White armor

Chapter 411: Don’t cross the bottom line

Half an hour later, the patient's vital signs were stable and there were no abnormalities, which means that the acute phase of air embolism had passed.

After all, Luo Hao had sucked out all the air, so it looked like there should be very little left. If there was a little left, it wouldn't be a big deal.

Luo Hao heaved a sigh of relief, and then carefully asked the anesthesiologist to draw a blood gas analysis. After reading the report, he said to Wang Guohua, "Director Guohua, can you tell the patient's family?"

Wang Guohua responded sullenly.

This job cannot be done by anyone else, no matter whether we send the attending physician or Dr. Ni. We have to do it ourselves.

Wang Guohua turned around and walked off the stage. Seeing Luo Hao going to wash his hands, he hesitated for a moment, but finally refrained from questioning.

Although he felt uncomfortable every time he saw Luo Hao because of Wen Youren's matter, Wang Guohua was still relatively objective. He knew clearly that Luo Hao had helped him a lot about what happened today.

If Luo Hao hadn't been there, the patient in the study would have been forced to leave the stage, and how would they explain to the patient's family that he "died" in the intensive care unit?

An operation turned out to be so troublesome. Wang Guohua sighed.

Alas, who made me so disappointing?

Wang Guohua was very depressed, but the facts were there and he couldn't help but say "no".

Talking too much will only bring humiliation upon yourself.

"Director Guohua, I'll stop the bleeding first. You can come over later and I'll help you."

"Yeah." Wang Guohua responded dully.

He was in an odd, indescribable mood.

I greeted the patient's family and told them that the surgical procedure would be changed during the operation.

Because of word of mouth in Donglian City, Wang Guohua himself is a legend and is still highly trusted.

The signing process went smoothly. The patient's family expressed their understanding and repeatedly thanked Wang Guohua for his hard work. The patient's family did not question it.

Back in the operating room, Wang Guohua walked in the corridor, and suddenly a feeling of regret arose in his heart.

What high-speed rail!
What kind of airline is this!
If it were thirty years ago when the trains were still green, most people would have never even been out of Jiangbei Province. What would they know!
In Donglian City, he still has the final say and is still the most authoritative person in general surgery.

Now, whether it is high-speed rail or expressway, the distance from the provincial capital to Donglian City has been shortened to an outrageous extent.

But judging from the time, it is not as tedious and complicated as going to the countryside thirty years ago.

If that were the case, he wouldn't have to learn new techniques when he was over 60 years old, and he wouldn't have to deal with accidents like air embolism during the operation, leaving Luo Hao, a little guy who hadn't even grown all his hair, to save him.

hateful!

Wang Guohua was filled with resentment.

But in a flash, Wang Guohua realized how ridiculous his thoughts were.

Times have changed.

He smiled wryly and moved his nose to make the mask more comfortable.

But I don’t know what happened today. The mask was always tight on me and I felt uncomfortable no matter how I moved. It was even a bit painful.

As time went by, the scene of himself trying to stop a chariot and being crushed into pieces appeared in front of Wang Guohua.

How great it would be if I were twenty years younger, I could go to the imperial capital for further studies, learn better skills, and after returning I would be a respected figure in Donglian City.

What a pity, Wang Guohua sighed softly.

A voice came out as the airtight door of the operating room was kicked open.

"It still has to be you young people, I am old."

The voice belonged to Lin Yuming.

"In the past, I only grew hair on my head, not nose hair. Since the Chinese New Year this year, my nose hair has been growing like crazy like weeds."

"Dean Lin, is this true?"

"I don't know how you feel, but I think so. I should have trimmed my nose hair once a month before. Now I have to trim it every three days, otherwise it will grow out and make me look much messier."

Wang Guohua: ...

"Director Guohua, you're back." Luo Hao greeted him warmly when he saw Wang Guohua walk in.

"Ah."

Wang Guohua responded dully and then handed the signed form to the anesthesiologist.

"The examination revealed that the prostatic venous plexus was damaged. I have already stopped the bleeding. Please wash your hands and let me take a look. If there is no problem, we will continue."

The more polite Luo Hao spoke, the more uncomfortable Wang Guohua felt.

Are you being polite to yourself?

This is the yin and yang of yourself.

But there was nothing wrong with Luo Hao's expression and tone, and Lin Yuming was sitting behind him, so Wang Guohua could only swallow his anger.

Wash your hands again, change clothes, and go on stage.

Wang Guohua took a closer look and found that, just as Luo Hao said, the prostatic venous plexus was damaged.

Luo Hao also stood sideways in the assistant's position, giving the lower body operator's position to Wang Guohua.

"Dean Lin, I heard from my boss that the signs of a man's aging are not physiological."

"Ok?"

"When a man accepts his fate, he has grown old," Luo Hao said.

"!!!" Wang Guohua was stunned. Was this said to him? Or was it said by Luo Hao and Lin Yuming during the operation?

"The boss said that when he began to reminisce about his glorious past, he realized that he had grown old."

"Haha, that seems to make sense!"

"Is there a set of rhymes? Reading makes it farther away, peeing makes it closer; lying down makes you unable to sleep, sitting up makes you doze off; things in the past cannot be forgotten, things in the present cannot be remembered."

Luo Hao used the hemostatic forceps in his hand to open the surgical field, exposing the next surgical area to Wang Guohua, while still chatting with Lin Yuming.

Wang Guohua found it was really comfortable to work with Luo Hao. Even if it was a major operation, which was what he was good at, Luo Hao should be able to do better than him.

An assistant is the best indicator of one's ability, and Wang Guohua knows this very well.

After more than ten minutes of surgery, Wang Guohua was sure that Luo Haoda's surgical skills were better than his own, and not just laparoscopic. It was not a "should", but a "certainty".

Luo Hao kept chatting like this, and after more than 3 hours, the operation ended without any problems.

After taking off his gloves and stepping down, Luo Hao said hello to Wang Guohua and left with Lin Yuming.

From the beginning to the end, Luo Hao expressed respect for him, but Wang Guohua always felt that Luo Hao was playing tricks on him.

Wang Guohua didn't know where the specific problem lay.

Maybe I'm just being too suspicious.

When Wang Guohua thought about how he felt when he fought back against Lin Yuming before the operation, he felt resentful when the timeline came to the period after the operation.

But he was not wrong. Air embolism occurred during the operation and was successfully rescued.

What about yourself?
See the superior hospital for deep subclavian vein surgery before surgery, and also imitate this step.

But deep vein insertion has other meanings and is not just for infusion.

When it really came to be used, he was completely confused, and Luo Hao had to use the tube he had left to suck out the blood foam and air in the atrium.

Ugh.

The patient was sent to the ICU. Wang Guohua made a special facial recognition visit and said that there was a minor situation during the operation and the patient needed to be observed in the ICU for a day.

This move can be said to be quite cautious. Wang Guohua doesn't want anything to go wrong again so that Luo Hao will have to come to put out the fire.

Wang Guohua dragged his tired body back to the office.

He found that he was old, and it had nothing to do with the nose hair that Lin Yuming mentioned, or the thoughts that Luo Hao mentioned. It was just that his body could not withstand the 5-hour surgery.

in those days!
Wang Guohua sighed.

When I was young, I could perform surgery during the day and then go to the court with a basketball after get off work. But what about now?
The 5-hour operation made me exhausted.

Sitting at his desk, Wang Guohua felt a little lost.

"Dong Dong Dong~"

After an unknown amount of time, there was a knock on the door.

"Enter."

The door of the director's office was pushed open and Wen Youren walked in.

"Master." Wen Youren was a little excited, with a bright light in his eyes.

Wang Guohua suddenly felt a little annoyed, but he couldn't tell why.

Wen Youren closed the door and said in a low but excited voice, "I heard that there was a small problem during the operation?"

"Well, the prostatic venous plexus was bleeding. When the pneumoperitoneum was established, carbon dioxide entered the blood vessels, causing air embolism."

Wang Guohua knew very well how heavy the words "air embolism" were.

Even though the incident has passed and the patient is safe and sound, Wang Guohua is still frightened.

But Wen Youren didn't notice these four words at all. He said excitedly, "I heard that Luo Hao participated in the rescue and went on stage?!"

"Huh?" Wang Guohua was stunned.

He was not surprised at how Wen Youren knew this. After all, Wen Youren was the former director of general surgery and he must have had quite a few bad friends.

It's not surprising that he knows this.

What Wang Guohua cared about was the bright light in Wen Youren's eyes.

What is he doing?
In an instant, Wang Guohua felt disgusted and hateful.

How could the disciple whom I personally taught be in such a state?
"This is simply courting death! Even if that damn vice president Lin Yuming is backing him up, I will sue him this time..."

"Pa~~~" Wang Guohua stood up quietly, walked to Wen Youren with an expressionless face, and slapped him on the cheek.

Wen Youren covered his face with his hands, staring blankly at his master who had doted on him since he was a child. He couldn't believe that it was his master who had just slapped him in the ass.

"Are you a human being?" Wang Guohua said calmly.

His tone was very calm, and he didn't sound angry at all. Although he was scolding Wen Youren, if someone closed their eyes and listened, it sounded like he was just chatting.

Wen Youren was stunned. He knew Wang Guohua and knew that his master was angry, the kind that was furious.

"Master..." Wen Youren wanted to make amends.

"I'm not your master, get out of here!" Wang Guohua pointed at the office door and shouted fiercely. The roar was completely different from the calmness just now.

Wen Youren was stunned for a moment, his face turned pale, as if the sky was falling.

Wang Guohua knew very well what Wen Youren was thinking.

Luo Hao participated in the rescue and surgery, but the procedures were completed later. Even though Lin Yuming, the General Medical Department of Donglian Mine, and the Medical Department of the First Hospital of Medical University completed the procedures, his participation in the rescue was somewhat against regulations.

This is the rule, no matter whether it is reasonable or not, it is there, cold and hard.

Wang Guohua looked at Wen Youren coldly.

"Are you going to report it to the inspection team? The inspection team happens to be in Donglian." Wang Guohua asked coldly.

"Master, I...I just can't swallow this."

Wen Youren covered his face with his hands and spoke in a hoarse voice. As he spoke, his eyes unconsciously turned red.

Alas, it’s all my fault, Wang Guohua thought.

Thanks to the favors from Wen Youren's parents over the years, after he became the director, he transferred Wen Youren, who had just graduated from a technical secondary school and worked as an electrician, to his team and taught him the surgery step by step.

This was originally a beautiful story of a father inheriting his business from his son. There was no debt, only a drop of kindness was repaid with a spring of gratitude.

All the beauty in the world can be reflected in yourself.

But I didn't expect that after so many years, Wen Youren had become so arrogant that he had no idea of ​​his own capabilities and what he could do.

After being screwed over and over again, he still didn't learn his lesson and was still thinking about taking revenge on Luo Hao.

Wang Guohua sighed, sat down dejectedly, and shook his head helplessly.

"Youren, please sit down. Let's have a good chat." Wang Guohua knocked on the table, just like when he sat down to explain the operation to Wen Youren after the operation.

Wen Youren sat down in a daze.

"As a doctor, you have to have a bottom line. Making some money is nothing. It's a gray area, that's what the higher-ups left behind. If you don't make money, you'll just be laughed at as a fool."

“???” Wen Youren was stunned. He didn’t expect Wang Guohua to say this to him.

"When the situation gets tense and when to back off, these cannot be said openly. Only heaven and earth know, and only the superiors and the subordinates know."

"As for who is in trouble and who is not, we will settle the score later, and everyone knows it."

"Master?"

"Shut up and listen to me quietly." Wang Guohua seemed to have calmed down. He said calmly, "Youren, you have only looked up in your life and think that the people below you are ants. I told you twice, but you didn't listen."

"Actually, everyone has a book of accounts in their mind. Do you think that only the higher-ups will settle the accounts? Who among the higher-ups cares about your trivial matters?"

"Uh..." Wen Youren was stunned.

"If you go too far in some things, everyone can understand. For example, if you squeeze out several capable senior doctors under you, those who go to the emergency department go to the emergency department, and those who go to the outpatient department go to the outpatient department, Jiang Wenming will resign directly."

"Which director hasn't done these things? Old Sui from the orthopedics department, who graduated from graduate school that year, relied on the fact that he was a second-generation doctor and his family was capable, and directly became the deputy director and acting director."

"Within three months of becoming the director, he fired all the experienced orthopedic surgeons who could perform surgeries and started working with a bunch of young doctors who had just graduated."

"Everyone can understand these. Anyone who takes over will do the same. This is what can be done."

Wen Youren was confused.

Others would have understood what Wang Guohua meant, but Wen Youren was a little drunk and confused, and had no idea what his master was talking about.

"But there are some things that cannot be touched. Do you think curing diseases and saving lives is brainwashing or just a joke?" Wang Guohua looked at Wen Youren with bright eyes.

"what?!"

"Indeed, the deans sitting in the upper echelons are talking nonsense, wearing high hats and treating people like cattle and horses. They only care about curing and saving lives, but not where the money for curing and saving lives comes from. They only talk about dedication, not risks."

"But we are doctors. Even if we are a little cold and lack empathy, we cannot use our professional knowledge to push patients into trouble. This is the bottom line. This time, you have stepped on the bottom line of most people."

"The patient can die, he can die due to insufficient technical skills or serious illness. But he cannot die due to your instigation!"

“……” Wen Youren was speechless.

"I owed Luo Hao a favor for today's incident." Wang Guohua said calmly, "If you want to report it with your real name, go ahead, but I'm telling you, you can't get past the first hurdle of reporting with your real name. This matter ends with me."

"!!!"

"I, Wang Guohua, use my reputation to invite experts from the First Hospital of Medical University to take charge, but I don't want patients to spend more money. Do you think rules are important? Jianghu is not about fighting and killing, but about human relationships and social etiquette."

Wang Guohua said an old-fashioned thing.

Jianghu is not about fighting and killing, it is about human relations.

These words were too greasy, and even Wen Youren, who was already in his forties, sounded the same.

"Okay, that's it." Wang Guohua nodded. "Youren, stop it. Do you think it was Luo Hao's idea to quit your job and start a business? Let me tell you, what you did in Qianhe County is a time bomb for any hospital."

“……”Wen Youren was not convinced.

"In the next city, there is a hospital that had a serious medical dispute more than a decade ago. How serious was it? The patient's family members went to the director's office with a gas tank and said if he didn't give an explanation today, they would give the director an explanation."

"The matter was later suppressed, and it turned out that it was an anesthesiologist who said a lot of things that shouldn't have been said."

"What happened next?" Wen Youren asked.

"At that time, there was no such thing as leaving the job to start a business. The doctor was sent to Africa to provide support three months later. He served for nine years, a full nine years, and retired due to illness when he was 3. He was not promoted to a senior professor until his retirement."

"So, don't go too far in some things. Everyone agrees." Wang Guohua sighed, "Don't be unconvinced. Today we two will have our last heart-to-heart talk."

Wen Youren noticed that Wang Guohua mentioned the word "last time" again this time, and he was a little panicked.

"Quit your job and start your own business. You won't starve to death. Wait a few years and come back to apply for medical retirement... It's difficult to get medical retirement these days. Most people can't get it if they want to. Hahaha." Wang Guohua laughed like crazy.

"Master, I..."

"Forget about you. What do you mean by you? If you had that ability, you would be a professor at the First Hospital of Medical University and perform surgery instead of Luo Hao." Wang Guohua looked at Wen Youren with sparkling eyes. "You can do something without eating. You can just go to a private hospital and get a double eyelid. You have the skills. How can you call this money from a public hospital money?"

"Go ahead, stop struggling. I have to go to the ICU to see the patient later. It's air embolism, that's air embolism." Wang Guohua sighed.

……

……

Luo Hao waited for Lin Yuming to get off work, and they went home and had dinner.

There are no stories at home, only peace of mind.

The calmness seems to be able to ignore the passage of time, smooth out all the waves, and bring peace and tranquility.

Luo Hao particularly likes the feeling of home, especially after returning from the United States.

After dinner, he watched TV with his mother and chatted with her. After his mother had a rest, Luo Hao took Lin Yuming, Chen Yong, Wang Jiani and Liu Yiyi to go to Lei'an for a barbecue.

The provincial capital is good in every way except that there is no home and no Lai'an barbecue.

It was already past ten o'clock and not many people were having supper. Ding, the owner of Lai'an BBQ, was sitting behind the bar, browsing his phone.

"Boss Ding, long time no see." Luo Hao greeted after entering the room.

"Xiao Luo, when did you come back?"

"I just came back. I went home to visit and to see Boss Ding." Luo Hao said with a smile, "I'll serve you some skewers. Just make sure it's enough to eat. By the way, there aren't many customers. Boss Ding, come with us."

They were all regular customers, so Boss Ding immediately put away his phone and went about his business.

A few people were chatting, and soon Boss Ding came up with handfuls of skewers.

After opening a few bottles of beer, Boss Ding toasted Lin Yuming first.

"Boss Ding, why are you so polite?" Luo Hao asked.

"My nephew fell ill a while ago, and it was all thanks to Dean Lin who ran around to help him."

"Sick? What kind of illness?" Luo Hao didn't know this.

"Don't mention it." Boss Ding sighed, "My nephew was doing foreign trade. He met with several Indian clients in Yiwu and negotiated the contract for three days. Then he suddenly died."

"???"

"???"

Luo Hao and Chen Yong were particularly impressed by India. It seems that several Indian customers were dying in the process of negotiating business? This is a bit exaggerated.

"He was hospitalized in a nearby hospital at the time. I felt he was not doing well and was worried, so I flew over to bring him back."

"Guess what happened? I went straight to the ICU after I came back, and they diagnosed me with bacterial pneumonia."

"The bacterial culture showed E. coli." Lin Yuming said.

"!!!"

Even Luo Hao was shocked.

E. coli was found in the sputum culture of the respiratory tract? Luo Hao's first thought was that the big Maitai went to swim in the septic tank and the feces went into the respiratory tract.

I didn't expect Indians to be so aggressive. Even a business negotiation could lead to lobar pneumonia and E. coli.

"Xiao Luohao, do you think it's possible? I always feel that it's a laboratory error." Lin Yuming asked with a frown.

"I don't know." Luo Hao was a little confused. "But there was indeed a problem over there. Director Feng went with me. I also prepared water and various foods. As a result, Director Feng returned to his residence and he started to have diarrhea because the bath water splashed into his mouth after taking a shower."

"But E. coli, this is too scary."

"Indeed, I can't understand it." Luo Hao frowned. No matter from which angle he thought about it, he seemed unable to understand it.

Doesn't that make sense?

"What happened next?" Luo Hao asked subconsciously.

"You have been in the ICU for seven days. That's good. In my opinion, Ronaldinho, if you can come back alive after going to India, it's a great honor for your ancestors."

"That's not what they said. It's not that weird."

"No? Are you kidding me? Luo Hao, you are trying to smooth things over again." Chen Yong curled his lips and said disdainfully, "There is an TikTok host who travels all over the world to eat delicious food. He was not very popular before, but then he became famous overnight. Why? He went to India and dared to eat roadside pancakes!"

"..." Luo Hao didn't know how to refute.

"Then the up-host disappeared for a while, probably because he was recovering from an illness. Now it seems that eating pancakes in India is more dangerous than doing a live broadcast of eating shit while standing upside down."

Liu Yiyi found what Chen Yong said disgusting and kicked him on the table.

"Tell the truth." Chen Yong scratched his head.

The barbecue skewers in Lei'an are indeed delicious. They are all made of beef from Changnan City, which is skewered and grilled on the spot.

When they were almost done eating, Lin Yuming’s cell phone rang.

He picked up his phone, took a look, and answered the call. "It's so late, what's the matter?"

(End of this chapter)