Chapter 450 - 450 Who discovered it

Chapter 450: Who discovered it? Chapter 450: Who discovered it? “He didn’t make it clear when he called you?” Doctor Pan questioned the assistant.

“He mentioned suspicion of gastric varices rupture leading to massive upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Aren’t gastric varices a sign of cirrhosis? Didn’t you know the patient had cirrhosis when you performed intestinal surgery on him?” Tao Zhijie challenged back.

Doctor Pan earnestly replied, “I truly didn’t know. He never mentioned having this condition when he came in by himself. His family didn’t bring it up either when they brought him here. I will definitely have to re-ask his family after surgery.”

“You only did a CT and didn’t perform a hepatic biliary ultrasound?”

“Since we did a full abdominal CT, hepatic biliary issues would have shown up there as well.”

“But in the end, it didn’t show up, did it?” When Tao Zhijie asked this, his expression was amiable.

This man seemed like a Maitreya Buddha, always wearing a smile that brushed across his face, like a benevolent and congenial schoolmaster. Do you know how a good-tempered schoolmaster speaks? Just like this man here. Even when he’s teaching you a lesson, it’s done in a very kind and friendly manner, though the content of the conversation is not so pleasant – in fact, it’s a thorn that goes straight to the heart.

Doctor Pan’s face turned red at once, feeling quite uncomfortable. This sensation was far worse than being yelled at by Gao Zhaocheng.

If someone yells at you, you can get worked up and argue back. If someone speaks to you in such a harmonious way, getting angry would just show your own lack of manners. What to do? You can only swallow your anger and suffocate on it.

Doctor Pan could not help but glance at Gao Zhaocheng out of the corner of his eye: Your disciple?

Gao Zhaocheng kept silent, almost to the extreme.

This disciple, he was the most difficult to describe among the disciples. Those who liked Tao Zhijie would like him a lot, and those who didn’t would greatly dislike him. But this disciple always carried himself as if he were the nicest person in the whole world, leaving no trace for others to grasp.

Only he could polarize others into such extreme opinions about him.

Once suited up, Tao Zhijie stepped onto the operating table. Tan Kelin yielded his place to him.

“The bleeding has temporarily stopped. Who discovered it was gastric bleeding?” Tao Zhijie surveyed the surgical field and posed his first question.

“Shouldn’t you be hurrying to sort out the surgery first?” Gao Zhaocheng remarked.

“No, I need to ask who found the problem first. It seems it wasn’t you.” Tao Zhijie continued wearing the surgical loupes to observe the patient’s abdominal cavity, with no sign of frowning on his forehead, his tone not yielding an inch, though his voice remained as mild as a schoolmaster’s, saying, “The person who identified this fatal issue must have a unique perspective; I want to consult it to make the process quicker.”

Gao Zhaocheng didn’t make a sound upon hearing this.

Looking up, Tao Zhijie’s gaze landed on the person across from him holding the suction device, his delicate eyebrows carrying a touch of cordial smile, asking, “Was it you, Yingying?”

Yingying? Using the nickname? Since when did Tao Zhijie become so familiar with this female intern?

Everyone was surprised. Lin Hao was even more astonished, as he hadn’t heard about this as her classmate.

“Hey, why are you calling her by her nickname?” Gao Zhaocheng’s questioning tone unintentionally rose in volume.

“She is my junior sister; we greeted each other once before. You all call her by her nickname, so why can’t I?” Tao Zhijie logically explained his reasons. It seemed that this was not the first time he was arguing this point. The last time at the thoracic surgery department, it was the same, showing that some people did not like him getting close to the ‘little junior sister’.