Chapter 3: Time flies when rescuing people.
Time flies.
Chen Yuanchuan deliberately kept himself busy, not having time to worry about his worries. After submitting countless resumes, he chose to go to a relatively large general hospital.
Department of Cardiology, Ankang Hospital.
The low hums of various medical instruments interweave into the melody of life. Some are fast, some are slow, telling different life stories.
Sitting in the office was a middle-aged man with sparse hair, his face changing from gloomy to unhappy. He pointed at Chen Yuanchuan's nose and cursed, "Chen Yuanchuan, you are so capable! You actually secretly told the patient that I couldn't cure his illness!"
Chen Yuanchuan dodged the middle-aged man's saliva attack and responded honestly, "Teacher, I violated the rules today. It's my fault."
Seeing the middle-aged man's mood calm down a bit, Chen Yuanchuan changed the subject, "But... that patient really can't be delayed any longer. Using the cooperative prescription can only keep him alive. Teacher, don't you know this?"
The middle-aged man's face turned ugly in an instant. This sentence touched upon a sensitive topic.
In busy hospital environments, prescription-based treatment is widely used as an efficient diagnostic and treatment process. However, it often serves as an excuse to avoid deeper thinking and personalized treatment. This has always been a tacit secret in hospitals, never publicly exposed.
Now that a little intern was so straightforward, the middle-aged man was embarrassed and instinctively raised his voice.
"Chen Yuanchuan, you're too naive! Do you think you can change the status quo with just passion? The complexity and pressure of the medical industry far exceeds your imagination!"
Chen Yuanchuan was a young and inexperienced man who was not afraid of tigers. When the feeling of resentment surged in his heart, even though the middle-aged man was furious, he couldn't stop talking.
"Teacher, isn't the first lesson for medical students to teach us to respect and revere life? If Xiefang is unable to save the patient, then we should seek a better solution."
The middle-aged man laughed angrily, his hands clapping against the desk. His excitement made the sparse hair on his head fly more prominently.
"Okay, okay, then you can be the attending physician. It's really unfair for you to be an intern here!"
Both sides stiffened their necks and blushed, and the atmosphere was deadlocked.
Suddenly, a rhythmic knock on the door interrupted the confrontation. The nurse spoke rapidly, calling through the door, "Doctor Liu, please come out immediately. We have a new patient."
Hearing this, the middle-aged man glanced at Chen Yuanchuan sinisterly and uttered his last words: "Chen Yuanchuan, I hope you will take care of yourself."
After saying that, the middle-aged man walked away, leaving Chen Yuanchuan standing there alone with mixed feelings.
It turns out that the hospital, a place that seems to be a place of saving lives and healing the wounded, is also full of undercurrents of the adult world. With a passion for saving lives, but unable to do anything, they can only watch patients' treatments being delayed.
Chen Yuanchuan was upset and irritated. After a long while, he gave a wry smile and walked out of the office with his hands in his pockets.
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On this day, the sun was scorching, the air was distorted by the baking, and an egg could be quickly cooked on the black asphalt road.
Xi Qing got into his Maybach as usual, facing the cold wind, and drove towards Chunzhi Hospital. Passing a deserted construction site, he saw a group of three or five people standing by the roadside, pointing and talking, wondering what was going on.
Xi Qing learned the plot and looked out the car window. He immediately found Chen Yuanchuan standing out from the crowd.
Chen Yuanchuan, sweating profusely and looking anxious, was carefully picking up an elderly man and preparing to move him to a cooler place to escape the heat. The elderly man was twitching all over and had an unnatural flush on his face.
Xi Qing pondered for a moment, then turned the steering wheel and slowly drove in. He then lowered the window and shouted in the direction of Chen Yuanchuan: "Chen Yuanchuan, get in the car, I'll take you to the hospital."
Chen Yuanchuan looked up when he heard the voice, his pupils constricted. He couldn't believe that he had encountered this nightmarish existence again. It took him a while to react to Xi Qing's words.
He quickly glanced around, then looked at the old man. This was the only car passing by, and the patient was in critical condition...
Under Xi Qing's urging gaze, Chen Yuanchuan gritted his teeth and made the obvious decision. Human lives were at stake, so he couldn't care less. He just had to get in the car.
Xi Qing pulled the handbrake and quickly got out of the car to cooperate with Chen Yuanchuan. One of them lifted his arms and the other lifted his legs to place him in the back seat. Then he got into the driving seat, stepped on the accelerator hard, and sped along the road against time. The scenery outside the window was reflected in the background.
Chen Yuanchuan sat in the back seat, repeatedly checking the road ahead and the patient, and asked hurriedly, "Can we go any faster? I'm afraid this old man has heat stroke and his condition is very critical."
Xi Qing's eyes were like an eagle's, his hands tightly gripping the steering wheel, veins bulging, and he said in a deep voice, "No problem." He pulled the gear lever, and the speedometer needle turned another angle.
The old man was promptly sent to Chunzhi Hospital. Outside the busy emergency room, Chen Yuanchuan and Xi Qing, breathless, met each other's eyes, a shock that sent a shudder through Chen Yuanchuan's heart.
Although several months have passed, the shadow of that night still lingers, like a huge rock pressing on Chen Yuanchuan's chest, making it difficult to breathe.
Chen Yuanchuan was the first to avoid Xi Qing's sight, sat in the waiting seat, lowered his head and kicked the shiny white floor tiles, wondering what he was thinking.
"It should be fine, don't worry." Xi Qing walked forward and broke the silence between the two.
Chen Yuanchuan didn't look up, just nodded, and the two of them were speechless.
Half an hour later, the doctor said the old man's condition was under control. Chen Yuanchuan breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Xi Qing with a complicated expression: "Thank you for today."
Xi Qing raised his eyebrows slightly, and treated him like an ordinary friend. He adjusted his frameless glasses lightly, smiled and shook his head, "Don't be polite, Yuanchuan. We are half colleagues. Saving people is our duty."
Chen Yuanchuan couldn't bear to see Xi Qing's nonchalant look, and said coldly, "... Let's be clear, please call me by my full name. We're not that familiar."
Xi Qing's face changed slightly. He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but in the end he just sighed helplessly.
"Okay, Chen Yuanchuan." Xi Qing's voice was filled with a hint of apology. "I understand. I just want to make amends as much as possible..."
Chen Yuanchuan no longer wanted to listen. With red eyes, he turned around and interrupted Xi Qing, "No need!"
"Forget it, there's no point in talking about this now. I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."
Xi Qing was speechless. Seeing that Chen Yuanchuan had completely left his sight, he put aside his guilty mood, stretched, and walked into the elevator.
Climbing to the top floor of Chunzhi Hospital, the dean's office, dominated by off-white tones, was simple and elegant. Xi Qing sat at his computer, handling various business matters, and hours passed in the blink of an eye.
Suddenly, the sound of knocking on the door interrupted his thoughts.
"Come in."
The capable assistant opened the door and walked to the desk. He said to Xi Qing, "Boss, the family of the heat stroke patient at noon came to see us. They want to give you 20,000 yuan as a reward. Thank you and the other gentleman for saving your life."
Xi Qing heard this and turned his office chair. He hadn't expected the family to ask for a reward.
After thinking for a moment, Xi Qing said to his assistant, "Please ask them to wait for a moment. I'll ask that gentleman for his opinion."
After saying that, Xi Qing moved his office chair to a nearby place, took out a yellow file bag from the drawer, and pulled out a piece of A4 paper, which recorded Chen Yuanchuan's information in detail.
He dialed the number above, the call was quickly connected, and then a familiar voice came.
"Hello, who is this?" Chen Yuanchuan asked casually, with some noise in the background.
Xi Qing smiled, "It's me, Xi Qing."
"...How did you get my phone number?" Chen Yuanchuan paused and his tone became alert.
"Last time... we investigated them together." Xi Qing blinked and answered honestly.
Chen Yuanchuan was a little annoyed, "Tsk, what do you want?"
"It's like this..." Xi Qing briefly explained the situation and asked Chen Yuanchuan what he thought about the reward.
Chen Yuanchuan refused without hesitation, "I don't save people for money. If you want it, take it."
"You are very conscious, Yuanchuan. I am not short of this little money, so why don't you refuse it?" Xi Qing looked at the green scenery outside the window and smiled.
I'm really impressed by these evil rich people. Chen Yuanchuan complained inwardly.
After finishing their business, the two had nothing more to say. The other party then said, "I told you to call me by my full name. Now hanging up." Then there was a busy tone.
Xi Qing laughed in silence. Chen Yuanchuan was quite insistent, but I... just didn't.
"Young man, do you want more?" A short, thick index finger tapped the back of Chen Yuanchuan's hand. It was the aunt who was dispensing medicine and urging him.
Chen Yuanchuan was currently on a bustling street of traditional Chinese medicine. Most of the shop signs here were carved from wood, exuding an ancient charm. Of course, they could also be made to look old, but they looked just like that anyway.
Chen Yuanchuan is a medical student, but not a major in traditional Chinese medicine, so he doesn't quite understand these terms. He had no choice but to go to a popular Chinese medicine shop.
The air in the Chinese medicine shop is filled with the unique scent of various herbs, fresh and slightly bitter.
Chen Yuanchuan copied down a prescription from the traditional Chinese medicine system in the jade pendant and prepared medicine for the aunt in front of him. He never expected that the price of just a few grams of the medicinal materials would be so high.
"Uh... Can I just take the herbs in the prescription that are less than one hundred yuan and leave the rest?" Chen Yuanchuan said with a wry smile as he was short of money.
I thought a big customer had come, but it turned out to be just someone who didn't know what was going on. The plump woman who dispensed the medicine pulled the corner of her mouth and said, "Okay."
He muttered to himself, "Panax notoginseng, Ganoderma lucidum, Dendrobium officinale..." He skillfully selected more than a dozen packages of herbs and held them to account. His fingers danced across his calculator, and with a final tap, he came up with a price: "Sixty-three yuan, thank you."
Chen Yuanchuan opened the payment code with one hand and held his forehead with the other to hide the embarrassment of having no money. Then the sweet voice of the young lady reminding him that the money had arrived rang out from the small speaker in the store.
When the medicine lady heard this, she put on an emotionless fake smile and handed the medicine package wrapped in brown paper to Chen Yuanchuan, saying, "Welcome to come again next time."
Chen Yuanchuan picked up the light bag of herbs, and a trace of regret emerged in his heart. If he had the ten thousand yuan, he could have bought them all...
He quickly shook his head, thinking, what was he thinking? It was just a piece of cake, he was really too shameless.
Just as Chen Yuanchuan was about to leave, a dusty old man came up to him and said to the woman dispensing the medicine, "Girl, are you still buying wild Ganoderma? They're freshly dug."
Chen Yuanchuan's eyes lit up and he turned around suddenly.
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