Chapter 510: [(510)] Family members have become fans. Chapter 510: [(510)] Family members have become fans. Dr. Qiu called out, “Who brought in the patient? Where are the people from General Surgery Department Two?”
Hearing a senior looking for her, Xie Wanying, who had returned to the entrance of the ward, turned around and walked towards Dr. Qiu, “It was me, senior.”
Dr. Qiu looked at the ID badge on her chest: no mistake. Xie Wanying, medical intern.
“I haven’t seen you before.” Dr. Qiu glanced at her face as if to memorize her features, then pulled the pen from his chest pocket and handed it to her, “Sign here.”
Just like frontline staff, and somewhat unlike Teacher Sun, who had the air of a big boy, the frontline resident physician in Hepatobiliary Surgery, Dr. Qiu Ruiyun, was tall, reminiscent of a handsome basketball player, and his tone and expressions while speaking were much more mature and stable.
Taking the pen that the other party handed to her, although she had her own pen, Xie Wanying signed her name in the designated column, handed over the patient’s medical record, and reported the patient’s situation: “The CT scan and urgent blood tests have just been ordered, but Teacher Sun hasn’t signed them yet, you may need to wait until he’s free to come up and sign.”
“No problem. I know Sun Yubo.” Dr. Qiu said, then asked, “Where’s the patient’s family?”
Mrs. Guo was anxiously waiting outside the ward, while simultaneously receiving a phone call from her son at home.
“Yes, your father suddenly took a turn for the worse. The doctor says his liver was damaged by some medicine he took from outside, and now they’re resuscitating him; you’d better come quickly.”
“I’ll need to take the earliest flight tomorrow, and I won’t arrive until the afternoon. Wasn’t it just a hospital checkup they mentioned before?”
“The doctor said to be hospitalized for observation. I didn’t expect your father to suddenly fall into a comatose state while sleeping.”
“Didn’t the doctor know about it before?”
“They said the test results wouldn’t come out so quickly. Your father’s condition worsened suddenly, he fell ill in the middle of the night. It’s fortunate it happened inside the hospital; otherwise–Dr. Xie has been very good, saying it must have something to do with the medicine he took earlier, and that sounds right to me.”
“Dr. Xie, not Director Shen?”
“You’ll know when you get here tomorrow.” Mrs. Guo hung up the call and turned to look for Xie Wanying, “Where is Dr. Xie?” She saw Xie Wanying rushing towards her with heavy footsteps.
Dr. Qiu saw the patient’s relative practically jogging after Xie Wanying like a fan chasing a star, and couldn’t help but be surprised, thinking to himself that someone uninformed might mistake Xie Wanying for a great specialist.
“Dr. Qiu, you need her to sign the consent form for the artificial liver procedure, right? I’ve explained it to her on the way, and she understands,” Xie Wanying said to Dr. Qiu before turning to Mrs. Guo, “Mrs. Guo, as I’ve explained to you, your husband needs to be connected to a machine called an artificial liver right away.”
“I know, you said it’s for saving lives. Like an injection, it’s inserting a tube into a vein in my husband’s thigh to connect to the machine. This machine can filter out the bad substances from his body, like the yellowish color of his skin that needs filtering. His liver is sick right now and needs to rest, so we let the machine take over the work of his liver,” Mrs. Guo explained.
Hearing this, Dr. Qiu realized that the patient’s relative had quickly become well-acquainted with the concept of the artificial liver as He Guangyou had mentioned, so there was no need for him to explain further. What surprised him was that during critical onset of illness, it was common for the patient’s relatives to become mentally overwhelmed and not completely absorb what the doctors were saying. How did this medical student named Xie Wanying manage to get the patient’s relative to understand what the doctors were going to do?