The number of disposable sterile surgical kits was limited. Sea City General Hospital usually allocated around thirty sterile surgical kits to night shifts for emergency surgeries.
Zheng Ren's frantic night of surgeries had not only exhausted the emergency surgical kits but also a portion of the surgical kits for elective surgeries during the day.
No one would have guessed that the general surgery department alone had performed almost forty emergency surgeries in one night.
"Chief nurse, Zheng Ren has performed thirty-seven surgeries since last night."
"Thirty-eight. Another one just went up."
The chief nurse was stunned. "Zheng Ren? That Zheng Ren? "
"Yes, that Zheng Ren."
It was as if Zheng Ren was speaking in riddles. The chief nurse understood.
Due to the hospital's gag order, those who were qualified to know that Zheng Ren had performed surgeries on behalf of Professor Ichiro Moriyu kept quiet out of fear.
"Thirty-eight surgeries in one night?" The chief nurse was still in disbelief.
"Yes. I heard that there are still more than ten patients waiting for surgery in the general surgery department."
"Impossible!" The chief nurse flatly denied the unscientific theory. "I'll go and take a look."
In the operating theater, the chief nurse was a tiger — a female! In the operating theater, her authority was even greater than that of a department chief.
After changing and entering the operating theater, the chief nurse put on a smile and squinted her eyes. "Yiren, you must be tired."
Xie Yiren raised her head blankly. After a sleepless night of surgeries, Zheng Ren was still quite energetic, but Xie Yiren was in a daze.
If Chief Surgeon Liu's opponent was an ordinary person like Xie Yiren, his goal would have been achieved.
"Chief nurse, you're here." Xie Yiren had regained some vitality.
"Seriously, you didn't even rest after a night of surgeries," the chief nurse rebuked. "Little Zheng, why don't you know how to love others?"
Zheng Ren removed the appendix and placed it in the basin with a pair of curved forceps. The forceps hit the wall of the basin with a crisp sound.
"Haha." Zheng Ren laughed.
"Yiren, come down and rest for a while after this. I'll replace you with someone else." The chief nurse waved her hand and the matter was settled without Zheng Ren's approval.
"Okay," Zheng Ren said.
"I don't think so." Xie Yiren hesitated.
"What's wrong with that? Could the surgery be completed in a day? If we really exhaust the doctors and nurses to death, who will go to see the patients? "
Just as the matron was about to change the topic to Zheng Ren, she saw Zheng Ren stretch out his hand and Xie Yiren skillfully passed him the needle and thread for continuous subcutaneous suture.
Hmm? That's it? The head nurse was a little confused. Had she been here for three minutes? How was the surgery already done?
"Next." Zheng Ren went out to call a doctor from the first general surgery department to carry the patient. Then, he said to Xie Yiren, "Go and rest."
"Then the surgery …"
"Don't worry, don't you have me?"
After the surgery, the matron arranged for a highly-skilled scrub nurse who often worked with the general surgery department to be Zheng Ren's scrub nurse. Then, she dragged Xie Yiren out of the operating theater and into her office.
"What would you like to drink?" the head nurse asked.
"Sister, I want to sleep," Xie Yiren said weakly after leaving the operating room. Her whole body was limp.
"Child, why are you working so hard?" the matron rebuked. "Zheng Ren is so rough and inhumane. You're the baby of our family. What if you're exhausted? I wanted to let you go to the emergency department to lie low for a while and treat it as a paid vacation. Who would've thought that Zheng Ren would use you like this? "
"It's fine. Chief Zheng did a good job and I learned a lot." Xie Yiren yawned loudly.
"Oh? What kind of surgeries did he perform? "The matron was like a wolf, getting closer and closer to the truth she wanted. She did not believe that Zheng Ren had performed forty surgeries in one night.
Few people would believe such a thing if it was said out loud.
"He performed one acute appendicitis in the second trimester of pregnancy, four appendicitis on obese patients, eight perforated appendices, eleven acute suppurative appendicitis, and fourteen … No, fifteen simple acute appendicitis." Although Xie Yiren was as sleepy as a noodle, nestled in the chair and about to fall asleep, she still remembered the surgery with Zheng Ren clearly and counted with her fingers.
"Hmm?" The head nurse was surprised. Was what they said true? How was that possible?
"What's wrong?" Xie Yiren was already half-asleep.
"Get up and go to bed." The head nurse tossed Xie Yiren onto her bed and hurried to the scene to give instructions.
There were still many troublesome matters for the head nurse to solve.
She had used so many sterile surgical kits. What about the elective surgeries during the day? The head nurse had never encountered such a problem in her thirty years of work.
However, that was not the most important thing. The head nurse needed to solve another problem.
She walked to the nurses' station, picked up the phone and dialed a number.
When the person on the other end of the line picked up, she shouted without asking who it was, "Get Liu Tianxing!"
"Who am I? Why do you care? … He's not here? Tell Liu Tianxing that if he doesn't appear in front of me in three minutes, the first general surgery department will start after three o 'clock in the afternoon for the next week's surgeries! "
The ferocious head nurse's aura was powerful.
When she was angry, scolding a senior general surgery department chief was like scolding a grandson.
After that, the head nurse hung up the phone with a bang, as if the person on the other end was Chief Surgeon Liu, who deserved a beating.
Soon, the red-eyed Chief Surgeon Liu and Cen Meng rushed to the scene.
This was the busiest time of the day and it would take at least ten minutes to wait for the elevator. Chief Surgeon Liu dared not waste any more time and ran up the stairs to the operating theater. He was as tired as a dog and almost stuck out his tongue.
"Liu Tianxing, you're really something." The head nurse placed one hand on her hip and pointed at Chief Surgeon Liu's nose with the other, starting to scold him.
"What are you talking about, Xiao Li? Look at what you're saying." Chief Surgeon Liu smiled apologetically.
Cen Meng, who was behind him, lowered his head, not daring to look at the head nurse's face.
"Oh? Then tell me, where did all the emergency appendicitis cases come from? " Head Nurse Li had been an operating theater nurse for thirty years. She had been working at Sea City General Hospital ever since she graduated from nursing school at the age of eighteen.
She had personally experienced the population coverage of Sea City General Hospital, the number of emergency cases they could perform in a single night, and the consequences of emergencies.
Last night's situation was definitely abnormal. Someone must have done something.
Therefore, she opened her mouth and scolded. If she wasn't wearing a mask, her saliva would definitely have sprayed onto Director Liu's old face.
"It has nothing to do with me." Chief Surgeon Liu tried to deny it.
"Liu Tianxing, I don't care if you have anything to do with it or not." Head Nurse Li sneered, "Emergency appendicitis cases, how many more patients are there?"
Chief Surgeon Liu hesitated and turned to look at Cen Meng.
"Eleven," Cen Meng whispered.
"Then it's eleven. If there are more today, don't blame me for smashing your old face." Head Nurse Li said coldly, "Who do you think you are? I'm giving you face but you don't want it."
Chief Surgeon Liu's facial muscles twitched a few times. Just as he was about to say something, Head Nurse Li picked up her phone and dialed a number.
"Sister Zhou, it's me."
"Can I ask you something? We had a lot of emergency cases yesterday. What's the situation?"
"Oh, got it. I don't think it's necessary today. Thank you for supporting our work. I'll go shopping with you another day. There's a new duty-free shop in the development zone that sells the latest Milan Fashion Week clothes. "
"En en, then it's settled. Bye bye."
After hanging up, Head Nurse Li picked up a folder of medical records from an unknown patient on the table and threw it at Chief Surgeon Liu's face.
"Who asked you to talk back to me? Who asked you to talk back to me? I gave you some face and you opened a dye shop. Shameless. "
Chief Surgeon Liu knew that Head Nurse Li had caught him in the act. It was impossible to hide something like this from someone with ulterior motives, so he did not intend to hide it.
However, Zheng Ren's flawless surgical operation had turned all his efforts into spring water.
"What the hell? Get lost!" Head Nurse Li looked at him in disgust and turned to leave.
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.
