Chapter 28: with translation of chapter title

0028 I Let You Talk Back!

The number of disposable sterile packs is limited; City First Hospital usually provides about thirty emergency sterile packs for the night shift to use for nighttime emergency surgeries.

Zheng Ren frenziedly performed surgeries all night, not only using up all the emergency sterile packs, but even using part of the sterile packs reserved for today's daytime elective surgeries.

No one would have thought that, just in the General Surgery Department, they performed over forty emergency surgeries in a single night.

"Head Nurse, from last night until now Zheng Ren has already performed thirty-seven surgeries."

"It's already thirty-eight; just now another one was added."

The Head Nurse blinked, "Zheng Ren? Is that Zheng Ren?"

"Yes, that's the Zheng Ren."

It was like a riddle, not explained clearly, but the Head Nurse understood.

Because the hospital issued a gag order, everyone who was qualified to know that Zheng Ren had completed the surgeries in place of Professor Sen Yu Yilang kept silent, avoiding mention if possible.

"Thirty-eight surgeries in one night?" the Head Nurse still didn't believe it.

"Hmm, it's said that the General Surgery Department still has over a dozen patients waiting for surgery."

"Impossible!" the Head Nurse flatly denied this unscientific claim, "I'll go check."

In the operating room, the Head Nurse is a tigress, damn it! In here, her authority is even much stronger than that of a typical department head.

After changing clothes and arriving at the operating theater, the Head Nurse put on a smile, narrowed her eyes, and said, "Yi Ren, you're tired, right?"

Xie Yiren lifted her head somewhat dazedly; after a night of sleepless surgeries, Zheng Ren was still relatively alert, while Xie Yiren was already in a dazed state.

If Director Liu's opponent were someone like Xie Yiren, an ordinary person, his goal would have already been achieved.

"Head Nurse, you've come." Xie Yiren regained some energy.

"Really, you did surgeries all night and didn't rest." the Head Nurse chided, "Little Zheng, why don't you know how to take it easy on people?"

Zheng Ren removed the appendix, carrying a curved forceps and placing it in the basin. The forceps struck the basin wall, producing a clear sound.

"Hehe." Zheng Ren gave a foolish laugh.

"After this case, Yi Ren, come down and rest a while; I'll switch someone to take over for you." The Head Nurse waved her hand, and the matter was settled, completely without needing Zheng Ren's consent.

"Okay." Zheng Ren said.

"Not good." Xie Yiren hesitated.

"What's not good about it? Can surgeries be finished in a day? If we truly exhaust the doctors and nurses, who will see patients?"

Just as the Head Nurse was about to shift the topic to Zheng Ren, she saw him reach out, and Xie Yiren skillfully handed him the suture thread for continuous subcutaneous stitching.

"Huh? Is it over already?" the Head Nurse felt a bit dazed, wondering if she had only been in there for three minutes, how could the surgery be finished?

"Next." Zheng Ren went out to call a doctor from General Surgery Department One to bring the patient, then told Yi Ren, "Go rest."

"What about the surgery..."

"Don't worry, I'm here."

After the surgery, the Head Nurse assigned a highly skilled nurse who often works with the General Surgery Department to be Zheng Ren's instrument nurse, then she led Yi Ren directly out of the operating room to her office.

"What would you like to drink?" the Head Nurse asked.

"Sis, I want to sleep." After leaving the operating room, Xie Yiren went limp and said weakly.

"You child, why are you working yourself to death?" the Head Nurse scolded, "That Zheng Ren guy is brutish, utterly inhumane. You're our family's little treasure; if you wear yourself out, what then? I originally wanted to send you to the Emergency Department to lay low, treat it as paid leave, but who would have thought that Zheng Ren would grab you and work you to the bone."

"It's fine, Chief Zheng's surgeries are well done; I've learned a lot." Xie Yiren let out a big yawn.

"Oh? What surgeries did you do?" the Head Nurse, like a wolf grandmother, inched closer to the truth she wanted. She simply didn't believe Zheng Ren could have done over forty surgeries in one night.

If such words were spoken, probably few would believe them.

"One case of acute appendicitis in mid-pregnancy, four cases of appendicitis in obese patients, eight cases of perforated appendix, eleven cases of acute suppurative appendicitis, fourteen… no, fifteen cases of simple acute appendicitis." Although Xie Yiren was as exhausted as a noodle, slumped softly in the chair, about to fall asleep, she still clearly remembered the surgeries she had performed with Zheng Ren the previous day, counting on her fingers.

"Huh?" the Head Nurse exclaimed, astonished, "Could what they're saying really be true? How is this possible?"

"What's wrong?" Xie Yiren had already quickly entered a half-asleep state.

"Get up, go sleep on the bed." The Head Nurse threw Yi Ren onto her own bed, then hurried to the scene to direct.

There were still many troublesome matters that required the Head Nurse's personal attention.

So many sterile packs have been used; what about today's daytime elective surgeries? This kind of problem, after thirty years of work, the Head Nurse had never encountered before.

But that wasn't the most important; the Head Nurse needed to resolve one matter.

She walked to the nurse station, picked up the phone, and dialed the number.

As soon as the other end answered, she didn't bother asking who it was, and directly shouted, "Get Liu Tianxing here!"

"Who are you? What business is it of yours? … Not here? Tell Liu Tianxing, if he doesn't show up before me within three minutes, the surgeries for the coming week in General Surgery Department One will have to wait until after 3 p. m. to start."

The formidable Head Nurse's aura was just that strong.

When angry, scolding a senior veteran chief of the General Surgery Department was like scolding a grandson.

After speaking, the Head Nurse snapped the phone shut with a "pa" sound, as if the phone were Director Liu himself, deserving a beating.

Soon, Director Liu, his eyes bloodshot, rushed over with Cen Meng.

At this time, it was peak hour; waiting for the elevator would take at least ten minutes. Director Liu dared not waste time, he jogged up the stairs to the operating room, exhausted like a dog, almost sticking out his tongue.

"Liu Tianxing, you've gotten bold." the Head Nurse, one hand on her hip, the other pointing at Director Liu's nose, launched into a tirade.

"What kind of talk is this, Little Li? Look at what you're saying." Director Liu accompanied with a smile.

Behind him, Cen Meng lowered his head even further, not daring to look at Head Nurse Li's face.

"Oh? Then tell me, where did all tonight's emergency appendicitis cases come from?" Head Nurse Li, who had worked as an operating room nurse for thirty years since graduating from health school at eighteen, and had been at City First Hospital ever since, knew every inside and out.

She had personally experienced the population coverage of City First Hospital, how many emergency cases could be handled in a night, and what a sudden outbreak would look like.

Last night's situation was definitely abnormal; someone must have tampered.

So she opened her mouth and cursed; if she weren't wearing a mask, her saliva would surely have sprayed onto Director Liu's old face.

"It's not related to me, ah." Director Liu still wanted to try to deny it a bit.

"Liu Tianxing, I don't give a damn whether it's related or not." Head Nurse Li sneered, "Emergency appendicitis, how many more patients are there downstairs?"

Director Liu hesitated for a moment, then turned to look at Cen Meng.

"Eleven." Cen Meng said softly.

"Then even if it's eleven, if there are any more today, don't blame me for smashing your old face with my own hands." Head Nurse Li said coldly: "What nonsense, giving you face and you don't appreciate it."

Director Liu's facial muscles twitched a few times; just as he was about to say something, he saw Head Nurse Li wearing a mocking expression, pick up the phone, and dial a number.

"Sister Zhou, it's me."

"Let me ask you something: yesterday our emergency department was especially busy; I wanted to ask if there's any situation."

"Oh oh, got it, today we probably won't need it, thanks for supporting our work; another day I'll go out shopping with you. A new tax-free store has opened in the development zone, inside they have the latest clothing from Milan Fashion Week."

"Mm-hmm, then it's settled, bye-bye."

After hanging up, Head Nurse Li grabbed the patient's file folder on the desk (I don't know whose) and flung it at him, hitting him head-on.

"You dare talk back, you dare talk back! Give you an inch and you take a mile, you shameless wretch."

Director Liu knew he had been caught red-handed by Head Nurse Li; trying to hide this from anyone with half a mind was impossible, and he hadn't intended to cover it up anyway.

It was only Zheng Ren's flawless surgical operation that made all their efforts melt away like spring water.

"What the hell, get lost!" Head Nurse Li said with a look of disgust, turning and walking away.

I don't know which onlooker doctor or nurse, seeing Director Liu in such a sorry state, let out a soft chuckle.

"What the hell, get lost!" Head Nurse Li said with a look of disgust, turning and walking away.

I don't know which onlooker doctor or nurse, seeing Director Liu in such a sorry state, let out a soft chuckle.