Great Doctor Ling Ran

Chapter 918: Long Thinking Session

“Currently, the most viewed live stream in the live stream platform of Yunli Medical Company is Yun Hua Hospital’s surgery.” A resident doctor who looked so plain that his name was hard to remember guessed Huo Congjun’s thoughts and buttered up to him to increase his sense of existence.

When Huo Congjun wanted to turn and look at the one who spoke, he heard the department director of the General Surgery Department chuckle and say, “Those who hear about surgeries like combined liver and pancreatic radical surgery would want to see it. How should I comment on this mentality, I wonder…?”

When he heard what the department director of the General Surgery Department said, Huo Congjun naturally turned around and looked at him. As the department director of the Emergency Medical Center, although Huo Congjun scolded someone every day, he still had to behave politely when he should.

The resident doctor who only came up with a suitable topic after thinking for two hours looked at Huo Congjun’s back in disappointment, and he could not help but think about his friend’s teasing words, ‘He’ll remember you if you slap him.’

“They’re searching for novelty, huh?”

Since the department director spoke, the doctors from the General Surgery Department in the room naturally needed to show support. One of them even had to guess the director’s mood and took a tentative step forward in the conversation.

Combined liver and pancreatic radical surgery was a surgery that fit into every single criterion in the field of general surgery. Even if the Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery wanted to work on it, they also needed to give away the stomach to the General Surgery Department, then both sides would work together to perform the surgery…

What else were they supposed to do? Were they supposed to let one single person get such good surgery and chances to become famous alone? That would be a waste.

Huo Congjun glanced around and saw the doctor from the General Surgery Department who spoke. He was a sleazy man who looked quite old, and his mouth drooped like a Shar-pei, and it made people want to laugh at him.

Huo Congjun did not have any memory of him, and this could mean that he was probably an attending physician with low qualifications, so he did not deserve Old Huo’s personal scolding.

Therefore, Department Director Huo Congjun wore a faint smile that meant, “I will temporarily spare your head.”

Doctor Zhou glanced at Huo Congjun, and for some inexplicable reason, he thought of the adjectives that he read in a novel a few days ago. He thought, ‘Could this be what you call a ghost of a smile while your eyes sparkle?

Doctor Zhou could not help falling into deep thought. The dazed expression he showed just now was gone, and he seemed to have been refilled with energy. He reentered the state where his heart rate slowed down and his breathing became light.

Yu Yuan said from the side, “The combined liver and pancreatic radical surgery by Doctor Ling is different from any other. Surgery is not suitable for the patient with hepatic metastasis from gastric cancer mainly because his body is too weak, and his tolerance for surgery is low. In this regard, Doctor Ling’s Ling Hepatectomy is very suitable…”

“You’re the only one who calls it Ling Hepatectomy, right?” the old-looking resident doctor with low qualifications could not help but quip sarcastically.

Yu Yuan chuckled. “This is the treatment plan recognized in the province, and it is quite famous in the country. If you can’t accept it, you’re welcome to write an article to refute my words.”

“We’re working in the same hospital, so how can I write an article to refute you…?”

“Can’t you, though?” Yu Yuan jumped down from her chair. She slowly stood up straight. Although there was no change in her height, and she even looked shorter because she was now standing, she actually appeared imposing now.

Yu Yuan never felt scared when she did not have to talk about surgeries and only had to talk about research articles alone.

When the junior attending physician across her faced her and looked at her, he really felt diffident.

In the chain of contempt in the hospital, it was politically correct for the General Surgery Department to regard the Emergency Medical Center in contempt, but there were also differences in the levels of the doctors from different departments. If those who were skilled and capable of engaging in technical work and people who were considered third-class people because they could only butter up to others were about the same level and there was not a huge difference between their ranks, they would still have a balance in their hearts weighing their worth.

“It’s just a casual remark. I can’t write an article just to scold someone, right?” The young attending physician puffed and retorted. He was not willing to admit defeat.

Yu Yuan said, “What’s wrong with scolding people using an article? Even Lu Xun wrote articles to scold people.”

Huo Congjun said, “Be responsible for what you say.”

The two of them spoke almost simultaneously, and they stared at the young attending physician with a sharp gaze.

The young attending physician’s face flushed red.

The department director of the General Surgery Department cast Huo Congjun a sidelong glance, and his expression was clearly saying, ‘Are you serious about being responsible for what you said?’

“Take note in checking the blood vessel. 7-0 surgical suture.” At that moment, Ling Ran had started to do circular suture around the liver tissues.

There was no big difference between the steps in hepatectomy for hepatic metastasis and normal hepatectomy, but in this case, ensuring a tumor-free operation was no longer something the surgeon needed to remind himself to do, but something he really needed to pay attention to.

With the patient’s condition, he could not afford another relapse and another hepatectomy.

Ling Ran also stopped for a while once he reached this point, then he started to use his Virtual Human to make a direct observation by cutting it open and checking it.

This was absolutely considered to be cheating. If this were a competition between two doctors, the doctor who did this would be the same as him trampling on sportsmanship. However, for the patient, if the doctor had this trick and decided not to use it, the doctor would be considered to be trampling on the patient’s life.

Ling Ran looked slightly dazed.

After all, his attention was on the Virtual Human now.

The doctors in the visitation room turned from feeling calm to feeling puzzled, and they started discussing among themselves.

“Did something go wrong?”

“No matter how I look at it, it was progressing smoothly.”

“Where is the problem?”

Everyone’s proactiveness was awakened. They paid full attention to the surgery and observed it while they recalled the process of the surgery.

If they could catch Ling Ran’s mistake, their fame would definitely increase.

Yu Yuan pursed her lips in contempt. She stood straight and said, “Doctor Ling has a habit when he performs surgery. He often descends into a state where he thinks for a long time.

“It’s just like a Go player. When you play to the point where it’s time to decide the victor, you need to consider information from different perspectives before making a comprehensive judgment. While you’re thinking at this moment, you might already be considering his next thirty to forty steps.

“Doctor Ling is also like this.”

The doctors in the visitation room were immediately no longer puzzled.

When Yu Yuan saw this, she raised her head and described the situation to them. She said, “Doctor Ling’s thinking period varies. The shortest is about a dozen seconds, and if it’s long, it can last for a few minutes. When we were in Beijing performing surgery for a patient, Doctor Ling thought for two minutes. The doctor from Beijing who worked with us thought that Doctor Ling had been intimidated, so he walked away to wash his hands. But in the end, once Doctor Ling finished thinking, he finished the surgery in just a short while. The doctor who washed his hands came back in time to help clean up the operating theater. Hahaha!”

Yu Yuan’s laughter was obviously louder than her height, and her laughter was easily recognizable, causing a few doctors to laugh with her, because it would be embarrassing if they did not.

“So, standing aside to daydream and practice Tai Chi during the middle of surgery is also a habit of Doctor Ling’s?” a doctor standing at the back row took the opportunity to ask during the chaos.

Yu Yuan subconsciously looked at the lower floor. Indeed, Ling Ran had taken a few steps back while he moved hands in the air.

Yu Yuan gritted her teeth and persisted with her argument. “Sometimes, he does. Sometimes, when Doctor Ling is thinking, he mimics certain surgical actions.”

“Such large movements? He may end up getting the patient infected.”

As he said that, they saw Ling Ran asking the nurse to take off his scrubs before he turned around and washed his hands.

There were always a few doctors who found that annoying. This time, they grabbed the chance and immediately vented their emotions.

“He sure went straight to the point, huh?”

“Is he looking for reinforcements?”

“He’s probably going to read through some books…”

They were quite happy chatting with each other.

As they talked, they saw the door of the operating theater open, and Ling Ran reappeared in the operating theater.

“Focus,” Ling Ran reminded his assistants before he took up the scalpel and pushed it into the patient.

“Bleeding control in the wounded area.” Ling Ran threw a resected liver tissue into a kidney dish.

The visitation room instantly became quiet.

“He cut it just like that?”

“Is that real or my eyes deceiving me?”

“He’s as agile as a rabbit…”

“Aww, I feel like eating a rabbit’s head now.”