The Surgeon's Studio

Panda Novel

“Let’s do a head CT. I have a headache. I need to check if there’s a lumen infarction or an intracranial hemorrhage.” Zheng Ren looked at the long line behind him and felt helpless. He wanted to send this person away as soon as possible.

It had nothing to do with medical ethics. These were the normal procedures required to be done.

To get an infusion without an examination? That was what small clinics did. Zheng Ren did not want to be one of those “saintly” doctors. He could tell the patient was fine just by looking at her.

“Are you alright?” The woman was suddenly unhappy. She pointed at Zheng Ren’s nose and spat on his face. “I just want a drip. Why are you giving me an examination? Are doctors all blind? All you do is check and check. Is that all doctors do? Decades ago, did people just die when CT machines didn’t exist?!”

Zheng Ren felt helpless.

What in the world was going on?

A whole bunch of patients were waiting to see a doctor. This woman did not even want to do a check-up and just wanted a drip.

She pointed at her nose and started cursing.

This situation was really unreasonable.

A woman of this age was full of energy. If she was really provoked, it would be considered a light punishment if all she did was throw a tantrum. If she dared to take off her clothes in front of countless pairs of eyes, she would say that Zheng Ren had molested her. (Note 1)

If that was really the case, Zheng Ren did not feel it was very awkward. Instead, he felt that it was a waste of his time.

There were still so many patients at the back. Although as far as the eye could see, they could not be allowed to sit on hard, plastic chairs in the corridor and wait for the whole morning, right?

“It seems you’re mute!” The woman saw that Zheng Ren did not speak and chided him proudly, “I just want an IV drip. You want me to spend a few hundred yuan for just a check-up. Does money grow off trees for you? Are you doing this against your conscience? Is this what a doctor does with his white coat?”

“White Angels? They’re all wolves in human skin!”

The woman nagged for a few minutes. At this moment, Zheng Ren missed Su Yun very much.

That bastard Su Yun… forget it. It was probably useless even if he came.

Faced with a criminal gang that kidnapped children and came to the hospital to extort money, Zheng Ren was able to go up and kick them out. He did not care about anything else.

But faced with such a person…

He could not fight with her, right? Putting aside whether it was embarrassing or not, what could he do with so many patients behind him?

Life was so helpless.

Forget it, he would just have to bite the bullet and deal with the situation himself. However, how should he deal with this?

Although Zheng Ren had been a doctor for many years and had some skills and experience in dealing with patients, he was helpless against such an unreasonable person.

“Hey, that’s enough.” A middle-aged man said from behind, “Cutting the line to see the doctor is already unethical enough. However, you’re still trying to scold the doctor.”

Zheng Ren’s face was filled with tears. Finally, someone spoke up for him.

“If you want to scold him, you can scold him when he gets off work. Don’t check-ups for the rest of us,” the middle-aged man continued.

F*ck… Brother, you really know how to spin words around.

Zheng Ren glanced at the man. Tears flowed uncontrollably.

What did he mean by scolding him after he got off work? Zheng Ren knew it was just a casual remark but it still made him unhappy.

His EQ was low, but the man’s seemed even lower.

He was speechless… No wonder there were fewer and fewer doctors in the emergency department. Who would want to do such a job?

However, the man successfully diverted the woman’s attention. Two people with bad tempers started to scold one another.

The security guard persuaded the two energetic people to move to the corridor as they started to scold each other to their heart’s content.

Zheng Ren quickly took the time to deal with the patient who had been waiting for more than ten minutes.

While he was busy, he raised his head and saw a patient being pushed through the emergency department’s entrance. Zheng Ren quickly called him in.

The patient’s system diagnosis was right lobe pneumonia with a small amount of pleural effusion.

Pneumonia combined with pleural effusion was considered a relatively serious case of inflammation. Therefore, Zheng Ren gave him a CT scan of the lungs and asked him to go for a check-up. He was just waiting for him to come back so that he could be admitted to the hospital.

“Auntie, I’m sorry. The patient’s condition is quite serious. I’ll need you to wait for a few more minutes of your time,” Zheng Ren explained politely to an elderly woman in her sixties that accompanied the patient.

“It’s okay, child. You go and do your work. I’m fine,” the auntie answered in a friendly manner.

Zheng Ren was relieved. People like these were usually pretty rare.

He waved his hand and called the patient with pneumonia and pleural effusion in.

He picked up the film and inserted it into the reading device.

“The inflammation in your lungs is very serious. There is now inflammatory exudation, forming pleural effusion.” Zheng Ren pointed at the image on the film with the pen in his hand as he explained to the patient, “I suggest you go to the hospital and take some antibiotics for a period of time to prevent the inflammation from worsening and causing… ”

“Doctor, why do I need anti-inflammatory drugs?” the man asked disdainfully. “Don’t you know that anti-inflammatory drugs are bad for your body?”

Zheng Ren was talking happily with both reason and evidence. He did not expect the patient to say such a thing.

“Isn’t it just pneumonia?” The patient scoffed. “My body is fine. Just give me a few days of oral medicine.”

“Your pneumonia is more severe than normal…”

“Didn’t you hear what I said? Isn’t it just pneumonia? What’s the big deal?” The man patted his chest with his hand, thumping his chest heartily. “I’ll just take oral medicine for a few days. I won’t be hospitalized.”

Zheng Ren wanted to persuade him a little more but when he saw the disdainful smile on the man’s face, all the words in his heart turned into ash.

“In ancient times, there were no anti-inflammatory drugs. Weren’t people still alive then?”

Zheng Ren really wanted to tell him how long the average life expectancy in ancient times was versus that of modern times.

However when the words came to his mouth, they turned into a sigh.

Even if he turned into a smart person, it was meaningless.

“Child, you should listen to the doctor’s words,” the aunt behind him advised.

“Auntie, don’t you know that doctors these days always order anti-inflammatory drugs for every illness. A few days ago, I saw a public account that said Chinese people ingest anti-inflammatory drugs…” The man’s memory was really good, he could recount about seventy to eighty percent of the things on the public account.

Like a science lesson, he gave the aunt a health care lesson.

Zheng Ren felt helpless. Normally, he would encounter one or two such cases in a week. However, why did he encounter two of them today?

One of them was not sick, but still insisted on getting a drip.

The other one was very sick but refused the idea of taking antibiotics.

“Are you really not going to be hospitalized?” Zheng Ren found the patient’s medical information and printed out two hospitalization forms for the Department of Internal Medicine.

“Of course.” The man looked proud as if he could see through all the tricks in the world.

Smart and wise.

“This is for you. Whether you want to be hospitalized or not is up to you. If you want to be hospitalized, you can take the hospital admission form and pay at the in-patient cashier anytime. After that, you can go to the Department of Internal Medicine for in-patient treatment.” Zheng Ren had now fulfilled his obligation. “Meanwhile, I’ll keep this form. Please write the words ‘refuse to be admitted’ at the back.”

“Tsk, you’re scaring me. I graduated from Xiamen University.” The man pursed his lips, picked up the pen on Zheng Ren’s desk as he began to write on the back of the admission form.

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Note 1: A few days ago, I watched a video of someone taking off his clothes and causing trouble in the emergency department. It seemed to be from Hunan Xiangya. I’ve met this kind of person twice in my class. The probability isn’t high. It’s just that novels always have to be condensed for the protagonist to encounter them. In fact, most people are docile and kind.