Chapter 511
“Doctor Zhang, can you arrange to have Teacher Zhu operated by an experienced surgeon?” Principal Liu took Zhang Anmin’s hand and asked him in a pleading tone . Those who did not know what was going on would probably think that Principal Liu was asking Zhang Anmin to take care of his child upon his death .
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Teacher Zhu, too, gazed at Zhang Anmin in anticipation . It was natural for patients to want to be treated by the best doctors .
Zhang Anmin flashed a wan smile and said, “Our department director is the one who assigns the chief surgeons . I’m in no position to meddle with his decisions . ”
“I know Department Director He too,” Principal Liu said with a smile, “I’ve worked in four different schools, and on average, one teacher would be admitted into the hospital for cholecystitis every year . I’ve always sought out Department Director He’s help when it came to this . Doctor Zhang, do try your best for Teacher Zhu’s sake . ”
Not only was it troublesome to seek out the department director, but it also required quite a sum of money . One would need to utilize his connections to do so . Hence, Principal Liu merely paid lip service . Before this, he would never seek out a department director for the sake of the teachers working in his school .
But he planned to do that today .
He gathered all the emotions in his heart and said in a poignant tone, “Doctor Zhu has been in the teaching industry for thirty years, and has won the ‘best employee award’ in our school multiple times . Many of his students now hold all kinds of positions and have made a lot of great contributions to our nation…”
Zhang Anmin listened in resignation . Principal Liu’s words were obviously directed to Teacher Zhu instead of him .
Teacher Zhu’s eyes were brimming with tears as he heard that . He felt that his thirty years of hard work had not gone to waste and that at the end of the day, someone remembered his contributions .
Ling Ran quietly left the ward . This patient’s condition seemed complicated, and he preferred to take on relatively simple cases first .
It was only then that Zhang Anmin see Ling Ran . He immediately uttered a few more words of consolation before following Ling Ran outside .
“Doctor Ling, why didn’t you call me before coming over?” Zhang Anmin stood behind Ling Ran with a grin on his face .
“I feel like carrying out a few cholecystectomies . ” Ling Ran paused for a moment and added, “But I don’t want to operate on the patient just now . ”
“Yeah, let’s leave that patient to the department director . ” Zhang Anmin pursed his lips . His department director, He Yuanzheng liked to operate on this kind of patients . Those patients would be indebted to him, and this could benefit him in the long run . Even if his own children or his relatives’ children did not end up needing help from the Department of Education, the children of one of his colleagues might need it .
However, a junior doctor like Zhang Anmin did not have much use for a cadre of above average rank in the Department of Education . Hence, he did not really care about whether he got to operate on Teacher Zhu .
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He did not depend on the Department of Education for a living, and the Department of Education did not care about him either .
Now that doctors were not even allowed to take red envelopes from patients anymore, Zhang Anmin did not feel like going through so much trouble just for a few good reviews .
Zhang Anmin would rather butter up to skillful doctors like Ling Ran .
When he recalled how Ling Ran was able to handle a case that even Professor Feng Zhixiang and his student were not able to, Zhang Anmin acted even more obediently . He was smiling so politely that he could pass off as Zuo Cidian’s younger brother . “Doctor Ling, I have made it a point to take in patients who need cholecystectomy this week . Excluding the one you see just now, there are four more of them . Do you want to take a look?”
“I’ll follow you on your ward round . ” As Ling Ran had not even mastered Novice Level Cholecystectomy, he naturally did not dare to make any promises . He followed Zhang Anmin to meet the patients . He then examined those patients and looked at their scans .
“I’ll arrange to have one of them operated this afternoon . Do you want to be the chief surgeon?” Zhang Anmin only asked Ling Ran when they were done with the ward round .
“I would like to put in more practice . Do go ahead and be the chief surgeon for this afternoon’s surgery . I just want to perform a few steps . ” Ling Ran sounded extremely humble .
Zhang Anmin glanced at Ling Ran in bewilderment and said, “Other doctors are always very eager to become the chief surgeon . ”
Ling Ran shook his head . “Being a chief surgeon has no meaning in itself . ”
Zhang Anmin wanted to say something to refute Ling Ran’s statement, but he did not dare to .
Ling Ran was not interested in explaining things to Zhang Anmin either .
He was not like other doctors .
First of all, he was extremely experienced when it came to abdominal anatomical dissection . A doctor with an experience of one hundred times in abdominal anatomical dissections was akin to a Transformer that suddenly appeared in the parking lot; he was way ahead of the others around him .
Besides, Ling Ran could operate the laparoscope very skillfully at this point .
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Most resident doctors take a very long time to get used to laparoscopy . A lot of them could not even make a proper knot using the laparoscopy .
Ling Ran had already transcended all this .
Right now, he merely lacked experience in cholecystectomy, and being a chief surgeon was not the only way to obtain that experience .
Ling Ran had been the chief surgeon of a large number of surgeries, and unlike other junior doctors, he did not need to be the chief surgeon of a surgery just so that he could strengthen his ego .
A lot of excellent doctors in history could master a surgical method merely by watching it once and getting hands-on practice in two of them . This kind of talented doctors were the only ones who could master a large number of surgical methods . Hospitals in most countries only have a General Surgery Department without separate departments for each of the abdominal contents . This was why skillful surgeons could master almost a hundred surgical methods without putting in much effort .
Of course, there were also doctors who kept referring to their textbooks as they carried out surgeries . This did not necessarily affect the qualities of the surgeries carried out . It was just like how certain Mathematicians solved problems with their formula sheets beside them .
There was no need for Ling Ran to be in a rush to act as the chief surgeon for a cholecystectomy .
In the afternoon, Zhang Anmin entered the operating theater and carried out miscellaneous tasks such as draping . As soon as he was done, Ling Ran, too, entered the operating theater according to the time they had agreed upon beforehand .
In the hospital, only when a senior doctor acted as the first assistant would the chief surgeon drape the patient himself . However, neither the nurses in the operating theater of the Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic surgery nor the anesthetist found it weird .
“I’ll hold the laparoscope . ” Ling Ran took the initiative to stand on Zhang Anmin’s left .
“I’m sorry to trouble you . ” Zhang Anmin still felt extremely diffident .
Truth be told, this was the first time he had met a doctor who knew how to perform hepatectomy but was not well-versed in cholecystectomy .
However, when Zhang Anmin considered the fact that Ling Ran was only a little more than twenty years old, he realized that this was not out of the ordinary .
“Doctor Ling, which step do you feel like trying?” Zhang Anmin asked as he operated on the patient .
“If the adhesion isn’t serious, I’ll carry out the lysis of adhesions . ” The lysis of adhesions during a cholecystectomy was considered the most complicated step .
Zhang Anmin agreed without feeling worried at all .
The gallbladder commonly adhered to the liver . Since Ling Ran knew how to perform hepatectomy, this definitely would not be a problem for him .
As expected, Ling Ran could carry out the lysis of adhesions very well .
Ling Ran nodded internally .
This was also what he had presumed, as he reckoned that the skills he had mastered would not disappear magically just like that . There was a possibility that he might make all kinds of mistakes if he were to become the chief surgeon for a cholecystectomy immediately, which might result in a bad prognosis for a patient .
However, if he were to only carry out the steps he was good at first, there was no possibility of there being any mistake .
As for the steps he was not familiar with, he would take his time and put in some practice .
Ling Ran carried out four cholecystectomies together with Zhang Anmin within an afternoon .
Ling Ran only decided to act as chief surgeon after assisting in two more cholecystectomies the following day .
Zhang Anmin immediately made way for him .
He was extremely tired after performing so many surgeries in succession within two days .
Carrying out surgery and guiding another doctor at the same time was a tiring endeavor to begin with . The fact that the doctor who required guidance was Ling Ran made things even more tiring for Zhang Anmin .
“We’ll be inflating the patient’s abdomen first . ” Now that Ling Ran was the chief surgeon, he acted like he usually did and reported every single step .
This was unnecessary, as both his assistant and the nurses were already extremely used to carrying out cholecystectomy .
But since Ling Ran was willing to do that, the nurses let him be . It was not a bad thing to get to hear their Prince Charming’s voice more, anyway .
Ling Ran took almost an hour to carry out the cholecystectomy, which was almost as much time as he needed to perform a hepatectomy .
The sight of it was a confidence booster for Zhang Anmin, as he realized that there were also times when Ling Ran was out of practice .
Ling Ran himself felt pretty good, though . Even though he was a little slow, he was not that slow . He felt that his performance definitely surpassed that of a novice’s .
As he pondered about it, the system’s notification appeared .
[Mission Completed: Self-Improvement]
[Mission Details: Obtain Cholecystectomy (Novice) through your own practice . ]
[Mission Reward: Basic Treasure Chest]
Ling Ran did not think much as he opened the treasure chest .
As it was merely a Basic Treasure Chest, Ling Ran did not even bother being ceremonial .
However, a purple bottle appeared .
[Skill Serum (Small): All skill levels increased by 1 for ten seconds . ]