Chapter 209 - 209 Flushed with red eyes

Chapter 209: Flushed with red eyes Chapter 209: Flushed with red eyes Look at such a serious matter, these three neurosurgeons are actually laughing. Doctor Zhang cursed in his heart: Sure enough, they’re from neurosurgery, all of them nutcases.

Stepping out of the office, Doctor Zhang gave Dr. Cao a false smile and said, “Dr. Cao, what brings you here too? Wasn’t she said to be Huang Zhilei’s student?”

“She’s my junior sister as well.”

With just five short words, the atmosphere at the scene became suddenly colder.

Senior Cao, usually so cheerful, seemed to put the whole room into instant freeze mode when he wasn’t smiling.

Doctor Zhang’s expression stiffened, and he swallowed hard.

Huang Zhilei adjusted his glasses and looked over at this person: Doctor Zhang was a well-known figure to everyone.

Lau Jingyun quietly went to the door, listening and tugging at the clothes over her chest.

“Speak, what happened?” Cao Yong asked the parties involved in a calm and composed manner.

Lau Jingyun was just about to step out to take the responsibility for it all upon herself.

Xie Wanying suddenly spoke up before her, “Senior sister was about to perform a lumbar puncture on a patient. It was Old Zhang who gave the instruction for the lumbar puncture. After the patient arrived, we discovered they couldn’t bend their waist. Their muscles felt very stiff which seemed off. We reported to Teacher Zhang that the lumbar puncture couldn’t be done, but Teacher Zhang lost his temper without letting us finish speaking and called my senior brother over.”

“You’re not trained in anesthesia, what do you know about a lumbar puncture?” Doctor Zhang turned around, irritated, and rebutted her statement.

“I have never carried out a lumbar puncture—”

“Exactly, you’ve never done one, what do you know!”

“But I know there are contraindications to a lumbar puncture. Doesn’t an anesthesiologist have to rule out contraindications before performing a lumbar puncture on a patient?”

Doctor Zhang blinked and immediately continued to refute her, “You haven’t done it, you haven’t learned it, what makes you think what you’re saying are contraindications? There are plenty of patients with back pain, not all of them can’t have a lumbar puncture, don’t talk nonsense if you don’t understand.”

“What I’m saying could be a spine issue, doesn’t it need to be ruled out whether it’s something like ankylosing spondylitis? Doctor Zhang, you didn’t listen to the end of my senior sister’s words, did you? Are you saying that spine problems are not a contraindication for a lumbar puncture?”

“That, yes, what if it is? How could it possibly be a spine problem? If it were a spine issue, the surgical doctor would inform us. That’s for the clinical doctor to decide, why is an anesthesiologist intervening?”

“The surgery is for anal procedures, not orthopedic surgery. It’s an emergency admission, without a comprehensive examination. A proctologist is not an orthopedic surgeon; how can you be so sure they haven’t missed a diagnosis? If you’re performing a lumbar puncture, shouldn’t you help make sure whether there’s a problem with the spine?”

“Do I need to check for him? That’s his business!”

“So what you mean is, if he missed the diagnosis and didn’t notice the patient’s spinal problems, you would go ahead with the puncture anyway?”

Her words brought Doctor Zhang to a state of flushed face and bulging eyes, arguably the most embarrassed he had ever been. Where did this sharp-tongued young girl come from?

“Let me tell you, what kind of hospital is this, this business of missing a diagnosis—” speaking thus, Doctor Zhang had to forcefully search for words.

“Teacher Zhang. I know you think neither I nor my senior sister are competent. I hope to clarify a fact, I’m not insisting you take us seriously. We are only responsible for reporting to you. You can choose to listen, or not. You could completely ignore us as if we were thin air. But, you should at least check on the patient’s condition, right? To be a responsible doctor, you can’t treat the patient as thin air, can you? We have no other intentions, we just want you to examine the patient.”