Chapter 204: [204] The Eldest Martial Sister’s Patient
Working at Guoxie, surrounded by the strongest teammates, wherever you go, it’s clearly a team of champions.
Who wouldn’t want to learn and work in the strongest team? Only by working in such a place can you get closer to the peak of medicine. Isn’t climbing to the pinnacle of medicine what you want when you study medicine?
When she rushed to the third-floor operating room, a patient was being pushed on a surgery transport stretcher to the entrance. Xie Wanying stood behind and waited. The nurse escorting the patient pressed the operating room doorbell, and soon someone opened the door from the inside.
“Doctor Lau, the patient has arrived!” the operating room nurse called out into the surgical area.
Coincidentally, it was her mentor’s patient.
Xie Wanying checked the patient on the stretcher.
She was a middle-aged woman in her forties or fifties, thin. Written on the side of the stretcher with a red pen was “Proctology.” Perhaps an emergency anal surgery?
Hearing the nurse’s call, Lau Jingyun rushed out with a mask hanging around her neck and said to the nurse, “Push her in.”
The nurse asked her, “Do we need to notify Doctor Zhang?”
“No need, he knows,” Lau Jingyun replied.
As the patient was wheeled through the operating room door, Xie Wanying followed behind the stretcher and waved at her mentor, “Big Sister.”
Little sister’s here. Lau Jingyun’s usually tense face softened with a smile, “Are you looking for me?”
“I’m just here to watch. Although I can’t help much, I can learn,” Xie Wanying said.
Lau Jingyun greeted her, “All right, come in. You know you need to change shoes, right?”
Xie Wanying nodded. She had been brought in once before by her senior brother, so she knew the drill.
Everyone knows that the place where surgeries are performed has the strictest requirements for sterility. Hence, that place should actually be called an operating theater, but ordinary people don’t know this—they think the operating room is the operating theater.
An operating theater is located within the operating room. To be precise, an operating room contains many operating theaters. Moreover, there are many other functional areas within the operating room.
The offices of the anesthesiologists and surgical nurses are also inside the operating room, which outsiders definitely couldn’t imagine. After all, those who aren’t in the medical field can’t just stroll around the operating room like Grandma Liu touring the Grand View Garden.
In the past, when the country was poor, even the top-tier hospital operating theaters were just ordinary rooms with windows, and they would just do some disinfection before and after surgeries. So when Guoxie renovated the entire operating theater that year, updating it to the internationally aligned laminar flow operating theaters, all the medical staff related to surgery were overjoyed from the bottom of their hearts.
Finally, their working environment had become high-end.
This was something Xie Wanying often heard Lau Jingyun say, that she had graduated into a good era.
Patients want a comfortable environment when they’re admitted to the hospital and a high-end environment for surgery. Actually, the medical staff want it even more, they dream of it. Anesthesia and surgery are very tense, and a comfortable environment can help relax and thus reduce the risk of operational failure.
Can anesthesia be tense? Anesthesiologists don’t perform surgery like surgeons, do they?
Anesthesia can fail, just like a nurse might fail to give an injection.
For instance, anesthesiologists might fear performing spinal anesthesia on certain patients. For trainees like Lau Jingyun who are about to graduate, being able to successfully perform spinal anesthesia on all patients is tantamount to whether they can work, and spinal anesthesia is a threshold for medical students studying anesthesiology.
After the patient was pushed into the operating theater, the nurses and the anesthesiologist together moved the patient onto the operating table.