Healing Doctor

Chapter 162 Ruthless Person

"Heh heh, Lao Zhao, all you ever say in your entire career as an attending physician is this." The on-duty doctor, with a cigarette dangling from his lips, scrolled through Douyin (TikTok), looking completely nonchalant and showing no respect whatsoever for the older Dr. Zhao.

"Director Liu, let's go see the patient," Dr. Zhao said. "The patient's family was overjoyed when they heard you were coming; they almost sold all their junk. I think they were willing to go bankrupt. It's no wonder they treat me like I'm talking nonsense, even though I'm a specialist from the provincial capital. They've already seen a god before you even arrived."

"I told them it wasn't necessary, Director Liu, you just don't have time. Everyone has patients, right? He only had time this time because he was lucky. His ancestors' graves must have been smoking, and his coffins must have been burning to get Director Liu here."

"Don't say that, go and see the patient," Director Liu interrupted Zhao Zhe.

Ji Xiang accompanied the two to see the patient. Director Liu was first-rate in his interpersonal skills. Even when facing the family of a patient who was at the lowest level and could only afford five hundred yuan for a surgical procedure, he made them feel like they were bathed in a spring breeze.

Of course, Director Liu was not interested in 500 yuan and returned it to the patient's family in the end.

"Okay, the patient is in good condition, and the test reports are complete. The surgery can be performed." Director Liu checked everything and, finding nothing missing, prepared to find a place to stay.

Looking at the car Dr. Zhao drove and his clothes, Director Liu was not at ease.

If he ends up in some youth hostel and someone comes in to deliver a mattress in the middle of the night, or if there's a surprise inspection or something similar, Dr. Zhao probably won't be able to get himself out of there.

With his cowardly manner, even a resident doctor at the hospital dared to talk back to him, which shows that he doesn't know how to conduct himself properly in society.

"What's the best hotel around here?" Director Liu asked.

"Director, I've made arrangements for you. It's nestled against the mountains and beside the water..."

"No need, I can do it myself," Director Liu said casually. "We'll just grab a bite to eat later, then I'll take Xiao Ji back to rest. See you at the hospital tomorrow morning."

"Director Liu, please don't! You've come all this way to be a guest. I, Zhao Zhe, have been inviting you for years. Now that you've finally come to guide our work, you must give me the opportunity to show you hospitality. Please..."

"Dr. Zhao, may I see the video recording of the interventional surgery you performed?"

Dr. Zhao was still being polite when Ji Xiang interrupted him. Ji Xiang had figured out Dr. Zhao's temperament; if he wasn't interrupted, Dr. Zhao could go on and on until the next morning.

"Oh?" Dr. Zhao's eyes suddenly lit up. "Dr. Xiao Ji is an interventional radiology doctor? No wonder Director Liu brought you...brought you here. Perfect timing, could you take a look at my surgery? Interventional surgery is really difficult."

Our tiny hospital doesn't have an interventional radiology department. I had to pass the radiology exam and beg and plead before they would allow me to perform interventional embolization.

You have no idea how difficult it is for me. When I first started learning interventional surgery, I was completely clueless and didn't dare to perform it on patients casually. The hospital wouldn't approve my request to go out for further training...

Dr. Zhao started talking again, going on and on.

Director Liu smiled slightly, "Xiao Ji isn't an interventional radiology doctor; he's a doctor in our department!"

"what!"

"However, Xiao Ji's interventional surgery was performed very well. Professor Ling Tianling from Shanghai made a special trip to our Second Affiliated Hospital this week to persuade Xiao Ji to go to Shanghai."

"Wow! That's amazing!" Dr. Zhao's eyes lit up, showing no jealousy whatsoever, only admiration and envy. He then affectionately pulled Ji Xiang into the office. "Dr. Ji, no, no, Professor Ji, you must give me some pointers on interventional surgery. Back then, when I was learning renal embolization surgery, I had no one to teach me. I learned by watching Professor Ling Tianling's surgical videos and by working my ass off for the cardiology department."

"Circulation Department?"

"In those years, we had just started performing circulatory interventional surgery, and their doctors all complained about the sutures getting stuck, so no one wanted to do it. I volunteered, and as long as they asked me and I had time, I would definitely go. Look at my hair, Dr. Liu, it's all because of the sutures and staying up late."

"After at least two years of honing my skills, I'm now a decent surgeon and know how to do it. After passing the certification exam, I tried performing a surgery."

"Did the patient's family consent?"

"The first surgery was performed on my dad, and I signed the consent form myself," Zhao Zhe chuckled.

"!!!" Director Liu frowned. This Dr. Zhao is really ruthless!

They dared to operate on their own father for their first surgery!

Amidst Dr. Zhao's incessant rambling, he found the only computer with a CD drive and put the CD in.

It's quite difficult to find a computer with a CD drive these days. Ji Xiang remembers the system NPC nagging that in the past, people burned CDs, but later they switched to portable hard drives for storage.

But in smaller places, the rules probably haven't changed yet.

"I had someone install this CD player, it cost me over eight hundred yuan, it really hurt my wallet," Dr. Zhao said as he put the CD player in. "It's because we people from small towns haven't seen much of the world. We can get away with this, but if we're just copying data..."

Amidst Dr. Zhao's rambling speech, he turned on the CD.

"Brother Zhao, do you need to bring a child along when you're selling DVDs? I used to see DVD sellers always carrying kids when I was a kid. Sometimes when they got caught, they'd throw a tantrum, and with a child in tow, the police couldn't really say anything."

"Stop joking, this is a legitimate disc," Dr. Zhao said. "Dr. Ji, could you take a look at it for me? If there are any problems, please feel free to tell me. I've been figuring things out on my own for so many years, and I'm really not confident when performing surgery on patients."

But we can't not do it. We don't have an interventional radiology department in this small place. If there's bleeding after partial resection, the patient will die.

Every time I finish surgery, I'm drenched in sweat, not from exhaustion, but from fear. Professor Ling Tian is recruiting you to Shanghai; soon you'll be a leading professor there. If you have time to go back to your hometown then…”

Dr. Zhao's words flowed endlessly, like the Yellow River's waters descending from the heavens.

Ji Xiang watched the surgical video and quickly became engrossed.

The catheters used during the surgery looked a bit strange; Ji Xiang had never seen them before. Because of this, he even went to the operating room once.

The system NPC was quite interested in this Dr. Zhao. According to him, the catheters used in the cardiology department are guiding catheters, which are pre-shaped, making coronary artery grafting easier.

However, this type of guiding catheter is less effective when used in tumor embolization.

Despite this, Dr. Zhao's surgery was still outstanding; according to Ji Xiang's assessment, it was at least at the LV6-7 level!

It's astonishing that Yuanliao City has such a talent. The key point is that, according to Dr. Zhao, he learned the surgery on his own later on, without even having a teacher!

No wonder my grandfather said that China is a vast country full of hidden talents.

Unexpectedly, this was a discovery. Ji Xiang pondered intently after reviewing the surgery.

(End of this chapter)