Famous Among Top Surgeons in the 90s

Chapter 189: Sister Xue juggles various tasks
 

No one should think the task of holding medical records is simple after this detailed explanation.

Weighing several iron-clamped medical records is not just heavy, but also quite bulky.

Most patients admitted to Guoxie have been hospitalized multiple times, so they have a pile of old medical records. When stuffed into the binder, they tend to overflow, and if the clip isn’t tight enough, the documents can easily scatter all over when opened.

While learning from her senior during ward rounds, Xie Wanying was extremely careful in adjusting the medical records all the way. No one helped her, because everyone knew it was her responsibility, given to her for training.

It can only be said that even menial tasks train a medical student’s hands and brain.

Fortunately, she had developed arm strength after her rebirth, so holding the records with one hand was no problem. If she wanted to take shortcuts, thanks to her previous life’s experiences, she knew exactly what to do—upon entering a patient room, she would first find a chair and unload most of the records on top of it to relieve the weight. Of course, when moving to another room, she had to be quick in lifting the records.

Sometimes her senior walked so fast that it caught a stiff breeze, and she had no time to prepare. She had to operate with one hand, and when it was inconvenient, she’d prop the records with her knee, which she could handle as well. It did, however, occasionally draw the curious glances of her peers.

Huang Zhilei looked back to see what his junior sister was doing and saw her using her knee. The flash of surprise in his eyes behind the glasses was as if saying: the demure junior sister has actually learned their acrobatic tricks.

Xie Wanying was not concerned with what her senior might think; she only knew she needed to do her job well.

Take for example, during another team’s rounds, a male student accidentally dropped a medical record, scattering papers all over the floor, resulting in utter humiliation. No one helped him, and the glances from the department head and doctors read clear as day: If he’s not cautious enough, can he even handle work in the future?

The impressions medical students leave on clinical teachers and hospitals accumulate bit by bit, and they cannot afford to lose points in any aspect. In the end, hospitals are no different from any other workplace—every unit only favors those who can work efficiently and cleanly.

After the rounds, Cao Yong directed the juniors to start writing medical orders and records.

There were no surgeries today, and if it was like usual, with nothing much to do around the department, he might have gone elsewhere to keep busy.

Xie Wanying, preparing to leave with others, was glanced at from behind by Senior Cao who then turned around and decided to stay.

“Bring over a treatment tray,” Cao Yong told Huang Zhilei.

Huang Zhilei went out and soon returned with a tray of items.

In the stainless steel square tray, there were rubber tubes that acted as blood vessels, not the thick ropes like nylon threads that ordinary medical students would use when first practicing to tie knots, but surgical sutures were laid in the tray. The sutures were about as thick as the thread one might use to sew a button on clothing at home.

Glancing at the tray, Xie Wanying wondered: Is Senior setting high standards or does he have high expectations of her? Why else would he go straight to suturing with her?

“Do you need me to show you how to do it?” Cao Yong asked.

Turning around, Xie Wanying saw that Senior Cao’s expression was cheerful and smiling.

Since he offered to teach her, she was willing to learn. Even if she had practiced it herself for a few years.

“Senior, show me how, I’ll learn,” Xie Wanying said.

The junior sister had a very serious attitude toward learning; the way she looked at him was almost like preparing to watch an instructional video or textbook.

Cao Yong wondered how he could make the naturally dim-witted junior sister look at him as if she were looking at a man.

Show off in front of junior sister?

He picked up a strand of suture, threaded it beneath the rubber tube, grabbing an end in each hand, and then, he immediately tied a knot.