Chapter 518 - 518 518 Need to keep a distance from the patient

Chapter 518: [518] Need to keep a distance from the patient Chapter 518: [518] Need to keep a distance from the patient The infectious diseases department is in the emergency building.

“Did you figure it out, or did she?” Doctor Wu asked, leaning close to Sun Yubo’s ear.

Sun Yubo gave him a knowing look.

Three students closely followed their teacher like chicks trailing behind a hen. The teachers would let the students hear what they meant them to hear and wouldn’t when they didn’t.

The shift had ended, and tonight the condition of the patients in the ward was relatively more stable than it had been on Tuesday night. Mainly because the large number of patients admitted on Monday and Tuesday had been stabilized after medication.

The patient in the added bed was transferred to a general ward and was said to possibly move on to the gastroenterology department for further treatment. However, neither the patient nor their family wanted that, believing they were treated very well in General Surgery Department Two. Who would have thought that the patient’s sister had wanted to complain about the doctors that night.

“Tonight we might actually get some rest. There are no serious illnesses or complicated cases. The beds are full, and we’ve added two beds already. If we admit more, they’ll have to be placed temporarily in the hallway,” Sun Yubo suggested to the two students upon returning and sitting down in the office, “Why don’t you guys go get some sleep first? This way you won’t be exhausted if you’re suddenly called up in the middle of the night.”

“Teacher Sun, if you want to go to sleep first, it’s okay. Yingying and I can keep an eye on the patients in the ward for you,” Li Qi’an said quickly, offering to share the teacher’s burden.

This foolish boy, doesn’t he even realize that you can’t just say what you guess the teacher is thinking? Sun Yubo virtually lost his voice with internal frustration.

“Teacher, he and I will go check on the wards first,” Xie Wanying signaled to her classmate and then took the lead to head out.

Student Xiao Xie was better at handling these situations, pretending to be oblivious was the way to go. Sun Yubo yawned, and then thought it would be best to take a nap himself. Who knows, he might actually need to wake up in the middle of the night.

“Haven’t we already checked the ward?” Li Qi’an asked as they left the office.

“Teacher wants to be alone for a bit,” Xie Wanying whispered to her classmate.

A moment later, Li Qi’an had an epiphany: “Oh.”

With nothing else to do, Xie Wanying went to the nurse’s station to flip through her notes. She was planning to rest herself after a while, once Sister Lingling returned to pass on some information.

Li Qi’an went to chat with the auntie in bed 23.

Sister Lingling, the nurse on night duty, came back and gently patted Xie Wanying on the shoulder, whispering, “Is it okay for your classmate to keep company with bed 23?”

“He wanted to go himself, and he is well aware of the auntie’s condition,” Xie Wanying reassured Sister Lingling, understanding her concern.

“Your classmate seems soft-hearted, and I’m worried he won’t be able to handle it. Getting too emotionally involved with patients isn’t good,” Sister Lingling, speaking from experience as a senior, advised, “Don’t take it for granted that just because you’re doctors, you can rationally deal with life and death. Once real emotions are involved, it can be overwhelming. That’s why we in our department maintain a certain distance from the patients.”

In her previous life’s internship in the laboratory, she hardly had any chance to enter the wards, moving between different departments within the lab instead. It was only when she became familiar with the ward teachers and colleagues during her internship and work, and went to the wards or operating rooms to coordinate with the laboratory work, that she learned and understood some medical practices and ward matters.

But when it comes to dealing with emotions between patients and themselves, hospitals are all the same everywhere.

She remembered seeing patients and their families frequently collapsing on the spot when they received bad reports from the lab. Doctors had done what they could at that point, but some diseases were indeed incurable.