Falling behind at the start, the first surgery shocked the world.

The apartment is small, with an interior area of ​​45 square meters. It has one bedroom and one living room, and is fully equipped with a refrigerator, TV, and various appliances. You can move in immediately with just your luggage.

It's close to the subway, and there's a food street and a supermarket downstairs.

Convenient living.

It's three subway stops from the Provincial Hospital, neither too far nor too close.

The previous tenant was a girl who cleaned the place very well. Xia Tian was very satisfied and signed a one-year agreement with the landlord on the spot, paid a year's rent, and the landlord handed over the keys and left.

A new life has begun.

Just three months after graduation, my life has undergone a complete transformation.

I'm single again and have moved to a new place.

Next, I'll work hard, earn money, buy a big house in the city, and bring my mother and younger brother over.

As for further goals, Xia Tian hasn't thought about them yet.

Let's take a step by step.

He didn't have much luggage, so he called Wang Xiaobei, and the two of them carried it all over in one trip. They bought a new quilt, changed the sheets, towels, and shampoo, and got everything done in one trip to the supermarket.

After tidying up the house, Xia Tian treated Wang Xiaobei to a barbecue at the snack street.

During the meal, Wang Xiaobei kept stealing glances at Xia Tian.

Xia Tian rolled her eyes at him: "Is there something you're embarrassed to say?"

"Anything can be said as long as it's not a confession of love."

Wang Xiaobei grinned.

He awkwardly drank a glass of beer and said with a chuckle.

"It's nothing serious."

"I just feel like you've changed a lot. You used to be a good student, but now you're like you've been given a cheat code. Did you have some kind of extraordinary encounter?"

"Yes!" Xia Tian nodded: "I obtained the system, and the system helped me become a divine doctor."

Wang Xiaobei curled his lip.

Do you think I'm a stupid roe deer?

"Fine, don't say if you don't want to."

"But you do work hard, I admit that, but I'm more handsome than you, so I'm at peace with that."

Xia Tian glanced at Wang Xiaobei, who bore a striking resemblance to Song Xiaobao, and weakly uttered a sentence.

"Whatever makes you happy."

……

At 8 a.m., Xia Tian squeezed onto the subway during rush hour and arrived at the Provincial Hospital.

Upon entering the room, they encountered a patient who had drunk pesticide. Li Yajun and Wang Boyi took over the treatment.

"What pesticide did you drink?"

Li Yajun asked.

The patient's husband said anxiously, "Paraquat."

"What?!!"

Paraquat is considered the most toxic poison.

The mortality rate of oral administration of Baicaogu is as high as 99.99%, and there is almost no cure.

Every month, the emergency room sees many patients who attempt suicide by overdose, usually sleeping pills or common pesticides. The cure rate is high; with gastric lavage and observation, they can gradually recover.

But Baicaogu... has no cure.

Upon hearing the name "Baicaogu," Li Yajun immediately tensed up and began questioning the patient at a faster pace.

"Are you sure you drank Baicaogu?"

"How much did you drink? Are you sure you actually swallowed it?"

The patient was conscious and the medication had not yet taken effect; he nodded to Li Yajun.

"I drank it, I drank a whole bottle of mineral water."

blah blah blah!

Li Yajun was so startled that she dropped the pen in her hand and immediately said to Wang Boyi.

"Quickly send the patient to the emergency room and immediately notify Director Zhang. Director Li from the gastroenterology department should come for a consultation."

A flurry of activity ensued.

The patient was rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment.

The office was completely silent.

"Brother Tian... is there any cure at Baicao Valley?"

Wang Xiaobei asked timidly.

Xia Tian shook her head: "I don't know."

"I guess there's no cure."

The system had not provided any medical knowledge about poisoning. Based solely on his personal medical knowledge, he knew that drinking Baicaogu would not cure the poisoning. Otherwise, Li Yajun would not have been so anxious and had called two department heads for a consultation.

"People didn't commit suicide when they were starving, but now that conditions have improved, more people are committing suicide."

"It's so pitiful. The patient seems quite young; her child is probably still in school. How could a mother bear to do this?"

A somber atmosphere filled the office.

An hour later, a man's wailing sound came from outside the door.

Wang Boyi returned to his office exhausted.

He left out a sentence.

The patient is dead.

"I'm going to have a smoke. Patients, you can take them. I don't want to see any patients today."

Doctors are human too, with emotions and desires. Especially for interns who haven't witnessed much death, the feeling of helplessness—watching a patient die right in front of them and being powerless to do anything about it—can be extremely distressing.

No one said anything. Wang Xiaobei patted him on the shoulder as a gesture of comfort.

If one patient dies, there will be thousands upon thousands more.

The emergency room will continue to be busy.

At 9:30 a.m., a 20-year-old boy arrived at the emergency room with the help of his classmate.

"Doctor, my stomach hurts so much."

"How long have you been in pain?"

"It started hurting on and off last night, and it was especially painful when I woke up this morning."

"Lie down, let me take a look."

With the help of his classmates, the patient lay down on the examination bed. Xia Tian put on gloves and gently pressed around the patient's navel.

Click the top left corner.

Does it hurt here?

Patient: "It hurts, but not the most painful part."

Click the top right corner.

The patient shook his head: "It doesn't hurt much, it hurts down there."

Immediately afterwards, Xia Tian pressed on the lower right abdomen, and the patient immediately let out a pig-like squeal.

"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts right here."

"It hurts so much."

"It started hurting here last night, and I felt nauseous, couldn't eat anything, and vomited."

"Doctor, am I going to die?"

The patient was in so much pain that his face turned pale, but his voice was strong and clear; saying he was going to die was an exaggeration.

Xia Tian smiled and comforted him.

"You haven't even started working 996 yet, and you're burdened with a mortgage, how could you possibly die?"

"Don't worry, the initial diagnosis is appendicitis. We'll do a blood test and an abdominal ultrasound to confirm the cause. Also, you're still a student, right? Acute appendicitis requires immediate surgery. Please inform your parents."

"I'll give you a painkiller injection first to relieve your pain."

Prescribe an ampoule of atropine sulfate.

A nurse administers an injection to a patient.

A quick painkiller injection can relieve pain, but it cannot completely eliminate the pain.

"Doctor, I still feel a little pain, but it's not as bad."

Xia Tian comforted him, "Go get checked right now. If it's diagnosed as acute appendicitis, you'll have surgery immediately, and you won't feel any pain afterward."

Half an hour later, the test results came out.

The appendix shows thickened and rough intestinal wall and edema of the appendix tissue.

There are no stones in the ureter.

White blood cell count: 15 x 109⁹/L.

Acute appendicitis requires immediate surgery; otherwise, the patient will suffer immense pain and face the risk of intestinal perforation.

At this time, the patient's family members also arrived.

Xia Tian and Zhang Ming gave an urgent report on the patient's condition.

"Acute appendicitis requires immediate surgery."

"If the patient's family has no objections, please come over and sign the papers. We'll schedule the surgery now."

Appendicitis is a common disease, a level-two surgery, with low risk and no recurrence rate. Patients can be discharged home a week after the procedure and it will not affect their subsequent health. The family is quite optimistic.

"Yes, yes, please proceed with the surgery immediately."

"Was it you who performed the surgery?"

The family members looked at Zhang Ming.

Zhang Ming's name tag reads "Director".

But to everyone's surprise, Zhang Ming smiled and pointed at Xia Tian.

"Dr. Xia was the surgeon."