The expressions of the surrounding medical personnel soured at once after hearing the lady's words. What kind of remark was that? What did she insinuate by saying that the doctor was 'doing it for the money'?
Did she not know that doctors did not actually collect the operation fees?
The man hurriedly grabbed his mother and warned, "Stop it with your nonsense, Mom. If you don't want to stay here, then go home. It's good enough that I'm here!"
He then turned to Jiang Tingxu again.
"Do it, Doctor. Do the operation and save my wife!"
After hearing that, everyone immediately felt a sense of relief.
Many strange things happened in the hospital, especially in the Emergency Department, but the one thing that angered everyone most was none other than when delays by family members left them no choice but to watch helplessly as a patient died, especially when there had been a clear chance to save that patient's life.
Jiang Tingxu nodded, then said to the head nurse, "We might not make it. Call the operating room and have them make immediate preparations. All inspections can only be done in the operating room. Prepare the operation consent form for her family to sign!"
Her orderly commands calmed everyone's anxious hearts.
"Okay, I understand. Little Ran, push the patient to the operating room with Little Jing."
"Yes, Head Nurse."
Once the patient had been brought away, the head nurse finished the call before suddenly exclaiming, "Hiss! Damn it!"
Jiang Tingxu flung her arms, adjusted her stethoscope, and was already prepared to head back to her office. She then heard the head nurse exclaiming and asked, "What's wrong?"
The head nurse pulled her hair anxiously.
"Everyone's in the operating room. You're the only one left, Dr. Jiang. Who will do the...operation for bed forty-eight?"
What was going on?
Jiang Tingxu was slightly taken aback by the statement and quickly snapped back to her senses.
"Hurry up and call the Thoracic Surgery Department!"
"Oh, oh, oh. Yes, I'll call them."
There was no surgeon present in the Emergency Department, so their only recourse was to request support from the Thoracic Surgery Department.
Jiang Tingxu was feeling flustered too. She could not possibly take to the operating table without her medical license, otherwise...
Sigh!
She could only lament the surge in patients requiring emergency attention that day. A bunch of people who were involved in a group scuffle had taken up the attention of almost the entire Emergency Department's doctors.
"Huh? They're all in the middle of a procedure?"
The head nurse's voice sounded like she was about to cry.
"I understand."
The call ended.
"Dr. Jiang, there's no one else from the Thoracic Surgery Department who's available. What are we going to do now?"
'Umm, this is a hospital, not a battlefield.
'You'd be lucky to have a doctor if it was in a battlefield. Who would ask for anything more?'
"What else can we do? Call the hospital director and inform him!"
The head nurse nodded and she quickly dialed the hospital director's office. The situation was briefly and accurately summarized.
"Yes, yes, that's right. The patient urgently needs surgery and we can't delay anymore!
"Mm, okay. Dr. Jiang is right next to me. I'll pass the phone to her."
Jiang Tingxu answered the call while the corner of her mouth twitched uncontrollably.
"Hello, Director. Jiang Tingxu speaking."
"Little Jiang, I'll leave patient forty-eight's surgery in your capable hands. Are you confident enough?"
'Leave it to me?
'What was the hospital director thinking?'
"What?"
"Desperate times call for desperate measures. I've heard about you from your mentor a long time ago, and the Emergency Department's chief praises you in front of me often. You are more than capable of handling this procedure!"
Jiang Tingxu certainly could not refuse now that the director had spoken.
"Okay, I'll do it!"
"Hahaha, wonderful. There's no need for those in the Emergency Department to mull over every little thing. The patient's not going to wait for you to finish contemplating. Alright then, time for you to head to the operating room and get ready. I'll send you an assistant doctor from one of the other departments. Good luck, and don't be nervous!"
"Okay!"
After hanging up, Jiang Tingxu sighed to herself and said to the head nurse, "Please help me watch over that little brat in my office."
"Sure! No problem!"
The head nurse was dying to ask who that little kid was, but there was no time to speak as Dr. Jiang's figure had already left.
...
The little guy had been waiting for a long time in Dr. Jiang's office and was already super impatient. He wiggled, then slid abruptly off the chair.
His little head poked out from the room into the corridor and looked around. Finally, he found someone in the observation unit.
"Ms. Head Nurse, when will Jiang Tingxu come back?" he waddled behind the head nurse and asked.
"Mm, she'll come soon."
Jiang Tingxu entered the operating room at half-past four and it was already six o'clock. If she was done early, she would be out in another hour or two.
The little guy clearly did not accept that answer.
"Auntie, you say that every time!" He appeared quite aggrieved as he looked at the grinning head nurse.
"Really? But it's true!" She deliberately continued teasing the little boy.
Oh...
The little guy had clearly noticed that the lady in front of him was teasing him on purpose.
"Then I'll go to the office and wait for Jiang Tingxu to come back!"
After speaking, he slipped away again and decided not to continue being teased.
Back in the emergency operating room, the operation on bed 48's patient had been completed successfully and the wound was already sutured.
An hour and a half!
The operation was completed in less than two hours!
Although myocardial infarction surgery only involved inserting a stent, it took at least two to three hours in normal circumstances!
Inside the operating room, the assistant doctors and nurses sneaked countless puzzled peeks at Jiang Tingxu. Their expressions were that of utter shock!
Was she even human?
Her speed was rather unbelievable.
It took some time before someone finally reacted and made a phone call.
After the hospital director heard about what happened in the operating room, his first reaction was also that of disbelief.
"What? Are you sure? The operation was completed in an hour and a half? How is that even possible?"
The person who reported the situation felt that he might have been dreaming too.
"Yes, Director. It really happened. The entire process was recorded. Besides completing the operation quickly and successfully, Dr. Jiang also performed it very beautifully. Director, can I make an application to work under Dr. Jiang's?"
What?
The director's brief delirium was replaced with bursts of laughter. Incidentally, the director even teased, "Oh, I'm afraid that's not possible! Dr. Jiang is still a resident doctor, and this operation was a special exception. You guys might as well go clean yourselves up and go to bed early!
"Now pass the phone to Dr. Jiang please!"
Jiang Tingxu was well aware of the excitement in the operating room, but she did not care that much for it. To her, the operation was analogous to a nurse putting a bandage on a patient.
After receiving yet another call from the hospital director, Jiang Tingxu frowned slightly. "Director, the operation has been completed!"
"Yes, I know. Little Jiang, oh Little Jiang. I didn't expect you to give me such a big surprise. This is great news. Our hospital has yet another talent!"
"Ah, you flatter me too much, Director. This is my responsibility."
"Well said. Do come to the in-house meeting next week!"
"What?"
Just because of that one operation?
Truth be told, Jiang Tingxu had no idea of the shock she produced after completing the operation. In fact, she had undergone more than hundreds of thousands of similar operations on the battlefield for over 10 years and was already numb to them.
Without that, it would have been impossible for her to prepare for surgery without first doing a coronary angiography. All of that was valuable experience that she had accumulated since the beginning!
Before Jiang Tingxu could even refuse it, the director hung up immediately after leaving her with those instructions. He was probably going to watch the video of the earlier operation.
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