Chapter 113: 【113】The eldest apprentice sister was given a hard time
The clever Xie Wanying immediately followed her second senior sister out of the dormitory and asked about the situation in the corridor.
“Last night, the eldest senior sister went to the emergency room and got scolded by the emergency room staff,” said He Xiangyu.
“A overweight patient needed to be intubated and put on a ventilator for resuscitation, and the anesthesiology department was asked to send someone to help. The eldest senior sister was called down by the anesthesiology department. The emergency room staff left her there all by herself. With an overweight patient! How could the eldest senior sister possibly handle it on her own? She ended up getting blamed by the emergency room!” He Xiangyu added, worried that her junior sister might not have understood, she asked, “Do you understand?”
Of course she understood. She was reborn. Upon hearing the words “overweight,” Xie Wanying’s expression dramatically changed. She could imagine the perilous situation her eldest senior sister, Lau Jingyun, faced last night.
Intubating an overweight patient is several times, even tens of times, more difficult than with a regular patient. If even a male anesthetist, who is thin and small, can’t handle intubating an overweight patient, how could they expect her eldest senior sister, a female anesthetist, to do it?
Moreover, in that era, fiber optic laryngoscopes hadn’t become widespread, so the most basic laryngoscope would have been used for intubation in the emergency room. Successful intubation with a basic laryngoscope heavily relies on the patient’s position. It was likely that the emergency patient, needing ventilation, had lost consciousness and wasn’t able to cooperate with the doctor in any positioning—how could a female doctor move a patient weighing more than a hundred or even two hundred pounds to position them.
It was clearly being difficult for the sake of being difficult!
He Xiangyu asked her junior sister if she understood, not expecting that the newcomer to the practice would speak so professionally and even pinpoint the crux of the issue, leaving her stunned.
“Second senior sister, who told the eldest senior sister to go down by herself last night?” Xie Wanying asked.
“That bastard isn’t worth a damn. It was someone with the surname Zhang.” He Xiangyu wanted to remind her junior sister, to have her also be on guard, “He hates interns the most.”
Not every clinical senior likes students. Some really despise them because every new arrival could potentially compete with them for jobs. This situation isn’t unique to the circle of doctors but exists among nurses, pharmacists, and others as well.
Looking back at the eldest senior sister in the dormitory, Xie Wanying felt a pang in her heart. It wasn’t easy for women to be anesthetists, as being an anesthetist is a profession that requires considerable practical skills. Anesthetists often have to complete procedures alone without help, facing numerous problems under extreme conditions, with significant responsibility.
At that moment, Xie Wanying understood why her eldest senior sister’s QQ profile pic was that of a lion. Her senior sister didn’t want to be outdone by men; she wanted to be courageous like the king of lions, pressing forward bravely.
“Are you going to the hospital later?” He Xiangyu asked her junior sister.
“Yes, I’m going to continue accompanying my senior brother on his shift,” Xie Wanying answered.
“Zhang is on the night shift these days, just be careful, alright? He loves to catch medical students trying to stand out. It’s his peculiar hobby.” It seemed that the second senior sister had heard about last night’s events and was quite worried for her junior sister.
Just then, Huang Zhilei called her dormitory, asking her to return to the department. Xie Wanying hurriedly grabbed her white coat and ran to the hospital.
Arriving at the entrance of the neurosurgery department, she ran into Xiao Zhang, the son of the patient from last night.
Today, Xiao Zhang brought an elderly lady with him.
“Grandma, this is the Dr. Xie I told you about, the one who saved my mother’s life last night along with Dr. Cao and Doctor Huang,” Xiao Zhang said to the old lady by her ear.