Chapter 557: [(557)] Announce death Chapter 557: [(557)] Announce death He had thought that it wouldn’t matter much if this person left, until he truly witnessed their departure and realized that his world had come crashing down.
“Get out, get far away from me! Mingming and I will bury Mom. From now on, all tributes for Mom will be handled by Mingming, and we’ll never need you again!” Miao Fen pushed him forcefully with both hands.
Zhang Hao sat down on the ground, tears sliding down his face.
“Declare the time of the patient’s death,” Gao Zhaocheng’s voice suddenly rang out. It turned out that Sun Yubo had done the final check and confirmed the patient’s death.
Li Qi’an shivered as if his whole being had plunged into an ice cellar.
All the teachers’ gazes were fixed on him alone. Seeing this, Xie Wanying knew the teachers’ intentions and thus didn’t step forward to take over for her classmate.
“Patient Wang Lizhen has been confirmed dead after unsuccessful resuscitation. The time is–” Li Qi’an’s teeth chattered, and as he lowered his head, his vision blurred. He seriously discerned the numbers on his wristwatch several times before finally squeezing the words out through clenched teeth, “Five twenty-eight.”
The ward was left filled with the cries of the family.
It was over seven in the morning now, and there was no morning meeting to attend on Sunday, but everyone was very tired.
The rumbling sound of the trolley’s wheels indicated that, after the family had agreed, the nurses had finished the final care of the deceased patient’s body, and the remains were then sent to the hospital morgue. The family would contact the funeral home to have the body transferred again for the final burial.
The business left unfinished by the departed had to be completed by those still alive.
Li Qi’an couldn’t cry.
Zhao Zhaowei and others from his dormitory came early in the morning to comfort him, and with the teachers’ permission, they took him to the cafeteria for breakfast.
Lin Hao, after receiving the notification that bed 38’s patient had escaped last night, went to help the teacher admonish the patient, “Li Yaxi, there are rules in the hospital you need to follow. You should listen to the doctors. You can’t go out to eat, drink and have fun with friends in the middle of the night after being discharged. Your test results are temporarily okay, but your body has sent you a warning. If you keep this up, something will eventually happen one day!”
In response to his admonition, Li Yaxi retorted, “I went downstairs to get a top-up card. Doctor Lin, don’t worry, I’ll take charge of my own life.” Then, she lifted her face to Lin Hao and giggled, “Yesterday was my birthday. Doctor Lin, aren’t you going to wish me a happy birthday?”
Giving her a stern look, Lin Hao slammed the top-up card down on her bedside table and turned to leave: the death of a person in the neighboring bed last night hadn’t been enough to warn her. Fortunately, she would be discharged tomorrow. As a well-intentioned doctor, he hoped his words would not come true and that he would never have to see this person again.
Xie Wanying sat in the office writing up the death report, maintaining a cool head–this was the last thing she could do for the patient.
Two steps away, Huang Zhilei didn’t leave and was speaking on the phone with Cao Yong, “Senior Brother, are you coming to the department to get medicine? Is it the same as the little junior sister said, you’ve got tonsillitis?”
On the other end of the line, Cao Yong wished he could smack that silly Little Fool’s dense head through space, saying, “Didn’t you say you were in General Surgery Department Two now?”
Immediately realizing his mistake, Huang Zhilei turned back, alert to whether his junior sister had heard–hoping she hadn’t.
Feeling his senior brother’s gaze, Xie Wanying turned her face toward Huang and said, “I know, Senior Cao has tonsillitis.”
Little junior sister, you don’t have to be this honest! In his heart, Huang Zhilei cried out in dismay.
“Has Senior Cao not taken his medication? Did he come back to have an IV because he has a fever?” Xie Wanying asked, her gaze filled with worried undertones.