Chapter 1: The Office's Unspoken Rules...

  Yang Zongbao withdrew his somewhat numb legs, and these days seemed to have a higher frequency of leg cramps.

  "Don't go, wait." The man, who was lying on the ground, took out his phone from his pocket and seemed to be calling for help.

  Yang Zongbao is the kind of fool who would stand still and argue for a moment, so he didn't care about the man lying on the ground shouting what. At his usual walking speed, he quickly disappeared from the sight of the onlookers.

  On the way, I was called to the hospital and didn't know what happened. Doctors are like this, even more tiring than those with special occupations, and their lives have no regularity.

  When Yang Zongbao changed into his clothes and entered the operating room, he happened to see the director. The director simply said that Su Xiaomei was on leave and asked Yang Zongbao to take over.

  Yang Zongbao noticed that the director seemed unhappy, and he knew that Su Xiaomei's leave was definitely due to helplessness. He himself is the only one who has free time now, being caught up to take over the shift is also reasonable, after all, he still receives a monthly salary of 500.

  "Give."

  Just as Yang Zongbao was about to enter the operating room, Li Sisi, who had not been seen for a long time, handed over a cotton surgical cap.

  “……”

  Yang Zongbao took it and was at a loss for what to do.

  "Because the surgical caps made of chemical materials make many doctors' hair always fall off, so I made a cotton hat for myself. I made one for you." Li Sisi forcibly stuffed the hat into Yang Zongbao's arms and walked ahead into the operating room.

  After weighing the two caps in his hand, Yang Zongbao decisively put on the cotton one. Everyone wore scrub clothes and surgical caps in the operating room, without a hint of color, but people always want to stand out from the crowd, so the operating room suddenly burst into many colors today.

  Red, yellow and flower-patterned surgical caps are everywhere, even green ones.

  I didn't expect the circulating nurse in the operating room to be Kang Le. Recently, I often see Kang Le and Li Si Si working together. Kang Le had just had a falling out with Yang Zong Bao, so neither of them spoke to each other. Li Si Si noticed that the two were not as close as usual, but since the patient was already on the operating table, it wasn't convenient to say much, so she kept it in her heart.

  Yang Zongbao had to take a look at the case because he was temporarily in charge.

  "Wait a minute, don't hang up the needle." Yang Zongbao suddenly called out when he flipped to the patient's electrocardiogram.

  "What's wrong?" Li Sisi happened to hang the saline solution on the infusion stand, ready to give an injection.

  "The patient's ECG has a problem, complete left bundle branch block. Who is her attending physician?" Yang Zongbao asked while closing the medical record.

  "Li Jian." Li Sisi replied subconsciously.

  "Li Jian? Never heard of this person?" Yang Zongbao's memory didn't have this name.

  "You don't know, he just came back from further studies in 302." Kang Le couldn't help but reply.

  "Contact him and ask for a cardiology consultation. This patient cannot be operated on for the time being." Yang Zongbao saw that the person who came was not familiar to himself, and it should be Dr. Li Jian who had returned from further studies.

  "Who says it can't be done?" A languid voice accompanied the doctor as he entered the operating room.

  "Dr. Li, this patient has heart problems, so we can only... after consulting with a cardiologist..."

  "If there's a problem, I'm responsible."

  Yang Zongbao was interrupted by Li Jian before he could finish speaking. Li Jian ignored Yang Zongbao and walked forward himself, inserting the patient's CT scan into the light box to examine it.

  "I won't be performing this surgery." Yang Zongbao put down the medical record and said to Li Sisi, "Take the patient out."

  "Who dares to call your director over?" Li Jian didn't expect this young man, who seemed to be an anesthesiologist and whom he had never met before, to dare challenge him.

  "I'm going." Li Sisi put down what she was holding and was about to run out of the operating room.

  "What's going on here?" Li Ze suddenly walked in from outside.

  "Your anesthesiologist stopped my surgery and pushed the patient out." Li Jian seems to have a good relationship with Li Ze.

  "Who said stop? How can a newcomer who doesn't even have a qualification certificate make this decision?" Li Ze intentionally emphasized the word "qualification certificate": "I say, continue doing it."

  “……”

  The operating room was quiet for a moment, as if everyone was in a stalemate. Kang Le wanted to speak but hesitated, Li Si stood up and was hesitant to advance or retreat. Li Ze and Li Jian were watching Yang Zongbao with ridicule.

  "I won't do it then." Yang Zongbao clapped his hands with a refreshing sound and left the operating room without bringing away any cloud.

  Li Ze and Li Jian did not expect Yang Zongbao to be so stubborn, saying no to something means he won't do it.

  "Don't just stand there, if he won't do it, I will." Li Ze prepared to take matters into his own hands.

  "Excuse me, I have a stomachache." Kang Le took off his gloves and followed Yang Zongbao's footsteps out of the operating room.

  "I... I... I..." Li Sisi said.

  "You go ahead, I'll report it to the higher-ups. Dr. Li, wait a minute, let me find another team." Li Ze said to Li Jian, whose face had turned iron-gray.

  ……

  Kang Le followed Yang Zongbao into the rest room: "You were a bit impulsive just now."

  "Aren't you coming out too?" Yang Zongbao sank into the sofa watching TV.

  "That's because you rarely miss." Kang Le said, biting his lip.

  "Thank you."

  Yang Zongbao took this as praise.

  Kang Le looked at Yang Zongbao like this, and suddenly felt extremely angry in his heart. He pulled Yang Zongbao's shoulder and said, "Don't you have anything to say to me?"

  Yang Zongbao looked at Kang Le puzzled: "Explain what?"

  "What's going on? What's going on?" Kang Le lowered his voice, fearing that outsiders would hear the sound: "Don't you want to strive for a better life?"

  "What are you fighting for? Are you going to be my little wife?" Yang Zongbao let Kang Le grab his collar, looking at her without any cover.

  "What did you say?"

  Yang Zongbao's words enraged Kang Le, who raised his hand and slapped Yang Zongbao in the face.

  But was caught by Yang Zongbao: "Speak up and move your hands? What I said is right." After finishing, he shook off Kang Le's hand.

  "What are you doing?"

  This scene happened to be seen by Li Sisi later on.

  "Nothing." Yang Zongbao said with his eyes open, "Right, did that patient come out of the operating room?" Yang Zongbao asked Li Sisi who came out later.

  "No, Li Ze has found someone else."

  Yang Zongbao furrowed his brow: "Does Director Mao know about this?"

  "Director Mao has gone to the meeting, so Li Ze is in charge here. You don't have to worry too much either. After all, Li Ze is also an old anesthesiologist, and maybe you..." Li Si Si paused for a moment before continuing: "You've just arrived not long ago, perhaps Li Ze has a grasp of this situation as well?"

  Yang Zongbao looked at Li Sisi in surprise, why was she suddenly helping Li Ze speak? Their relationship wasn't that good before.

  "Don't look at me like that, I'm telling the truth." Li Sisi didn't want to continue this topic and turned around to leave.

  "Was your hat made by Silky for you?" Kang Le noticed Yang Zongbao's hat.

  "She gave it to me, but I don't know if she made it."

  "Hmm."

  Just now still grinning from ear to ear, Kang Le immediately quieted down, let out a cold snort, and also left.

  Today Su Xiaomei's class was on duty, so Yang Zongbao knew he had to go to work himself in the evening, so he touched the last bed in the duty room and pulled up the quilt to sleep.

  Yang Zongbao's mobile phone rang loudly halfway through his sleep, and he had no choice but to pick it up. It was Kang Le who shouted that the urology emergency department needed him for an urgent catheterization.

  Yang Zongbao sprang out of bed and grabbed the first-aid kit beside him, rushing out in a mad dash.

  Not yet running to the urology department, I heard a lot of noise inside. Yang Zongbao had no choice but to force his way in. Fortunately, the people squeezing at the door also knew that Yang Zongbao's outfit was for rescue, and automatically made way for him.

  Yang Zongbao squeezed in front of the hospital bed and found that the patient looked very familiar. It was the one from the operation he had wanted to stop during the day.

  "Doctor, please save her. She's only in her 50s." A grey-haired man begged Yang Zongbao beside the hospital bed.

  Yang Zongbao flipped through the patient's eyelids, and the skin under his hands was already icy cold. In his heart, he had about 80% confidence.

  "Why haven't you started rescue efforts yet? Do you know that time is life? We are racing against death."

  An emergency room doctor suddenly appeared out of nowhere and pushed Yang Zongbao, pried open the patient's mouth, forcibly inserted a trachea tube, while someone else was constantly pressing on his heart.

  Yang Zongbao was pushed out of the rescue circle and wandered outside the crowd. Looking at the absurd scene unfolding in front of the hospital bed. A group of medical staff were rescuing a dead person. Is this blasphemy against the patient's body? When did doctors' life-saving efforts become a performance?

  Yang Zongbao quietly left the ward and found the patient's medical records at the nurse station. The whole thing is absurd, a small kidney stone was declared to be removed with one side of the kidney, and the operation lasted for 6 hours. It is clear that the cause of death of the patient was heart failure. This could have been avoided from start to finish, from pre-operative examination, to the time during the operation, to post-operative care by nurses, this life would not have been lost.

  Yang Zongbao didn't know whether he should remind the patient's family that this was actually a medical accident. Clutching the medical records in his hand, Yang Zongbao walked towards the patient's family who were guarding the door of the hospital room.

  "What are you doing?"

  The patient was suddenly snatched away by someone midway through. Li Jian blocked Yang Zongbao's way.

  "What did you say I did?" Yang Zongbao bluntly stepped forward to grab back his medical record.

  "Are you crazy? Do you know what this involves? It involves the reputation of a hospital." Li Jian lowered his voice and said to Yang Zongbao, "If this gets out, do you know how many people will die with it?"

  "I don't know, I know that patient was completely killed by you, you have to take responsibility."

  "Madman." Li Jian dragged Yang Zongbao into the dressing room.

  "Either you speak up or I will, you choose." Yang Zongbao is now looking at Li Jian with disgust. How can this person still pretend that nothing has happened after taking the life of an innocent person?

  "Yang Zongbao, don't be too excessive. Director Li Ze has said that you are disobedient and now it seems to be true." Li Jian could not change Yang Zongbao's decision, so he could only speak sarcastically.

  "He's not my father, what right does he have to teach me? And are you done talking? Done, I need to go explain to the patient's family." Yang Zongbao stepped forward and tried to grab the medical record.

  But then both of their phones rang at the same time, and they each received a text message telling them to go to the principal's office for a meeting.

  The two of them had no choice but to temporarily put aside their grudge and ran to the principal's office, one in front of the other.

  When Yang Zongbao entered, the room was already filled with people, some of whom he knew and others he didn't. Director Li sat in the middle, accompanied by two men and one woman Yang had never seen before. The remaining attendees included Anesthesiologist Li Ze, Director Mao, Urology Department's Director, Kang Le, Li Sisi, and two nurses from the operating room, whom Yang knew but rarely interacted with, to the point where he couldn't recall their names.

  "Sit down." Dean Li saw Yang Zongbao and his companions enter, and solemnly pointed to the two empty seats.

  Yang Zongbao and Li Jian sat down together.

  "Let's not pursue whose fault this is for now. First, how can we get through this?" Dean Li stared at the seated people, looking at each of their faces one by one, and unsurprisingly saw that they all had furrowed brows with no good solution in sight.

  "I think it was changed overnight," said Li Jian, sitting next to Yang Zongbao.

  "That's against the law." Yang Zongbao retorted bluntly, "Before this medical accident occurred, I had suggested that due to the patient's complete left bundle branch block, we should have called for a cardiology consultation, but Dr. Li Jian did not listen to my opinion. Now, because of his improper treatment, which led to the patient's death, he must take full responsibility."