Healing Doctor

Chapter 34 What are catfish used for?

The patient was about twenty years old, with a youthful face, but his facial muscles were twisted so badly that he looked somewhat ferocious.

He was holding a fish in both hands, screaming shrilly.

What the hell is this? Ji Xiang was dumbfounded.

That fish... completely swallowed the surgical area, hanging there, looking both strange and ridiculous.

Ji Xiang racked his brains but still couldn't figure out what this young man was up to.

The key point is that the fish was alive, still thrashing about, and every movement was accompanied by the young man's wailing and howling.

Professor Mo walked over quickly, without saying a word, and pinched the catfish's gills with one hand, easily "pulling" the fish off.

It seemed effortless and straightforward, so Ji Xiang didn't even notice.

His gaze fell on the patient—no need for a circumcision. Ji Xiang saw the area of ​​blood still flowing after the fish mouth was removed, and a strange thought popped into his mind.

Professor Mo did not treat the wound, but said calmly, "Don't move it yet, wait for the ambulance to arrive and take you to the hospital for treatment."

"Professor Mo, are you alright?"

The shop owner next door was startled by the sight of blood and asked worriedly.

Professor Mo winked at him, then his tone turned serious, and he said sternly, "It's very likely that it can't be saved and will have to be amputated."

Upon hearing Professor Mo's words, the young man burst into tears.

"..."

Ji Xiang squinted at the location of the patient's injury. It shouldn't be anything serious, but it looked frightening.

The owner of the shop next door was also startled; his legs trembled, and he nearly fell to the ground.

The owner of Yiyang Barbecue was familiar with Mo Chenggui. He sensed something was off from Professor Mo's tone, so he helped the owner of the shop next door out and instructed one of his employees to take care of the patient.

"Brother Mo, is something wrong?"

After we went outside, the owner of Qiyang Barbecue lowered his voice and asked.

Mo Chenggui smiled and said, "It's alright, don't worry, I was just teasing the child."

"Phew, that's good." The owner of Qiyang Barbecue breathed a sigh of relief and patted the owner of the shop next door on the shoulder. "It's okay, it's okay, don't worry."

"It looks like there's blood, but it's just damaged capillaries. Go to the hospital to have the wound disinfected and checked. If it's a little deep, you'll need a stitch, but if it's shallow, it'll heal on its own," Mo Chenggui said.

"Professor Mo, you scared me to death!" The shop owner next door had a strange mix of crying and glee on his face. "You...you..."

"The kid saw it somewhere and just made things up!" Mo Chenggui scolded. "Usually they use... and some less common ones... Ugh, why am I telling you this? Kids these days have no common sense at all, yet they're so bold."

"Brother Mo, you're really experienced," the owner of Yiyang Barbecue praised with a mischievous grin.

"..."

Ji Xiang almost burst out laughing when faced with the praise from the owner of Yiyang Barbecue.

Mo Chenggui glared at the owner of Yiyang Barbecue with a dark expression.

"I meant I have a lot of experience in problem-solving, not... not..."

"Ji Xiang, go to the hospital. Don't wait for the ambulance," Mo Chenggui instructed. "Go see how General Manager Wu is handling it, and lend a hand if you can."

"it is good."

Ji Xiang wasn't interested in eating and drinking. Hearing Mo Chenggui's instructions, he immediately turned around and ran out quickly.

However, Ji Xiang did not go directly to the hospital. He heard the siren of an ambulance coming from afar, estimated the time, found a secluded place, and calmly entered the system space.

"Teacher." Ji Xiang greeted the system NPC respectfully as he entered.

"You're here, Dr. Ji," the system NPC said gently. "What techniques are you going to train us on today?"

"Teacher, I'd like to stop my surgical training for now and ask you some questions." Ji Xiang quickly interrupted the system NPC and recounted everything he had just witnessed.

The system NPC, with its rich clinical experience, was no longer surprised and simply nodded slightly.

"Teacher, what is the purpose of catfish in urological trauma surgery?" Ji Xiang asked curiously.

The system NPC stared into Ji Xiang's eyes, making Ji Xiang feel uneasy.

"You don't know?" The system NPC asked after a full 10 seconds.

Ji Xiang shook his head blankly.

"Want to give it a try?" the system NPC asked.

"Give it a try?" Ji Xiang shuddered at the thought of the man with a catfish hanging from his arm, howling like a ghost whenever the catfish shook.

But since the system NPC said so, Ji Xiang couldn't refuse.

The fact that you can earn surgery points for sharing your experience is also beneficial for Ji Xiang.

"Okay." Ji Xiang prepared to make a "sacrifice."

He was also curious about what this thing was for.

The catfish started howling and wailing as soon as it swayed, which made Ji Xiang a little wary. Could it really be broken?

Unless the knife falls on him, it will always remain just gossip. Ji Xiang tried hard to calm himself down; he didn't want to be awakened by the system NPC.

Follow the system NPC to the next room.

With a flicker of light and shadow, Ji Xiang arrived in another world in the blink of an eye.

"Dr. Ji, today is the day to test your mettle."

Ji Xiang was taken aback. He glanced at her and saw a nurse in her late twenties who was tidying up the medicines in the ambulance while talking to him.

After quickly recalling the events, Ji Xiang was somewhat puzzled.

This time, he felt empathy as an emergency room doctor responsible for dispatching ambulances, not as a strange patient using catfish.

What's going on? Ji Xiang looked up at the sky, shrugged, and asked, puzzled.

"Old Liu, who works the same job, is really unlucky. I just can't work the same shift as him. Every time it's mealtime, as soon as Old Liu picks up his chopsticks, the ambulance bell goes off. By the time he gets back, the food is cold. If I ever work the same shift as him again, I'll definitely have stomach problems within three months."

Ji Xiang listened to the nurse's rambling and smiled.

The nurse meticulously checked the medications in the ambulance. After finishing, she turned around and smiled at Ji Xiang, "On clinical duty, they bully newbies. You'll have to get used to it."

"Sister Man, I'm fine." Ji Xiang knew that this was an empathy system, just an illusion, a dream, so he wasn't worried.

Sister Man chuckled, clearly thinking that Ji Xiang had no idea how deep clinical knowledge was.

But these things are hard to explain; you have to experience them yourself to understand.

"You call me Sister Man, but I'm actually very efficient at my work. Dr. Ji, don't you think the name 'Man' sounds lovely? It's practically a name meant for girls."

"It sounds pretty good," Ji Xiang said casually.

"Manling, Manyu, Manli, tsk tsk," the nurse said with a smile.

"Ultraman?"

"!!!"

The nurse rolled her eyes at Ji Xiang. "You're all packed. You have to be on the bus one minute after the bell rings. Don't take off your clothes while you're sleeping."

"I know, I know," Ji Xiang said with a smile. "Don't worry, Sister Man."

"Come on, let me take you to pay respects to our department's mascot." Sister Man didn't care about Ultraman that Ji Xiang had just mentioned.

"mascot?"

"Let me tell you, when our department was first established a few years ago, we were extremely busy. Let me put it this way, the overall social security level dropped by 10 years because of the existence of our emergency department."

"..."

"Every day, there are a constant stream of drunk driving and knife wound patients. Once, the emergency 120 ambulance dispatched a pregnant woman whose water had broken. In the ambulance, the fetus was half out, and the umbilical cord was wrapped around its neck. The woman's face was all blue."

"..."

Ji Xiang remained silent.

What a damn unlucky department.

The emergency department is busy, but it's rare to see such a busy department experiencing such bad luck.

Could it be that the system NPC made a mistake?

He asked what the catfish was used for, but how did he manage to make him empathize with the emergency room doctor?

Filled with doubt, Ji Xiang followed the nurse inside.

"Later, the director somehow got hold of a tortoise, claiming it was a bloodline of Wudang Mountain, capable of suppressing all demons and monsters." Sister Man was spouting nonsense, her words flowing freely.

"Will it work?" Ji Xiang asked.

"Of course." Sister Man led Ji Xiang to the nurse's office, where there was a turtle tank with a slide. A turtle was slowly climbing up the slide, having a great time.

"Don't call this feudal superstition, where are the statistics?" Sister Man said, staring at the tortoise.

"With this ancestor guarding the area, the number of emergency room visits in our department has decreased by 30%. To put it another way, before this, we were making more than 30 ambulance calls in 24 hours. Our two Mercedes ambulances were practically smoking from all the rushing around."

Let me put it this way: change your brake pads every three months!

"So many." Ji Xiang exclaimed in surprise.

"With it, I only need to make less than 20 trips a day, both inside and outside the city. Isn't that amazing?"

Ji Xiang nodded seriously.

"Change the water once a week. Everyone will remind you of this during shift changes, so just remember," Sister Man said, starting to prepare to change the water in the turtle tank.

"Just tap water?" Ji Xiang asked in surprise.

He had already put himself in the role and felt that such a mascot and a treasure for protecting the home deserved better treatment.

"Then what should we use? Dew? Go to Guanyin Bodhisattva's temple and pray to the Bodhisattva?" Sister Man asked back.

"hey-hey."

Ji Xiang had never done this before, and he worked up a sweat just helping out.

Halfway through changing the water, a sharp alarm suddenly sounded, startling Ji Xiang.

"Damn it!" Sister Man cursed, glaring fiercely at Ji Xiang, as if it was all Ji Xiang's fault for having an emergency.

The people new doctors fear most are not their supervising teachers, but nurses—a fact Ji Xiang learned during his internship.

He didn't explain, but instead awkwardly retreated to the corner.

"Okay, okay, okay." Sister Man answered the phone, and at the same time, a piece of paper came out of the printer with the patient's name, home address, phone number, and condition written on it.

Ji Xiang's heart skipped a beat. He glanced at it and saw the words "catfish bite" written on the medical record.

So that's how it is. Ji Xiang finally "understood" what the system NPC meant.

The person I'm truly empathizing with isn't the patient, but the emergency room doctor. But... what's so great about that? Is the system also under a 404 error, preventing me from freely experiencing these feelings?

A divine beast is a divine beast indeed; even the system is somewhat wary of it. Ji Xiang sighed.

"Let's go!" Sister Man grabbed Ji Xiang's white coat and ran to the ambulance.

"Sister Man, what is a catfish bite?" Ji Xiang asked Sister Man earnestly.

(End of this chapter)