Chapter 486

In front of Lan Tianluo, Luo Tingzhu never appears particularly gentle, regardless of whether Fang Ziye is present; instead, she naturally exudes the air of an elder sister.

I don't know if Luo Tingzhu intends to embody the two words "Lan Tianluo's nemesis" to the fullest, but in any case, she is covered in thorns!

After Luo Tingzhu unleashed another round of mockery at Lan Tianluo, Fang Ziye hurriedly interjected: "Tingzhu, do you have an experiment this afternoon?"

Luo Tingzhu nodded: "I do! ~"

"And besides mine, there's someone else's." Luo Tingzhu looked at Lan Tianluo.

Lan Tianluo immediately explained: "Senior Brother, Senior Sister, today I really have a lot to discuss with Senior Brother. Didn't you see the luggage we brought?"

"From when Senior Brother ate breakfast until now, we haven't stopped working except for the time to eat two meals!"

"Oh, Senior Brother woke up late this morning, so we didn't work before eight o'clock."

Lan Tianluo very "sensibly" retreated behind Fang Ziye in his posture as a junior fellow trainee, forcing Luo Tingzhu to halt her advance.

Upon hearing this, Luo Tingzhu looked at Fang Ziye: "Senior Brother, what surgery did you do yesterday? How did it last until past four o'clock?"

As Fang Ziye is now, even with his legs for lower limb functional reconstruction surgery, he estimates it would only take a little over six hours.

Fang Ziye went there to treat difficult cases, not to perform brand new surgeries; Tongji Hospital couldn't possibly have done nothing at all, right?

"They were doing upper limb functional reconstruction surgery. It didn't exhaust me to death, but this was only the shoulder joint and elbow joint; there are too many factors to consider." Fang Ziye shook his head, his brow tightly furrowed.

Even now, he still feels a bit of a headache.

Wanting to leap forward without gradual progression — either you have a robust physical constitution, or you fall and break bones and tear tendons; even with a robust constitution, if you jump eight or nine meters, you'll still get injured!

When Fang Ziye finished speaking, not only was Lan Tianluo stunned, but even Luo Tingzhu — dressed in a white spaghetti strap long dress, her hair tied into a bow with the hair tie Fang Ziye gave her — was utterly astonished.

"Perhaps this is what they call 'great skill begets great courage'." Luo Tingzhu said.

Many levels at Zhongnan Hospital haven't reached the Discipline Leader tier, but many of Zhongnan Hospital's top professors also have great courage.

Lan Tianluo asked curiously: "Was it that they couldn't step down midway, so they had Senior Brother you go over?"

"It wasn't that they couldn't step down; it was that they couldn't step down meeting normal surgical quality expectations."

"Reflecting on that surgery last night now, I also feel there are many places that could be improved." Fang Ziye shook his head.

"But last night, I already tried my best. Forget it, I don't want to think about these things anymore."

"Eat, eat..."

……

Luo Tingzhu has a great figure, fair skin, and slender hands with half her shoulder joint exposed, making Fang Ziye stare a bit blankly.

"Senior Brother, before coming, I specially went home to change into a set of clothes I bought a few days ago. Does it look good?" Luo Tingzhu asked while holding up an umbrella.

Fang Ziye nodded: "Be careful not to get tanned! ~"

"I did, I'll have a research assistant later."

"However, she won't help with experiments either. If you have data processing related issues, you can assign them to her for simple statistics."

"Li Yuanpei recommended her to me; I think she's pretty good."

Luo Tingzhu nodded: "I know, Senior Brother."

"I have to go to the lab first. I reserved the cell operation bench for 1:40 PM, and now there's only half an hour left."

As they spoke, Luo Tingzhu closed her umbrella and started scanning the QR code for an e-bike.

Once the umbrella was closed, under the direct sunlight, Luo Tingzhu narrowed her eyes.

Drawing sidelong glances from a crowd of people around, but Luo Tingzhu still rode the shared e-bike quite coolly toward the hospital.

After seeing her off, Fang Ziye returned with Lan Tianluo to that previous coffee shop private room, resuming their discussion and organizing materials together.

It wasn't until around 5:20 PM that Lan Tianluo hurriedly left the coffee shop, obviously going to pick up that Senior Sister he mentioned.

Watching Lan Tianluo's back view, Fang Ziye was thoughtful for a while, then began organizing his own backpack, first sending his computer and backpack back to the Inpatient General Office.

Just as he also planned to learn from Lan Tianluo and go pick up his girlfriend, his phone unexpectedly rang.

It was Yan Zhiming calling. Yan Zhiming said he had no time to go run the consultation today, telling Fang Ziye to run it himself.

"Okay, Senior Brother, no problem! ~"

"I'll go right away." Fang Ziye replied quickly.

The consultation is Fang Ziye's inherent duty; Yan Zhiming willing to help is his own form of tempering. If he doesn't help, Fang Ziye still has to do his own job well.

Yan Zhiming isn't free every day either.

Running this round, the time reached 8:52 PM.

While waiting for the elevator at the top floor of the Internal Medicine Building, Fang Ziye took off his Chief Resident badge, and without packing away his white coat, walked out the door beside the Internal Medicine Building, heading on foot toward the community behind the hospital.

……

Luo Tingzhu was still tapping at the keyboard; she was writing her first article on exercise and sensory dissociation.

Fang Ziye stared for a while until Luo Tingzhu finished a sentence, then she said: "Senior Brother, there's chilled watermelon and dragon fruit in the fridge."

"I'll show you the article after I finish writing and revising it."

"Okay, I'll go shower and lie down for a bit." Fang Ziye said.

"Mhm mhm mhm." Luo Tingzhu's mind was completely not on what Fang Ziye said at this moment; besides nodding, she just shook her head.

It was nearly 10:40 when Luo Tingzhu walked out of the study. When she looked toward the bedroom at Fang Ziye, Fang Ziye already had both phones charging, lying flat asleep, breathing with light snores.

Luo Tingzhu tiptoed to get her nightdress from the wardrobe and headed toward the bathroom.

It wasn't until 11:37 that Luo Tingzhu finished showering, applied a face mask, wiped her face, turned off the light, and climbed onto the bed, lying down peacefully beside Fang Ziye.

Just as she lay still, Luo Tingzhu felt Fang Ziye's hand reach over. Luo Tingzhu tilted her neck, pillowing Fang Ziye's hand under her head, then pillowing against half his chest, found a comfortable position, and her breathing gradually calmed down...

On workdays, Luo Tingzhu wakes up earlier than Fang Ziye.

When Fang Ziye got up, it was only 6:20, but Luo Tingzhu had already finished applying her face mask.

Luo Tingzhu has to be at the operating room by 7:30; she's never late, so she gets up at 5:40 every time.

When Fang Ziye isn't at home, she goes to the football field behind the Internal Medicine Building to run a few laps; when Fang Ziye is at home, she goes to eat breakfast with Fang Ziye.

"Senior Brother, I heard a wonton restaurant opened out back. Want to go try it?" Luo Tingzhu suggested.

"Sure, wait a moment for me." Fang Ziye was already fully awake, walking to the hand washing station to start washing up.

"Senior Brother, it might be you who has to wait for me a moment." Luo Tingzhu said while patting her face.

According to the guide Luo Tingzhu saw online, after applying a face mask, essence still remains on the surface; patting like this might pat it into the skin, moisturizing the skin.

"..."

September 3rd, Monday, the first working day of September.

After the duty doctor and nursing department had both handed over shifts, Liu Huanglong once again held the August work report and began reporting.

After reading through the August surgery volume and inpatient/outpatient numbers, he raised his head and said: "Our department's workload in August was greater than in July."

"However, our turnover rate is becoming increasingly effective. But there is still a problem here: the hospital is still applying a one-size-fits-all approach, disregarding disease type, to control our department's average length of stay."

"On this point, my attitude remains the same: handle it case by case."

"If the hospital wants to impose fines, how they fine is the hospital system's problem; in our process of managing patients, we must fully assess the patient's basic condition."

"Those with slightly poorer physical constitution, we require them to stay a few more days, to avoid improper care after discharge leading to infection and readmission for anti-inflammatory treatment."

"In August, our department admitted two such cases. This represents that our postoperative guidance for patients is still not thorough enough, not detailed enough, not comprehensive enough."

"Here, I hope the bed-managing doctors or our follow-up residents, when patients are discharged, do discharge education once more, carefully."

"Don't think disinfection is just swiping povidone-iodine on the skin once; dressing change is an operation, it has sterile principles, it's not taking a cotton swab, dipping a bit of povidone-iodine, and swiping in circles."

"The bacteria cultured last month were not the common infection bacteria in our trauma surgery, but very common infection bacteria — this is because sterile principles were not done well."

"Yuanpei, you handle the arrangement of this matter."

"Pay attention to details again; patients and family members sometimes have an overly simplified understanding of our medical care."

Li Yuanpei nodded, agreed with a "good," and said no more unnecessary words.

Liu Huanglong continued: "Next, I want to say a few words that must not be spread outside, and make some arrangements."

When Liu Huanglong spoke to this point, he looked toward Wu Xuanqi and Nie Mingxian.

The two seemed to sense something, lowering their heads slightly.

"Everyone must absolutely not think that just because you have a bit of qualification, a bit of capability, you can take big strides, blindly rushing forward disregarding facts."

"Overtaking on a curve most likely results in head broken blood flowing."

"Ziye is such an excellent person, yet he doesn't think of rushing to eat hot tofu; how can you think you can jump straight to the third floor in one step?"

"Third floor, nine meters — you jump that high, why did you come study medicine? Wouldn't switching tracks to be an athlete be better?"

Liu Huanglong didn't name names, but his words were a bit unpleasant to hear.

How to put it?

Liu Huanglong and Wu Xuanqi had no conflicts of interest; Liu Huanglong's own team was not inferior to Duan Hong's, his connections even broader than Professor Duan Hong's.

So, this kind of petty maneuvering to bypass him and stir things up, Liu Huanglong would not be polite about it.

You say some nice-sounding words, Liu Huanglong doesn't like hearing them either.

Eating from the bowl, eyeing the pot, even coveting what grows in the soil.

You do this kind of thing, you must have this kind of psychological preparation.

Overtake on a curve, crash, and want to not be mocked? On what grounds?

Is your surname that good?

Of course, Liu Huanglong also gave face, not continuing further: "Of course, after very careful consideration, our department this month has decided to start successively admitting some upper limb mangled extremity cases."

"On this point, I have already contacted some hospitals, obtained referral interfaces, and our department has opened an emergency green channel."

"The corresponding surgeries will be personally handled by me and Chief Fang."

"Lower limb mangled extremity emergency surgeries will be assigned to Yuan Weihong and Lan Tianluo to handle."

"Professor Yuan, under specific circumstances, it's best if you and Lan Tianluo operate simultaneously, striving for better surgical quality."

"Besides that, lower limb functional reconstruction surgeries, I will take on more, trying to reduce Ziye's ineffective surgery time."

"Let Ziye have more time to do his own proper work well, while also thinking about some problems."

"Fourth point is about our department's performance-related issues. Everyone can see with their own eyes that our department's total inpatient costs for July and August are far higher than for May and June."

"Our pure surgery fee billing for July and August reached around one million!"

"This is the benefit of doing Grade IV surgeries and new surgical techniques."

"Because they are new, because they are important, the benefit they bring to patients is huge, and the sense of achievement they give us is also irreplaceable."

"Likewise, the returns such new surgical techniques can bring us are also considerable — this is a win-win."

"Of course, during August, our department's Doctor Fang took time to receive two Provincial Natural Science Foundation awards; these two award certificates can be said to be one of our department's proudest achievements so far."

"In the medical field, winning awards is very difficult; our department being nominated for two this year is unique in our hospital."

"At the first weekly hospital case conference in August and the August hospital summary meeting, hospital leadership highly recognized and praised our department, affirming our work."

"And, here I still want to especially thank Head Nurse Cao Fang and the entire nursing team for their hard work and sincere cooperation with our doctor team."

Head Nurse Cao Fang, hearing this, said: "Director Liu, you flatter us; many of us are new, there are too many things we don't understand, it was you who taught us a lot."

"Let us improve a lot, and also see many miracles and incredible things."

Cao Fang's figure was slightly plump, the whole person looked a bit fatigued; at this moment she forced her spirits up: "Of course, this process was very hard, many sisters have complained about the hardship, but not a single person feels it wasn't worth it."

"Whenever seeing patients go from functional defect to gradually whole, from unable to walk, to walking aid assisted walking, to crutch walking, that kind of heartfelt smile."

"Is still very moving."

Cao Fang continued: "And, I feel our nursing department has many shortcomings; it was the tolerance and guidance of all the doctors that gave us the opportunity to grow further."

Cao Fang's words, praise mixed with sincerity.

As the saying goes, one person attains the Dao, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven.

Current Trauma Surgery, even if a dog squats at the doorway, it gets stuffed full of bones every day.

After Cao Fang arrived, she was called out and praised many times at the hospital weekly meetings, and the hospital leadership often came here to inspect, which also gave Cao Fang a lot of time and opportunities to interact with the leaders.

This is just the realistic benefit; there are other benefits on the spiritual aspect.

Who would want to see patients and family members giving you a stiff face every day?

However, for some people who have been unable to move for a long time, if you suddenly let them stand up, you will know just how sincere and earnest their thanks to you are.

Exercise is the second life!

"..."

"Director Fang, say a few words?" Liu Huanglong gave Fang Ziye a chance to speak after Head Nurse Cao Fang finished speaking.

Fang Ziye originally didn't want to speak, but the further forward he went, the more Fang Ziye noticed that not speaking wouldn't do, and not expressing his own thoughts wouldn't do.

Fang Ziye sat in the last seat; hearing this, he stood up and looked calmly at everyone: "I feel that September is a brand new beginning, and of course it will also be a fruitful harvest season."

(Chapter End)