When Li Chu appeared at the operating room door, he was already wearing a white coat. After calming his racing heart, he glanced at the several people covered in dust at the door, then pushed open the operating room door and went inside.
The new surgical building has five operating rooms, which can perform five surgeries at the same time.
Hearing the commotion outside, a nurse came out of the door of operating room number three.
"Dean Li, Director Chen is in this operating room. The patient has bleeding points in his chest cavity, but we can't find them."
Li Chu tossed the needle case he had been holding to her, asking her to disinfect it, and then began to wash his hands.
When he appeared next to the operating table, he was already wearing a cap, mask, surgical gown, and gloves.
"Dean Li, we are ashamed to say that our skills are not up to par and we have to ask you to come over."
The air pressure in the operating room was very low, and no one dared to speak. When Li Chu came in, Director Chen said in a low voice.
"Why make such a fuss?" Li Chu walked straight to the operating table, grabbed the injured person's hand, and began to take their pulse.
Seeing that the nurse who had been disinfecting the needle had come in, he put down the injured man's hand and said, "Same as always, I'll seal it for a maximum of five minutes, so hurry up."
As he spoke, he gave up his spot next to the operating table, letting the surgeons stand in line. Then he took three needles from a nurse and quickly inserted them into the needles.
One of the men was sucking the blood from the chest cavity, while the others began to search carefully.
As Li Chu took off his gloves and cap and walked out, Director Chen, who was performing surgery on the operating table, raised his voice and said, "Dean Li, thank you!"
"Go about your business, why are you being so polite with me?"
After saying that, he pushed open the door and went out.
After he left, the assistant opposite Director Chen asked, "Director, why doesn't Dean Li teach this skill to someone else? Is he worried that someone will learn it and steal his job?"
Director Chen raised his eyelids and glanced at him: "You underestimate Dean Li too much. Over the years, he has published so many books. The textbooks used by TCM students all over the country are compiled by him. He wrote about the method of acupuncture to stop bleeding more than 20 years ago. I don't know if the doctors in our hospital's TCM department have learned it, because I dare not gamble. There is only one chance. If I lose the gamble, who will guarantee the safety of the patients' lives?"
"More than twenty years ago? Dean Li was only in his early twenties back then, wasn't he?"
"Yes, more than 20 years ago, when I had just arrived at our hospital, he was still at Peking Union Medical College Hospital. However, he was already a member of the health care team and also a member of the health review committee. At that time, he was the youngest one in the country."
"Tsk tsk, comparing yourself to others is just infuriating!"
"It's incomparable. You have to understand, he wasn't exposed to traditional Chinese medicine from a young age. He was only accepted as an apprentice by his master after he was admitted to university. I can't remember who said it, but during his time studying medicine with his master, he traveled to several provinces near Beijing to accumulate experience. He didn't charge a penny back then. Moreover, he's a genuine, upright person from Nanniwan. He didn't really need to suffer like that."
Rebirth in the Great Era of Surfing Waves
At this moment, the nurse who had just wiped his sweat asked, "Director Chen, I heard from others that Dean Li's wife, Deputy Director Ding, was his student before, is that true?"
"Pretty much. Actually, she wasn't really a student. Ding Qiunan had just graduated from vocational school and was assigned to the clinic of some factory. Then she was sent to Peking Union Medical College Hospital for further training. She was working with Dean Li at the time. Who would have thought that in just six months, the two of them would get together? It's said that it almost drove all the families at Peking Union Medical College Hospital with daughters of marriageable age crazy."
"Hahaha……"
The surgery went smoothly, and the atmosphere in the operating room was very relaxed. Director Chen didn't mind telling them some harmless gossip about the leaders.
"Let me tell you another funny story about Dean Li. Don't spread it around. Our dean hasn't received a salary for decades. I bet he doesn't even know how much his salary is. He used to work at Peking Union Medical College Hospital. Later, he and his wife joined the army together. Ding Qiunan collected all his salaries for him. You can check the payroll next time. The signature of the recipient is definitely Ding Qiunan's name."
Furthermore, he never buys clothes. Apart from his military uniform, all his other clothes, including his shoes, were handmade by Deputy Director Ding. Isn't our Dean Li amazing?
"No way, Director Chen, I can understand you not taking a salary, but all your clothes are handmade... that's a bit too much, isn't it? Who hasn't bought a piece of clothing or two these days!"
"Exaggeration? Not at all. That's just how he is. As people say, clothes bought from the store are never as comfortable as clothes made by his own wife."
Even more outrageous, he loves dogs and knows how to care for them. You've probably often seen police officers on patrol with dogs, right?
"Yeah, you often see them when you go out at night."
"The police dogs that the police officers brought were all sent by him. He should still have at least six or seven dogs at home now."
The people in the operating room were going crazy. Good heavens, even the police dogs were given to them by someone else.
"Dean Li and his family keep such big dogs? Six or seven of them?"
“That’s right. I went to his son’s wedding last year and saw those dogs in their backyard. Tsk tsk, they were so obedient. They could understand everything we said. Except for not being able to speak, I think they were no different from people.”
"OMG!"
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While they were having a lively conversation in the operating room, Li Chu had already slipped away to his wife's office.
"Is everything alright?"
"It's nothing, it's just to stop the bleeding."
"I've been asking you about this and I keep forgetting. I remember you wrote down this acupuncture hemostasis method in a book, so why don't other people learn it?"
Ding Qiunan asked with some curiosity.
When this was mentioned, Li Chu shook his head with a wry smile: "Actually, as far as I know, several doctors in our TCM department have already mastered it. They have even come to me to discuss it a few times. But whether it's surgery or obstetrics and gynecology, they are probably still worried about it. When something happens, they still tend to come to me. I can't just push them out to find someone else."
The key issue is that in the event of such an emergency in the operating room, time is extremely tight, and there's simply no opportunity for me to go with them. If those people from the Traditional Chinese Medicine department could intervene a couple of times, everyone could witness it firsthand, and there wouldn't be this worry.
He was also helpless. Both traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine rely heavily on experience. How can one truly master a skill without personally performing the procedures a few times? But if you have no experience, who would dare let you operate on them? That could be a matter of life and death. This creates a paradox.
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