Chapter 68

As the Orthopedics Annual Conference COA approached, Senior Brother Sun Shaoqing's graduation was also drawing infinitely near, and on top of that, the recent campus recruitment, job hunting, and fellow trainee assessments were also closing in.

Fang Ziye, already a third-year Master's student who absolutely qualified for a PhD, had no operational opportunities to speak of; basically, all clinical operation opportunities belonged to Sun Shaoqing — even Wang Yuanqi and the other first- and second-year Doctoral students could only watch.

Naturally, regardless of how things stood, mid-November arrived on schedule, and the COA date arrived as well.

More than half the people in the department were gone.

Teacher Deng Yong definitely had to go — he was still a Sub-venue Conference Chairman with two reports to present; he couldn't be absent.

Associate Professor Xie Jinyuan also had to go — he was an Invited Guest at a sub-venue, essentially a young academic backbone being brought along to play by the big shots.

Yuan Weihong also had to go — Yuan Weihong was currently also a young academic backbone; although he had no seat in the Large Conference Hall, in the Youth Forum Yuan Weihong still had to show himself, with a lecture report on Bone Defect Treatment.

Zhongnan Hospital's Trauma Surgery, treatment of nonunion, was a major specialty.

Of those left behind, only Qin Geluo Attending Physician remained to hold down the fort.

Among the Doctoral Senior Brothers, Senior Brother Sun Shaoqing originally planned to go, but it happened to clash with Zhejiang University Affiliated Hospital's recruitment, so now he had to go to Zhejiang Province to fight for a spot.

Senior Brother Wang Yuanqi went along, Senior Brother Gu Yi did not go.

Li Yuanpei was once again going out for a Doctoral Application Assessment, also absent. Then among the second-year Master's fellow trainees, Teacher Deng's student Shu Lang stayed behind, while Associate Professor Xie brought his own student Gong Ziming along.

First-years Jie Han and Zhu Yunwen both went to the conference venue.

As a result, those left in Deng Yong's Group were Qin Geluo, Gu Yi, Luo Tingzhu, Fang Ziye, Shu Lang, and Lan Tianluo — one Attending Physician and five Small Fry.

The conference lasted five days total, from Wednesday to Sunday.

Wednesday happened to clash with one of Yuan Weihong's Outpatient Days, making Fang Ziye depressed for half a day — that was several dozen Knowledge Points lost.

However, although the Outpatient Day Knowledge Points were lost, because the department's big shots were absent, Qin Geluo started exerting force.

From Tuesday evening, Qin Geluo began scouting some ordinary fracture patients, and also had Chief Resident Jin Hongzhou take in some minor trauma cases to the department to operate on.

Beds were empty anyway, so they picked up whatever could be done — patients Zhongnan Hospital previously wouldn't take.

Beds remained packed full, and surgical scheduling, starting Wednesday, was tight and intensive.

After a simple handover, the three Monkey Kings of Qin Geluo, Li Nuo, and Jin Hongzhou's Big Groups seemed like wild horses unbridled, each starting to stir up trouble.

Jin Hongzhou said: "Nuo Ge, Ge Luo, then these two days I'll recklessly admit patients — whatever simple trauma can be admitted, I'll admit; what I can't handle, you guys handle."

"What you guys can't handle either, wait for the bosses to come back and handle?"

Qin Geluo hadn't expressed his stance yet when Li Nuo stroked his chin: "Anyway the Trauma Surgery operating rooms are empty now — elective surgeries can be scheduled freely; for emergency surgeries, we can arrange a batch in the department, and another batch in the Outpatient/Emergency Operating Room."

"Aren't there still joint dislocations? Send them all to the wards. Such a good Opportunity."

Qin Geluo then said: "Hongzhou, our Group can take some open fractures — whatever you don't want to admit, send to my side. Our Group here, how many empty beds now?"

Qin Geluo asked Gu Yi and Luo Tingzhu.

"Four."

"Then discharge three more today, seven beds total — I've already called the Emergency Department Boss; if there's an emergency, they'll call you over, and if it really doesn't work I'll go myself." Qin Geluo seemed to have waited a long time for today.

Normally the department only took severe major surgeries — minor surgeries weren't admitted at all, patients mostly came from Outpatient; where would Qin Geluo have any operation opportunities.

Now that they were all gone, Qin Geluo was determined to seize this chance to satisfy his craving to be Lead Surgeon.

Jin Hongzhou thought a moment before replying: "Ge Luo, it's doable, but we haven't admitted fracture patients in a long time — 120 ambulances may not be willing to send them to our hospital. Before we always said no beds."

"Admit if there are, forget it if not — everyone rest together..." Qin Geluo had also let go.

And right after this handover, the first thing Fang Ziye did was hand his patients to Lan Tianluo, then go to the Laboratory and cancel his reserved experiment.

With Qin Geluo operating like this, there wasn't a damn bit of time for experiments — he probably wouldn't even have time for the Training Room.

However, Qin Geluo and the others really delivered — it was only 8:50 AM, Fang Ziye hadn't even returned from the Laboratory yet, and Qin Geluo and Li Nuo had already started closed reductions of simple fractures in the Ward Operating Room.

Lan Tianluo and Gu Yi watched from the side, while Luo Tingzhu was first in the Office processing patients.

"Senior Brother Fang, were previous Orthopedics Annual Conferences this intense in the department?" When Fang Ziye entered the Office, Luo Tingzhu asked with puzzlement.

Fang Ziye returned a wry smile: "I don't know — before, my Master always took me to the conference."

Fang Ziye had truly never held down the fort before.

Of course, seeing this scene, Fang Ziye also felt it might not be a bad thing.

Li Nuo, Qin Geluo and the others had been pent up long; Gu Yi as a Doctoral student, plus him, plus Luo Tingzhu — weren't they the same? Their skills doing some minor debridement surgeries were completely child's play.

The result, however, did not disappoint Fang Ziye.

Around 11 AM, perhaps because Jin Hongzhou was too effective in the Emergency Department, stuffing all sizes of patients into the department, manpower allocation became insufficient.

Luo Tingzhu's phone rang first: "Tingzhu, go to the Emergency Operating Room — there's a small laceration to suture, Jin Hongzhou missed it."

"Consent and signature, just remember to give Tetanus Shot."

Luo Tingzhu nodded: "Just me? Teacher Qin, one person won't be enough, right?"

"See who's free in the department — Lan Tianluo is in the Operating Room now, are Wu Chengwen and Fang Ziye around?"

"Ziye Senior Brother is right here in the Office, writing Medical Records." Luo Tingzhu replied.

"What Medical Records — write tonight, operate first, practice your hands, simple, you guys definitely have no problem."

Qin Geluo finished, then corrected himself: "Oh right, Fang Ziye's operations are pretty good too, can use him — Xia Jie, Xia Jie, any spare Operating Rooms left..."

Two minutes later.

Fang Ziye and Luo Tingzhu stared at each other, dumbfounded.

The Orthopedics Annual Conference wasn't just Trauma Surgery.

Bone Tumor, Joint Surgery, Sports Medicine, and Bone Disease Specialty had no emergency surgeries; elective surgeries were generally not small, and many Attending Physicians left behind had no Surgical Permission, so several Orthopedics Operating Rooms, except Joint Surgery's, were all empty.

Even with Li Nuo and Qin Geluo each occupying one room, and Joint Surgery having one debridement, two rooms were still empty.

Fang Ziye couldn't enter the Emergency Operating Room with Luo Tingzhu; Qin Geluo arranged Fang Ziye into another Orthopedics Operating Room to operate on another Thigh Anterior Laceration Debridement and Suturing.

"Junior Sister Luo, let's hurry and get to work."

"Such an Opportunity is actually rare." Fang Ziye thought a moment, then directly ended with a period in the Medical Record draft, clicked save, and stood up.

Luo Tingzhu also nodded.

Guard the department; as long as you guard it well, that's enough.

A small surgery is still surgery; for a small surgery like debridement and suturing, an ordinary resident physician — Qin Geluo could also have the permission to do it under a superior's guidance, and for a very mature graduate student like Fang Ziye or Luo Tingzhu, it's even more of no problem.

Thus, Fang Ziye welcomed an even larger wave of knowledge points!

(Chapter End)