The door to the consultation room banged open, and the nurse popped her head in directly asking the doctor: "Doctor Xin, 120 emergency call for deployment, an internal medicine patient. Are you going or is Doctor Dong going?"
"I have a relatively critical patient here. Could you ask Doctor Dong if he can spare a moment?" Xin Yanjun replied.
Bang, the nurse pulled the door shut and left without a further reply. This was the ER—every syllable more spoken might waste precious time.
The brief interruption left the patients and their family members in the waiting area a little confused, not having caught what had just happened before the nurse disappeared.
Only the medical professionals who've worked in the emergency department understand that there's no better way to describe the ER than these four words: a living hell.
