The nurse standing on the other side covered her mouth and complained, "I donât know when the people from Cardiothoracic Surgery arrived, they didnât make a sound."
Regarding the people from Cardiothoracic Surgery, Xie Wanying had interacted the most with Teacher Fu, Senior Zhou, and Senior Zhu. She hadnât had much contact with other doctors from the department and didnât know them. It was certain, however, that the Doctor Li Chengyuan in front of her should not have dealt with her before.
Li Chengyuan, attending physician, appeared older than Senior Zhou. The doctor following him was younger, a resident, with the surname Liu.
"Oh, youâre here." Xin Yanjun took off her operating gloves, addressing her colleagues from Cardiothoracic Surgery.
"Yes." Li Chengyuan answered her greeting lazily, but when he turned his eyes toward her, they were sharp.
The tense atmosphere between Doctor Li and Teacher Xin was palpable. Xie Wanying sneakily glanced at them while standing quietly on the side, worried about setting off something volatile.
Doctors typically avoided discussing disagreements in front of patients. The group left the ward and moved to a corner outside.
Xin Yanjun explained to her colleagues from Cardiothoracic Surgery, "You were busy, so we went ahead and did the puncture for the patient."
"Werenât we called down for a consultation because you couldnât resolve the issue?" Doctor Liu questioned.
If you could handle it yourselves, why bother wasting our time by calling us down? Anyone would be angry at that.
"Donât ask her." Li Chengyuan stretched his arm out to block Doctor Liu, signaling him not to waste words. He directly said, "Xin Yanjun, do you have any shame?"
"What did you say?" Xin Yanjun looked stunned by his words.
"I said your skin is thick enough to exploit our surgical interns, isnât it?" As Li Chengyuan said this, his gaze shifted to Xie Wanying.
Standing behind Teacher Xin, Xie Wanying certainly didnât dare to make a sound at this moment.
"What do you mean exploit? Sheâs doing her internship in our department; sheâs my student." Xin Yanjun, obviously disagreeing with his statement, was thoroughly enraged.
In clinical practice, mentorship is always a mutual learning process, particularly when doctors from different departments come to each otherâs specialties for training. On one hand, she was still a student, but on the other, her specialized knowledge inevitably contributed to the learning of doctors in that department.
Moreover, if he wanted to talk exploitation, wasnât it the same with General Surgery Department Two and Hepatobiliary Surgery before? Who didnât know how much Tan Kelin and Tao Zhijie had utilized Student Xie to create surgical breakthroughs? Student Xie was also capable of creating breakthroughs in Respiratory Medicine.
"Howâs that the same? Sheâs a surgical intern, not one of your internal medicine staff. Weâre all aware that your internal medicine department has long mastered the art of relying on surgical trainees for standardized tasks. But we never expected you to exploit an intern to this extent."
Hah. Xin Yanjun detected his intention and sneered, "What? Jealous? Jealous that sheâs rotating in our department?"
Li Chengyuan glanced at the top of her head, then locked his gaze on Xie Wanyingâs face, addressing her by name, "Xie Wanying, if youâre smart enough, you should know to wait for the surgical teachers to handle this kind of matter."
Upon hearing this, Xin Yanjun grew agitated, "Sheâs my student. Why should she listen to your orders?"
"Xin Yanjun, we were classmates once. Donât think I donât understand what kind of person you are. Youâre always scheming to get ahead. Iâd advise you not to end up with nothing but empty dreams." After delivering these words, Li Chengyuan turned and left with his colleague.