Zheng Ren obediently took a bath and had a good night's sleep.
It felt good not to have to be on duty.
Xie Yiren had woken up long ago. She left a message for Zheng Ren to wash up and have breakfast.
Zheng Ren suddenly felt like he owned a vast farm with thousands of mansions. He had to visit two mansions just to have breakfast …
Breakfast consisted of fried eggs, bread, and milk. Zheng Ren did not know what it tasted like, only that it was sweet.
Uh … sweet. It was the fragrance from Xie Yiren's body, at least in Zheng Ren's mind.
After breakfast, they rushed to the hospital.
There was still some time before the ward round, so Zheng Ren took a stroll.
The patient from last night's surgery was awake and not in much pain. However, he could not eat because he had not passed gas.
Speaking of the almonds, the patient was embarrassed. Apparently, he had drunk a little too much and swallowed it without even knowing if he had chewed it or not.
The other patients in the ward were in stable condition.
Zheng Ren gave Su Yun a call to ask about Yang Lili's condition.
Su Yun said that Yang Lili's condition was normal and there were no major changes.
No changes meant no deterioration.
This …
Was the best news.
Zheng Ren believed that the human body's powerful functions could heal major injuries.
At 7: 55 am, Professor Rudolf arrived at the department on time, just like his alarm clock. When he saw Zheng Ren, his greeting was a little more enthusiastic than usual.
At 8 am, Old Chief Physician Pan presided over the shift change and ward round.
After the ward round, Zheng Ren had nothing else to do. A few resident doctors took care of the chores. Zheng Ren held a book and started reading to increase his skill points.
Even though he was already at the Master rank, he was still a loafer with dreams. He always hoped that his specialty — general surgery — would one day reach the Grandmaster rank or even the Peak rank, which he had only caught a glimpse of.
Although it was slow to accumulate skill points by reading, he could still see the growth.
The patient Old Chief Physician Pan knew was not in the ward. Apparently, a 64-slice CT scan with 3D-image reconstruction was being performed today. Chang Yue had already contacted Zheng Ren to perform the reconstruction during the afternoon break in the CT room.
After the reconstruction, the patient's condition would be evaluated and the timing of the surgery would be decided.
After reading for a while, the department's landline rang.
Chang Yue picked up the phone and said, "It's you."
Zheng Ren took the phone.
"Hello."
"Oh, I am."
"Okay, I'll go take a look at the patient's radiographic films."
"Oh, all right, I'll wait in the office."
With that, he hung up.
"Why is the orthopedics department looking for you?" Chang Yue was curious.
No orthopedic emergency surgery had ever been performed in the emergency ward. Why was the orthopedic department looking for Zheng Ren? Could it be that there was another patient with pelvic fracture that caused bleeding?
"There's a patient with metastatic bone cancer who's going to undergo a vertebral resection. They want to prepare for interventional radiology before the surgery," Zheng Ren said as he imagined the surgery the orthopedic surgeon had mentioned in his mind.
Professor Rudolf Wagner suddenly asked, "Boss, are we going to do a vertebral resection and embolize the lumbar artery?"
"I think so." Zheng Ren nodded.
The professor blurted out. He should be very familiar with this surgical method.
"Professor Rudolph, I told you not to 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 heard Chang say that you allow your assistant to call you boss. Now that I want to be your assistant, let's start with the form of address. Everyone in my lab does the same thing. "
This …
Forget it. He could call him whatever he wanted.
Zheng Ren did not mind. He closed his book and moved closer to the professor. "Professor Rudolf, I might be going for a 64-slice CT scan with 3D-image reconstruction later. Do you want to come along?"
"Dear Zheng, do you prefer to be addressed this way or do you prefer me to call you boss?" Professor Rudolf Wagner asked seriously.
Being addressed as "dear" by a blond, blue-eyed Germanic man with chest hair as wide as a palm, Zheng Ren's heart was filled with resistance.
This was so f * cking annoying.
"Call me boss," Zheng Ren said without hesitation.
"Then please call me Lil Fugui," Professor Rudolf said.
"…" Zheng Ren really did not understand why the guy in front of him was so determined to give himself a Chinese name, let alone a freaking Fugui.
In the past, these two words were the exclusive names of domestic servants.
Now, these two words were the exclusive names of pets.
Chang Yue and the others were joking, okay?
Even so, if he were to explain it, it would definitely waste a lot of time and effort.
Zheng Ren did not want to do that.
After some thought, Zheng Ren decided to give up. The professor could name him whatever he wanted.
"Lil Fugui, I'm going for a 64-slice CT scan with 3D-image reconstruction later. Do you want to come along?"
"Sure." Professor Rudolf readily agreed. "But you're going to do a 3D CT reconstruction. What kind of surgery are you preparing for?"
"I'm sure it's interventional embolization for liver cancer. Also, we'll have to see if the patient with lumbar artery embolization needs reconstruction," Zheng Ren said.
As they chatted, a woman in her thirties knocked on the office door.
"Is Chief Zheng here?" she asked.
"Yes, I am. Are you the patient's family member that Dr. Zhou mentioned?"
The woman was slightly thin, haggard, and had dark circles under her eyes. She was in a bad mood, and her hair was yellowish. She was holding a thick bag of films, which weighed at least five kilograms.
She nodded when she heard Zheng Ren's question.
"Let's take a look at the films first." Zheng Ren took the bag and placed it on the table in front of the radiographic film viewer.
"Chief Zheng, do you want to see the recent ones or the earliest ones?"
The patient's cancer had metastasized to the vertebrae, so there was no point in looking at the early films.
"The last three months," Zheng Ren said.
"I did a lumbar CT scan on September 15th. This is it," the woman said without hesitation.
Then, she rummaged through the bags without looking at the dates. She took out a bag and handed it to Zheng Ren.
Zheng Ren sighed.
In all his years as a doctor, he had rarely seen a patient's family member so meticulous. Most of them did not bring the previous films with them, and did not even know where they were stored.
The lack of previous data was not a problem for most doctors. However, it was always good to have a comparison.
It was rare to see a patient's family member so meticulous.
A few years ago, Zheng Ren had met a man in his thirties who had bound his father's medical reports for the past ten years into a book. The entire disease's progression was clear to him.
The woman in front of him was the same.
She must have loved him very much. It was obvious from her memory of his films.
However, it was a pity that the cancer had metastasized to the bone.
The joys and sorrows of the human world were different. The only thing Zheng Ren could do was to reduce the patient's pain as much as possible.
That was all.
Zheng Ren took out the lumbar CT scans from the bag and inserted them into the radiographic film viewer to study.
Professor Rudolf also ran over to look at the scans with Zheng Ren.
The patient's condition was progressing rapidly. It was lumbar metastasis from the left kidney cancer. Kidney cancer was a highly inert cancer and would not normally metastasize to the lumbar vertebrae.
This patient's luck was not very good.
The scans from three months ago showed that the tumor had invaded the lumbar vertebrae and was close to the nerve tissue.
There were two subsequent examinations. The most recent was a 64-slice 3D reconstruction two days ago. It seemed that the orthopedic surgeon needed to know the surgical approach before performing the reconstruction.
The patient's condition was progressing rapidly. Although the tumor originated from the kidney and was a relatively inert malignant tumor, the patient's immune system would decline in the later stages and the tumor would grow faster.
Zheng Ren pondered.
There were many blood vessels feeding the tumor. Zheng Ren believed that if he performed the reconstruction himself, he would find more blood vessels feeding the tumor.
The orthopedic surgeon wanted to embolize the lumbar artery to reduce bleeding during the surgery. Zheng Ren should be able to do that.
The woman waited patiently and did not rush Zheng Ren.
Twenty minutes later, Zheng Ren said, "I can embolize it. I'll do my best to ensure less bleeding and a better quality of life after the surgery."
"Thank you." The woman seemed to have accepted reality. Zheng Ren's words were what she wanted.
The woman put away the film bag, bowed deeply, and left.
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