Chapter 68: Watching Someone Die Without Lifting a Finger

  As soon as Shen Tao spoke, Tang Zheng immediately understood. It was said that the hospital had introduced a sea turtle Ph.D. in neurosurgery who graduated from Harvard University, one of the most famous universities in the United States. To know that studying medicine in the US is quite strict. From medical student to doctoral graduation with a license to practice medicine, it takes at least ten years or more.

  When Tang Zheng heard this news, he still had some admiration for him. After all, he was also an elite talent from a high-end university. But now, Tang Zheng just sneered at him. What elite, what sea turtle? They were the same, no different.

  After all, Shen Tao probably has his eye on this office.

  Just as he was about to speak, a young doctor rushed over, panting and saying: "Teacher Shen, it's an emergency. A scaffolding collapse accident just occurred at a construction site in Tianhong District. Many migrant workers were injured, including one seriously injured patient who has been transferred here. The emergency department just called, asking you to go there immediately."

  Today is Shen Tao's shift in the outpatient department. According to hospital convention, such sudden incidents are usually handled by the doctor on duty that day.

  Upon hearing this, Shen Tao gave Tang Zheng a glance and coldly said: "Hmph, consider yourself lucky. We'll wait and see. Let's go."

  Watching Shen Tao and others leave their backs. Tang Zheng, however, was moved in his heart at this moment. Something happened to the migrant worker? For Tang Zheng, it is emotional. In those years when he dropped out of school, Tang Zheng was a migrant worker for almost eight months. It can be said that there are very deep feelings.

  Then, Tang Zheng took out a silver needle from the cabinet of his office desk and put it in his pocket. He closed the door and followed Shen Tao and others behind him.

  It's just a corridor away from the outpatient building to the emergency department. Generally speaking, during the day, the emergency department is relatively relaxed because most patients have already been treated in the outpatient department. The emergency department is usually very busy after the outpatient department closes, and it also gets busy when there are sudden events.

  At this moment, there were already many people gathered in the emergency hall. As soon as he entered, Tang Zheng heard someone shouting loudly in the middle: "Doctor, doctor! Someone come quickly and save a life!"

  "What's all the shouting about? This is a hospital, it needs to be quiet, you know?" A voice suddenly scolded.

  Tang Zhen furrowed his brow and indeed saw Shen Tao leading a few doctors, calmly walking into the central circle from outside.

  Tang Zheng also squeezed in at this moment, and at this moment, on a stretcher, a peasant worker wearing a white T-shirt with dark skin was curled up on the stretcher, his head covered in blood. His eyes were tightly closed. The mixture of mud, cement, and fresh blood on his body made him look incredibly terrifying.

  Next to this man, five peasant workers who accompanied him were also dirty and had varying degrees of injuries on their bodies.

  "Make way, you're all crowding around like this, how can I see?" Shen Tao's face looked somewhat unpleasant as he harshly scolded. His eyes were filled with contempt for the migrant workers.

  He lifted the eyelids of the seriously injured worker and looked at the pupils' reaction. Then, he listened to the heart and lung condition with a stethoscope. Shen Tao took out a cotton swab and did several nerve stimulation tests. Immediately after that, he inserted the cotton swab into the seriously injured man's ear and rotated it around. A considerable amount of blood was visible.

  At this time, Shen Tao had already stood up. He turned around and looked at the crowd, saying: "Preliminary estimates suggest that it is intracranial hemorrhage. From the current situation, the bleeding should not be too serious. In addition, there are multiple soft tissue abrasions all over the body. There are signs of a fracture in the left calf. What is your relationship with him?"

  "Workmate, we are his fellow villager and workmate. Doctor, how is he? Will there be any danger to his life?" The migrant workers around him all asked anxiously.

  Shen Tao furrowed his brow, then said: "The danger is temporarily gone, but it depends on whether the intracranial hemorrhage can be stopped. If this drags on, I won't dare say. You'd better go pay the money quickly. First pay a deposit of 200,000 yuan."

  "Twenty thousand yuan?"

  As soon as they heard this number, several migrant workers' voices immediately became smaller. Their faces all showed a look of difficulty.

  "One of them stepped forward and said, 'Doctor, we came in a hurry and didn't prepare so much money. I'll go back to get the money right away. We'll leave one person here to take care of the injured. It's also a kind of pledge. Please, can you save him first?'"

  As soon as the words came out, Shen Tao's expression changed. He said in a deep voice: "What are you talking about? Bail, we don't have the right to detain you. Who knows if you will run away. At that time, I'll go find someone to pay the bill. There is no such rule in the hospital. If you have this ability, you should think of ways to raise money instead. That's the proper thing to do. Wait until the situation becomes critical. This person will be in real danger."

  "Doctor, please, you can't just stand by and do nothing. This is a human life at stake. I guarantee that I will find a way to gather the money. I won't run away. I swear to heaven, please, have mercy, save him. His whole family relies on his labor. If he's gone, they'll be finished." A migrant worker suddenly knelt down with a thud.

  This made Shen Tao somewhat flustered and also a bit angry. He said sternly, "What's wrong with you? Are you trying to coerce me? It's not that I don't want to save him, but the hospital has its rules. We've encountered many cases like this before. Out of pity, we saved them, but in the end, they ran away without paying. The hospital then asks the doctors to compensate, can you imagine how much we can afford? There's nothing I can do about this matter either. You should focus on raising funds instead."

  At this moment, Tang Zheng was somewhat unexpected about Shen Tao's words. Although he looked down on Shen Tao's style of not saving people in distress, Tang Zheng knew that what Shen Tao said was also the truth. Sometimes, such things couldn't be simply blamed on doctors. If the world were all honest and trustworthy, then naturally there wouldn't be cases of seeing someone die without helping.

  But no matter how well managed, as a doctor, saving lives and treating injuries is a solemn oath taken when entering medical school. This is one's duty. To see someone die due to economic reasons is a blasphemy against the medical profession.

  Then Tang Zheng walked up and looked at the worker beside him: "I am also a doctor in the hospital, my name is Tang Zheng, can I take a look at the patient?"

  Tang Zheng's appearance made Shen Tao jump up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. He shouted, "Tang Zheng, what do you want to do? You'd better think carefully, if something goes wrong, you'll be responsible."

  Shen Tao's meaning was very clear to Tang Zheng. It was nothing more than the patient dying accidentally. As an unrelated doctor, Tang Zheng had intervened. When the time came, Tang Zheng would be responsible.

  Tang Zheng also said in a low voice: "Shen Tao, I know what's going on with me, don't interfere."

  As he spoke, Tang Zheng looked at the migrant worker beside him and said, "Excuse me, brother, may I take a look at the patient?"

  This scene stunned the migrant workers next to him for a moment, and then they reacted and nodded repeatedly: "Can... can, Doctor Tang, hurry up and save him."

  He squatted down, and Tang Zheng's fingers were placed on the wrist at the inch, guan, and chi. The patient's pulse was still relatively calm. This indicates that the heart and lungs are temporarily not a big problem.

  Essentially the same as Shen Tao's examination, after a meticulous review. Tang Zheng also began to admire Shen Tao somewhat. Indeed, he is a sea turtle. Although his appearance is a bit unsavory, his medical skills are not exaggerated. This person indeed has mild intracranial hemorrhage and a left leg fracture. According to Western medicine treatment, first perform a CT scan to check the condition of the intracranial hemorrhage. Then perform orthopedic correction and hospitalization for observation. Also, use medication to control the intracranial hemorrhage. All in all, 20,000 yuan is not too much.

  However, Tang Zheng was also a migrant worker. Even when working on construction sites as a skilled worker, the daily wage of a master craftsman is only over 100 yuan. Moreover, generally speaking, this wage is not in their hands. The good ones are paid once every six months, and some are even paid at the end of the year. After deducting food and expenses, if they can save two thousand yuan in a year, it's already very frugal. These two thousand yuan are equivalent to working for nothing for a year.

  Thinking of this, Tang Zheng looked at the migrant worker and said: "This brother, your friend's injury is indeed very serious. However, I have another treatment method. We can try it out, no need for any fees. Are you willing?"

  "Tang Zheng, you dare! This is against hospital rules!" Shen Tao shouted loudly.

  Tang Zheng suddenly stood up and said in a deep voice, "Shen Tao, whether I violate the rules or not is my own business. It's not for you to lecture me. I, Tang Zheng, am still not capable of watching someone die without helping."

  Next to him, the migrant worker lying on the stretcher murmured: "Xiong Ge, treatment, let him help me with the treatment."

  At this moment, the onlookers also applauded and cheered. Such a thing was undoubtedly very hateful to them. Seeing someone die without helping is too disgusting. At this moment, everyone cheered for Tang Zheng.

  Some people even shouted: "Dr. Tang, great! This is a real doctor who saves lives and heals the wounded!"

  On this side, a man named Xiong Ge also nodded with gritted teeth: "Doctor Tang, thank you."

  Tang Zheng nodded and took out a silver needle from his pocket, saying to the patient, "Brother, bear with it for a moment, lie flat. I'll perform an intracranial hemostasis on you first."

  As Tang Zheng's words fell, silver needles flew in. At an extremely fast speed, they pierced the Baihui acupoint on the top of the head. This was done to stimulate the acupoints and suppress the pressure and flow of blood vessels in the skull, achieving the goal of natural hemostasis.

  Right after that, Tang Zheng grabbed the broken left leg. He pinched and felt the fracture situation. With a crackling sound, the bone was reset with just two movements. After standing up, Tang Zheng smiled and said: "Alright, go to the orthopedic department to get a plaster cast. Then you can find me at the Chinese medicine clinic on the second floor of the outpatient building to remove the silver needles."

  It was so simple, yet so magical, that it stunned everyone who was watching, and they curiously followed the patient to finish the plaster cast. Meanwhile, the patient himself was still worried, so he did another CT scan. When the results came out, everyone was shocked again. There really was no intracranial hemorrhage anymore. Suddenly, all the people around were stunned. This... this is a divine doctor!

  PS: Thanks to book friends 120427190042360, 152*9260 (already stopped), (Scarecrow), and Chun Cun Er, the four brothers for their rewards.