This miracle doctor just wants to be fired!

Chen Ming and Li Yaping were the first to walk out of the intervention room.

The heavy lead door slid open along the track.

Both of them took off their masks, which hung loosely around their necks.

After more than three hours of intense tension, their nerves relaxed, and even their steps became a little unsteady. Only the sense of relief from the successful surgery kept them from collapsing.

Just as they turned the corner of the corridor, the two saw Wu Chunbo standing at the door of the observation room.

His assistant, Hu Jia, followed behind him.

Chen Ming paused for a moment.

Director Wu has arrived, and it seems he's been staying for quite some time.

The observation room has one-way glass, allowing a clear view of the entire interventional room from the inside, while preventing anyone from seeing what's happening inside.

No wonder I didn't hear a sound from outside during the entire surgery; apparently, they arrived a long time ago and witnessed the whole thing.

Li Yaping also lowered her voice and whispered in Chen Ming's ear, "It looks like they arrived a long time ago. The sleeves of their white coats are rolled up, and they've probably even changed into their surgical gowns, just waiting to go on stage and save the day."

Chen Ming didn't speak, he just nodded, his face expressionless, but his heart was in turmoil.

Chen Ming was unwilling to invite Wu Chunbo as an outside helper this time.

He had worked in the cardiology department for eight years and was the most outstanding among the deputy directors in the department.

Six months ago, the hospital began to restructure and established an emergency chest pain center.

Now, a separate emergency interventional group has been set up, and he has been transferred to the position of director of the emergency department, concurrently serving as the head of the interventional group.

To put it bluntly, this emergency interventional team was prepared for him.

Today's surgery is the first high-risk and complex interventional surgery that we have independently performed since the team was officially registered.

If we can perform this surgery flawlessly, it will be a truly successful start.

It can not only silence the gossip in the hospital, but also allow the emergency intervention team to establish a firm foothold in the hospital.

So from the very beginning, he had no intention of getting involved in cardiology, and even less of Wu Chunbo.

But despite his meticulous planning, he hadn't anticipated that the patient's condition would be far more complex than conventional interventional surgery.

The left anterior descending artery was completely occluded, with severe calcification and angulation in the occluded segment. During the operation, a malignant arrhythmia was also induced, and the patient's blood pressure dropped continuously.

At that time, Chen Ming knew in his heart that if he continued to push through, he would be gambling with the patients' lives.

If the procedure continues, there is a high probability that the blood vessel will rupture, causing cardiac tamponade, at which point even a miracle cannot save the patient.

For the patient's safety, Chen Ming gritted his teeth and asked the circulating nurse Zhao Wenqi to call Wu Chunbo for help.

At the moment he made the phone call, Chen Ming felt utterly dejected.

Admittedly, Wu Chunbo, the director of the cardiology department, is among the best in the city in terms of interventional skills, but Chen Ming and Li Yaping are also quite skilled.

He can perform routine coronary interventions and emergency PCI procedures with his eyes closed, and he is fully capable of taking on the role of head of the emergency interventional team.

To put it bluntly, it was just bad luck!

We've just opened for business and we've already encountered this kind of critically ill patient—a rare case like this.

At that time, he had even mentally prepared himself that even if Wu Chunbo came and took over, and the surgery was successful, he would completely lose face as the head of the emergency interventional team.

There were already quite a few people in the hospital gossiping, saying that the emergency department doing interventional procedures was a waste of its job, that it was taking away jobs from the cardiology department, and that it didn't have the skills but insisted on doing something beyond its capabilities.

In that case, these sarcastic remarks will only intensify, and he, as the head of the emergency department, will never be able to hold his head up in the hospital again.

He even considered the worst-case scenario: if the surgery failed and the patient didn't survive, he would not only have to take responsibility, but he would also have to personally disband the emergency interventional team that he had just built up!

Wu Chunbo, on the other hand, was also eager to try when he received the call.

He opposed the hospital establishing a separate emergency intervention team from the very beginning.

In his view, coronary intervention surgery is the core business of cardiology, which is highly specialized. A difference of even one millimeter can mean a life. Without years of accumulated surgical experience, it is simply impossible to master it.

The core responsibility of the emergency department is to save time and stabilize vital signs, not to perform such difficult and delicate procedures; otherwise, something bad will happen sooner or later.

He raised his objections three times during a previous coordination meeting held by the hospital, but none of them were adopted.

Chen Ming took the initiative to call for help, seeing it as a perfect opportunity.

He wanted to personally perform the surgery and also indirectly tell Chen Ming and the hospital that interventional surgery ultimately needs to be handled by a specialized cardiology department, as the emergency department cannot handle it.

But he never expected that Zhou Cheng's sudden emergence would completely change everything.

……

When he arrived, Zhou Cheng had just taken the guide wire and was preparing to try to open the node of the occluded segment.

He originally intended to push the door open and go in, but he hesitated for a moment and eventually turned into the observation room next door, wanting to see first how Chen Ming was going to clean up this mess.

This lasted for a full hour.

From the precise passage of the guidewire through the occluded segment into the true lumen of the blood vessel, to balloon pre-dilation, and then to the precise positioning and release of the stent.

The entire process was smooth and fluid, without a single unnecessary movement or mistake.

Wu Chunbo stood behind the glass, his hands, which had been rolled up in preparation for going on stage, hanging limply and never being raised again.

At this moment, Chen Ming had already led Li Yaping to Wu Chunbo. He spoke first, his tone calm, without any hint of boasting or the expected embarrassment: "Director Wu, you've arrived."

Wu Chunbo nodded, his gaze sweeping over the two men's soaked scrubs, and first asked the most crucial question: "How is the patient?"

"The surgery was a success," Chen Ming replied. "The entire occluded segment of the left anterior descending artery was opened, with TIMI grade 3 flow, good stent apposition, no vascular dissection, and no residual stenosis. The ventricular fibrillation induced during the surgery has been controlled, and the heart rate and blood pressure are stable. We just arranged for the nurses to transfer him to the CCU for continuous ECG monitoring, and the subsequent treatment plan has also been finalized."

"Not bad." Wu Chunbo uttered two words, his gaze landing on Chen Ming. He went straight to the point, without beating around the bush, "The two of you weren't the ones who performed the entire procedure just now. What's the young doctor's name?"

Chen Ming didn't hide anything and said directly, "His name is Zhou Cheng. He's one of the members of our emergency interventional team. He just graduated with his master's degree a little over a year ago."

"He was the one who managed to open the guidewire during the most dangerous part just now," Li Yaping added from the side. "Director Chen and I took turns trying three times, but the guidewire was already in the false lumen. If we moved it any further, there was a risk of rupturing the blood vessel. We were really at our wits' end. Then Zhou Cheng volunteered to try. As soon as he got his hands on it, his hand was as steady as if it were nailed to the spot. He didn't shake it at all and pushed the guidewire into the real lumen in one step."

Wu Chunbo hummed in agreement, his face expressionless: "I watched the whole thing. The operation was very steady, the judgment of the lesion was very accurate, and the feel of the guidewire was impeccable. He doesn't seem like a recent graduate; he's better than many attending physicians in our hospital's cardiology department."

Upon hearing this, Chen Ming and Li Yaping were both taken aback.

They originally thought that when Wu Chunbo came over, even if he didn't say anything sarcastic, he would at least put on airs as the director and give them a few words of reprimand.

Unexpectedly, his first words were full of approval of Zhou Cheng, without the slightest intention to take credit or belittle him.