"The nurse took an electronic blood pressure monitor to measure her, but it couldn't measure anything. The monitor was out of service and was not connected. I gave the wounded an injection and drew blood for them, but they said they didn't want to draw it themselves. Since they couldn't draw it themselves, they found an intern to perform a phlebotomy on her without a teacher watching, but they didn't think of giving the patient a checkup order to send her for a CT scan first."
Is this referring to the emergency room of the hospital affiliated to their alma mater? Tan Kelin and Sun Yubo, who were listening at the scene, were very surprised.
"The emergency department of Beidu No. 3 Hospital is quite chaotic." Shi Xu said, recalling it.
"Have you been there?" Liu Chengran asked.
All of them are from Beidu, but Beidu has several affiliated hospitals, so they may not have all stayed in Beidu for three years.
"Brother Cui has just been transferred to the Third General Surgery Department of Beidu as deputy director. He complained to me on the phone last week, saying that the order of the emergency department there is a mess. Many times, they only remember to contact the surgery department when the patient is about to die."
"Why?"
"It's the only tertiary hospital around there, and all the patients are sent to the Northern Tertiary Hospital. There are only 20 emergency beds, which is far from enough. They are unwilling to admit patients, and the treatment efficiency is low. They just want to force patients to leave or transfer to other hospitals. The problem is that some patients can't be transferred to other hospitals at all."
"Can't we treat the emergency case and then admit him to the surgical ward?"
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"How can the surgical ward always have empty beds for the emergency department? Therefore, the number of beds in the emergency department must be sufficient to share some of the patients who do not need immediate surgery. The 60 observation beds in the National Association Emergency Building are known as the best emergency department in the city, and they are all full. What can the 20 beds in Beidu No. 3 do? The extra patients in other hospital wards have to sleep in the corridors. Our hospital wards are considered good, and basically no one has to sleep in the corridor."
Liu Chengran and Sun Yubo understood: they indeed worked in one of the top three hospitals in the country and their abilities were top-notch.
"Hospitals talk about bed turnover rates. The turnover rate of surgical beds in Beidu No. 3 Hospital is too poor. There are no beds available to accept emergency surgical patients. After the operation, there are quarrels with the emergency department because there are no beds available. The emergency department is criticized for sending all patients, whether urgent or not, to the surgery department. The emergency department is unhappy after hearing this and refuses to accept the patients, wanting them to leave on their own. Senior Brother Cui was transferred there to improve the bed turnover rate of general surgery." Shi Xu said, "But in his opinion, before the emergency building is built, don't expect those people in the emergency department to change their bad habits of accepting patients when they can and delaying when they can't. Sooner or later, something big will happen."
After hearing what he said, others felt a chill in their hearts: This patient's life is in danger!
Ordinary people want to send their patients to the best hospitals, but good doctors in good hospitals need time to save lives, so it is really better to go to a worse hospital.
"It's my fault. Teacher Tan, I only thought about the patient's condition and not other fatal factors. I should have considered all factors before sending the patient." Xie Wanying said from the opposite side.
The student said he had learned a lesson. Tan Kelin wondered if it was just an illusion. He didn't know if she had noticed the change in her voice, but he, as a teacher, could tell: her voice had become hoarse and watery. Was she about to cry?
Crying about this? That's strange. She must have encountered similar incidents before. Why is she crying this time? He and other teachers had tried to get her to show some emotion to prove that she was not a frozen person, but it was difficult.
Unconsciously, Tan Kelin's cold voice softened a little: "Are you sure there are no other doctors present?"
"No, the nurse only called an internist named Ye."
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