Chapter 253: 【253】Be the second assistant. Chapter 253: 【253】Be the second assistant. Kang Huizhu’s mouth opened wide in surprise, “I’ve never heard of such a thing, it’s quite impressive.”
The Sisters certainly exaggerated their praise, no doubt to encourage her. Xie Wanying bowed her head and chewed her food carefully, conserving her energy for the afternoon surgery.
“Does your hand feel tired?” Remembering how she had held that hook for quite some time, Lau Jingyun asked while touching her arm.
“Not tired,” Xie Wanying answered.
It wasn’t tiring, as long as she found the right position to leverage the weight. Physical tasks even more so required the use of one’s intellect. Otherwise, how could one demonstrate the advantage of mental workers?
A doctor is a mental worker, and various assistive tools have been invented to save doctors’ effort.
Dr. Xiao Sun’s tone was too calm. Lau Jingyun and Kang Huizhu were inwardly astonished.
After eating, Xie Wanying quickly found a place to rest and take a nap.
During the time with Senior Brother Huang, what she learned most valuable was to seize every possible opportunity to rest, even if it meant taking a quick nap—this was incredibly important for a doctor.
Clinical internships were no longer about just studying; they were about getting the work done.
Since Dr. Xiao Sun had informed her to go directly down to the operating room, she had no idea what else had happened in the department later on.
That afternoon, Luo Yanfen and the others found a teacher to ask about their arrangements.
“The three of you will stay in the ward this afternoon,” Teacher Sun told them, “If you don’t want to, you can go with Teacher Liu to the outpatient clinic.”
Liu Chengran had an outpatient clinic scheduled that afternoon, which the department had arranged in advance. The clinic needed to regularly assign personnel to be on duty.
The outpatient clinic of Guoxie was overflowing with patients every day, so Liu Chengran was destined to spend the afternoon there.
Luo Yanfen and the others were already aware of this and said, “Teacher Sun, don’t you have a surgery this afternoon that needs help? Teacher Liu won’t be here, will she?”
“Teacher Tan is here,” Teacher Sun replied to them.
The surgeries led by the resident doctors were meant for practice and considered minor. With a vice-senior watching, nothing would go wrong, and there was no need for many people to be present.
Hearing this, the trio, Luo Yanfen, worried: it sounded like Teacher Tan might still be upset.
“What about her? The new girl? Teacher Sun, shouldn’t we take her under our wing?” Luo Yanfen asked.
Teacher Sun glared at the three of them, “Her matters will be arranged by us teachers. Is your input really necessary?”
Seeing this, Luo Yanfen and the others fell silent, then turned around to discuss among themselves:
“Did she get in trouble this morning, and the teachers sent her back to the university for reflection?”
“That’s possible. Isn’t it said that many of these eight-year program interns get returned early?”
Ready for the outpatient clinic, Liu Chengran was neatly dressed when he saw Teacher Sun in the corridor and reminded him, “I won’t be here, so be careful this afternoon.”
Everyone knew about Tan Kelin’s bad temper. That morning, Teacher Sun had nearly been grabbed by the head by Tan Kelin.
To his surprise, Teacher Sun seemed to have figured out what happened that morning, and he cheerfully replied to his junior brother, “No worries, I’ve asked her to help this afternoon.”
Liu Chengran blinked an eye and pushed his younger colleague’s shoulder with one hand, “You sure know how to make use of the newcomer, don’t you?”
The afternoon surgery was about to begin.
Xie Wanying stood next to the First Assistant as the Second Assistant. By coincidence, she was beside Teacher Tan in the morning and again stood beside Teacher Tan in the afternoon. The difference was that in the morning, Teacher Tan was the Chief Surgeon, but in the afternoon, Teacher Tan had become the First Assistant.
When leading young doctors through surgery, the more senior doctors always served as the First Assistant.