50 Three Years (1/2)
News that expert doctors from the bigger city hospital had come to support the smaller Kuake City Hospital soon spread from the government to everyone else. This caused a great increase in the number of patients Kuake City Hospital received, along with a corresponding increase in the number of surgeries. Director Yang of general surgery was now busy accepting as many patients as he possibly could.
”Expert doctors from Chasu City are here at our hospital now. You require a microscopic surgery. This can be done only by opening up three small holes in your stomach.
”Yes, that's right, the expert doctors will personally perform your surgery, rest assured.”
On this morning, Director Yang successfully convinced four patients to have three gall bladder surgeries and one appendectomy at Kuake City Hospital. After scheduling these surgeries, he immediately told the doctors in his department to hurry with the checkups for these patients, and then he immediately went to surgery department #2 to talk to Zhang Fan. ”Doctor Zhang, there are several gall bladder surgeries and an appendectomy scheduled for tomorrow. Do you have time?”
”Sure, I have some time. Feel free to arrange the surgeries for me, Director Yang.” Zhang Fan had been performing many orthopedic surgeries, such as surgeries for removing metal plates or osteoarthritis, over the past few days. He was quite busy.
Kuake City Hospital had directly set up a visiting expert doctor's consultation center for Li Hongtu. Since it was too much for him to handle by himself, Li Hongtu had taken Wang Yanan with him for the patient consultations—Wang Yanan would write everything down for him. She was quite hardworking. This morning, there was a scheduled surgery for removing a metal plate from a humerus bone. Chen Qifa took charge of this surgery as the primary surgeon, with Li Liang as his surgical assistant. Zhang Fan didn't perform this surgery, because he wanted to go out somewhere.
Zhang Fan drove his newly borrowed car to Batu's home. Batu's arrest case still hadn't been resolved yet. This time, the door to Batu's home was finally open. Zhang Fan parked his car, walked inside, and found that Batu's nephew, Bayin, was also present.
”I'm here to visit you, Ma'am. Is there any news about Superintendent Batu?” Batu's wife had originally been quite pretty, but now—half a year after Batu's arrest—she appeared much older.
”Ah, Zhang Fan! Please come in and sit down! There's finally resolution regarding Batu's incident. Thank you for worrying so much about him.”
”It's good that there's finally news.” After Zhang Fan sat down, Bayin hurriedly made some tea and handed some smokes to him.
”Brother Zhang, ever since my uncle was arrested, you were the only one from the hospital who came to visit us. Sigh!”
”It doesn't really matter if anyone else came to visit us or not. Bring Doctor Zhang some cheese.”
”Ma'am, what's the current situation with Superintendent Batu?”
Bayin addressed Zhang Fan as brother, but Batu was Bayin's uncle. Zhang Fan really wanted to exclaim over the messy way that everyone addressed each other!
”He was forced to pay compensation on top of a large fine. We found a distant relative who managed to help us out a little with the judge in the provincial city. In the end, Batu was sentenced to three years in jail.” Tears started dripping out of Batu's wife's eyes by the end of her words.
”Aunt, please don't cry anymore. I won't be able to see your eyes if you keep crying. Three years is quite short. It'll be over in a flash. Please, you must take care of yourself,” Bayin tried to assuage his aunt's emotions. He then said, ”Brother Zhang, have some food here. We really spent a lot of money trying to help Uncle Batu, but even so, he's still going to be jailed for three years! Sigh!” Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
Zhang Fan stayed with them for some minutes, consoling them and chatting a little with Bayin before leaving. Three years wasn't particularly long, so this could be considered good news.
When Zhang Fan returned to Kuake City Hospital, he coincidentally ran into Wang Yanan, who had just returned from providing outpatient services. ”I'm so exhausted, and you're skipping out on work again. Tomorrow, you're going to accompany Vice Director Li and me in treating patients outside.” Actually, it wasn't that exhausting, since Kuake City had far less patients than Chasu City. However, people in Kuake City were poorer and had access to fewer medical resources. She had been busy all morning, while it seemed like Zhang Fan was slacking off. Wang Yanan was quite angry about this.
Zhang Fan simply responded, ”Do you still want to be the primary surgeon for a surgery? If so, immediately bring me something to drink. I still need to go back to Chasu City.”