Healing Doctor

Chapter 226 The Unease in My Heart

As for Zhao Tianjiao, the young man is quite energetic, Director Bai thought to himself. But comparing them is unnecessary.

There was no need to think about these things. Director Bai watched a delightful surgery, but he felt a vague sense of unease.

As for why he had this feeling, he had no idea.

After a long pause, Director Bai slowly went to change his clothes.

"Director Bai, you've arrived."

A surgical professor, who had just finished surgery, was smoking and chatting when he saw Director Bai come out and immediately stood up to greet him.

"Hmm." Director Bai thought about Ji Xiang in his mind and returned a smile.

"How's that dispute with the obstetrics patient going? When we heard about it, we almost died laughing."

"I asked the professor leading the group."

This was a dispute that happened a few days ago. It started when the partner of a woman in labor was idly riding on a birthing ball in the delivery room, and then...

He accidentally fell and fractured his skull.

This farcical dispute was quite baffling and circulated widely in the hospital at the time.

"It's nothing, the patient has already gone home." Director Bai wasn't really interested in chatting with the surgeon and gave a perfunctory reply.

Since he became the head of the medical department, he has had less and less contact with his former cronies, and his official arrogance has become increasingly pronounced.

It has to be taken seriously; every medical dispute is like a rescue operation.

If Director Bai doesn't shout, no one will take him seriously.

Director Bai tried to pinpoint why he had that strange feeling, and silently changed his clothes. But a few seconds later, he realized that the atmosphere in the changing room was somewhat heavy.

"You two continue your conversation. What did I say before I came in?"

"Old Qian, who works in the kidneys, is currently overwhelmed with work, dealing with the school and the woman's parents."

"Hmm? Qian Xuebin? How old is his son?"

"Senior year of high school," the surgery professor replied, barely suppressing a laugh.

"High school senior year... yeah, kids these days are different from us when we were young. I got married right after my first love, and now I think it was a bit of a rip-off. But Qian Xuebin was right too, reminding his son to be careful, not to neglect him just because he's a boy."

"Director Bai, we've taken measures. But..."

The surgical professor finally couldn't hold back and burst into laughter.

"I'm sorry, I just couldn't help it," the surgery professor explained. "We did use protection, a condom, but apparently we turned the condom inside out and used it again during the second round."

You know, it's amazing that Lao Qian's thrifty habits can be inherited. The key is that no matter how much he saves, he can't afford to reuse anything.

"..." Director Bai was also speechless.

Education is completely lagging behind; even the official website of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in the UK has been marked in yellow. I'm afraid things will only get worse in the future.

However, Director Bai couldn't solve this kind of problem, and he didn't dwell on things he couldn't control, letting them pass by in an instant.

"Yeah, that's right. Young people these days are both incompetent and love to play around," another professor laughed. "The other day during a gynecological consultation, I heard them say that a girl had irregular periods, which was said to be due to an overdose of birth control pills. The gynecologist asked if the instructions said the dosage, and guess what she said?"

"One pill at a time, if you follow the prescribed number of times, you'll end up taking an excessive dose," Director Bai said calmly.

"Oh, it's gotten to the dispute resolution office?"

"The dispute resolution office handles these kinds of cases too often; there's no need to even think about it," Director Bai chuckled. "We have a particularly difficult patient, someone who needs a tooth extraction at the dental clinic. Do you know who he is?"

Everyone shook their heads.

Everyone was puzzled. According to what Director Bai said, the matter should be very serious, but the Department of Stomatology had not heard of any major medical disputes.

"After the tooth was extracted, he insisted that the wrong tooth was extracted and demanded compensation. We have both the pre- and post-operative CT scans, but he just won't admit it," Director Bai said. "He also claimed that his family is poor and he can't afford to see a doctor again after the wrong tooth was extracted, playing the victim."

"How much did you lose?"

"No compensation," Director Bai said. "When I first arrived, I arranged for a support doctor to talk to him. I just didn't believe that with the CT scans and clear objective evidence, and no aftereffects, why should we pay compensation?"

Director Bai, after all, comes from a clinical background, and it's difficult for clinicians to fool him. However, if a clinician is in the right, Director Bai will tend to protect them.

People who work in clinical practice are all a bit stubborn, and even Director Bai can't change that.

"I observed that he shouldn't be from a poor family. Later, I had someone take a look. He came to the hospital by bicycle and went to change bicycles when he left."

"Oh, you've started driving."

"I drive a BMW X5."

"Wow! If you can drive an X5, why would you be thinking about this little bit of money?!" a professor exclaimed in surprise.

"There are all kinds of people," Director Bai said. "There are people who drive nice cars to steal watermelons from fields, and the most outrageous one is the daughter of a bank manager I know. She went to the bank next door and always stole cash."

"!!!"

"It wasn't much money, only 1200 yuan from beginning to end. The surveillance video found out as soon as it was reviewed. After being discovered, she even argued that she did what everyone wanted to do but dared not do."

"That makes sense," one person said.

The person next to him quickly kicked him, and the man immediately shut up.

"You guys keep chatting, I'm leaving now," Director Bai said after changing his clothes.

He knew that the atmosphere would be awkward if he was in the locker room, so he figured it was better to leave early and do his own thing than to create a tense atmosphere for everyone.

As soon as he said it, he suddenly remembered something, "I have a question for you."

"Director Bai, please speak," everyone said in unison.

What's the most amazing surgery you've ever seen performed?

After a brief silence, one of them chuckled. "When I was doing my advanced training in Shanghai, there was a surgery where the pleural adhesions were particularly severe. The chief surgeon's protégé was incredibly intelligent; he knew the chief surgeon would get angry, so he immediately started another operation. He personally cleaned up the mediastinal tumor completely, then went in and fired a shot, and that was it."

Director Bai smiled; the surgery was indeed performed perfectly.

"Then he said to the head doctor, 'Master, I can't do that side, can we switch?' The head doctor went and punctured the tumor with one shot, finished in twenty minutes, and came back feeling refreshed. The two of them then successfully removed the pleural adhesions."

"How long did it take?"

"Four hours," the thoracic surgery professor said. "With the thoracoscopic approach, you can't see anything, and there's bleeding everywhere you try to dissect. It's only thanks to the chief surgeon's skill that he was able to steadily dissect the tissue bit by bit without being able to see any anatomical structures using the thoracoscopic approach, and just like that, he successfully completed the surgery!"

Anatomical structure!

A flash of lightning struck Director Bai's mind.

During the surgery, he remarked that Ji Xiang's surgical anatomy was clear, but it was just a fleeting thought that left an impression on his subconscious.

The anatomical structure that Ji Xiang performed the surgery on was not clear; it looked more like a teacher in a school's research department performing a partial anatomical specimen!

So that's where my unease came from!

Director Bai's hands were a little cold, and his blood oxygen saturation was dropping rapidly.

Ji Xiang!

The anatomical structures in his hands were so clear, it was as if he were attending an anatomy class!

(End of this chapter)