"Pediatric heart surgery in the hospital is done by us, the cardiac surgery team, not by them, the pediatric surgeons." The old hand in cardiac surgery was calm, as the two major surgical specialties are not for show and cannot be replaced.
Hearing how each department seemed to dismiss the pediatric surgery team, Luo Jingming was furious and pointed at Chang Jiawei, who was leading the charge: "Do you understand pediatrics? Just because youāve treated a few kids, does that mean you understand them completely? You donāt know a thing. If you really understood, you wouldnāt say something that angers everyone. Heās a boy, and you suggest speaking to him like heās a girl?"
The pediatric doctor had somewhat echoed Chang Jiaweiās words, and the crowd, upon hearing it all over again, were nearly driven to laughter in disbelief.
Chang Jiawei pouted and argued with Luo Jingming, "Heās young, just a little kid."
The young Xie Youtian, referred to as a "little kid," hadnāt hit a growth spurt yet.
"Heās twelve or thirteen," said someone who knew the actual age of the child.
"He hasnāt entered puberty yet," Chang Jiawei judged.
The timeline for the onset and end of puberty varies among individuals. Although boys typically enter puberty between the ages of twelve and twenty, not everyone starts at twelve. Most boys start around fourteen.
"Twelve is close enough."
"He hasnāt grown much yet; he definitely hasnāt hit it."
"Even so, you canāt deny heās a boy." Luo Jingming from pediatrics wouldnāt let him off the hook, pointing out his misunderstanding about children, "He was born a boy." Gender identity in children doesnāt start with puberty. This non-pediatric doctor was just talking nonsense here.
Chang Jiawei wanted him to shut up, to avoid further misunderstanding by Mother Xie, and hastily said, "Iām not saying heās not a boy. What I mean is, you should speak to him gently. Donāt assume heās a boy and expect him to be tough like a man. Heās just a kid and heās sick."
This Master Playboy spoke as if he was the only one caring for the child. The othersā tempers flared once again, attacking him: "Who are you saying spoke loudly?"
Everyone seemed to have passionate words, but in reality, each spoke in hushed tones, not wanting the child to overhear. The self-discipline of doctors in such a profession is habitual, not swayed by emotions.
To address this, Chang Jiawei turned to Zhu Huicang: "He said it, to tell you all to quiet down."
Thrown under the bus, Zhu Huicang got anxious and said, "Youāre all arguing like this, do I not need to ask whoās the childās attending physician? Whatās the argument, this bickering wastes time."
Who was the attending physician of the patient? Surprisingly, it seemed for a moment that no one in the crowd answered. Not knowing who the attending was, they had to start from scratch. Zhu Huicang asked again, "Who is the first attending doctor?"
The first attending doctor refers to the doctor who first diagnosed the patient. This question was straightforward and easy to resolve. Following the glances of some, Zhu Huicang found the answer: It turned out to be this revered figure.
"You are the childās attending physician, why arenāt you speaking up?" Zhu Huicang questioned the first attending doctor.
As long as the patient hadnāt been handed over to another doctor, Tao Zhijie had to be responsible until the end.
He Guangyou and others helped Tao Zhijie clarify, "Teacher Tao called Dr. Tan. This child is not suffering from a disease we treat in hepatobiliary surgery, so finding Teacher Tao was pointless."
The patient had been transferred to the cold-faced Tan in General Surgery Department Two. Zhu Huicang searched for Tan Kelin among the crowd and, after a long time, found that the attending physician was hidden deep within the crowd, making him fume with anger: "Youāre the childās attending physician. Iām asking you, why arenāt you answering?"