The Surgeon’s Studio

that everyone would have an increased workload with greater responsibility?

Most doctors in the emergency department were in their forties.
If they were willing to live their life as useless and indolent sloths, nobody could persuade them otherwise, not even the aggressive senior military doctor, Chief Physician Pan.

Well, none of them were Zheng Ren’s business.
All he needed to do right now was to wait patiently for the arrival of the next appendicitis case.

The emergency department increased in activity as the sun sank lower in the sky.

Various emergency cases—motor vehicle accidents, drunken brawls, acute gastroenteritis due to binge-eating, alcoholic intracerebral hemorrhaging, and myocardial infarctions—arrived at the emergency department, but not a single appendicitis case appeared.

Zheng Ren felt slightly helpless and dispirited, but it seemed inappropriate to pray for more appendicitis cases in Sea City solely for his own survival.

Before Xie Yiren returned home, she gave her phone number and WeChat ID to Zheng Ren so that he could call her if there was any emergency surgery.

Meanwhile, Zheng Ren assisted Yuan Li with wound closure of a few minor trauma cases and rinsed the surgical tray after treatment.
After exiting the procedure room, a physician on duty pulled Zheng Ren aside and said, “Chief Zheng, please take a look at this patient.”

“Speak slowly.
What happened?”

“A sixty-two-year-old female came in with intermittent tinnitus and headache for twenty-two years.
I ordered a cranial CT scan for her but the results came back normal.
I suspected she was having a tension headache and wanted to refer her to the neurology department, but she started crying in my room afterward.”

From the history given by the female physician who was in her forties, Zheng Ren realized that she diagnosed the patient with hysteria, where symptoms were felt as a result of imagination.

The physician was merely being indirect in her explanation.

The messy and confusing cases in the emergency department made Zheng Ren feel helpless, too.
Left with no choice, he followed the physician to the internal medicine division.

A pale-faced woman with an expensive-looking outfit was sitting on the floor when they entered the consultation room.

The person beside her was behaving decently, which indicated that they were not here to deliberately cause trouble.
Perhaps the woman had lost confidence in life and was having a mental breakdown in the consultation room.

Staring at the female patient on the floor, Zheng Ren was dumbfounded when he noticed the hovering words on the upper right corner of his vision.

“Auntie, can you please stand up?” asked Zheng Ren kindly and politely.

Absent-minded and dejected, the weeping patient ignored him and continued to lean against the wall.

Her family member, who was a man in his forties, apologized sincerely, “I’m sorry, doctor.
I’ve no idea what happened to my mother.
I brought her to various hospitals in Imperial Capital and Sorcery Capital previously but they couldn’t provide a definitive diagnosis nor treatment.”

“Oh… To be honest, the diagnosis is obvious and the treatment plan is easy.
Let us discuss this outside,” replied Zheng Ren, wearing a warm and gentle smile to establish trust more easily.

After softly persuading the patient for a while, the middle-aged man managed to pull her up and brought her to a plastic bench outside the consultation room.

The emergency department was a madhouse right now with many patients waiting in line for consultation.

The patient’s despairing sobs saddened a few people.
When Zheng Ren mentioned that he knew what was going on with the patient, a few busybodies in the crowd quickly took out their cell phones and started video recording.

“Doctor, I’m really sorry.
We’ll leave after resting for a while,” apologized the middle-aged man while hugging and comforting the patient, who was presumably his mother.

Despite feeling anguish, he still plucked up his courage and attempted to console his mother.

“Did auntie undergo a dental implant recently?” asked Zheng Ren seriously.

“Yes, half a year ago.” The middle-aged man failed to understand the purpose behind Zheng Ren’s question.
More importantly, how did Zheng Ren know about his mother’s dental implant when they did not know each other at all?

Zheng Ren smiled in response.
“That’s it.
The dizziness and buzzing in the ears happened after the dental implant, right?”

The middle-aged man gave it some thought, but was uncertain about the answer.

That dental implant was a success and no one had related it with the vertigo and tinnitus experienced by his mother.

“Perhaps an after-effect of the dental implant?”

“Impossible.
She would have consulted the oral medicine department a long time ago if there was an issue with the implant.
Honestly, I think that doctor is talking nonsense.”

“A complicated disease which the Imperial Capital and Sorcery Capital failed to treat but expecting a cure in Sea City? That must be a joke.”

Onlookers started quietly exchanging views on this matter.

“Let’s put it this way.
There should be some dental prosthesis or dentures polished with metallic substance in your mother’s mouth, yes?” asked Zheng Ren confidently.

“…” Was this doctor a fortune-teller, too? The middle-aged man was confused as to why Zheng Ren insisted on relating his mother’s tinnitus and headache to the dental issue.

Was it possible that he was actually some private medical sales representative who wore a white coat and pretended to be a doctor in the Sea City General Hospital?

Upon realizing the possibility, he became frustrated.

“A primary cell can be formed by putting two metals with different reactivities into a solution.
A lesson learned in high school, I believe,” explained Zheng Ren without shame.
In fact, he had absolutely no idea what a primary cell was.

Metal reactivity? That was all Greek to him.

However, he was forced to explain it after noticing the change in the middle-aged man’s expression.

“So?”

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