Chapter 1210: 【1210】Arrived at the ergency room
So departnts are short-staffed, so when scheduling is tight, they directly ask their attending departnt’s trainee doctors to help with night shifts.
“Aren’t you all exhausted from working night shifts so often?” Wu Lixuan worried about her childhood friends’ health and expressed her concern.
The hospital and departnts must ensure they don’t work their doctors to the point of exhaustion.
At Guoxie, the ergency departnt’s shift system is far better than so hospitals that implent 24-hour ergency shift schedules; the system here is split into three shifts.
The three-shift system involves one shift from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., another from 6 p.m. to midnight, and the last one from midnight to 8 a.m.
“I sotis see him working overnight shifts?” Wu Lixuan questioned again, finding the doctors’ shift patterns mysterious and difficult to grasp. When the general public visits the ergency departnt at night, they sotis can’t find a doctor or only see one. But her childhood friend had just said there are several doctors on the night shift.
“The evening shift appears to be the shortest, but it’s actually the busiest and most exhausting.” Xie Wanying explained to her friend, helping Doctor Yin explain his work situation to his girlfriend. “During the day, outpatient services help distribute patient volus. At night, with no outpatient services available, all patients crowd into the ergency departnt. Ergency services in dostic hospitals aren’t like those abroad. Here, they don’t turn patients away if their condition isn’t urgent or outside the ergency scope—they treat everyone who cos. In the latter half of the night, most people are asleep, so patient numbers drop sowhat, making it seem easier. However, the night shift in the ergency departnt is scheduled like this: among the evening shift doctors, one must stay on duty until the latter half of the night, while other colleagues must remain in the hospital and be ready to assist if the sole doctor on duty in the latter half of the night finds the workload too much to handle.”
Having understood her childhood friend’s explanation, Wu Lixuan asked what kind of late-night snacks she’d like tonight, offering to bring her sothing to help stay alert through the overnight shift.
Xie Wanying didn’t explicitly tell her friend that doctors aren’t afraid of pulling night shifts—they’re afraid of encountering resuscitations.
If nothing happens during a night shift, doctors can sleep.
Under such circumstances, like doctors on call in inpatient departnts, ergency doctors doing night shifts fervently hope not to face resuscitations.
What makes ergency different is that the probability of encountering resuscitations is far higher.
In ergency, resuscitations occur every single day, 365 days a year. The difference is only in the number—how many patients will die in ergency today.
It’s a harsh truth, but it’s reality. Ergency doctors on night duty pray for a compromise: that no one dies. They don’t dare hope to completely avoid resuscitations.
From what was heard, Student Xie has already encountered resuscitation cases involving death in the inpatient departnt. Xin Yanjun thought to herself that there wasn’t a need to give Student Xie a heads-up.
Having eaten dinner early, Xie Wanying walked over to the ergency departnt to et Teacher Xin. It was her first day working in ergency with Teacher Xin, and she happened to be starting the busiest evening shift.
“This place operates with the sa shift handover system as inpatient departnts. We’ll first look for the day-shift colleagues and check if there’s anything they need to hand off to us,” Xin Yanjun explained to the student as she led Xie Wanying to the Observation Room to find the internal dicine ergency doctors from the dayti shift.
On the way, they ran into an internal dicine colleague who was also on the night shift tonight. Xin Yanjun greeted him warmly, “Doctor Dong, hello.”
Doctor Dong, a cardiologist, was around the sa age as Doctor Lin. He had fair skin, was refined and gentle, and wore glasses—a handso guy. Lately, though, he’d put on a bit of weight. People joked it was because he had recently gotten married and had a baby boy, entering the happiest phase of his life. “Relaxed mind, plump body” couldn’t be more true in his case.
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