Chapter 273
Chapter 273: Chapter 142: Skipping Levels to Report, They’ve All Become Skilled_2
He learned his lesson this time.
And simply said nothing.
Compared to Zhou Can, his advantages were already substantial.
Zhou Can was still rotating through various departments, undergoing standardized training.
His status was very low.
At least that’s what Du Leng believed.
As for Du Leng himself, he had been rising through the ranks in the surgical departments, his status even surpassing many attending physicians.
Zhou Can watched as Wu Baihe and the others entered the elevator, then the elevator doors closed, leaving only Dr. Ou standing there with him.
“Zhou Can, to whom did you report the condition of the patient in bed 31?”
Dr. Ou could have followed Wu Baihe to participate in an important surgery, gaining a lot of experience and learning many surgical skills and techniques.
But this sudden turn of events had delayed him.
He was certainly somewhat unhappy.
The blame couldn’t fall on Zhou Can.
But the neglectful senior doctor was definitely someone to be reckoned with.
“I reported to Doctor Cheng Gang, but after hearing me out, he scolded me instead. He said that without a contrast imaging test, I should stop making baseless claims. There was really nothing I could do about it; to turn a deaf ear and not report it, I just couldn’t rest easy on my conscience. If the patient did suffer from ruptured cerebral aneurysm, each second delayed would make the patient’s condition more precarious.”
Zhou Can also felt very helpless about the situation.
“You did nothing wrong, as a doctor should care for their patients, value their lives, health and safety. This is also the most basic professional ethic.”
Having heard this, Dr. Ou’s expression was stern.
He affirmed Zhou Can’s actions.
“Dr. Jiang, I’ll leave the EEG for the patient to you. I’ve got something else to handle.”
Zhou Can called out to Jiang Xiaohua.
“OK.”
Jiang Xiaohua nodded in response.
Dr. Ou then asked, “What happened to that patient?”
“Post-surgical complications, severe epilepsy, fell into a coma. After consulting with Director Wen, Doctor Cheng and I were assigned to bring the patient over for an EEG.”
“Oh!”
Dr. Ou nodded his head and didn’t say much more.
He took Zhou Can to the inpatient ward of neurosurgery.
They went straight to bed 31.
The male patient was already lying on the bed with his condition further deteriorated, requiring his wife to help him turn to the side to vomit.
At the age of fifty, Dr. Ou, with extensive clinical experience, immediately realized the severity of the patient’s condition.
After a few brief questions and examining the patient’s neck flexor muscles, the patient cried out in pain at the touch.
“Immediately send for a cerebral angiography CTA, I’ll go and get the request form now. We can’t delay this. Dr. Zhou, come with me to get the request form.”
The examination request needed to be made from the office or outpatient department.
“Okay!”
Zhou Can finally felt relief.
With Dr. Ou taking it so seriously, the patient was finally going to get timely treatment.
The worry was in the delay.
Doctor Cheng Gang was inspecting a post-surgical patient. Some post-operative patients required biochemical tests and their data needed to be recorded periodically, which was very grueling.
From afar, he saw Zhou Can bring Dr. Ou into the ward of bed 31’s patient.
He thought for a moment, and his face immediately turned ugly.
“This new residency trainee is really not content. I told him to take the patient in bed 22 for an EEG, but he brought Dr. Ou to check on patient in bed 31 instead. I’m not dead yet.”
Doctor Cheng’s face darkened, and he hurried over.
“Dr. Ou, you’ve arrived!”
Cheng Gang greeted Dr. Ou first, and then looked at Zhou Can with extremely hostile eyes.
“What’s going on? Weren’t you supposed to take the patient in bed 22 for an EEG?”
There was obviously an accusatory tone in his words.
This attitude only appeared because they were in front of family members and Dr. Ou, otherwise, it would have been a different story.
He would have definitely berated Zhou Can severely.
“It was me who asked him to bring me here.”
Dr. Ou’s tone was icy, and his look toward Cheng Gang was especially cold.
This was because he was extremely dissatisfied with Cheng Gang.
“Come to the office with me!”
Dr. Ou was the first to leave the ward.
Cheng Gang glared at Zhou Can fiercely, with a gloomy expression.
“You’re quite something, resorting to leapfrog reporting, huh?”
“The patient in bed 31 has already become like this, can’t Doctor Cheng see it?”
Zhou Can defiantly responded.
Offending a senior doctor doesn’t mean you can’t stand up to them.
Frankly, he didn’t have a good opinion of doctors like Cheng Gang.
They disregarded the patients and only served their own interests.
“Fine, you’re really capable.”
Cheng Gang said with a cold face, his dissatisfaction with Zhou Can reaching a peak.
The two entered the office one after the other.
Dr. Ou was already writing out the examination request form for the patient in bed 31.
After finishing, he handed it directly to Zhou Can.
“Let the family pay quickly, and help the patient get the contrast imaging done. I’ll wait here for the results.”
“Okay!”
Zhou Can took the request form and was just leaving the office when he heard Dr. Ou say to Cheng Gang in an icy tone, “The patient in bed 31 is vomiting so severely, why didn’t you report it in time?”
“The patient had vomiting before admission, I thought it was completely overblown by the new doctor. There are so many critically ill patients outside waiting to be dealt with, I thought to handle the urgent cases first, then check on bed 31.”
Cheng Gang gave his explanation.
Indeed, the neurosurgery inpatient department had many critical patients.
But the real critical cases would not possibly stay in the general wards.
They were mostly admitted to the intensive care unit.
“Did Dr. Zhou report to you that the patient might have a cerebral aneurysm rupture?”