In the recovery room.
The middle-aged woman from Shanghai slowly opened her eyes.
The ceiling was pure white, and the bed was also pure white. It looked like a scene from a sci-fi movie, such as aliens dissecting humans, the end of the world, and psychopathic killers. Of course, only teenagers with second grade syndrome or silly girls who loved watching horror movies would think like that.
The brain of a patient who had just woken up from anesthesia was not fully functional. The middle-aged woman could not help but think of the scariest scene in her life. 'Did a thief steal everything in my house?'
"Hubby … hubby!" the middle-aged woman shouted loudly and tried to sit up.
"Aunty, you can't get up after regional anesthesia." The anesthetist quickly went up and held her down.
"I remember you." The middle-aged woman understood when she saw the anesthetist.
General anesthesia often caused short-term memory loss, but regional anesthesia rarely caused such a situation. Even the occasional memory loss was fragmented.
The anesthetist still wanted to give it a try. He pretended to smile honestly and said, "Aunty, do you remember to introduce your friend's daughter to me?"
"Did I?" The middle-aged woman was surprised.
"There's no hurry. Let's do a test first." The anesthetist smiled softly.
A normal patient would be asked a few questions after they woke up from anesthesia. On one hand, it was to check whether their brain was awake. On the other hand, they could listen to their voices and confirm whether their vocal cords and lungs were normal.
The most common question was something like, "What's your name?" by the anesthetist. Although it sounded like a low IQ question to many people, when some patients could not remember their own names after they woke up, the situation would not be interesting.
Of course, there were also patients who pretended to be joking and could not remember their own names. In terms of low IQ, the judgment was the same.
The anesthetist who was not from Pan City who liked to feed medicine to Dalang coughed and said, "Aunty, I'll ask you a few questions. Try answering them."
"Oh."
"What's my name?" The anesthetist who was not from Pan City changed his question and smiled proudly at the nurse anesthetist beside him. He thought, 'I don't believe that you won't introduce a girl to me …'
The middle-aged woman from Shanghai was indeed stunned by the question. She stared at the anesthetist who was not from Pan City with a dumbfounded expression. She held her head and thought hard … Then, she said with great difficulty, "You're the anesthetist who has been working for more than ten years and hasn't gotten a wife. You're a local who doesn't have a house and lives at home. You bought a small shop in an unknown place and live in the hospital all day long. You even have a car?"
"I'm an anesthetist!" If he hadn't received nine years of compulsory education, three years of high school, five years of undergraduate studies, and three years of master's degree — a total of 20 years of studying, studying, and cultivating his character, he wouldn't have been a Pan anesthetist today!
…
Sometimes, it was an Achilles tendon repair, sometimes it was a Plan A, sometimes it was an arthroscopy, and sometimes it was a patient with severed fingers …
Two days later, all the original hospital beds in the Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center were occupied.
Morning.
Ji Tianlu patrolled the ward with a solemn expression.
The rooms that were originally meant for two people and three people had been moved to new beds, and the rooms now had four people and even six people. Even though the extra beds were still empty, with Ling Ran's speed of performing eighty surgeries in two days, Ji Tianlu was really not sure how long the extra beds could last.
The head nurse of the nursing department followed Ji Tianlu, and her expression was even more solemn. She said, "Our nurses have started working overtime recently, and we can't reduce the overtime pay. Otherwise, if you add more beds in the clinic, no one will work."
"The overtime pay will definitely not be reduced." Ji Tianlu paused for a moment and asked, "Is it a lot?"
The head nurse said softly and said, "You have to tell Academician Zhu. If he doesn't agree, someone might stop the money."
Ji Tianlu's eyelids twitched a few times. He said, "Got it," and did not say anything else.
The Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center was built by Zhu Tongyi based on foreign standards. The ratio of medical staff, the number of hospital beds, overtime pay, and other things were all based on foreign standards before they were localized.
As a research center with only around thirty doctors and a hundred nurses, the Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center was slightly more generous when it came to overtime pay, and they did not spend a lot of money. They could also set a good example for doctors who came for in-service training, internship, and meetings.
Of course, from the looks of it now, they spent a little more money, but Ji Tianlu did not care.
Public hospitals did not pursue profit. It did not matter where they spent money, as long as they did not make too much of a loss.
After the head nurse communicated with Ji Tianlu, she could not help but feel a lot more relaxed. When it came to adding more beds, she was much less conflicted. She changed the topic and said, "Our ward area has always been big. If we fill up the corridors like other hospitals, it's possible to add more than two hundred beds."
"So, we can add four hundred beds?"
"Yes."
"Four hundred … Our hospital still needs our own doctors." Ji Tianlu calculated in silence. There were more than thirty doctors in the hospital, and they needed around fifty beds on a daily basis. During peak periods, they might need more than seventy beds.
Ji Tianlu could not help but spit, "That's too crazy."
"Four hundred beds is too much!" The head nurse also laughed. "We can't even use up three hundred beds."
"I thought so too." Ji Tianlu shook his head and said, "Let's find someone to pretend that the empty ward area is there."
"Are we really going to pretend?" The head nurse was very surprised.
"Yes, I've asked Academician Zhu. In the future, our center will have more international conferences, and there will be more visiting scholars. We can't just clear out the wards every time. The original design standard of our center is based on the single rooms in Europe and the United States. Each patient has a small room, which is convenient for treatment and also convenient for the patient's family to accompany them. Now, if we pretend that half of the ward area is there, it will be used as a small single room during normal times. If we encounter patients like Ling Ran, we can add more beds. "
When the head nurse heard Ji Tianlu's fierce words, she laughed. "If we add more beds in the ward area, we might be able to add up to five hundred beds. It's enough for our hospital to upgrade."
Ji Tianlu thought of something, but he did not say anything.
The Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center built by Zhu Tongyi was small but beautiful. But in the environment in China, being small was a sin. That was why the existing ward area was changed from a single bed to a ward with multiple beds, and half of the ward area was closed.
Ji Tianlu and Zhu Tongyi's ideals were slightly different. If there were any changes in the Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center because of this, he would be happy to see it happen.
After leaving the ward area, Ji Tianlu went to the Operating Area again to admire Ling Ran's heroic posture from memorizing to watching him destroy the banana. Then, he turned around and went back to his office.
Not long after he sat down, a phone call was made to Ji Tianlu.
"Chief Physician Ji, hello. I'm Mai Chun, a pharmaceutical sales representative from Yunli Medical Company. I heard that you're going to expand the ward area. Can I pay you a visit for this project?" The pharmaceutical sales representative on the other end of the phone was slightly immature, but what he said surprised Ji Tianlu.
"Where did you hear that we're going to build a new ward?" Ji Tianlu asked.
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
