Chinese medicine: When you do things to the extreme

Chapter 48 A busy start
October 10th, 8: a.m.

When Zhou Yanqing came to the Hand Surgery Department of Xiangya Hospital wearing his own shirt and carrying a backpack, there was only the doctor on duty in the doctor's office, bending over and writing in the handover record book.

"Brother Du, good morning." Zhou Yanqing greeted the other party after entering the door.

"Oh, it's you? You're really early!" The man called Brother Du looked up at the time. He turned back and saw that it was Zhou Yanqing, then leaned down and began to write the handover record.

After Zhou Yanqing arrived in Shashi, he found a house, but he couldn't contact Professor Tan and didn't know how to report.

So Zhou Yanqing shamelessly came to the department yesterday afternoon and met 'Brother Du' on duty. Du Yuan is a professional master of gastrointestinal surgery at Xiangya Hospital who is in regular training. He needs to rotate in the orthopedics department for three months. Yesterday was the last day of his last month of rotation.

"Brother Du, I heard from you that the nursing department will have a shift change at 7:30, so I came here early to solve the problem of white coats." Zhou Yanqing, carrying his bag, sat down next to Du Yuan.

According to Du Yuan, the principle for applying for white coats at Xiangya Hospital is to find the head nurse of the specialist department to get a signature slip, and then go to the warehouse on the basement floor to collect the white coat.

The words engraved on Zhou Yanqing's white coat are "Hengda Affiliated Hospital No. 1". If he wants to come to Xiangya Hospital for an internship in the future, it will obviously not be appropriate.

You have to make do with what you wear on the first day. There is no other way. During the National Day holiday, most departments in the hospital are on holiday. Applying for a white coat is not urgent, and no one will make an exception to work overtime for such a small matter.

"Xiao Zhou, put your bag in the locker in the doctor's lounge first. I checked yesterday and your name is not on the duty schedule this month, so you don't have to apply for a white coat so anxiously... Have you had breakfast?" Du Yuan asked.

"If you haven't eaten yet, I can recommend a noodle restaurant on WeChat. When you are on duty or don't have time to eat breakfast, you can place an order on WeChat, and the boss can deliver it directly to the doctor's lounge."

"I have had breakfast. Brother Du, please recommend something to me. It will be useful in the future." Zhou Yanqing also worked at Hengda Affiliated Hospital.

You are not allowed to leave the department when on duty. If you don't want to eat the "junk breakfast" in the hospital, there are some WeChat contacts to order breakfast. It is a resource library for doctors on duty.

"Okay, I'll send it to you." Zhou Yanqing asked for Du Yuan'an's WeChat yesterday, and he still has some memories of Zhou Yanqing.

"Thank you, Brother Du. I'll go put my bag down first."

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Seven forty.

After Zhou Yanqing arrived at the nurses' station, when he told the head nurse about applying for a white coat, she looked at him suspiciously for a long time and said, "Who are you? I haven't heard any professor mention that there are new people coming today?"

"Teacher, my name is Zhou Yanqing, and I'm here for a rotation." Zhou Yanqing did not specifically state that he was a master's student at the First Affiliated Hospital of Hengda University, and that he had applied for a "commissioned training" at Xiangya Hospital with Professor Tan.

In such a top-level tertiary hospital, it doesn’t matter how you got here. What matters is what you are going to do and what position you are in.

The head nurse even called the chief resident very cautiously: "Ning Zhu, there is a Zhou Yanqing in the department. He said he is doing regular training with Professor Tan's group. He doesn't have a white coat. Do you know him?"

"Oh, you know him. Didn't Professor Tan tell you about him? Okay. Okay, okay, I'll sign it now. You guys have worked hard." After asking, the head nurse looked up at Zhou Yanqing.

"I'm sorry, Xiao Zhou. The hospital manager just said that Professor Tan had told him about this during the emergency surgery last night. However, the department had three limb replantations yesterday, and almost all the superiors in the department were working overtime."

"The people in Professor Tan's group didn't leave the stage until 3:45 in the morning, so they didn't have time to tell me..."

"It's okay, thank you, teacher." Zhou Yanqing shook her head. The head nurse quickly rummaged through the drawers for a while before finding a claim form. She quickly filled it out and signed her name: "You can put on your white coat now, and after the shift is over, you can go down to the warehouse on the first floor to claim it."

"You may need to pay for it yourself. The white coats in our hospital are two hundred and forty-nine. Four sets, two long and two short."

"It's okay, thank you teacher, you've worked hard..." Zhou Yanqing took it with both hands, folded it carefully, and put it in the side pocket of his white coat.

Then, seeing the head nurse hurriedly going to work, Zhou Yanqing walked towards the doctor's office again.

However, just as he reached the nurses' station, a nurse of unknown age jogged while taking a pen from Zhou Yanqing's left breast pocket.

"Lend it to me and I'll return it to you later." After saying that, he left without waiting for Zhou Yanqing's consent.

In an instant, only three of the four pens on Zhou Yanqing's chest were left.

By the time Zhou Yanqing entered the doctor's office and stood against the wall, at least fifty or sixty people in white coats, including doctors and nurses, had already rushed in.

Zhou Yanqing also saw that Professor Tan was already sitting in the main seat at the large oval table for handovers. Apart from the rest of the people in white coats, whether they were sitting or standing, Zhou Yanqing only knew the doctor on duty.

Zhou Yanqing leaned against the corner, not very noticeable, and no one noticed that the label on the chest of Zhou Yanqing's white coat was not from Xiangya Hospital...

However, no one knew when, a slightly plump young man in a white coat pushed the door open and subconsciously took a pen from Zhou Yanqing's chest.

Zhou Yanqing, feeling his chest becoming increasingly empty, stared at the other person carefully for a while, but immediately saw the words on his name tag: Ning Zhu, Chief Resident Physician of Orthopedics, and his expression relaxed.

Ning Zhu was wearing a mask, and Zhou Yanqing didn't have a name badge. He narrowed his eyes and said with a smile, "I'll borrow it for now, and I'll definitely return it to you later."

"It's okay, Teacher Ning, you can use it. I'm Zhou Yanqing." Zhou Yanqing stood straight.

This time when Zhou Yanqing came to the new doctor's office, he felt much more unfamiliar than when he first entered Hengda Affiliated Hospital two years ago.

It may be that the doctor's office of Hengda No. 1 Hospital does not have the kind of scene we saw today.

Ning Zhu heard this, glanced sideways, and nodded gently: "Okay, I remember you."

"You won't be on duty or taking care of the beds this month, but Professor Tan has arranged for you to be my full-time assistant." Ning Zhu's smile became even brighter, as if a vampire was as excited as seeing blood.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yanqing nodded slightly and dared not speak any more.

Because the nurse on duty had already started the formal handover with the handover book.

"From October 10st to October 1th, our department had 10 new admissions and 07 discharges. Among them, the new patient in bed 01 was diagnosed with right ulnar nerve injury and right hand flexion deformity..."

Zhou Yanqing's days at Xiangya Hospital began in such a busy and tense atmosphere...

(End of this chapter)