Chapter 121 Don’t want to live anymore?

"Dr. Kent..." Su Tang was a little surprised.

Every year, a team of international professional organizations will rank the top 500 internationally renowned doctors from tens of millions of doctors around the world. However, generally speaking, only readers with medical-related professions or patients with such needs will buy this magazine.

Most ordinary people usually only see screenshots of the top 100 on the Internet.

But even so, every year when the ranking of famous doctors in the world is released, it will spark various hot searches and discussions on the Internet.

As the 102nd-ranked thoracic oncologist in the world, Dr. Kent is extremely busy on weekdays.

Even people of Ye Shuang's status have to pay a huge price to ask for treatment.

But now...

However, the other party expressed that he would not hesitate to travel thousands of miles from abroad to the Sixth Hospital to discuss and exchange ideas with her.

"Hmm..." Su Tang frowned in thought.

"Doctor Su..." Ye Shuang and his wife laughed bitterly and said with a worried look on their faces, "Why don't you talk to the Sixth Hospital when you get back? Why don't you just not agree to this international academic exchange?"

In the eyes of Ye Shuang and his wife, this is not an academic exchange at all, it is more like a conspiracy and plunder!

"Well, it's not a family heirloom..." Seeing that Ye Shuang and his wife were quite nervous, Su Tang thought for a while and then slowly explained: "Chinese medicine prescriptions are very different from Western medicine prescriptions. Although there are many prescriptions that can be made into Chinese patent medicines, such as our most common Isatis Root Infusion, Wuji Baifeng Pills, Compound Danshen Tablets, etc., these medicines can be taken immediately. But so far, the prescriptions I prescribed for Mr. Wei cannot achieve this effect."

"My school of thought is more about using the right medicine for the right condition. Although all the prescriptions are for enhancing resistance and improving immunity, it also depends on the individual. Only with acupuncture treatment can we achieve the effect Mr. Wei is experiencing now."

Su Tang spoke in a steady and clear voice, "Besides, he is a Western doctor, and I am a Chinese doctor... Even if I give him the complete prescription, a foreign doctor who doesn't even know Chinese characters wants to learn Chinese characters, read prescriptions, and distinguish the yin and yang, wind, cold, heat, humidity, dryness, heat, and fire of the human body in a short period of time to prescribe treatment. I'm afraid it will take more than ten or twenty years..."

Su Tang's face was full of sighs. It wasn't that she looked down on Dr. Kent, he was a world-famous doctor after all.

But asking a foreigner who has never been exposed to Chinese medicine to learn it, doesn't it clearly show that it is impossible to succeed in a short period of time?

"Ms. Ye, Mr. Wei...you two don't have to worry. I guess Dr. Kent came to the Sixth Hospital maybe to find me... to cooperate?" After saying this, Su Tang felt it was a little unbelievable, but also quite normal.

To put it bluntly, even though she had only been working for a few months in her life, her decades of work were not in vain. Moreover, there was the study of the Imperial Hospital in the palace, with a thousand-year-old inheritance as its foundation.

Ye Shuang and Wei Feng looked at each other and thought carefully. They felt that the possibility of cooperation between Dr. Su and Dr. Kent was indeed greater than the possibility of Dr. Kent unilaterally thinking about the prescription.

After all, even if I really get the Chinese medicine prescription back, I won’t understand it and won’t be able to use it. Wouldn’t that be a waste of time?

Realizing that they seemed to have made a mistake, Ye Shuang and Wei Feng scratched their heads in embarrassment.

Wei Feng's acupuncture treatment has ended today, and Su Tang has to go to other wards to check on them. Since this morning, the cell phone in his white coat has been ringing twice from time to time, reminding him that a typhoon is approaching.

This super typhoon named "Basho" almost headed directly for the Shenzhen Stock Exchange without stopping anywhere else.

Therefore, the entire Shenzhen city has been in a panic in the past two days. Most units and schools have been closed for holidays, and citizens have stocked up on large amounts of food at home. When Su Yanbang went out this morning, he even talked to Su Tang about the fact that the supermarket shelves were almost empty.

However, the hospitals, police stations, fire stations and other units responsible for rescue work still worked as usual during this period. In fact, because they heard that the typhoon was as strong as level 16, the Sixth Hospital issued a notice in advance that all medical staff were not allowed to take leave in the next three days unless it was absolutely necessary.

Especially during the typhoon period, all medical staff in key departments such as the emergency department, surgery department, anesthesiology department, and operating room, where patients may come in and out, must be on call in the department 24 hours a day to ensure that once a patient is sent in, they can receive effective treatment immediately.

"Here, here! Check all the window railings in this department quickly, clean up all the debris next to the windowsills, and do not place the water cups of patients and their families next to the windowsills! What if someone is hit by it?"

Su Tang had just walked out of Wei Feng's ward, and when she looked up...

I saw a large group of staff from the Sixth Hospital's Logistics Support Team sneak into the department and start checking each room.

A group of more than a dozen workers were working in an orderly manner, checking whether the screws of the wires were loose, whether the doors and windows were intact and could be closed tightly, and whether there were any debris placed next to the windowsill.

In addition, someone brought two cans of the most primitive oxygen to the department, as well as ten boxes of mineral water instant noodles, and simple emergency equipment and lighting equipment.

Prevent water, electricity and oxygen outages during typhoons.

I watched the head of the logistics support team and the head nurse of the customer service department carefully explain which phone number to call and which floor office to go to if any problems arise during the typhoon, and how to find their staff.

Su Tang stared for a moment, then trotted back to the doctor's office.

As Typhoon Basho was extremely strong, all six hospital outpatient clinics have been closed since yesterday afternoon. If patients are sick and need treatment, they can only go to the emergency department to register.

Therefore, it is rare to find a crowded office in the general internal medicine resident doctor's office.

Just by pushing open the office door, Su Tang could feel the atmosphere of preparation for war blowing in his face.

It’s not that Pan Yuhao and others were very nervous, but there were a lot of mineral water, food, etc. piled up in the corner of the office.

No one knew who it was, but one of them even dragged a suitcase next to the food and water.

"Hey, has your patient returned after seeing him? How is the lung cancer patient doing now?" Pan Yuhao was writing medical records on the computer while chatting with Su Tang.

"The situation is not bad. I'll ask him to do a checkup later... It's just in time to finish all this before the typhoon hits." Su Tang checked the text message on her phone, which showed the time when the typhoon would make landfall. "There are still four hours left, so it won't be a problem to finish the checkup."

To avoid having to look back, in case a typhoon comes and the hospital loses power, if you want to get checked out, you have to wait until the typhoon is gone.

"Doctor Su, this is your first time encountering a typhoon while on duty, right?"

Ma Jun touched his chin and said with a smile, "But...Doctor Su, don't worry. Our hospital is well-equipped to deal with typhoons."

As a coastal city, Shenzhen often encounters typhoons of varying sizes.

Although the typhoon was extremely strong, the hospital's reinforced concrete building was not a shoddy project. The medical staff in the hospital only had to worry about water, electricity and food shortages after the typhoon, and only had to take good care of the patients in the inpatient department.

"Well, it's just that the emergency department's surgery department is likely to be very busy... I remember during the typhoon last year, there were about thirty or forty patients coming into the clinic..." Ma Jun recalled what happened during the typhoon last year and chatted with Xiong Wei and Pan Yuhao.

Su Tang shrugged helplessly. This kind of situation where she had nothing to say during a conversation was common in the office.

She took out her cell phone and called her parents, asking them to stay at home and not go anywhere. Then she turned around and went back to work.

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The atmosphere was tense and busy until the typhoon came. Su Tang and others looked out the window at the sky that had already darkened.

Looking at the flowerbeds that were almost deformed by the typhoon, the treetops dancing wildly everywhere, listening to the crazy and terrifying sound of the wind, and the empty hospital road with no one left...

“Blah!——”

The pouring rain tore through the sky like a movie camera lens. The dark clouds made the office extremely dim. Without turning on the lights, one couldn't even see what was going on three meters away.

The rainstorm grew heavier with the strong wind, and the glass windows even made a clanging sound. The bean-sized raindrops hit the windows hard accompanied by the strong wind, making people worry that the glass windows of the entire office would be shattered by the heavy rain in the next second.

Su Tang sat in her office, looking out the window, and could even vaguely feel the house shaking due to the storm.

“Bang!——”

In the flowerbed downstairs, a coconut tree was uprooted by the typhoon and fell heavily to the ground. Other large trees blown by the storm also groaned in pain...

“Bang, bang, bang!——”

There were three large trees in the flowerbed that were uprooted by the typhoon and fell by the roadside.

However, this time, two cars seemed to be unlucky. The uprooted trees happened to fall on the two cars, directly smashing the cars into a dent! In the hazy environment of the rainstorm, Su Tang could even vaguely see that the seats in the car were falling apart...

Su Tang: “……???”

Su Tang was shocked, her eyes widened, and she rubbed her throat subconsciously, only to feel her throat suddenly dry.

Su Tang looked at the two cars that were dented by the tree, then looked at the white car in the middle that was dented and deformed and had shattered glass, then looked up at Pan Yuhao who was sitting at the table, reciting Chinese medicine books with headphones on and was unaware of anything. She was instantly suffocated.

"Pan, Doctor Pan...you, your car...the white one downstairs is your car, right?"

Su Tang carefully tugged at Pan Yuhao's white coat and said dryly, "It, it seems to have been smashed..."

Pan Yuhao took off his headphones and was shocked: "…………???"

What??? What did you say? Say it again???!

The other people around, including the customer service manager sitting in the office, also pushed up their reading glasses, raised their heads, and subconsciously looked in Pan Yuhao's direction.

“Swish!——”

Pan Yuhao stood up from his seat and leaned against the office window, his eyes wide open.

Pan Yuhao pressed his face against the glass window and almost turned into a pancake.

Pan Yuhao looked at his new car and cried out in pain, "This damn banana! My new car! I just bought a new car! I just bought it less than half a year ago, and I haven't even paid off the car loan yet. How could it become like this?!!"

Su Tang hesitated, a little at a loss. Seeing Pan Yuhao crying like this, she really didn't know how to comfort him. She could only stand aside, watching Xiong Wei and Ma Jun, and patted Pan Yuhao's shoulder with emotion.

The rest of the people looked at each other, at a loss.

Just when everyone in the office was awkwardly wondering whether they should treat Pan Yuhao to a big meal after the typhoon passed.

Pan Yuhao suddenly wiped his face vigorously, his mouth corners split to behind his ears, revealing a mouthful of white teeth and cursing: "Oh! I almost forgot that I bought car insurance before. If the car is damaged by a typhoon, the insurance company can pay 90%... I just took this opportunity to buy a new car!"

Su Tang: “…………”

Other people in the office: “…………”

Ma Jun withdrew his hand that was comforting Pan Yuhao with an expressionless face, secretly cursing himself for having such a mean hand.

Other people in the office who don’t own cars don’t know how much their car insurance will cover in the event of a typhoon.

How could Dr. Pan himself forget this?

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Sixth Hospital, Emergency Department.

Ambulances and police cars were parked at the entrance of the emergency department. Patients were carried into the emergency department one after another. In addition, there were also injured patients who were helped down by police and others.

In just less than ten minutes, a group of injured people had gathered in the emergency department. They were all wet and many of them were bleeding.

Blood and rain gathered on the ground. All the medical staff in the emergency department were busy at this moment!

"Hurry up and call the dean and the director of the medical department, and ask them to immediately notify the doctors in other departments and prepare to receive surgical patients and other seriously injured people!" Director Xue of the emergency department had a serious face. He looked at the patients who were being sent to the door one after another, his brows wrinkled.

While instructing the chief resident to make a phone call, he organized other medical staff in the department to carry out emergency work.

On the other hand, the dean and the head of the medical department who received the call immediately called other departments.

The surgery department, internal medicine department, operating room, etc. all received calls from the dean and the head of the medical department.

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A typhoon was howling outside the window. In less than half a day, a large area downstairs of the inpatient department had been flooded. When people walked downstairs, the water was at least up to their calves.

The cafeteria on the first floor had been flooded from somewhere and was almost half submerged, so food could no longer be served.

Faced with a strong typhoon, it was not convenient for the general internal medicine staff to buy food, so they could only start making various instant foods one by one.

Just as Su Tang and his group of people were sitting in the office, chatting and preparing to eat with their instant noodles in hand...

Mr. Ke's cell phone suddenly buzzed.

As soon as he picked up the phone, the guest manager frowned and looked serious. He looked up at Su Tang and Pan Yuhao and said, "There are many patients in the emergency department. You two should report to the emergency department right now. Also, find the head nurse and send three nurses to go with you! Don't waste time!"

"Okay! Director, we'll go over there now!" Su Tang put down the instant noodles she had just made but hadn't had time to take a bite of.

He quickly put the needle bag and other things into the pocket of his white coat, followed Pan Yuhao, called the three nurses in the nursing station, and ran to the emergency department.

Fortunately, as a large tertiary hospital, the Sixth Hospital has corridors between basically every building to facilitate the rapid transfer of patients. Therefore, Su Tang, Pan Yuhao and others did not get drenched when they were transferred from the internal medicine building to the emergency department.

However, in the corridor, Su Tang, Pan Yuhao and others also saw medical staff from other departments rushing to the emergency department like them. Some who arrived early even pushed patients from the emergency department to the inpatient department! It looked like they were going to send them to the operating room.

Everyone looked anxious and was in a hurry.

Su Tang and his companions did not dare to waste any more time and they all ran to the emergency department as fast as they could.

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The emergency department of the Sixth Hospital is very large and is divided into several areas.

As Su Tang, Pan Yuhao and others entered the emergency department, the first thing that caught their eyes was the emergency department waiting area and the busy and noisy appearance of the emergency department lobby.

Some were lying on stretchers groaning in pain, while others were sitting on plastic chairs in the waiting area with haggard faces.

Su Tang took a quick look and found that at least half of the patients in the emergency department had not received timely treatment... However, under such circumstances, many patients were still being sent in one by one from the door of the emergency department!

"There is a new construction site at the intersection. The houses there are only half built, and some are only reinforced... This time they were all blown down by the typhoon! Many houses on the construction site collapsed, and many people were injured... Don't stand here stupidly, quickly report to the director of the emergency department and start treating the patients!"

Several doctors from the Department of Gastroenterology and Su Tang arrived at about the same time. Dr. Liu saw that it seemed to be the first time for Su Tang to participate in the rescue of her colleagues from the Emergency Department, so he immediately reminded her to find the director of the Emergency Department.

The emergency department of every hospital is like a small miniature of the hospital.

There are not only separate internal medicine clinics, surgical clinics, obstetrics and gynecology clinics, etc., but also separate operating rooms, intensive care units, infusion rooms, B-ultrasound rooms, X-ray rooms, etc.

Normally, internal medicine doctors would go to the internal medicine clinic to see patients. However, the typhoon caused too many patients in the emergency department, and it was impossible to allow each patient to enter the clinic for individual examination.

Therefore, the emergency department set up a number of the simplest treatment tables in the emergency room, with two or three doctors at each table, and they treated patients in the hall.

Su Tang and Pan Yuhao found Director Xue of the emergency department and asked them where they should go to help.

Director Xue looked serious. He glanced at the badges on the chests of the two people and immediately pointed to a table in the left corner of the waiting room next to him: "You two go to the No. 13 treatment table. I will ask the nurse to arrange a patient for you now."

In the emergency department, Director Xue is now in charge of the overall situation, but every patient who comes to the emergency department is guided and divided by the department nurses to see which doctor these patients need to go to for treatment, which is different for internal medicine and surgery.

"Okay, no problem!" Su Tang and Pan Yuhao didn't hesitate and immediately walked towards the simple treatment table with number 13 on it.

However, Deputy Director Chen of the Emergency Department glanced at Su Tang and frowned in dissatisfaction: "Director Xue, I just saw that one of the two doctors is just an ordinary junior resident. It is not appropriate to let her see patients in the outpatient clinic, right? Why not let Dr. Su go to help somewhere else? For example... let her help transfer some injured patients to the operating room in the surgical building."

There were too many injured patients sent here this time. Except for some patients with superficial injuries who could be sutured directly in the emergency department, there were also many seriously injured patients who needed to be sent to the operating room for treatment!

There are only four operating rooms in the emergency department, but there are many patients who were injured and fractured due to the collapse of houses caused by the typhoon. Many of them were sent here one after another, so all these injured patients needed to be sent to the operating room in the surgical building for treatment.

"No need... Don't look at her young age and inexperience. But as far as I know, her skills are quite good. She worked in the general internal medicine clinic before and has a very good reputation." Director Xue shook his head and briefly explained to Deputy Director Chen that a month ago, Deputy Director Jiang came to their hospital and suddenly had an ectopic pregnancy rupture and heavy bleeding.

"Besides... you also know that the National Hospital Competition will be held in a while... The dean and the head of the medical department think this is a good opportunity. This doctor Su is one of the candidates favored by the dean and others..." Director Xue didn't finish his words, but his eyes revealed everything to Deputy Director Chen. Deputy Director Chen subconsciously glanced at the emergency department lobby and the doctors in the waiting area who were treating patients and suturing...

Almost 70% of them are young attending physicians under the age of 30... and Su Tang is the only junior resident in the entire emergency department.

"Tsk!" Deputy Director Chen licked the roof of his mouth with the tip of his tongue and moved his dry throat.

It seems that this time, in addition to the fact that the typhoon caused a large number of disaster victims and there was a shortage of outpatient medical staff, so doctors had to be seconded from other departments to help, the hospital also secretly wanted to test medical staff under the age of 30.

This time, the national public hospital competition has a 16-person team, and only 11 of them are clinical doctors. In addition to the 5 deputy chief physicians who have already been booked, the remaining 6 people will naturally have to be selected from the hospital's younger team of attending physicians. Presumably, there will be someone secretly observing the nursing, anesthesia, examinations, imaging, etc.!

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Su Tang didn't understand the twists and turns between the hospital's department heads and the dean.

She and Pan Yuhao, each occupying one side of the treatment table, began to examine the patients in the hall. These patients were led in one by one by the nurses, and soon a long line of five or six people formed in front of treatment table No. 13.

"Fever, cough for 4 days, body temperature 39.5 degrees..." Su Tang held a pen and paper in one hand, carefully writing the patient's medical history in the medical record book, while asking the middle-aged man in front of him: "Apart from these, do you feel uncomfortable in any other way? Do you smoke... ? Stretch out your left hand so I can feel your pulse..."

The middle-aged man stretched out his left hand with a bitter face and answered honestly: "Doctor, I don't smoke. Apart from coughing, my knee joint hurts a little... cough cough."

The middle-aged man used to work on a construction site. He had caught a cold and felt unwell four days ago, but in order to save medical expenses, he had not been willing to go to the hospital. He just bought some anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs at the pharmacy to reduce his fever and relieve the pain.

I thought that because of the typhoon, I wouldn't have to work and I could rest for a few more days in the workers' house that was being built on the construction site.

Unexpectedly, this typhoon actually overturned their construction site building!

Not only did he fail to get a good rest, but he was also hit on the head and face by the heavy rain. The middle-aged man wrapped himself tightly in the blanket given to him by the nurse and couldn't help coughing a few times. He always felt that his cold had not yet healed and was getting worse.

"Ahem, doctor... just prescribe some cheap cold medicine for me." The middle-aged man sighed.

Although the police didn't charge any fees for sending me to the hospital, I still had to pay for the medical treatment!

"You still have a cold... Don't you want to live anymore?" Su Tang felt the middle-aged man's pulse, her brows furrowed tighter and tighter, her tone as stern as a knife.