Before finishing the psychological consultation that day, Xun Yuming was called away by a phone call.
The caller was from the emergency department of the hospital. The county hospital under the jurisdiction of the neighboring city received a patient with traumatic brain injury. The local medical conditions were limited, and the patient was in critical condition and it was difficult to move. He asked Xiwan Hospital to send experts to assist him. Corey decided to let him go there temporarily. .
Xun Yuming didn't have a domestic driver's license, so Chen Linlin took the initiative to ask Ying to send him there. The neighboring city is not far away, and it takes an hour to drive there, but they go there at night and return after the operation, the schedule is still a bit rushed.
Fortunately, the county hospital received instructions, contacted the traffic detachment escort, and sent the patient to the third hospital of the neighboring city urgently with the green light all the way. Although the Third Hospital cannot compare with Xiwan Hospital, it is at least a second-class hospital, and a new ward building has just been built in the past two years, and the laminar flow purification operating room is also the first-class in the country.
When they arrived, the dean had already vacated the operating room with the director of neurosurgery. After Xun Yuming entered, he went upstairs while changing clothes. The dean trotted all the way to report his injury: "Patient 44, male, his name is..."
"Don't mention the name! I don't want to know the name." Xun Yuming interrupted the director. He never remembered the patient's name, and too much personal emotion would affect professional judgment.
"He suffered a skull fracture caused by a drunk driving accident, and he is dying soon," the dean said succinctly.
The patient had multiple contusions and fractures all over his body, and hemorrhage in his spleen. The doctor who treated him before was quick and wise, inserted a catheter into his blood vessel, and temporarily blocked the bleeding point with the small ball at the top of the catheter, buying precious time for the patient to be rescued.
Following the principle of "emergency injuries should be dealt with first", everyone unanimously decided to let Xun Yuming operate first.
On the way to Xun Yuming, he had already guessed the general situation. Taking advantage of the time when he got out of the elevator, he glanced at the film and saw a large gray and black area on it. As he expected, acute subdural hematoma, epidural hematoma and brain contusion Both.
The time was urgent, so he didn't say much, so he directly sterilized and went to the operation. The patient was lying on the operating table, and the anesthesiologist, assistant physician, instrument nurse, and itinerant nurse...all were waiting in line, only waiting for him to command.
This operation is not easy, with such an injury, one can only do one's best and obey the destiny. As soon as Xun Yuming opened the skull, he saw a bright red stain on the outside of the meninges, accompanied by diffuse brain swelling, and the whole brain looked like a soaked steamed bun.
Xun Yuming has seen many similar situations, and it is considered lucky to be able to save three out of ten people. He didn't dare to be negligent, and hurriedly performed hematoma removal and large bone flap decompression surgery. He was busy all night, and when he came out, it was already noon the next day, and the sky was so bright that his eyes were sore.
Xun Yuming was hungry and didn't feel it during the operation. After the operation, he was relieved and found that he was dizzy and had some hypoglycemia. He didn't care about anything else, went to the medical record room to sign, and first went to a small stall outside the hospital to buy a cup of sweet pearl milk tea.
After scanning the QR code to pay, the mobile phone was not charged for a day and turned off automatically. Xun Yuming couldn't remember Chen Linlin's phone number, so he had to go back to the hospital and ask the staff for Lao Chen's phone number.
Old Chen said that he was working in the Medical Affairs Office, and Chen Linlin had to take a step ahead and asked him to come back with the ambulance sent by the hospital this morning.
Xun Yuming hurried to the parking lot, and as soon as he turned around the outpatient building, he saw an ambulance with the logo of Xiwan Hospital drive out the back door, turn into the auxiliary road, and drive away.
"..."
Wandering around aimlessly with pearl milk tea in his arms, Xun Yuming stood on the curb and said to himself to a row of holly trees in front of him: "Xiao Ming, use your brain quickly, you are the best!"
When he was at a loss, the hum of a car engine suddenly sounded behind him. Xun Yuming turned around, and the black SUV stopped at his feet. The window of the car lowered slowly, revealing half a handsome side face, Zhuang Yi said: "Get in the car."
"Why are you here?"
Xun Yuming was overjoyed, jumped into the co-pilot, put on his seat belt, "President Chen asked you to pick me up?"
The car was about to turn around, Zhuang Yi was looking sideways at the left rearview mirror, Xun Yuming couldn't see his expression, he could only hear him say: "Come to buy abalone cake for Abby in the morning, Chen Linlin said you are in the hospital, let me take you along the way go back."
"To buy abalone crisps, I still have to travel all the way here." Xun Yuming said it was Wuxin.
Zhuang Yi was the listener's intention. He walked out of the circular turntable, drove into the highway ramp, and said, "You have to do what you promise to the children, don't you?"
His gaze came through, with a sense of inexplicability, Xun Yuming hurriedly avoided his face, his stomach growled.
Zhuang Yi slowed down, stretched his long arms and brought two boxes of crisps and a bottle of water from the rear seat, and handed them to him, "Let's eat some first, I bought too much."
"Thank you." Xun Yuming was not polite to him, but the politeness was embarrassing.
He opened the box and ate two pieces of biscuits, picked up the dregs with his left hand, held the mineral water bottle between the two slender big moon legs, and unscrewed the cap with his right hand.
Zhuang Yi caught a glimpse from the corner of his eye, took away his water, unscrewed it and returned it to him, "How was the consultation Chen Linlin gave you?"
"It's okay." Xun Yuming choked on the two pieces of sourdough that he devoured, and after drinking two sips of water, he said, "He said that I drink too much, and I told him I didn't, but he didn't seem to believe it. Everything else is fine."
Zhuang Yi smiled and said: "Alcoholism is like mental illness. The more you deny it, the less people believe you."
"Then what should I do?" Xun Yuming looked frustrated.
His ears were burning red again, because when Zhuang Yi laughed, his voice came out of his throat, like a bass reverberation.
"Am I going to admit to drinking? But wouldn't I be lying if I said so?"
"Do you know how to say that sentence?" Zhuang Yi said in English: "Sometimes, you just need to let the silence deal with it."
Xun Yuming didn't say anything.
Zhuang Yi turned his face and looked at him with raised eyebrows: "Huh?"
"Let the silence do the trick," he said.
Zhuang Yi smiled again.
No one spoke for the rest of the way, allowing Silence to finish the second half. It wasn't until the car passed the ETC that Xun Yuming couldn't help but ask: "Chen Linlin asked before... Can I tell you about the two of us?"
"Why not?" Zhuang Yi glanced at him, and drove into the viaduct, "You can say what he tells you, and cooperate with the treatment."
"Okay." Xun Yuming felt a little uncomfortable, and he couldn't figure out what was wrong and why.
His mood fluctuated with Zhuang Yi's attitude and words, he put away the abalone cakes, and asked again: "I told him that I dumped you, do you mind?"
The corners of Zhuang Yi's lips curled up, time had passed, as if he had long since let go: "To be honest, what do I mind?"
"You are so generous." Xun Yuming couldn't help being sarcastic, and felt boring after speaking, turned his head to look out the window, and ignored him.
The carriage returned to silence, Zhuang Yi got off the elevated road, took the Binhai Highway, and sent him back to the hospital dormitory building. Xun Yuming rubbed his sleepy eyes with the back of his index finger, and a layer of blush suddenly appeared around his eye circles. He wanted to get out of the car, but Zhuang Yi locked the door and refused to open it.
"I'm going home." Xun Yuming picked on the pull ring of the car door and looked at him.
"Do you know that throwing knives is against the rules if you have been employed for less than two years?" Zhuang Yi said suddenly.
Xun Yuming regained his composure, frowned and said, "Dean Chen asked me to go, and Corey also arranged for it. I'm not throwing a knife, am I?"
He didn't take the money again.
"Do you have the procedures?" Zhuang Yi asked. "Do you have any licenses and qualifications to practice?"
"I... not." Last night he left in a hurry, Xun Yuming didn't even go back to the hospital, so he couldn't care less about these things. "I'll go back and ask Dean Chen. It should be fine. I'm leaving first. I'm so sleepy. Thank you for seeing me off."
He yawned and got out of the car, waved his hands, and went home. After entering the door to charge the battery, the phone buzzed as soon as it was turned on. Xun Yuming looked down and saw that it was Chen Linlin's message, and made an appointment with him for an evening consultation.
Xun Yuming made an appointment with him, went to the bathroom to take a shower, and then went to the bedroom to catch up on sleep, sleeping until night before faintly waking up.
The long-term irregular work and rest made people have a splitting headache. He poured himself two tablets of ibuprofen and checked that the time was exactly 7:59. He hurriedly dialed Chen Linlin's video call.
"I'm sorry, Doctor Xun, I have something to leave in the morning." The video was connected, and Chen Linlin smiled slightly, showing no sign of apology. "I called Teacher Zhuang, and he said he was going to pick you up. Did you see him in the morning?"
Suspicions abounded in Xun Yuming's mind, and he deliberately asked, "Did he say he came to pick me up? Where did he come from?"
Chen Linlin didn't understand why, thinking that Zhuang Yi hadn't picked him up, he wondered, "Airport. Haven't you two seen each other?"
"What is he doing at the airport?" Xun Yuming asked, "Didn't he go to the neighboring city to buy abalone cakes?"
"What abalone cake?" Chen Linlin was confused. "He's going to attend a seminar abroad in a while. A few days ago, he was delayed by his mother's operation. These two days are very busy. I'll call him When he got off the plane, I thought he had just stayed up all night and asked someone else to pick you up, but he insisted that he was fine, so he went. What does it have to do with abalone cakes?"
Xun Yuming understood, shook his head, and said: "It's nothing, I saw him buying a bunch of abalone cakes this morning, and thought he went there just to buy food." Thinking of what Zhuang Yi said, he asked again: "By the way, Yuan Chen Do you grow up at home? You help me ask him if I went to the neighboring city yesterday to count as throwing a knife, okay?"
Chen Linlin asked him to wait a while, and after a while, he came back and said, "My dad said that he would go through the formalities for you tomorrow, and Mr. Zhuang even called him specially, and he said he was thinking about it himself, and there was no need for that brat." remind."
"Oh." Xun Yuming curled his lips, feeling inexplicably happy, and asked with a smile, "What are you talking about today?"
"Tell me about how you and Mr. Zhuang met." Chen Linlin said with a smile: "You can't tell me why you broke up, and you can't even tell how you met?"
"... I can talk." Xun Yuming said coyly, "The first time we met was when we went to Napa to visit wine castles."
But that day he had a drink, and afterwards he only heard that it was a classmate who sent him back to the dormitory, and he didn't even know that the person was Zhuang Yi.
So strictly speaking, they met for the first time in biology class on the second day after returning from Napa.
The author has something to say: This is a modified version, listening to the opinions of the babies, and cutting out some boring and difficult medical content.
Note: "Urinary Catheter Stops Bleeding Saves a Life" is based on the real experience of cardiothoracic surgeon Wang Qiang.