I Can Hear the Heart's Voice of Traditional Chinese Medicine-Chapter 329 - 145: Did Dr. Lu Go to the United South Chinese Medicine Association for Consultation? (Part 3)

Previously, when there were patients around, some things were hard to ask, and we couldn’t ask too much; otherwise, if it took too long, the patients would likely feel uncomfortable.

This doesn’t have much to do with reasonableness. Rather, no matter who it is, if someone comes to see a doctor and ends up sitting idle in the consultation room for half an hour to an hour, anyone would probably have an issue with that.

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Meanwhile.

At City First Hospital.

It was almost time to get off work, and it was the afternoon, so there were far fewer patients coming in for consultations compared to the morning, and naturally, everyone was more relaxed.

However, everything in the emergency department was business as usual.

For the emergency department, their situation is about the same at any time; when there should be people, there are, and when there aren’t, there aren’t as well, regardless of whether it’s morning or afternoon.

It was almost time for shift change, and Zhou Qihua, the director of the emergency department at City First Hospital, called in a few capable medical staff for a brief meeting.

With the arrival of Zhou Qihua, the originally noisy small office quieted down.

Zhou Qihua glanced at everyone and said, "Before the shift change, I called you for a brief meeting to address some issues. Overall, last week’s situation was okay, but Old Li, you need to keep a closer eye on the interns. They can’t keep making mistakes that shouldn’t happen.

Yes, they are interns, but they’ve also studied medicine for six or seven years. They should at least manage these small matters well.

But the fact is, they indeed didn’t do well, and even caused several complaints. Because of this, the hospital director specifically mentioned our emergency department this morning. I don’t want to see such issues again this week.

Especially Old Li, the interns are assigned to you, so you’re obliged to manage them well. If they can’t manage, then just dismiss them. City First Hospital doesn’t keep useless people. If they can’t even handle small tasks, why keep them around for the New Year?"

Old Li smiled wryly and nodded.

"And others too, mistakes that mustn’t be made should never be made, especially in our emergency department, where even a small mistake can cost a patient’s life."

Zhou Qihua’s gaze swept over everyone again, and he said in a deep voice, "I know everyone is used to seeing life and death, but that’s not a reason for us to disregard life. Every life is worth our best efforts to save; we cannot let our mistakes cause a patient to never come off the operating table.

As doctors, this is a responsibility we must shoulder.

I don’t care how other hospitals or departments do things, but in the emergency department, we have to do things according to the rules and procedures.

If something can be entrusted to the interns, then entrust it to them; they are here to learn, not to do menial tasks. If it can’t be entrusted to them, then it absolutely should not be.

We can’t leave a patient’s life in the hands of an intern; what’s the difference between that and murder?

What do interns know? Other than having stronger theoretical knowledge, they are nothing compared to any nurse in our emergency department in practical situations.

I hope everyone keeps this in mind and doesn’t forget it later."

Everyone nodded; this time, Director Zhou was relatively mild-tempered. Despite the numerous mistakes last week, he didn’t scold anyone, which was rare.

If it had been in the past, he might have already started yelling, and it would’ve been heard in other offices.

Zhou Qihua opened his mouth, wanting to say a few more words, but at this moment, the door to the office suddenly swung open, and a nurse rushed in hurriedly, "Director Zhou, Director Zheng from cardiology has an urgent matter to discuss with you. Your phone might be on silent, so he directly called our head nurse."