Chapter 2393: The Gap Is Too Wide
Before Zhang Huayao came, he’d already taken some precautions: he contacted the nearby police station, had a police car parked right at the gate to hold the line, locked the main entrance, and left only a small side gate for patients and family to pass through after their identities were checked. These measures only treated the symptoms, not the root cause; outside the gate, the street was packed solid with people and cars.
By the time he, Ren Chongda, arrived, he had to squeeze his way in for ages. Once inside, his most important task as counselor was to find his own student, Student Wei Shangquan. Now he was standing next to Student Wei, pressing down on his shoulder, like a mother dog pressing down a little pup that kept running and jumping around.
"How’s the patient?" Zhu Huicang asked.
When it happened, the child’s mother was injured more severely than the child.
Standing in the emergency department, Ren Chongda looked toward the resuscitation room up ahead and said, "They’ve been resuscitating her in there the whole time."
"Isn’t Zhang Huayao here?" Zhu Huicang asked, thinking that with this old Poison King around, there shouldn’t be any big problem.
To that, Boss Zhang would say: I’m not a god, I don’t have resurrection spells.
"Are you guys done with resuscitation over there?" Ren Chongda asked, curious because the situation on their side seemed a bit different from here.
On the way just now, walking with Cao Zhao and the others, Zhu Huicang had already gotten a brief on the child’s situation. He said, "At Shou’er they’ve temporarily come up with a treatment plan. They said they found a rupture of the papillary muscle and need to rush her into surgery." As a fellow cardiac surgeon himself, he also knew, "Being able to find it is a stroke of luck. The worst is not finding it and not knowing what’s going on, wasting time in the clinic and missing the chance to save a life."
"Who said they found a papillary muscle rupture?"
This sudden interjection came from Boss Zhang.
"Hang on a sec." After saying this to the person on the phone, Ren Chongda covered the receiver and lifted his head.
Zhang Huayao was standing in front of him with a group of people, probably because the resuscitation had reached a brief lull and the doctors had come out to talk with the family. As they stepped out of the resuscitation room, they just happened to hear him on the phone mentioning Shou’er.
Hey, mother and son with the same electrical injury, being resuscitated in two different hospitals. If one hospital succeeds and the other one lets the patient die—in more precise terms, fails to save them—public opinion won’t parse the specific causes, it’ll only look at the result. Wouldn’t that prove that a cardiac specialty hospital like Guo Zhi Hospital might not measure up to the cardiac department of a children’s specialty hospital? How could Boss Zhang not scowl, not be anxious?
A group of Guo Zhi Hospital technical experts followed behind Zhang Huayao, all with grim faces, underscoring how serious this matter was.
In his heart, Ren Chongda was cursing them for having antennas installed on their ears. The guy was just making a phone call, and they’d practically turned it into wiretapping.
Student Wei Shangquan swallowed hard, like a little kid reaching out to clutch his counselor’s clothes, almost hiding behind this old "mom" of a counselor, all because Boss Zhang’s pair of dark eyes were sliding back and forth across his face.
Boss Zhang had an issue with him, Student Wei.
No need to think about it: the one at Shou’er who’d discovered the papillary muscle rupture was definitely Student Xie.
On this point, Zhang Huayao deeply regretted it. If he’d known, he would have told Student Xie on the phone to escort the child’s mother to Guo Zhi Hospital, instead of sending her over to Shou’er as reinforcements. He just didn’t believe that without Student Xie, Shou’er could have found a damn thing.
"You escorted the patient all the way here and didn’t notice anything? You don’t have any clues you can give me?" Zhang Huayao aimed the question straight at Student Wei.
Student Wei Shangquan shook his head hard: Boss, don’t treat him like Student Xie; he’s nowhere near as capable as Student Xie.
"Didn’t you do a pretty good job? You managed to bring such a severely injured patient back from the brink." This came from one of the other doctors following behind Zhang Huayao.