Chapter 709: Chapter 291: Of the Two Evils, Choose the Lesser, We Still Need to Ask Zhou Can
“I’m just a junior resident, Journalist Mu can consult Director Zhang, Deputy Director Shi and others,” Zhou Can said, feeling a headache when he saw the female reporter.
He quickly tried to excuse himself.
“Hmph, don’t think I don’t know anything, Vice Group Leader Zhou!”
She snorted triumphantly, directly stating Zhou Can’s temporary position.
Meaning she was telling Zhou Can not to try and deceive her.
“I’m just in a nominal position, purely here because the senior doctors needed to fill numbers,” Zhou Can continued to argue, genuinely afraid of being entangled by this female reporter.
“Scoring first overall in the residency recruitment exam at Tuya Hospital, is that also filling numbers? When you were training in the Emergency Department, the total number of surgeries increasing by more than a thousand in a month is also filling numbers? You in…”
She looked confidently sure about her grasp over Zhou Can.
“Stop!”
Zhou Can hurriedly intervened.
“You’re investigating me?”
He glared at Mu Qin with irritation, her face enchanting enough to cause disaster. Anyone whose background was uncovered wouldn’t be happy.
“Every journalist has the makings of an imperial top-secret detective. It’s not that I wanted to investigate you, but you are truly outstanding. Like a bright light in the dark, it’s hard for others not to notice you!”
She defended herself righteously.
“Please rest assured, I won’t take up too much of Dr. Zhou’s time. Considering that this young lady has waited nearly four hours for you, could you answer a few simple interview questions over dinner time, please?”
Seeing Zhou Can’s hesitant expression, she again leveraged the distinct advantage of a beautiful woman.
“Please, please! If I can’t complete the interview task, my superiors at the station will scold me.”
She looked at Zhou Can with a pitiful expression.
“Let your superiors scold me then. Just tell them that I refused to cooperate with your interview.” Zhou Can’s stance didn’t soften.
If she thought being a beauty, coquettishly pleading in a gentle and soft voice, would win him over,
That would be underestimating him.
Seeing that Zhou Can gave no quarter, he along with the nurse, Ji You, left her behind and walked straight to a small room nearby.
She bit her thin lips, which were painted with lipstick, and followed.
“What exactly is wrong with that pregnant woman?”
No one answered her.
“We journalists aren’t bad people. The purpose of interviews is to report the truth to the public. Besides, hasn’t the pregnant woman’s condition stabilized? Reporting it would benefit the experts at Tuya Hospital and Xinxiang Women and Children’s Hospital! You really don’t need to guard against me like I’m a thief; I’m a legitimate TV station journalist.”
She still clung to Zhou Can.
Fortunately, at this time, Director Tang came out of the room after finishing his meal.
Seeing the female reporter pestering Zhou Can, he immediately stopped Mu Qin, saying very politely, “Journalist Mu, feel free to ask me any questions, but please stop bothering Dr. Zhou. He has been busy trying to save patients and hasn’t even had lunch yet, please be considerate.”
Mu Qin realized she couldn’t interview Zhou Can alone anymore.
She was a bit frustrated, yet powerless.
“Then I’ll wait until Dr. Zhou is free next time to interview him. Goodbye, Director Tang.”
She was quite decisive.
Seeing that she couldn’t interview Zhou Can, she turned around and left immediately.
Letting her interview Director Tang, getting one true sentence out of ten would be thanking heaven and earth.
…
Inside the room, Zhou Can and Ji You found out that the meals were stored in thermal boxes.
The cuisine was decent, three dishes and one soup, obviously not cafeteria mass-cooked food.
“I didn’t expect Dr. Zhou to be so resistant to beautiful women! That female reporter is very beautiful and knows how to act coy; most men would find it hard to resist her requests. Your clean and decisive refusal really surprised me.”
Ji You also took this opportunity to chat with Zhou Can.
Trying to increase their familiarity with each other.
After all, they had more than five days of time to work together, saving various critical patients and dealing with emergencies.
“So in Miss Ji’s mind, should men be unable to walk past a beautiful woman, letting the lower body decide for the brain?”
Zhou Can raised his eyebrow.
“Um… it’s not easy for heroes to resist beauties since ancient times!” She didn’t expect Zhou Can to speak so directly, and a bit coarsely, her face blushed slightly, quickly changing the subject. “Dr. Zhou, how do you think the femoral head fracture of that pregnant woman should be handled?”
“Surgery is definitely not doable, so we can only think of doing external fixation. From the X-ray she had, external fixation can only ensure that the two largest fracture sites are corrected as much as possible, the other three smaller fracture sites might not be manageable.”
Zhou Can had also been considering the external fixation plan.
Thinking it over, it was a choice between lesser evils.
To ensure the main parts of the femoral head heal in place as much as possible, as for the other three corner fracture, minor fracture sites, they would have to heal on their own. At least one of them would heal deformed.
This could affect the patient’s lower limb mobility after recovery.
Zhou Can’s plan was to wait for the pregnant woman to give birth and then schedule surgery to correct and repair the deformed healing site.
The two finished eating and went back to the resuscitation room, no need to mention.
Around ten minutes past two in the afternoon, Deputy Director Shi’s phone rang.
“Hello, Director Zhang!”
“Is the pregnant woman’s condition still stable?”
“Not bad at the moment.”
“I’ve received a patient over fifty years old here, found to have abdominal effusion and liver cirrhosis, and during a digital rectal examination, found an anterior rectal wall mass at least over five centimeters in diameter. It feels more complex than it looks on the surface. She has been treated in an external hospital, and the diagnosis from that hospital is rectal cancer, treated with surgery and radiotherapy.”