Chapter 304: Quite Mischievous (Asking for Subscription)

Fang Ziye had considered the possibility of the old woman returning to Zhongnan Hospital, and as expected, a different family member accompanied her this time.

Fang Ziye had already negotiated the new month's bed management rules with the department's resident physicians and graduate student fellow trainees, so he was quite free at the moment and honestly accompanied the old woman and her son for a full twenty minutes of discussion.

After confirming that the patient and family member's emotions were stable, their choices consistent, and there were no further disagreements.

Only then did he ask: "Sir, do you want to discuss the final treatment decision carefully with your family member once more?"

"I need to emphasize again: the success rate of surgical reduction is very stable, guaranteed at one hundred percent, but the success rate of closed reduction carries the possibility of failure."

Fang Ziye could not be negligent; having spent several years in clinical practice, he knew very well that a patient's family members are not just one person — if a leak occurs, the family member who talks and the family member who makes trouble are usually not the same person.

Hearing Fang Ziye say this, the middle-aged man also understood the meaning and explained: "Doctor Fang, you don't need to keep pressing; I am my mother's family member, and the only family member."

"I am currently single, have a child, and have no brothers or sisters."

"Let me put it this way: I myself am from Liyuan Hospital..." The middle-aged man's explanation was truly straightforward enough.

Perhaps seeing that Fang Ziye had wasted so much time protecting himself, he simply revealed his own identity.

"If you're really not at ease, how about I call Peng Long from your department, let him come handle the informed consent discussion and signature, while you handle the operation — that way the consent procedure will be smoother. Do you agree?"

Fang Ziye's mouth corner twitched: "Ah, that won't be necessary..."

Fang Ziye had the other party sign his own name, and in the relationship column wrote both their identities: mother and son.

Although the old woman did not sign, she also pressed her fingerprint on the authorization letter.

With a right shoulder dislocation, she couldn't write, so a fingerprint can substitute — this procedure is fine.

But although Fang Ziye had already urged the progress along, when he went to prepare the reduction-related items, he still received a call from Associate Professor Peng Long.

On the phone, it was mentioned that Fang Ziye could speed up a bit and not waste time on other small details — this middle-aged man who came this time was indeed an industry acquaintance.

However, since Peng Long was a teacher in the department, Fang Ziye grew an extra cautious thought: "Teacher Peng, since this teacher is a colleague, if a leak occurs, would the trouble be even worse?"

"I heard Teacher Li Nuo say before that during his time as chief resident, he encountered a colleague's family member, and that misunderstanding caused a huge headache."

This middle-aged man being a teacher at Liyuan Hospital explains perfectly why his ex-wife, after the examination, went straight to the ward to find someone to read the results instead of going through the Emergency Department process.

"Oh, you don't need to worry about this. Liao Xing's family matters — you juniors definitely wouldn't know, but those of us of this age have more or less heard about it."

"His wife, it seems because of her family matters, quarreled with Liao Xing for quite a long time before divorcing. The reason was that her older brother or younger brother — I forget which — had a car accident emergency, and she wanted to pull strings through Liao Xing, but at the time Liao Xing was on the emergency surgery table and hung up on her several times..."

While Peng Long fed Fang Ziye gossip, Fang Ziye prepared the forearm sling, tape, and other tools needed after reduction, and simultaneously laid disposable sheets in the operating room.

Only after Associate Professor Peng Long lost interest in further gossip did Fang Ziye formally begin the closed reduction for the old woman.

This joint dislocation was indeed not very typical!

Even Fang Ziye attempted a full two times before very precisely restoring the dislocated joint to its reduced state.

After reduction, Fang Ziye very meticulously conducted a post-reduction physical examination, and had the old woman perform post-reduction "active and passive" mobility training.

Seeing her range of motion had basically recovered, he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "The pain symptoms can be quickly relieved after reduction ends, but there will be continuous dull ache for roughly a few days afterward — this is normal, don't be nervous."

"Second, as said before reduction: because this dislocation lasted so long, the post-reduction swelling will also persist longer than estimated. Given Grandma's age, I think it will exist for more than a week."

"These are all normal phenomena."

However, while Fang Ziye was giving this popular science explanation to the other party, the middle-aged man named Liao Xing glanced at his phone and said: "Doctor Fang, you actually managed to reduce this kind of dislocation?"

"Our hospital's chief physicians all said this reduction is extremely difficult and requires finding an expert. You..."

"Doctor Fang, don't be nervous. We're just discussing this result from a relatively professional angle."

"Knock knock knock!" But before Liao Xing finished speaking, a burst of knocking sounded outside the operating room, the door was knocked on then pushed open and someone walked in.

Liao Xing and the old woman both turned their heads at the sound, surprise appearing on their faces.

Because the visitor was actually the old woman's "daughter-in-law" — the middle-aged woman's eye rims were slightly red, her face seemingly written full of guilt.

She came in and didn't say a single word.

But Fang Ziye involuntarily retreated two steps, thinking Liao Xing was about to start making trouble.

Otherwise why would his wife come not early, not late, but right now?

"This, family member — whether closed reduction works or not still depends on the X-ray evaluation results."

"How about we look at the results?"

"Moreover, this dislocation's treatment indication is of an optional nature, allowing free choice of surgery or closed reduction based on different units and different operators' capabilities..."

Fang Ziye's explanation and avoidance made Liao Xing also realize his ex-wife's arrival was terribly ill-timed.

He lost the mood for jokes and said: "Doctor Fang, order a plain film examination for me."

"During the time you were reducing, I've already inquired with industry insiders about you!"

"An old saying goes: don't bully the young and poor."

"Doctor Fang truly is young and promising! ~" Liao Xing is an insider; the trauma surgery internal figures he asked were not just any random people — they were people in the trauma surgery circle, with varying levels of seniority.

That they had some understanding of Fang Ziye was not surprising.

A few minutes later, watching this "family of three" finally leave, Fang Ziye let out a long breath of relief.

This family really is hard to serve — the feelings among the three probably belong to a rather complex entangled state.

At least, before the three left, the woman specially apologized to that man, saying she had misunderstood him, thinking he judged people by their status and wouldn't help if it were her family member.

But this time, it was his own birth mother who was injured, and he didn't step forward to handle it directly. Her heart balanced out, and she didn't pursue it further.

However, after this family of three left.

Fang Ziye thought carefully again and still felt it was possible that this person named Liao Xing might not be a Liyuan Hospital employee, or rather, he might not work at Liyuan Hospital.

Otherwise he would have no reason not to take his own mother to Liyuan Hospital for emergency care, but instead be brought to Zhongnan Hospital by his "ex-wife," with the examination results even done at a community hospital.

Of course, the reason Fang Ziye pondered so much was mainly because he felt this colleague surnamed Liao had a temperament somewhat like some of the "teachers" he had seen in the Enshi Sanatorium Project.

As if naturally carrying a kind of casual decadence and sense of guilt.

His gaze, not only when looking at his mother, but also when looking at his wife, was the same.

Later, Fang Ziye didn't think deeply about it; anyway, Fang Ziye became even more determined, resolutely deciding not to go to a special unit.

Then Fang Ziye walked back to the Ward General Rest Room, ready to lie down and quietly order some takeout.

Although Fang Ziye had crossed the meal time, he also caught the time to order boxed meals together, but Fang Ziye missed the time to eat, and the boxed meal he had just eaten a bit of before was thrown away by the other fellow trainees.

However, just as he pushed the door open, intending to inherit the additional wealth left behind by Qin Geluo in the Inpatient General Office, Fang Ziye discovered that the place was filled with many things.

Small items, small boxes were all arranged very neatly, and the outer packaging was all very exquisite.

These did not look like a man's handiwork.

Chocolate, bread, large bottles of milk, oatmeal, instant noodles, dried noodle blocks and various other dry rations suitable for quickly staving off hunger — enough for Fang Ziye to eat for about half a month.

On the small table where these were placed, there was also a small note; on the note, elegant handwriting wrote: "Even a big fool has to eat properly, okay?"

No signature.

But there were no bewitching persons around Fang Ziye; this handwriting could only have come from Luo Tingzhu.

【69】 Fang Ziye sent a photo to Luo Tingzhu and asked: "The Inpatient General Office was actually burglarized."

Fang Ziye sent a photo to Luo Tingzhu and asked, "The Inpatient General Office was actually burglarized."

"Besides me, someone else broke in early!"

Fang Ziye's words clearly shattered someone's long-awaited good expectation, and she immediately burst out: "Yeah, be careful of poisoning, best to just throw it all away."

"Things of unknown origin, absolutely do not eat."

Luo Tingzhu had waited a long time; she wasn't waiting to be called a thief by Fang Ziye.

"How would I dare throw away something that stole my heart?" Fang Ziye could be literary and flirtatious; at least in Fang Ziye's bones, there was a kind of half-literary-flirtatious gene.

This could be seen from Fang Ziye's rather unique acknowledgments.

But this year's acknowledgments, Fang Ziye didn't have the leisure time to write that much anymore; even Fang Ziye's current doctoral graduation thesis hadn't been polished yet, and then he was pushed onto the Chief Resident position; Fang Ziye also didn't know on which day he could arrange the pre-defense.

"What?!" Luo Tingzhu was instantly repulsed by these words.

There was definitely no anger; instead she felt a kind of sweet disgust.

"Nothing!"

"You rest early; I'll take the opportunity to go shower."

"After all, if there's time to shower, hurry and go; otherwise if you run into a continuous combat mission of twenty-four or even forty-eight hours or more, you might regret not preparing adult diapers..." Fang Ziye hadn't chatted two sentences before he wanted to slip away.

"You just hope for something good, don't be a jinx!" Luo Tingzhu hurriedly persuaded: "Spit a few times first."

Spitting to dispel misspoken words is a kind of expectation shared by both Fang Ziye's hometown and Luo Tingzhu's hometown.

"Actually it's fine too, no need to be particularly superstitious."

"Being a bit more tired and a bit more suffering tempers a person more." Fang Ziye said this quite openly.

This was Fang Ziye's true thought.

From going abroad until the end of February, a span of over half a year, the total Knowledge Points Fang Ziye had accumulated was just over ten thousand; is that a lot?

Not much at all, and completely insufficient; today alone consumed over four thousand points.

After returning home, because Teacher Deng and Hong Zili Associate Professor stopped cooperating, Luo Tingzhu also had no research group to enter; Fang Ziye could only obtain a small amount of Knowledge Points from Jie Han and Lan Tianluo's projects.

Then there was Fang Ziye's new fracture classification theory and the theory of further expanded indications for closed reduction; when these were misappropriated by others, he gained a small amount of Knowledge Points.

Averaged out, since Fang Ziye returned home, daily Knowledge Point income was a pitiful 10 points.

Then Fang Ziye consumed over four thousand points in one day; this is even worse than having no day.

However, since Fang Ziye assumed the Chief Resident post, how long has it been? From 8 AM this morning to 10 PM now, only fourteen hours.

Fang Ziye's Knowledge Point gain today has already reached a high of 171 points!

This is still without encountering special fracture classifications; just Fang Ziye routinely treating and collecting the minimum guarantee.

Clinical work is the biggest source of Knowledge Points.

He himself had already gone "Buddha-like," yielding to others for half a year; now that he's back, if he doesn't start competing, doesn't start getting large amounts of Knowledge Points, how can he continue to progress rapidly?

"The reasoning is that reasoning, but listening to you say it, it sounds a bit like cursing others."

"Let's just hope for our own leisure!"

"Otherwise, once someone with ulterior motives gives it extra interpretation, thinking you're willing to work hard just for salary and performance, you won't be able to explain even if you have a mouth." Luo Tingzhu sent a smile emoji.

Then she said: "March is the final deadline for project applications; I've already reviewed both Jie Han and Lan Tianluo's small projects, no major issues."

"As for Teacher Deng's project, it's Senior Brother Li's small project; currently there are still some flaws; we can discuss this later; besides, Liu Haihua and the others don't dare apply for projects, afraid they can't complete them and won't graduate."

"Also, Teacher Deng's group's project funds are insufficient again; this time they even misappropriated over 700,000 from Teacher Yuan Weihong, and it was all divided up immediately."

"A new round of doctoral re-examinations is about to start; next month's master's entrance exam procedures also need to get underway; but Senior Brother, rest assured, these matters, Li Yuanpei and I will help with..."

Luo Tingzhu did not mention Wang Yuanqi, Gu Yi and others.

Wanting them to have a good impression of Fang Ziye is still too difficult.

"Thank you; sorry for the trouble."

"Perhaps my decision to graduate early was very crude, without any special deep consideration." Fang Ziye's tone turned serious.

Luo Tingzhu replied: "No matter how crude, it's still better than the two of us directly competing, choosing two and keeping one."

"If it's like that, I'd rather continue switching specialties; anyway my current paper quantity and level are enough; I can freely transfer to a surgical specialty."

Fang Ziye advised: "You can choose a specialty you like more!"

"But if you choose a specialty you like, I won't be able to help you." Fang Ziye was a bit worried again.

"Then you can just feel guilty toward me... hee hee..." Luo Tingzhu was quite mischievous at this moment.

(Chapter End)