Tang Suoyan has been working for more than 40 hours without a break.
Spring Festival is a festive day, lively and reunion. But that's for ordinary people, and for ophthalmologists, the Spring Festival is an uphill battle. Every year at this time of the year, there are many patients with acute eye injuries sent from all over the world. Those whose eyes are injured by firecrackers must arrange emergency surgery immediately to save as many eyes as possible.
From Tang Suoyan's admission to the hospital to today, he has not gone home for the Spring Festival in any year.
Just after an operation was completed, the instrument nurse was still checking the surgical instruments, and the roving nurse was helping to clean the operating table. Tang Suoyan didn't go out first and sat on the chair in the operating room for a while.
The doctor on duty came in and whispered to him, "Director Tang, take a break? I just asked the emergency department, and there is no surgery that needs to be done for the time being."
After he finished speaking, he smiled bitterly: "It's over, I hope it's not just temporary."
Tang Suoyan nodded and said, "I hope."
Opposite Tang Suoyan's office is the inpatient building. The hospital is a place with a less festive atmosphere. Anyone who can go home on these days will go home. Naturally, those who are still in hospital during the Spring Festival are not in the mood for the festival. However, some family members prepared their own small red lanterns, and they could see small red lights through the windows.
Red is never a good color in the hospital, but at this time, the little red light is rare to make people feel warm.
Tang Suoyan glanced at his phone, it was just after four in the morning.
The operating room, which started at 7 o'clock in the evening, has only come out now. After more than a dozen operations have been performed, the concentration of the spirit for a long time has made people's nerves almost numb. In fact, I can't really relax until now, because the next emergency operation may come at any time.
There is a simple folding bed in the office, which was prepared for him by Dr. Corey in advance. Knowing that he has to be on duty in the hospital these days, the doctors in the team have already prepared for the war. Tang Suoyan didn't use it, and he had to keep himself awake before dawn.
The phone vibrated in the drawer, and there was a lot of news on it. Tang Suoyan clicked it and looked around. Most of them were New Year's greetings, and there was no news from Tangning.
He opened the message interface with Tangning on the top, and sent a message: Happy New Year, Xiaoning.
Tangning didn't reply to the news, she was probably asleep.
Their last message on the chat interface was half a month ago. In the past few days, they hadn't even made a few phone calls.
After Tang Suoyan took a brief shower, he lay on his desk for a while, half asleep, half awake, with his eyes closed, all the examination reports and eye CT images flashed through his mind.
The ophthalmology department of the third hospital has a good reputation, and patients with injuries that cannot be cured from other provinces come here to find hope. The patients with acute eye injuries always come to the third hospital at the first time.
Tang Suoyan is the deputy director of the ophthalmology department of the Third Hospital, and the first knife in the ophthalmology department.
He is a direct-line student of Professor Xu Shi, the dean. Mr. Xu personally brought him back from abroad and asked him to return from scientific research to the clinic and from the laboratory to the operating room to pick up the knife. Many patients would rather give up medical insurance and choose to go to the third hospital at their own expense. It was Professor Xu Shi and Tang Suoyan.
Tang Suoyan's hands are very stable, some clinical emergency judgments are rigorous and decisive, and some eye diseases that have been sentenced to death by hospitals in other provinces have turned around through his hands, and such patients treat him as a fairy.
After a brief rest of less than two hours, before six o'clock, the doctor in the group knocked on his door: "Director Tang, a second-line eye trauma patient in the emergency department, the left eye has a ruptured eyeball and retinal detachment. Please come to the emergency department for a visit."
Tang Suoyan was awake the moment the door opened. After the doctor said a word, he stood up and went out.
Any doctor in the ophthalmology department of the third hospital is not bad, but the patient's family member is a physician in this hospital and insists on having Tang Suoyan perform the operation.
The patient was a four-year-old girl who was brought back to her grandmother's house for Chinese New Year. When the firecrackers were set off in the middle of the night, her eyes were injured by the bursting firecrackers. There are sparks spattered around the left eye, and there are several spots on the right eyelid. The nearby county hospital couldn't do this kind of surgery, so it only did emergency treatment, and the ambulance came all the way overnight.
The girl's father is a resident in internal medicine in the hospital. At this moment, unnecessary greetings and greetings are omitted among colleagues. His professional quality enables him to calmly listen to the doctor's description of the possible consequences of the operation, and then quickly sign. His wife cried a lot, but tried to be as quiet as possible so as not to interfere with the doctor's work.
Retina reattachment, complete suture, as far as this operation is concerned, Tang Suoyan has done it to the best degree.
All the reactions and developments after surgery are immeasurable. How much vision is left, whether the eyeball is atrophied, whether the retina will detach again, etc., these will be seen later.
However, what is certain is that it is impossible for this eye to be completely cured, and the little girl is likely to have only one eye to see the world in the future. Fortunately, only one eye was injured. Tang Suoyan just had an operation to rupture both eyes that night. A seventeen-year-old high school student, he will have his college entrance examination in a few months.
Everyone is equal in the face of injury and illness, and you will not leave a half-sympathy because of your identity. After high school, you will have to have a corneal transplant, but no one can predict how much vision will be left.
- So there are no gods, no matter how powerful doctors are mortals.
Tang Suoyan left the hospital and took a break from work at noon in the second year of junior high. After the ward round, he went to the ward alone to see a few patients who needed special attention. The resident doctor followed behind him and whispered about the patient's postoperative condition. Suo Yan changed his clothes and went to get off work after explaining them separately.
I haven't been out of the hospital for a few days. When I came in, it was a year ago, and now the smell of the year has faded.
He first went home to take a shower and changed his clothes. His parents called him several times to ask him when he would be back. The two Chinese medicine professors were very worried about him staying up late on duty like this. Fortunately, Tang Suoyan didn't usually work night shifts. There was no news of Tangning on the phone, so Tang Suoyan called him after taking a shower.
The intern answered Tangning's call. The voice of a young student said, "Hello, Doctor Tang is not convenient to answer the phone right now."
Tang Suoyan asked him, "In the operating room?"
The other party replied very politely: "Well, Dr. Tang has an emergency operation. When he comes out, I will let him call you back?"
Tang Suoyan said, "No, it's nothing."
He and Tangning had not spoken on the phone for many days. Tang Suoyan had forgotten why Tangning was angry with him. He had been really busy recently.
Every time Tangning gets angry, he can keep it for a long time, he will cool down for a long time, the so-called cooling-off period for each other. Tang Suoyan wasn't very good at coaxing. When he was young, he tried to apologize every time, but to no avail, it only made Tangning even more angry. So after a long time, Tang Suoyan stopped struggling.
Like this time, Tang Suoyan even forgot why Tangning was angry, but Tangning still didn't show up, didn't answer the phone, and didn't reply to messages.
Tang Suoyan was on duty for four days, and his nerves and spirits were exhausted. He took a nap at home before returning to his parents' house.
Tang Suoyan's parents are both professors of traditional Chinese medicine. His father has retired, but his mother can't be free, so he was hired back by the school to continue teaching. There has always been a wall between Chinese and Western medicine, and each has its own direction and principle. Two types of medicine in a family may quarrel from time to time, but their family is very harmonious and there is never any dispute.
When Tang Suoyan went to study Western medicine, his parents also supported him, and were even proud of his achievements. The only regret in their hearts was that Tang Suoyan's life could not reassure them. After so many years, they had already accepted some things that could not be changed, but his and Tangning's living conditions were too unstable.
"Xiao Tang is on duty today?" Mother Tang asked casually.
"Well, on duty." Tang Suoyan nodded, and ate a fried dumpling from the plate his dad was carrying.
"A night shift today? Why don't you ask him to come over and have a meal tomorrow?" Mother Tang asked him while frying dumplings.
Tang Suoyan went out of the kitchen, sat at the dining table and waited, saying, "He's been busy recently, forget it."
His parents glanced at him at the same time, and after that, they still fried dumplings one by one, and no one mentioned it in a tacit understanding.
He and Tangning had been together for so many years, and Tangning came to his house only a limited number of times. At first, Tang Suoyan's parents didn't accept it. Later, when he was able to accept it, Tangning didn't have a good relationship with them. He didn't like coming here. Of course, Tang Suoyan hadn't been to the Tang family very much, and Tangning herself seldom returned.
Tangning had said that he did not want Tang Suoyan to go to the Tang family.
Parents were still preparing dinner in the kitchen, Tang Suoyan took out her phone and sent Tangning a message: Come over for dinner tomorrow
Tangning returned this time. Tang Suoyan was eating when she received his reply: "The night shift tomorrow."
Tang Suoyan replied: Then are you coming now? I'll pick you up
Tangning: Don't go, work overtime, take care of your uncles and aunts.
Tang Suoyan put down the phone and continued to eat.
Mother Tang looked up at him from time to time and served him vegetables. Tang Suoyan wanted to pretend to be invisible, but the old couple looked at him a little too often. Tang Suoyan laughed later and asked, "Just say what you want to say, it's always up to me to do."
"No, there's nothing to say." Mother Tang still brought vegetables to him, "You eat yours."
Tang Suoyan said with a smile, "You don't seem to be speechless with your little eyes. Ask the professors."
The two professors still shook their heads, neither of them said much.
After dinner, Tang Suoyan drank health tea with his father. The old man said that his face was not good-looking. Tang Suoyan comforted: "It's okay, I've been busy recently, and I'm tired."
"How is this year? There are still so many patients?" the old man asked.
Tang Suoyan said "um", pinched his eyebrows and said, "On the first day or two of New Year's Eve, more than 200 emergency department visits were received for eye injuries."
"Hey..." His father sighed, "Isn't it all forbidden to burn?"
"You can only have more than 200 if you are banned, and you can't help but double it."
"If you want me to say, you have to completely ban it. Don't divide it into the suburbs of the city, and don't put it in the suburbs. Don't patronize environmental protection, but also pay attention to the eyes, because if you put a firecracker, you won't be able to do anything." Tang Muduan I came here with the fruit, and I felt uncomfortable listening to these.
"It's not all firecrackers. There are soot that collapsed, right?" Father Tang gave Tang Suoyan another cup of tea, shook his head and said, "Some children are looking forward to the New Year's fireworks. It's impossible to say if it's banned."
"Why don't you join in the fun? You have to play with this?" Mother Tang still couldn't accept it. Thinking about those patients, she felt regretful.
After drinking tea and chatting for a while, his parents didn't want him to go back so late, but Tang Suoyan had to go to work the next day, and it was too far from here.
"I'll get you some food, so you can eat it after get off work tomorrow? If you don't want to cook, it's hot." When Mother Tang said this, she had already packed several lunch boxes and was putting them in her pocket.
"If I don't take it, I may not be able to get off work and eat it in the hospital." Tang Suoyan said.
"Then I'll pack two less lunch boxes for you? You eat it hot in the hospital at noon." She took out the lunch boxes again.
Tang Suoyan didn't insist, smiled and said, "Okay."
Tang Suoyan used to think that his parents were always serious, but in recent years, he has become more and more cute and like children. There may always be this handover and transition between parent and child.
Mother Tang carried the bag in her pocket and put it on the cabinet at the door, and packed him a lot of fruit, all of which were given by students during the New Year, and asked him to share the hospital with his colleagues.
Tang Suoyan said, "They don't dare to ask for my share."
"Are you too scary?" Mother Tang said with a smile, "Smile more in the unit, don't always pull your face."
"I really don't. I'm quite peaceful. The intern runs away when they see me." Tang Suoyan said helplessly.
"You don't look close to people, like me." His father answered, "Students used to tremble when they saw me."
"What a good thing to show off." Mother Tang laughed, "Go back early, go back and rest quickly."
Tang Suoyan nodded, it was time to go.
His mother stood at the door to watch him change his shoes, held his coat for him, and handed him the coat when he finished wearing his shoes.
"You and Xiao Tang..." She hesitated before opening her mouth. Tang Suoyan looked at her and waited for her to speak.
"Didn't you two separate again?"
Tang Suoyan smiled and said, "There's no such thing, no."
"I see that every time you come back, something is wrong, it's not like the two of you live... If you break up, don't dare to say it, don't be under pressure." She looked at Tang Suoyan's expression and continued tentatively, "I I've seen a lot of this with your dad... It's normal for them to be separated and put together. If you're really alone, tell your mother, and I'll often go to your place to clean up."
"Really not." Tang Suoyan looked down at his mother and said this carefully, his heart softened a little, and smiled and hugged her, "Don't worry about me, I'm fine, next time I'll let him come back with me, don't worry too much think."
"Okay, it's fine..." His mother patted Tang Suoyan's arm as he put his arms around her, "he doesn't have to come if he doesn't like to come, you two don't make trouble."
"Okay." Tang Suoyan nodded and raised his chin at his father, "I'm leaving."
"Come on, drive slowly," the old man said over there.