Chapter 2165: Chapter 2165: Who Is It
"Pediatric heart surgery in the hospital is done by us, the cardiac surgery team, not by them, the pediatric surgeons." The old hand in cardiac surgery was calm, as the two major surgical specialties are not for show and cannot be replaced.
Hearing how each department seemed to dismiss the pediatric surgery team, Luo Jingming was furious and pointed at Chang Jiawei, who was leading the charge: "Do you understand pediatrics? Just because you’ve treated a few kids, does that mean you understand them completely? You don’t know a thing. If you really understood, you wouldn’t say something that angers everyone. He’s a boy, and you suggest speaking to him like he’s a girl?"
The pediatric doctor had somewhat echoed Chang Jiawei’s words, and the crowd, upon hearing it all over again, were nearly driven to laughter in disbelief.
Chang Jiawei pouted and argued with Luo Jingming, "He’s young, just a little kid."
The young Xie Youtian, referred to as a "little kid," hadn’t hit a growth spurt yet.
"He’s twelve or thirteen," said someone who knew the actual age of the child.
"He hasn’t entered puberty yet," Chang Jiawei judged.
The timeline for the onset and end of puberty varies among individuals. Although boys typically enter puberty between the ages of twelve and twenty, not everyone starts at twelve. Most boys start around fourteen.
"Twelve is close enough."
"He hasn’t grown much yet; he definitely hasn’t hit it."
"Even so, you can’t deny he’s a boy." Luo Jingming from pediatrics wouldn’t let him off the hook, pointing out his misunderstanding about children, "He was born a boy." Gender identity in children doesn’t start with puberty. This non-pediatric doctor was just talking nonsense here.
Chang Jiawei wanted him to shut up, to avoid further misunderstanding by Mother Xie, and hastily said, "I’m not saying he’s not a boy. What I mean is, you should speak to him gently. Don’t assume he’s a boy and expect him to be tough like a man. He’s just a kid and he’s sick."
This Master Playboy spoke as if he was the only one caring for the child. The others’ tempers flared once again, attacking him: "Who are you saying spoke loudly?"
Everyone seemed to have passionate words, but in reality, each spoke in hushed tones, not wanting the child to overhear. The self-discipline of doctors in such a profession is habitual, not swayed by emotions.
To address this, Chang Jiawei turned to Zhu Huicang: "He said it, to tell you all to quiet down."
Thrown under the bus, Zhu Huicang got anxious and said, "You’re all arguing like this, do I not need to ask who’s the child’s attending physician? What’s the argument, this bickering wastes time."
Who was the attending physician of the patient? Surprisingly, it seemed for a moment that no one in the crowd answered. Not knowing who the attending was, they had to start from scratch. Zhu Huicang asked again, "Who is the first attending doctor?"
The first attending doctor refers to the doctor who first diagnosed the patient. This question was straightforward and easy to resolve. Following the glances of some, Zhu Huicang found the answer: It turned out to be this revered figure.
"You are the child’s attending physician, why aren’t you speaking up?" Zhu Huicang questioned the first attending doctor.
As long as the patient hadn’t been handed over to another doctor, Tao Zhijie had to be responsible until the end.
He Guangyou and others helped Tao Zhijie clarify, "Teacher Tao called Dr. Tan. This child is not suffering from a disease we treat in hepatobiliary surgery, so finding Teacher Tao was pointless."
The patient had been transferred to the cold-faced Tan in General Surgery Department Two. Zhu Huicang searched for Tan Kelin among the crowd and, after a long time, found that the attending physician was hidden deep within the crowd, making him fume with anger: "You’re the child’s attending physician. I’m asking you, why aren’t you answering?"
