He had just stepped into the department when immediately there was a critically ill patient who needed emergency surgery.
"Doctor Lu, emergency surgery in operating room 2."
Now, there was really no need for wild thoughts.
He sprinted toward the operating room, where the patient had already been wheeled in, unconscious.
"What happened?" he asked.
"Are all the test reports out?"
"Two are still pending."
Lu Jing frowned, unable to worry about that now:
"Let’s establish the IV access first."
In the few minutes waiting for the reports, Lu Jing had already gotten a basic understanding of the patient’s condition.
Car accident, near-total comminuted fractures throughout the body.
Just then, a phone vibrated in his pocket.
Lu Jing had already changed into his surgical attire and was wearing sterile gloves, so he had no choice but to ignore the ringing phone.
The phone rang three whole times, and the Nurse Director, having finished her tasks, shook her head and then said:
"Doctor Lu, I’ll get it for you, perhaps it’s something important?"
Rules are rigid, but humans are flexible, aren’t they?
And, they now advocate for humanization, right?
Lu Jing didn’t refuse, nodding:
The Nurse Director removed her gloves, retrieved the phone from his pocket, and saw the caller ID:
"Unknown number, and it’s a landline, should I answer?"
These days, the only ones using landlines are limited to legitimate institutions, and beyond that, typically only insurance sales or loan companies.
Of course, other than those, there’re only scam calls!
So, general people usually don’t answer calls from such landline numbers anymore.
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It wasn’t just a single call; it had rung three consecutive times.
Would a scam company be that patient?
The Nurse Director pressed the answer button and held it gently to Lu Jing’s ear.
"Hello? Who is this?"
Lu Jing was taken aback:
Could this even be real?
It had been three whole days with no word, and he had been so worried that he could barely sleep at night.
Who knew that suddenly a call would come?
On the phone, Jiang Ye’s voice was clearly hoarse:
"Yeah, I’m fine, very safe, don’t worry.
Also, I’m going to hang up now, wife, take care of yourself."
Was he going to hang up just after getting through?
Lu Jing hadn’t even processed it when he heard the man on the phone say his last two words—’Wait for me’.
The Nurse Director was still puzzled:
"Doctor Lu, is something wrong?"
Hearing her voice, Lu Jing came back to his senses and shook his head:
"No, it’s fine, he’s already hung up."
"That quick? Who was it?"
"My boyfriend, he’s in Fangbei City for disaster relief."
To make such a call, he must’ve sacrificed the rare rest time he had.
The situation in Fangbei City was such that rescue personnel were almost going days and nights without sleep, just busily saving people and transferring others.
The Nurse Director also understood, and quickly pocketed the phone again.
However, with that reassurance call from Jiang Ye, Lu Jing’s restless heart finally settled and calmed.
The subsequent surgery was performed very seriously and meticulously.
Yet, by the actual end of the surgery, almost all the medical staff in the operating room were barely able to stand.
That one stance had spanned over six to nearly seven hours!
Even a body of iron couldn’t withstand it.