The Sweetest Thing In the World

Winter and spring alternate, and the trees on the street downstairs of the Cardiac Surgery Department branched out and grew to the height of a three-story building.

In the lounge, Min Yue took out a white coat from the cabinet, put it on, pinned the badge on her chest, faced the mirror and straightened it, then turned around and walked out slowly, closing the door behind her.

This year, she was 41 years old and had a high professional title.

Walking through the long corridor to the duty room, the cleaners of the property were cleaning the bulletin boards nailed to the wall. Seeing her from the corner of the eye, she stopped and greeted with a smile: "Good morning, Doctor Min."

Min Yue responded with a smile: "Morning."

The sun was just rising, and the warm yellow sunlight passed through the glass windows of the ward, and shone on the well-polished briefing boards of doctors in the department, reflecting a piece of clear white light.

Min Yue walked through the sunlight, and her figure blocked the lower part of the billboard. Above her head, a half-length photo of a person was revealed, with two small characters written next to it——

Xu Mai, MD, Director of Cardiac and Great Vessel Surgery, Director of Diagnosis and Treatment Center for Great Vessel Diseases, Deputy Director of Organ Transplantation Center, Chief Physician, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor.

The second paragraph is to introduce her practice experience. Due to space limitation, she can only focus on the key points. It is brief but not simple.

Just after wiping it with a rag, there were some slight water stains, Min Yue stopped, raised her sleeve to wipe off a drop of water on the profile, raised the corners of her mouth, and continued to walk forward.

Pushing open the door and entering the duty room, the two young men looked up when they heard the movement, their eyes lit up, as if they had found a savior, they threw away the pens, hurriedly came up to them, and asked in unanimous agreement: "Sister, how is the director feeling today?" Sample?"

Min Yue unhurriedly picked up water in a thermos, scooped a spoonful of honey, raised eyebrows and gave them a funny look while stirring: "Are you nervous?"

The two young men frowned: "Can you not be nervous? If you fail the defense, you will not be promoted to attending. Let the students know how embarrassing they are."

Min Yue patted one of them on the shoulder and encouraged him: "I've passed my graduation thesis defense, are you still afraid of this? No problem, take it easy."

The young man slumped his shoulders and drooped his brows: "It's not scary to answer, the scary thing is Master Mo..."

After Director Zheng retired, Xu Mai took over the baton and became the youngest department director of the First Affiliated Hospital. As her position rose, the nickname of Master Mo was gradually no longer mentioned. Everyone respectfully called her Director. Hearing this title unexpectedly after a long time, the corner of Min Yue's mouth curled up, recalling many memories.

Another guy eagerly asked for advice: "Sister, what questions did the director ask during the evaluation and defense? Tell us a little bit and let us learn from it."

Min Yue said with a smile: "This is really not something you can learn from. In order to avoid suspicion, Director Li went there on his behalf."

The two sighed regretfully, scratched their heads, and were about to say something else when the wooden door of the duty room creaked lightly. The two of them stood still with their hands down, stood upright, and shouted in unison: "Director."

Min Yue stood sideways to the door, turned around leisurely, and met Xu Mai's calm gaze.

The rising sun was shining brightly, and the white coat on her body was neat and tidy, shining and shining, overlapping with the image she first saw in her memory.

Fifteen years, it's a long time to say, but we get along day and night, day and night, it doesn't feel like a long time, time just goes by like this.

The years did not leave too many traces on Xu Mai's body. Compared with the past, the edges and corners of the iceberg have been smoothed, warm and quiet, like an ancient jade, which has precipitated the warmth of years.

Many people say that workplace romance has no future, because you will soon get bored of facing the same face every day. Colleagues will also have disputes over work-related matters, and the relationship will wear off a lot if the number of times is too high.

But Min Yue didn't feel the existence of these two problems at all. She liked to stare at Xu Mai, and she was still amazed after watching it for more than ten years. In the hospital, they respect and support each other. Occasionally, there will be arguments when discussing the operation plan, but their goals are the same, to ensure the success of the operation. They searched the literature together and reached an agreement soon.

Walking along the same road, she ran after Xu Mai, and unknowingly, she became a ray of light.

Xu Mai was indeed not present when the treatment was evaluated, but Xu Mai sat in the audience when he was promoted to vice-senior and chief-senior later, in the first row, next to the dean, and in the middle of the expert group.

Until now, Min Yue still remembers the kind smiles and sincere expectations on the faces of the experts when she stepped onto the main stage.

The dean held her thesis and said with a smile: "Min Yue is here, you and Xu Mai are the influential figures in our hospital, how do you say that? Oh yes, the most beautiful scenery in the operating room. Haha, too much talk, let’s start, let us see how beautiful your paper is.”

She was taught by Xu Mai and Xu Boyu. The two teachers are famous, and everyone will naturally have great expectations for the students.

Fortunately, she lived up to expectations.

Min Yue pursed her lips and smiled, and handed over the thermos in her hand. Xu Mai took it naturally, looked around, and said in a low voice: "Everyone is here, let's take over."

In the afternoon, the promotion review was carried out in the hospital. Xu Mai attended as a member of the expert group. When Min Yue came back from the operating room, he happened to see the backs of two young boys going downstairs with trembling legs.

Smiling, he took off his mask, picked up his white coat and prepared to put it on over his hand-washing clothes. The attending physician on duty in the department rushed towards him with a mobile phone in his hand: "Teacher, 120 has brought a patient with dissection, let us go to the emergency department for consultation." .”

The attending doctor was Min Yue's former student, a young man in his early thirties, Jiejun, hardworking, steady and low-key, seldom as anxious as he is now.

The First Affiliated Hospital has a great reputation. As one of the top key departments in the country, the Department of Cardiac Surgery has to treat several patients with dissection every week. The illness is indeed critical and the operation is very difficult. But he is used to such scenes, so he shouldn't be so flustered. Min Yue noticed something and asked, "What kind of interlayer, where is it torn?"

He wiped off his sweat, and replied: "Stanford type A2, torn to the iliac artery."

Min Yue's eyelids twitched.

According to Stanford, aortic dissection is roughly divided into two types, A and B. According to the location and extent of the dissecting aneurysm, type A can be subdivided into A1, A2, and A3. The difficulty of each type of dissection varies, but the surgical site must include the ascending aorta, aortic arch, and descending aorta. According to the actual situation, it is determined whether the thoracoabdominal aorta needs to be replaced and which area to replace.

In this emergency patient, the aorta was torn from the primary tear in the subclavian artery to the iliac artery, and the thoracoabdominal aorta needed to be replaced completely. In other words, total thoracoabdominal aortic replacement in the second stage—

Fifteen years ago, at the annual meeting of the Association of Cardiovascular Surgeons, Xu Mai broadcasted the one he did live.

Min Yue pondered for a few seconds, and said, "Come on, come with me to have a look."

After Xu Mai returned to the department after completing the review work, not long after, Min Yue and his assistant also returned from the operation. After the patient regained consciousness from anesthesia, he will be transferred to the Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit.

Min Yue, as the chief surgeon, reported the operation process to Xu Mai: "David surgery was performed today, the arch was replaced, and the descending aorta was implanted with an elephant trunk stent. However, there were still severe tears in the large thoracic and abdominal vessels. If you want to come back for the second-stage operation, you have already made it clear to your family members in the pre-operative conversation."

After watching the CT images, Xu Mai suddenly said, "Do you want to be the chief surgeon for the second-stage surgery?"

Min Yue pulled off the cap of the pen and was about to write the operation record, when she heard the sound, she was taken aback for a few seconds before she realized, and repeated uncertainly: "Me?"

In recent years, the First Affiliated Hospital has carried out more total thoracoabdominal aortic replacement operations, with several cases every year, but the chief surgeon is either Xu Mai, or the deputy director with senior medical skills. She and several other chief physicians I have been learning from the stage, but no one has done it independently.

Min Yue clenched the pen, thought carefully for a moment, then straightened her sitting posture, looked back at Xu Mai solemnly, and nodded forcefully: "I think."

Every surgeon has a peak in his heart that he wants to climb. Some people want to be famous all over the world, and some people want high-profile positions. For Yu Minyue, she wants the lancet in her hand to shine.

Every difficult operation is a good whetstone. Xu Mai gave her this opportunity, which shows that her level has been polished enough, and the next step is to prove herself.

Just after the three-month recovery period, the patient couldn't wait to return to the hospital for a follow-up visit. Min Yue took two assistants to conduct a detailed examination of him, repeatedly discussed his condition, and after finalizing the operation plan, he scheduled the operation at an optional date.

The first assistant is the deputy chief physician, the second assistant is her former student, and Xu Mai stands beside Min Yue, observing her movements and occasionally mentioning a few words.

After all blood vessels were anastomosed, Xu Mai left the operating room first, and Min Yue also gave up the position of the chief surgeon, and the first assistant was responsible for the follow-up hemostasis and chest closure. But she didn't leave. Just like Xu Mai fifteen years ago, she stood by the operating table, watching every subtle movement of the assistant, and stood for the entire scene.

After 11 hours, the operation was successfully completed.

It was already dark, the street lights were dim, and someone was eating roasted sweet potatoes on the cool chair beside the green belt. The sweet scent made a group of people swallow their saliva, hungry, and went straight to the duty room. Colleagues ordered takeaway and were waiting for them hot.

"Go and eat, and leave me a portion." After standing for more than ten hours, the hard-hitting people couldn't bear it. Min Yue's waist was sore and her legs hurt, and she urgently needed to sit down and rest.

He took the key and turned the door lock of the lounge, pushed it open, looked up, and saw Xu Mai sitting on the bedside holding a medical journal under the bright fluorescent lamp.

Hearing the sound, she put the magazine on the small square table under the window, and patted her side gently with her palm, signaling her to come and sit down.

Min Yue was still wearing a green hand scrubber, looked at Xu Mai's clean bed and hesitated: "I didn't change my clothes."

"It's okay." Xu Mai stood up and gave up the whole bed. "Lie down and rest for a while."

Her legs were as heavy as lead, and she was too tired to curl up a finger, let alone crawl to the top bunk. Min Yue didn't refuse anymore, she pulled her foot out of the shoe with great difficulty, and fell into the soft bed with no strength.

The LED lights on the ceiling were dazzlingly bright, Min Yue squinted her eyes, relaxed her muscles, and put all her weight on the bed below her. After tensing and contracting for a whole day, the paralyzed nerves gradually woke up, and every muscle in the whole body began to cry out in pain. The calves and feet were especially swollen, and Min Yue could even feel the throbbing of blood vessels in the legs.

I wanted to reach out and touch it, but I was too lazy to move, and was struggling, when my right calf suddenly felt hot. Min Yue opened her eyes and saw Xu Mai bending down, applying a hot towel to her left leg.

"Master?" Min Yue moved.

Xu Mai raised his eyes to look at her: "Sleep, I will press it for you."

With the warmth of a hot towel, Xu Mai's hands covered her toes and massaged them nimbly and vigorously. Min Yue gasped in pain, and strangely felt that the swelling was much relieved.

Xu Mai sat at the end of the bed, hugged her legs and put them on his own, and pressed them inch by inch from the ankles up.

Min Yue hooked her head and raised her head slightly, watching this scene, the corners of her mouth could not stop rising.

After pressing her calves, she continued to help her relax her thighs, waist and arms. Finally, Xu Mai kneaded her fingertips, pulled them to his lips, and placed a gentle kiss on the back of her hand: "You are my pride."

Total thoracoabdominal aortic replacement is the top of the surgical pyramid, and there are not many doctors in the country who can independently perform this operation. Min Yue's successful completion of this operation marks that she has become one of the top doctors in physical and mental surgery.

Min Yue smiled so blindly, propped her upper body on her elbows, moved her head close to Xu Mai, and pecked her lips: "That must be done, I am Master's apprentice."

Once she stood at the foot of the mountain, looked up at the majestic mountains, soaring into the clouds, and dreamed that one day she would become Xu Mai's proud apprentice.

Step by step, she walked up steadily, and before she knew it, she had come to Xu Mai's side, standing at the top of the cardiovascular surgery pyramid, overlooking the same scenery as her.

She fulfilled the promise of the year and grew into a towering tree. Together with Xu Mai, she guarded the heart surgery, guarded their love, career and home.

When Xu Mai was seventy-two years old, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cardiovascular Surgeon Branch, together with the Outstanding Physician Award in his early years, he became one of the few winners who won the Golden Knife Award twice.

Many people in the industry took turns holding banquets to celebrate her, and when it was the turn of the family to celebrate, it was half a month later.

On weekends, Min Jiamu took his wife and daughter to purchase a cart of ingredients and cook for the family dinner.

Xu Jiayuan and his girlfriend also flew back from city B on purpose, and it was time for dinner.

Xu Mai hugged his two-year-old grandson, and sat in the middle of the sofa with Min Yue, Min Jiamu and his wife sat next to Xu Mai, Xu Jiayuan and Wei An sat beside Min Yue, and everyone smiled from the bottom of their hearts.

When the flash lights up, the SLR clicks, happiness freezes, and the family is happy.