After eating at the hospital cafeteria, it was already 6:30 P.M.
The Gastroenterology outpatient clinic must have closed long ago.
But there would definitely be doctors on duty in the hospitalization department.
Zhou Can had quite a good relationship with Director Tan and Director Yin Hua from Internal Medicine, all of whom were the top experts in the field.
At this time, going to the Internal Medicine hospitalization department to inquire Dr. Xia Ping about the situation should not be an issue.
He was a pragmatic person, who would act immediately upon thinking, never letting his dreams slip away.
He quickly walked to the hospitalization department of Digestive Internal Medicine.
"Hello, I am Zhou Can, a resident doctor from the Intensive Care Medicine Department, looking for Dr. Xia Ping from Digestive Internal Medicine."
Zhou Can could only ask the nurse at the nurse station.
"I'm sorry, Dr. Xia has already finished work for the day. If your matter is not extremely urgent, you can come back tomorrow to find him."
The attitude of the nurse sister was quite good.
She was called nurse sister because she was at least over thirty years old.
Much older than Zhou Can.
Those fresh nurses in their twenties could be referred to as nurse girls.
"It's not extremely urgent, but it concerns the safety of a patient in the intensive care unit, and I would like to inquire about that patient's condition from Dr. Xia right now. You can also give me Dr. Xia's phone number."
Zhou Can was genuinely worried. He feared that the patient in bed 7 might not last much longer.
Because today during defecation, the intestines were pulled out.
Moreover, the patient's physical condition was already extremely weak. Finding the cause of the bleeding a day earlier would be significantly meaningful.
"We don't have doctors' phone numbers here! You can go to the doctor's on-duty office and ask there."
The nurse deals with numerous families every day.
To get any information out of them, unless it's a doctor from their own department they have good relations with, one shouldn't even think about it.
Zhou Can had learned his lesson and did not waste any more time, going straight into the doctor's office.
The door to the office was open, the light was on, and there was a doctor sitting with his back to the door.
Knocking was a display of politeness.
The doctor turned his head to look.
"It's you! Not busy in the Emergency Department, so you've come to our Gastroenterology?"
This male doctor was none other than Dr. Chi, who had last come to the Emergency Department for an emergency.
He must have had quite an impression of Zhou Can.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have recognized him straight away.
Zhou Can was very respectful.
Last time, Dr. Chi had been arrogantly swaggering all over the Emergency Department and ended up embarrassed.
Past embarrassments, naturally, Zhou Can would not bring up again.
Dr. Chi's expression was somewhat unnatural, probably remembering the incident from last time. There was bound to be some awkwardness.
"I want to inquire about a patient's condition from Dr. Xia Ping, could you give me his phone number?"
Zhou Can asked with lowered stature.
"Dr. Xia's phone number, okay, let me check, just a moment!"
Dr. Chi didn't make things difficult and truly put aside his work to find the phone number for Zhou Can.
"Here, this is Dr. Xia's mobile number, you can call him. However, it's after hours now, I can't guarantee if you can reach him."
Zhou Can dialed the number from the duty roster.
Luckily, the call connected.
He didn't shy away, and asked about the patient directly in the office.
"Hello Dr. Xia, I'm Zhou Can, a resident from the Intensive Care Medicine Department, I would like to inquire about a Gastroenterology patient named Guo Ziyang in bed 7, is it convenient for you now?"
The voice on the phone was steady, with a magnetic tone.