Famous Among Top Surgeons in the 90s-Chapter 1981: Primary Hospital
With no tools available for on-site rescue, the doctors were unable to conduct further resuscitation efforts and needed to transport the patient to the nearest hospital.
If waiting for an ambulance wasn’t feasible, they could use other vehicles to transport the patient, and in any case, they had to try whatever method they could.
Doctor Hu made a Decisive Moment decision and instructed the traffic police and others: "Please help lift the patient onto the police car and take them to the hospital."
A few people carefully helped lift the pregnant woman into the back seat of the police car. Xie Wanying stayed by the patient’s side. Doctor Hu got into the front passenger seat. The traffic officer drove the car.
Passing by a taxi, the taxi driver kindly picked up the patient’s husband. Shen Xifei thought it was too dangerous to stay alone in this remote area, so she climbed into the taxi to hitch a ride and told the patient’s husband: "I’m also a doctor; I’m here to help."
The police car turned on its lights and drove with the siren blaring, clearing the way. The taxi followed closely behind the police car in a wild chase. Unfortunately, due to the area’s remote location, it took nearly twenty minutes to find a hospital, which turned out to be a health clinic. The hospital had a level-one rating, fewer than a dozen beds, and incomplete departments.
The small hospital’s emergency department received the notification of the incoming patient.
The on-duty doctor walked out the front door. Seeing such a critically ill patient, he shouted: "Why send them here? Quickly send them to a big hospital." 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎
"There’s no time. We can only send the patient to your emergency room first." Doctor Hu pushed the car door open and jumped out, speaking toward the source of the voice, unable to see the figure clearly.
"Our health clinic only has internal medicine doctors. As for surgeons, they can’t even perform an appendectomy; they can only handle minor wounds." The on-duty doctor explained his difficulties.
"What about obstetricians?" Doctor Hu asked again.
"Our hospital’s obstetricians? They don’t deliver babies; they only do exams and send pregnant women and maternity patients to the maternity health care hospital for delivery."
The national regulations require all hospitals to include the departments of internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics, and pediatrics in their basic setup, but small hospitals don’t have the funds to retain talent, and the doctors willing to stay don’t meet technical standards, unable to handle serious illness or injury.
Even so, Doctor Hu and Xie Wanying knew this patient wouldn’t make it to the next hospital. The injured patient showed signs of respiratory arrest en route, and Xie Wanying performed artificial respiration on the patient in the car.
Ignoring any hesitations, Doctor Hu commanded people to carry the patient into the emergency room.
"Hey, how are you not understanding what I’m saying!" The on-duty doctor was hopping mad, unable to stop them, worried about what would happen if the patient died here.
People in the hospital dislike patients dying there more than anyone. With each death in the hospital, they have to fill out a report to the higher health authorities, not to mention the risk of being confronted by the family.
Doctor Hu forcefully pushed away the blurred obstacles ahead and shouted: "If anything happens, I’m responsible!"
This unquestionably commanding style explains why he’s called "Troublemaker Hu."
The small hospital’s on-duty emergency doctor was stunned by the shouting, unfamiliar with the nickname. After learning that the counterpart was a professor from Beidou Third Hospital, the on-duty doctor reconsidered: With big hospital doctors taking responsibility, let’s cooperate then.
The patient was placed on the emergency bed according to established rescue protocols, connected to the cardiac monitor, showing heart rate, respiration, blood pressure, and other vital signs indicating the patient’s critical condition.
The health clinic’s on-duty doctor and nurses, seeing these vital sign numbers, were deeply worried that the patient might really die there. They truly didn’t know what this professor from a tertiary hospital intended to do in the rescue.
