Chapter 639
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Ling Ran took a shower and changed into a new set of clothes . Only then did he exit the operating theater .
He felt that he needed to give this kind of difficult surgeries the basic respect they deserved .
Academician Zhu who had been waiting outside got a little anxious . The moment he saw Ling Ran, he could not help but ask, "Could there have been an accident?"
"No," Ling Ran answered as firmly as usual .
Zhu Tongyi almost wanted to roll his eyes when he heard this . Ling Ran was way too young indeed to be able to give such a firm answer as a doctor . He did not bother to lecture Ling Ran, though . He merely asked, "Where's Zuo Cidian?"
"He went to talk to the patient's family members together with Zhang Anmin . " Even though Ling Ran did not like to communicate with his patients' family members, this was a necessary step . Hence, he sent Zhang Anmin, who had a good idea of what was going on in surgery, to explain things to the patient's family members in layman terms .
"I'll give Zuo Cidian a call . " Zhu Tongyi whipped out his phone as he spoke . He was not able to supervise Ling Ran as he talked to other people round the clock, but Young Zuo was capable of doing so!
*Ring, ring…*
The call had just gone through when Zhu Tongyi heard Academician Du speaking to Ling Ran .
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"Doctor Ling, you mentioned that I'll be able to live for ten more years after receiving surgery . Is this true?"
"A patient usually wouldn't die from a cancer recurrence within ten years after the cancer first occurred . So there's a huge probability that you'll get to live for ten more years . " Ling Ran possessed Master Level Hepatectomy and Perfect Level Lymphadenectomy . He also had access to simulations of his patients' body using the Virtual Human . He could indeed increase his patients' life expectancies by a lot . Of course, the survival rate of individual patients depended on the type of cancer they were suffering from . But Ling Ran could be said to be one of the most highly skilled surgeons in the field of oncology in the liver in this era .
Academician Du fixed his gaze on Ling Ran . "You're not joking?"
Ling Ran shook his head .
"Hahaha…" Academician Du suddenly started laughing self-deprecatingly . "Actually, I don't care that much about living for another five or ten years . Of course, it would be amazing to get to live for ten more years . But what I want the most is just to live for two more years . I just want to finish up all my ongoing projects successfully, and I would be satisfied already . "
Ling Ran said nothing .
"Doctor Ling, you can come over to take a look at my collection during your day off . Throughout these years, I've accumulated quite the collection of ores . " After Academician Zhu said this, he winked and said with a smile, "Some of them are really valuable . "
Ling Ran said calmly, "I don't have leave . "
"No leave…" Academician Du froze for a moment and clicked his tongue at Academician Zhu, who had just ended the call . "You look like such a decent person that I've never expected you to be such a slave driver . "
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"It's nothing to do with me . Ling Ran's just a workaholic like you . It would be hard to make him take a day off . Moreover, Ling Ran is employed by Yun Hua Hospital . " As Academician Zhu mentioned that last sentence, he got annoyed and was no longer willing to talk about it .
Academician Du laughed out loud . "Doctor Ling, why don't you come and visit me? You can take the opportunity to take leave for one day . Not only will you get drained, but you'll also get fat easily if you only operate on patients all day . It would be such a waste for you to get fat . "
This piqued Zhu Tongyi's interest . He sized Ling Ran up for quite a while and judged him using the beauty standards of an orthopedist . He then said with a sigh, "Forget about it, he will look handsome no matter what . "
Academician Du was so pissed that he cleared his throat and said to Zhu Tongyi, "Old Zhu, don't make things worse . I want Doctor Ling to take a look at my collection before I go under the knife and talk about geology for a bit while I'm at it . This is not too much to ask, right?"
"Old Du, you…" Zhu Tongyi did not know what to say . He knew how busy Ling Ran was . On average, Ling Ran operated on three patients a day . On busier days, he would be operating on eight or nine patients . Ling Ran can't just satisfy the desires of every single patient . After all, he was not Aladdin's magic lamp .
However, Zhu Yongyi could not say no to Academician Du just like this . He could only look at Ling Ran and wait for Ling Ran to make his own decision .
Before Ling Ran could say anything, Academician Du muttered, "I'm an academician after all, am I not? Back in the day, I once went on an exploration at the border of the country and didn't go home for a year and eight months . My wife had to take care of our two kids all by herself, and had to rely on help from the neighbors . When my child fought with a neighbor's child and got badly injured, I still had to apologize to the family . I can't just ignore the fact that they had helped my family for more than one year just because our children fought…"
Zhu Tongyi sighed .
Academician Du, though, could no longer rein himself in . Gazing forward at nothing, he spoke in a low voice, and it was as if he was speaking to himself, "I have even mined uranium before . We all took turns exposing ourselves to radiation, and sometimes, when other people could not make it to their shifts, I volunteered myself…
"I've been to the snowy mountains, and I've also been to Gobi Desert . When I was assigned to go on an exploration to Golmud, I didn't chicken out either…
"We had a mining accident at that time, and two people in our team died . I have been good friends with them for years . "
Academician Zhu could not take it anymore, and it was as if a large hand was clenching his heart . He said in a hushed tone, "Old Du, these are all in the past…"
"In the past, I have made my contribution too!" Academician Du gritted his teeth and said, "I don't want… don't want to die in the operating theater just like this . I know, I know that Doctor Ling is skillful and also extremely busy . But I just want to enjoy the special privilege of inviting Doctor Ling over to see my collection . Just this one time, is this too much to ask?"
"I'll go," Ling Ran said calmly, and he was being neither loud nor soft-spoken .
"You… you will?!" Academician Du froze for a moment, and blood had rushed to his cheeks due to how emotional he was just now . He let out a few soft coughs and gulped to relax his tensed up throat muscles . He then smiled a little and said, "I knew that young people nowadays are different from apathetic old pricks like you, Old Zhu . "
Academician Zhu did not know whether to cry or to laugh as he glanced at Academician Du . He did not actually find the whole thing funny . More than anything, he was feeling sentimental .
Being sick was a very private thing, and it might just be one of the most private things a person could experience . No matter what a prominent figure a person was, it would be very hard for them to face the fact that their life was going to end in an unperturbed manner .
Even though the First Emperor of Qin had various political and military achievements, he still looked for the elixir of immortality . Even though Eileen Chang [1] enjoyed a peaceful and steady life, it was very hard for her to keep her cool when she was plagued by illnesses .
"Where will we be going?" Ling Ran's question jolted Academician Zhu out of his reverie .
"Are we leaving now?" Academician Du himself found this a little too abrupt .
"I just need one more hour . Once the patient I operated on earlier regains consciousness and I make sure that there's nothing wrong, I'll be able to leave . "
"Alright, great! I'll call someone to make the necessary arrangements . " Academician Du was so happy that it was as if he got the grand prize in a lucky draw .
This was when Zuo Cidian walked over quickly, and Tian Qi was walking behind him .
To be more exact, Zuo Cidian looked like a hotel usher who was showing the way to Tian Qi .
Zuo Cidian did not seem bitter about it . Back when he was working in a town hospital, even those who owned Audis were people he needed to treat with reverence . Nowadays, he only had to do this with people who owned helicopters, which made him feel as if he was treating himself much better than before, and he was extremely contented .
Tian Qi was wearing a white dress . She walked past the two academicians, went before Ling Ran, and greeted him .
Ling Ran nodded . His expression was a bit solemn .
Tian Qi lowered her head a little and swayed slightly . When she saw that the hem of her dress was touching the bottom of Ling Ran's pants, she blushed a little . Together with her smile, she looked like the moon amid the evening rays .