102: A man of small mind is not a gentleman, and a man without viciousness is not a man!
Chapter 102: A man of small measure is no gentleman; a man without venom is no true husband!
"The Emergency Department, after all, isn't our General Surgery Department. They handle a very diverse range of tasks, so it's impossible for them to dedicate all their manpower to gallbladder surgeries."
"The more patients that are transferred, the busier they'll become, and the likelihood of mistakes due to being busy will greatly increase."
"Aren't they promoting that they can resolve all lesions on a patient's gallbladder while preserving it?"
"Then we'll help the Emergency Department expand the influence of this promotion. We must make sure that transferred patients understand this point."
"This undoubtedly increases the operating time for a single surgery..."
"In summary, it's only a matter of time before problems arise with surgeries in the Emergency Department!"
"As long as one surgery leaves a patient dissatisfied, coupled with our pushing the waves and adding to the momentum..."
"The Emergency Department will eventually have to beg Director Qiu to take these patients back..."
The attending doctor's words made the doctors present nod repeatedly.
Putting themselves in their shoes, under such circumstances, the Emergency Department truly wouldn't have a very good solution.
Delaying a patient's surgery, or the surgery not meeting the patient's requirements—either point could throw the Emergency Department into chaos and leave them overwhelmed... "What you're saying isn't without reason."
Looking at his eloquent subordinate, Director Qiu's eyes grew brighter and brighter.
"Even if the Emergency Department assigns two or three doctors specifically to perform gallbladder surgeries for patients..."
"Because they have to operate to separate the gallstones and preserve the patient's gallbladder, a single surgery won't take less than four or five hours."
"As long as there are daily..."
Qiu Lixin calculated, and after considering all possibilities, he continued with certainty.
"If 10 gallbladder patients are admitted to the Emergency Department every day, the entire Emergency Department will surely collapse!"
Thinking of the Emergency Department collapsing and Zhong Xibei shooting himself in the foot, Qiu Lixin almost couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"Alright! The Emergency Department wants to snatch patients, right?"
Looking at the doctors under him, Director Qiu came up with an even better idea.
"Then we'll meet their demands. For any patient who wants to transfer, we'll immediately help them complete the transfer procedures."
"For patients who haven't requested a transfer or newly admitted patients, we'll also help the Emergency Department with some publicity."
"Just say that the Emergency Department has invented the latest gallbladder treatment surgery, which can perfectly preserve the patient's gallbladder..."
A man of small measure is no gentleman; a man without venom is no true husband!
Under the impact of a massive number of gallbladder patients, the Emergency Department would surely be overwhelmed.
But all of this was Zhong Xibei's own doing. Who told him to break the rules and snatch patients from other departments? If anyone was to blame, it could only be his greed... As for the patients Qiu Lixin personally sent away, he wasn't worried at all.
It was nothing more than staying in the Emergency Department for a period of time. Once these people were completely disappointed with the Emergency Department, they would have to beg and plead to return to his General Surgery Department.
After making detailed and comprehensive arrangements and dispatching his subordinate doctors to execute them,
Qiu Lixin opened a drawer, took out a can of his long-treasured Lapsang Souchong, and leisurely began to brew kung fu tea.
Whenever he thought of the good things that were about to happen, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up high!
... "Director Zhong, someone from the General Surgery Department came to handle procedures."
"They said there are more than a dozen gallbladder patients to be transferred to our Emergency Department, and they want us to complete the handover."
"Has Qiu Lixin of the General Surgery Department gone mad? Why would he push his department's cash cow to our Emergency Department?"
"The key is, with so many patients, we don't have the capacity to admit them!"
When reporting to Director Zhong, Lu Chenxi still had a look of confusion and regret.
All the doctors at Central Hospital knew that gallbladder patients who entered the General Surgery Department would not be discharged without having their gallbladder removed.
After all, this surgery is simple to perform, maximizes profits, and has always been the General Surgery Department's most important source of income.
Anyone who touched the General Surgery Department's gallbladder patients would cause Director Qiu to fall out with them... But now, Director Qiu seemed like a changed man.
Not only did he personally turn away his cash cow, but he also sent them all to the Emergency Department, with whom he had the deepest conflict.
No matter how one looked at it, everything about this situation reeked of strangeness... If it were just that, Lu Chenxi wouldn't have been so regretful.
There were a few doctors in the Emergency Department who could perform gallbladder surgeries. Regardless of the reason, if they could perform a few such surgeries every day, it would significantly boost the Emergency Department's performance and bonuses.
But the key was that the General Surgery Department was transferring too many patients.
More than a dozen at once completely exceeded the Emergency Department's capacity.
How could Lu Chenxi not feel regret watching such a lucrative opportunity slip away... "So many patients are transferring over. Has Qiu Lixin gone crazy?"
Hearing that more than a dozen gallbladder patients were transferring to the Emergency Department, Zhong Xibei suddenly stood up, his face full of surprise.
Under Lin Yi's persuasion, and coupled with the example of patient Yang Dong, Director Zhong did indeed have the idea of focusing on developing gallbladder surgeries.
But one has to eat one's food one bite at a time. So many patients coming at once...
Just as Lu Chenxi said, it completely exceeded the Emergency Department's capabilities.
It would be too costly if they didn't get to eat the good food but instead choked to death... "Even if Lin Yi personally performed every surgery, he'd be exhausted and still wouldn't be able to complete so many surgeries!"
"Why don't we first hear his opinion? What if he has a good solution?"
Director Zhong hesitated slightly, deciding to first listen to Lin Yi's opinion.
He didn't even realize that when faced with tricky problems, he would unconsciously think of Lin Yi...
Two minutes later.
Director Zhong, accompanied by Lu Chenxi, found Lin Yi in the lounge.
"Lin Yi, estimate for me."
"How long do you actually need to complete a gallbladder surgery for an ordinary patient?"
For some reason, when Director Zhong saw Lin Yi's deep and resolute eyes, he inexplicably felt a glimmer of hope.
He always felt that the problem that gave him such a headache might just be solvable by this young man in front of him... "From when I start the incision to the end, it shouldn't take more than half an hour at most."
Lin Yi didn't even need to think, casually stating a relatively conservative surgery time.
If he said the time was any shorter, he was afraid the elderly Zhong Xibei's Heart might not be able to take it...
"Half... half an hour? Are you joking with me, an old man?"
Zhong Xibei's eyes widened like brass bells, and his tongue was a bit clumsy when he spoke.
A somewhat complex traumatic wound suture usually takes an ordinary doctor at least half an hour to complete.
This was a surgery!
Completing a surgery in just half an hour, wasn't that a joke...
"Lin Yi, let me remind you, it's not a minimally invasive cholecystectomy."
"It's like the one you performed for Yang Dong."
"Although the patient doesn't have gallbladder cancer, you still need to preserve the patient's gallbladder while clearing the gallstones and lesions within it."
Although Lu Chenxi was also very surprised, even for a minimally invasive cholecystectomy, it would take her around two hours to complete the surgery herself.
The fact that Lin Yi could complete it in just half an hour truly made her feel awestruck by his skill.
However, the General Surgery Department had explicitly stated that the only requirement for these patients to transfer to the Emergency Department was to preserve their gallbladder during the surgery...
"I'm talking about the surgical plan that preserves the gallbladder!"
Lin Yi reiterated his surgical plan. With his perfect-level complete guide to gallbladder surgery,
Performing surgery on a patient and still removing the gallbladder would be the greatest insult to this perfect-level medical technique!
"Half... half an hour?"
"And... and he can still save the patient's gallbladder!"
Zhong Xibei seemed to have had a stroke, his speech completely slurred as he stammered...