispatch you this doctor to go chat with him."

"The rest, just leave to Director Wu and Director Hong to resolve."

Huang Kai actually understood Fang Ziye's meaning a bit, but what Huang Kai wanted to tell Fang Ziye was: the one who owes Old Director Hong Du a favor is Wu Guo Nan — you just don't mix in here.

With such a good opportunity as Wu Xuanqi, you have to catch up.

Besides, Wu Xuanqi was called by Old Director Hong Du, so naturally he also has to be accompanied a bit.

"Going or not?" Wu Xuanqi didn't make things difficult for Fang Ziye either; just happened to run into him, so he invited again.

"Then thank you, Director Hong and Kai Ye." Fang Ziye slowly backed away, then started taking off his gloves and loosening his collar and tie.

The time now was already approaching nine-thirty, right the time for late-night snacks.

"Nie Mingxian, want to come eat late-night snacks together later?" Wu Xuanqi invited openly as he went out the door.

"Not coming, can't afford it." Nie Mingxian refused directly, still sitting there playing on his phone.

Wu Xuanqi then led Fang Ziye out of the OR door.

And right at this moment, Director Wu Guo Nan and the others next door also finished Zhang Yu's surgery; seeing Wu Xuanqi, they knew Wu Xuanqi had come to help, and hurriedly thanked and exchanged pleasantries for a while.

"Doctor Wu, really, thank you for the hard work, making you run a trip here this late." Wu Guo Nan cupped his hands slightly, patted Xue Tao's shoulder to send him to help in Director Hong Du's OR, then walked side by side with Wu Xuanqi toward the exit.

"Uncle, you should still call me Little Xuan; actually I didn't help much." Wu Xuanqi spoke up!

Fang Ziye was slightly surprised, truly hadn't expected Wu Guo Nan and Wu Xuanqi to still have this layer of relationship.

But Wu Guo Nan immediately explained: "If I had a nephew as excellent as you, I'd laugh awake in my dreams; Doctor Wu, your glib tongue is simply invincible."

"Same clan surname; the uncle he acknowledges isn't the fortune of our Lao Wu family branch."

"Doctor Wu, why don't you go back and discuss, let your father — that is, my Grandpa Wu — adopt you into my family?" Wu Guo Nan joked.

But Wu Xuanqi was even better at joking than Wu Guo Nan: "Uncle, this really won't do; your daughter is still too young, it's not suitable……"

"Scram!" Wu Guo Nan got a bit angry, hammered Wu Xuanqi once.

Wu Xuanqi pretended to stagger: "Uncle, it's modern society now; same-surname marriage isn't rare, you shouldn't be so stubbornly conservative."

Wu Guo Nan's face instantly darkened.

The look he gives his nephew and the look he gives a pig — can those be the same?

However, the two also quickly let this matter slide; it was just a joke — Wu Guo Nan joked about Wu Xuanqi's dad, so Wu Xuanqi naturally couldn't joke about Wu Guo Nan's dad, and could only let it drop downward……

In the changing room, who knew when Wu Guo Nan had prepared an envelope, inside a thick stack.

"Doctor Wu, a token of sincerity, please don't stand on ceremony." Wu Guo Nan shoved it into Wu Xuanqi's hand.

Wu Xuanqi directly stuffed the envelope into his pocket.

"Thanks, Uncle; just knew you treat me best." Wu Xuanqi's worldly wisdom was remarkably seasoned.

"You're not counting it?"

"No need; Uncle definitely won't shortchange me; if he did, I'll go find Director Zhang to get it back tomorrow." Wu Xuanqi wiped his mouth corner like an old hand, as if he didn't mind at all.

"How did our Lao Wu family produce such a shameless rogue like you?" Wu Guo Nan's old face darkened, nearly calling him out directly.

"I'm leaving, Uncle, I'm leaving right now."

"Just don't blame me for taking advantage, and take your money and leave. Bye-bye." Wu Xuanqi walked forward carrying his slippers, waving back at Wu Guo Nan, completely lacking the demeanor of an awesome doctor.

Wu Guo Nan didn't mind either, just told Fang Ziye: "Doctor Fang, when you eat later, you pay the bill, and then find me for reimbursement."

Fang Ziye was momentarily at a loss for words, but in the end, didn't say much more.

Can only spend Hua Biao first, and still let Wu Guo Nan advance the money.

"Okay, Director Wu."

"Then I won't come back later, Director Wu." Fang Ziye finished the handover.

After four o'clock in the afternoon, even emergency consultations aren't his responsibility; this is Director Zhang Mingcan's special permission, so even though Mao Mao is on duty today, tonight's emergency consultations will still have to be handled by Wu Guo Nan or Xue Tao and the others.

"Mm, after eating just go back and rest directly."

"I'll go upstairs and inform the family." Wu Guo Nan walked back upstairs slowly with his hands behind his back.

Fang Ziye was then led away from the operating room.

……

On his way to the Family Communication Room at the operating room doorway, Wu Guo Nan's mood was exceptionally relaxed.

However you put it, today was a beautiful victory; although this beautiful victory wasn't just Orthopedics' alone, on the Liu Linjie case, all the credit belongs to Orthopedics.

Wu Guo Nan being able to take over this case so perfectly today is also no small achievement.

Rewards are another matter; just this mood alone is exceptionally comfortable.

Wu Guo Nan arrived at the Family Communication Room again; when he called Liu Linjie's family, a couple came in, and Liu Chaodong's clothes were disheveled, his ear roots bright red, as if he'd been grabbed and pulled more than once.

Drawing closer, Wu Guo Nan also heard the woman's cold voice: "If anything happens to our son today, you go alone."

"I can't go on with you anymore."

Liu Chaodong said nothing, his face full of guilt.

The two nervously jogged to the registration desk: "Doctor, how are those two children? Why haven't they come out yet?"

Seeing this, Wu Guo Nan stroked his chin: "No rush, I came out precisely to notify you; both patients' surgical progress is still fairly smooth."

"This first hurdle counts as survived; Zhang Yu's surgery is larger, afterward he'll be sent to the ICU, currently they're performing chest and abdominal closure."

"As for the other young man surnamed Liu, his surgery is currently over, he should be able to be routinely sent back to the ward; I just checked, his blood pressure has basically stabilized, it's just that postoperative recuperation will take a relatively long time."

"After all, he also had an open abdomen to clear the hematoma."

Wu Guo Nan's words had just fallen when the woman asked: "Director, my son previously went through resuscitation; will this have no effect on him? Will there be any sequelae?"

Hearing this, Wu Guo Nan slightly closed his eyes: "This is hard to say; we can only do our best to save lives, but having experienced shock and resuscitation is a fact; although the resuscitation time wasn't long, less than two minutes before the heartbeat recovered."

"But there's also the possibility of complications; medicine is a factual discipline, we doctors can only do our utmost."

"Currently, I can only say there's no life danger; the rest, we'll have to wait until the patient wakes up to know."

Hearing this, Liu Chaodong hurriedly said: "Didn't you say the surgery succeeded, that there's no problem?"

"That's you with no problem in your heart; the son isn't a piece of meat that fell off your body, you don't feel heartache, I feel heartache." The woman looked at Liu Chaodong, then took a deep breath.

To Wu Guo Nan she said: "Director, if there's anything later, you contact me directly."

"His father isn't responsible at all, but I am responsible, including payment, communication, signatures, and all other issues; please trouble yourselves to notify me directly, okay?"

"I only have this one son!" Her dress was relatively formal, wearing a long skirt; at this moment she slightly cupped her hands, her face carrying a pleading expression.

"Who says I don't care about my son? I'm just..."

"What are you just? Becoming a martyr is glorious, right?"

"That's you thinking it's glorious; I think the most glorious thing for my son is to live well for me, and only then talk about what dog-shit glory..."

Liu Chaodong froze: "How are you not being reasonable?"

"Was this incident intentional on my part? Four people, which one isn't someone else's child?"

"Think about it."

"But I only have this one child." The woman's voice broke; her boot stomped directly on the ground, landing with a sound, her expression stubborn.

Wu Guo Nan immediately soothed: "That, the quarreling, can it wait a bit? I still have some things to explain to you."

"Sister, don't be anxious either; maybe things aren't as bad as you imagine; at least currently their lives are safe and sound, right?"

"And, the young man surnamed Liu, when admitted, his condition was actually relatively good; it was just a hidden bleeding point; now that it's resolved, it's a good thing."

"As for whether he's a hero or not, that shouldn't have much to do with losing his life, right?"

"We've already exerted maximum effort to guarantee the patient's life safety."

"In a bit, after the patient comes out of the operating room, you need to pay attention to these post-anesthesia matters..." Wu Guo Nan hurriedly changed the subject.

Standing from Liu Chaodong's angle, perhaps Liu Chaodong wasn't wrong; but standing from Liu Chaodong's wife's angle, Liu Chaodong might not even be human.

Only then did the two stop arguing.

After Wu Guo Nan explained all the details clearly, the woman said: "Okay, thank you Doctor! ~ Thank you."

"I'll go prepare things in a bit."

"What about the matters Zhang Yu needs to pay attention to afterward?" She actively asked further.

"This patient's situation is relatively complex; first he needs to be transferred to the ICU for observation for a while, but our hospital will definitely exert maximum effort to let him pull through."

"This most difficult hurdle has already been passed."

"But there's one point: afterward his strength may decline a lot; if he wants to perform missions again, it's estimated to be a bit difficult." Wu Guo Nan explained.

"Mm, I understand."

"As long as his life is saved, that's better than anything."

"Director, thank you all; it's all thanks to you that they were all saved; otherwise?" The woman could no longer hold back her tears at this moment.

Thinking of the other two people, one died on the scene, another died on the road; she felt that the current encounter was already the luckiest moment for her family.

"It's what we should do; after all, what we can do is try our best to save everyone sent to the hospital."

"There's still some follow-up work afterward; you should prepare what needs preparing, and also rest well, because the postoperative rehabilitation phase is also a hard battle."

"And this stage of the battle is for you family members to accompany the patient in fighting; our doctors' energy is relatively limited." Wu Guo Nan finished speaking and withdrew.

Only, when he turned around, he heard Liu Chaodong still say: "Right, I already said, the son's condition isn't serious, it's fine."

"Zhang Yu's condition at the time was slightly off; his life might have been lost. Then could I be partial?"

"I..." the woman's voice began to hesitate.

"I don't know what to say."

The woman obviously knew of the friendship between Zhang Yu's father and Liu Chaodong, but she was ultimately not Liu Chaodong himself; how could she bear to gamble with her own son's life?

As a woman, protecting her own child is an instinct, not using the chance of rescue to repay gratitude or settle debts.

Now that the situation had improved, she then thought: if Zhang Yu hadn't become an orphan, she and her child would have become a widow and a single-parent family...

Thinking like this, she felt Liu Chaodong should have done that.

"Let's go, everything's fine."

"We still have to go see Auntie." Liu Chaodong put his arm around his wife and left the Family Communication Room.

The corner of Wu Guo Nan's mouth finally curved upward.

In a slightly good mood, he whistled.

When he again arrived at the operating room where Hong Du Lao Zhuren was, Xue Tao had also already come over to help.

Hong Du saw Wu Guo Nan walk in and asked: "Have you spoken with the family? How is the family's emotion?"

"Not bad. This young man's mother was a bit agitated; his father, slightly fluctuating."

"But after all, the result is still good."

Hearing this, Hong Du let out a breath of relief and exclaimed: "It's hard to be a hero!"

"However, if we can make it even harder for the hero, that would be best."

Hong Du finished speaking, watched the surgery already trending toward the final stage, and said: "Seems saying it like that isn't right either; no matter what, this young man counts as a hero."

"To hell with it, as long as it's good."

"This time thanks to Wu Xuanqi and Fang Ziye, tsk tsk tsk, the young people nowadays are becoming more and more excellent, while we are becoming more and more old." Hong Du exclaimed thus.

Huang Kai at this moment, as if possessed, replied: "Hong Director, actually not all young people are excellent; for example me, I'm a bit unfilial."

Huang Kai's emotion at this time became a bit low.

His capability is actually not bad, not self-proclaimed not bad, but compared to top-tier geniuses, the gap is a bit too large, and such a gap makes him unable to avoid low spirits.

"You're already excellent enough; it's just one mountain higher than another." Hong Du shook his head.

"If all the young people in our department can be as excellent as you, then our department becoming the province's top-tier department, even rushing into the top five, is just around the corner."

"Not judge a hero by a moment, also cannot judge a hero by success or failure."

(Chapter End)