Chapter 344: 337 She surely loves him very much

Zheng Ren very obediently took a bath and slept very comfortably.

Not having to be on duty, this feeling is really good.

Xie Yiren had already gotten up, left a message telling Zheng Ren to get up, wash up, and come over for a meal.

Zheng Ren suddenly felt as if he owned vast fertile fields and thousands of houses, so that even having breakfast required walking between two villas…

Breakfast was fried eggs, bread, and milk; Zheng Ren couldn't tell the taste, only feeling it fragrant and sweet.

Um… fragrant and sweet, that was the scent emanating from Xie Yiren's body; at least in Zheng Ren's perception, it felt that way.

After breakfast, the two rushed to the hospital.

There was still a bit of time before rounds, so Zheng Ren took a leisurely walk around.

The patient from last night's surgery was fully awake, not in much pain, just hadn't passed gas yet, so temporarily cannot eat.

Speaking of the almond incident, the patient also felt embarrassed; reportedly, after drinking a bit too much, they absentmindedly swallowed it, not even knowing whether they'd chewed it.

Other patients in the ward also had relatively stable conditions.

Zheng Ren called Su Yun to inquire about Yang Lili's condition.

Su Yun said Yang Lili's condition was average, with no significant fluctuations for the time being.

No change means it hasn't gotten worse.

This,

is the best news.

Zheng Ren believes the body's powerful functions can repair massive trauma.

At 7:55, Professor Rudolf arrived punctually, as regular as an alarm clock. When he saw Zheng Ren, his greeting was a bit more enthusiastic than usual.

At 8:00, Director Pan presided over the shift change and rounds.

After rounds, Zheng Ren had nothing much to do. Several inpatient doctors took care of the chores, while he held a book and began reading to increase his skill points.

Although he was already at master level, Zheng Ren, a salted fish with ambitions, constantly dreamed that his specialty—General Surgery Department skills—might one day reach grandmaster level, or even the peak level he could only glimpse in awe.

Accumulating skill points by reading is slow, but it is definitely a visible gain.

The patient known to Director Pan is not in the ward; reportedly, they will undergo a slice CT three-dimensional reconstruction today. Chang Yue has already arranged it, so at noon, when the CT room is resting, Zheng Ren can go for the reconstruction.

After the reconstruction, the condition will be assessed to decide whether surgery is needed and when to perform it.

After reading for a while, the department's landline phone rang.

Chang Yue answered the phone, uttered a few "ohs," and told Zheng Ren, "It's yours."

Zheng Ren took the phone.

"Hello?"

"Oh oh, that's me."

"Okay, I'll go look at the patient's images."

"Oh, that's fine; I'll wait here in the department."

Having said that, Zheng Ren hung up.

"What does Orthopedics want from you?" Chang Yue wondered strangely.

The Emergency Ward has never performed Orthopedics emergency surgery; why is Orthopedics looking for Zheng Ren? Could there be another patient with a pelvic fracture causing bleeding?

"They say there's a patient with bone metastasis cancer who needs a vertebral resection surgery, and beforehand they want to make some interventional preparations." Zheng Ren said while imagining the surgery the Orthopedics doctor described.

Professor Rudolf Wagner suddenly said, "Boss, is it to remove the vertebra and embolize the lumbar artery?"

"Probably." Zheng Ren nodded.

The professor blurted out, "You must be very familiar with this procedure."

"Professor Rudolf, I've said before, please don't call me Boss. You can call me Doctor Zheng or Chief Zheng." Zheng Ren said formally.

"Oh, no!" Professor Rudolf Wagner shrugged and said, "I've heard from Chang Yue that you allow your assistants to call you Boss. Now I want to become your assistant, so let's start with the form of address. In my lab, everyone does it this way."

This…

Forget it, let him call me whatever he wants.

Zheng Ren also didn't mind; he closed his book, moved toward the professor, and asked, "Professor Rudolf, I might need to go for a slice CT three-dimensional reconstruction later; are you coming along?"

"Dear Zheng, do you prefer this form of address, or do you like me calling you Boss?" Professor Rudolf Wagner asked seriously.

Being called "dear" by a blond‑blue‑eyed Germanic giant with a palm‑wide chest hair, Zheng Ren's inner mind felt intense resistance.

Really, it's so annoying.

"Call me Boss." Without choosing, Zheng Ren made the decision.

"Then please call me Fugui'er," Professor Rudolf said.

"……" Zheng Ren genuinely didn't know why this guy was so determined to give himself a Chinese name, and moreover call it Fugui.

Formerly, these two characters were a dedicated name for household slaves.

Now, these two characters are a dedicated name for pets.

Chang Yue and the others are just joking, right?

Although I think that, explaining it would inevitably waste a lot of time and words.

Zheng Ren doesn't want to do that.

After a brief thought, Zheng Ren decided to give up; let the professor give himself whatever name he wishes.

He said seriously, "Fugui'er, I'm going to do a slice CT three-dimensional reconstruction later; are you coming with me?"

"Sure." Professor Rudolf readily agreed, "But you're preparing for a CT three-dimensional reconstruction; what surgery are you preparing for?"

"The definite case is a hepatic cancer transarterial embolization; as for whether the patient needing lumbar artery embolization also needs reconstruction, we have to look at the images." Zheng Ren said.

While they were chatting, a woman in her thirties knocked on the office door.

"Is Chief Zheng in?" the woman asked.

I am, are you the patient's family member that Orthopedics Doctor Zhou mentioned?

The young woman was slightly thin, her face sallow, dark circles under her eyes, her mood not good, her hair dry and yellow. She held a thick film bag; judging by its thickness, at least under ten catties.

Hearing Zheng Ren ask her, she nodded.

"Let's look at the films first." Zheng Ren took the film bag, placed it on the table before the viewer, and began checking the date.

"Chief Zheng, do you want to look at the recent ones or the earliest?"

Because the patient's cancer had metastasized to the vertebrae, looking at early films would be meaningless.

"Look at the last three months." Zheng Ren said.

"On September 15, I had a lumbar spine CT; this is it." The young woman said without hesitation.

Afterwards, she flipped through several film bags, not checking the dates, just counting, then pulled out one bag and handed it to Zheng Ren.

Zheng Ren felt a sigh.

Having practiced medicine for so many years, I have rarely seen such meticulous family members; most don't bring previous films, and don't even know where they put them.

Lacking prior data for comparison may not matter to most doctors, but having a comparison is always better.

Such careful family members are rare.

A few years earlier, Zheng Ren had encountered a man around thirty who had bound his father's ten years of examination reports into a book, making the entire condition from onset to development clear at a glance.

The young woman before him was the same.

She must love him deeply, as evidenced by how well she remembers his films.

However, the cancer is advanced with bone metastasis—a pity.

Human joys and sorrows are incommunicable; all Zheng Ren can do is help the patient reduce suffering as much as possible.

That's all.

Zheng Ren pulled out the lumbar spine CT film from the bag, placed it on the viewer, and began to study it.

Professor Rudolf also ran over to follow Zheng Ren in examining the films.

The patient's condition progressed rapidly; it was left kidney cancer metastasizing to the spine. Kidney cancer is a highly indolent malignancy and usually does not spread to the spine.

The patient's luck is not good.

In the films from three months ago, tumor tissue had already eroded the vertebral bone, approaching the neural tissue.

There were two more examinations afterward; the most recent was a 64-slice 3D reconstruction two days ago, apparently done so that the orthopedic doctor could clearly see the surgical approach.

The patient's condition progressed quickly; although the tumor tissue originated from the kidney and is a relatively indolent malignancy, in the late stage, as the patient's immune function declined, the tumor tissue began to develop rapidly.

Zheng Ren pondered.

The tumor tissue has many nourishing blood vessels. Zheng Ren believes that if he performed the reconstruction himself, he would find even more nourishing blood vessels.

The orthopedics department needs to embolize the lumbar artery to reduce intraoperative bleeding; this, I believe I can accomplish.

The young woman waited patiently, without urging Zheng Ren.

Twenty minutes later, Zheng Ren said: "We can perform embolization; I will do my best to ensure slightly less bleeding and a somewhat better postoperative quality of life."

"Thank you." The young woman appeared to have accepted reality; what Zheng Ren said was also what she wanted.

She put away the film bag, the young woman bowed deeply, then left.