Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“Prepare some 3-0 thread, and look for 5-0 silk suture to suture the nail bed.”
“Fix the bone fragments.”
“The bone should shrink around 0.4 inches.”
It had been some time since Ling Ran last performed a finger replantation. He felt excited and high-spirited, as if there was a tidal wave in him. He might appear normal, but he was full of energy.
Ma Yanlin operated in a flurry and corrected his own movements from time to time. It took him some time to enter the mood. He craned his neck and whispered, “The medical case today can be considered as a special case, right? The toes have been severed for three hours, and that is if we don’t consider the time he was unconscious. The wound has also gone through serious contamination. We don’t have enough drugs either… It’s a waste that Yu Yuan is not around, otherwise she could have written an article on this.”
“I’ll leave it to you,” Ling Ran said calmly.
Ma Yanlin blinked and instantly regretted his words. ‘Why did I speak so much? Doctor Ling prefers his surgeries to be quiet…’
“Doctor Ling, I’m not good at writing articles.” Ma Yanlin wanted to resist a little.
Ling Ran continued to operate the 10X microscope without looking at Ma Yanlin and said, “You can treat it as practice… Hmm, write an English article. Strive hard to publish a good article.”
This time round, Ma Yanlin’s orbicularis oculi muscle and levator muscle became stiff. ‘I really talked too much.’
During the time for surgery, the operating theater became very silent.
Aside from Ling Ran occasionally giving instructions, only the praises from the nurses and part-time nurses could be heard.
“Doctor Ling’s movements are so handsome.”
“Doctor Ling is so handsome.”
“Doctor Ling, are you tired?”
Ma Yanlin had heard similar compliments a lot, so he automatically translated them into cheers. In his heart, Ma Yanlin was even hoping that if he became the chief surgeon, became successful, and became a department director one day, there would also be young nurses praising him by the side and saying that he was incredibly handsome.
“Knee joint area. Try anatomical reduction.” Ling Ran ordered Ma Yanlin and continued to do his work.
Three severed toes. If this happened at Yun Hua Hospital, Ling Ran should be able to finish it within two to three hours, and that was if he had a perfect team, a complete set of instruments, and also a complete set of drugs and consumables.
Naturally, Guozheng Charity Hospital could not have such conditions. Forget about the fact that they had their supplies cut off during the storm, even without the storm, Guozheng Charity Hospital did not plan to provide the facilities to provide finger replantation for patients.
Small places like Cuba Town did not even have a proper industrial area within a circular area of a few hundred miles. The main reason for them to have any of their fingers or toes severed would be due to agricultural production, and some even got their fingers bitten off by horses or cows. The number of severed fingers or toes in a year was very little. For those who were injured, their subconscious would also make them run to a big city in order to save their fingers.
Most importantly, the doctors in Guozheng Charity Hospital usually did not want to perform finger replantation.
Regardless of whether it was orthopedists or other specialists, finger replantation did not require many skills. However, finger replantation was ranked among the top when it came to high workload and surgery difficulty.
When compared to hip replacement surgery, which also lasted for three hours, that surgery was like solving an ingenious mathematics question. Even though there were many calculations involved, the sense of achievement was greater.
On the other hand, three hours of finger replantation could hardly give a normal doctor a sense of achievement. It was just like answering a mathematics questions with a lot of stupid calculations.
In countries like Brazil, a country with commercialized medical services, the doctors would sense that difficulty even more.
The cost of a three-hour length finger replantation was only slightly higher than finger amputation, yet the workload was much higher. So, not many surgeons would volunteer to ask for finger replantations.
Regardless of which hospital the patients went to, that hospital would be the unlucky one. The young doctors in the small hospital did not even want to bear this responsibility.
Tian Guozheng might be rich enough to build the hospital, but he would not be able to manage the hospital business right down to the details. There were a total of around thirty medical staff in Guozheng Charity Hospital, and it would be impossible for them to explore all fields in the medical profession. The doctors would casually choose what they wanted or did not want to do.
If it were not because vascular sutures and nerve anastomosis was something that many medical fields required, Ling Ran might not even find a suitable microscope.
Naldo severed three toes, and Ling Ran nearly used four hours before he finished suturing all of them, and it could be considered as one of his slower surgeries.
However, after coming out of the operating theater, Ling Ran looked happy. Afterall, a four hour surgery was like letting him play for four hours. In some sense, it had a high cost-performance ratio.
Of course, purposely delaying the surgery could not be counted as a joy. This was just like playing a game. Only when a person chose challenges with high difficulty that the game was fun. If the person had to repeat the same simple moves, the person will soon lose interest in the game.
“Storm, please end soon. I’m tired.” Ma Yanlin did not care whether he enjoyed it or not. He was not a man who could persist for long. Otherwise, his wife would not constantly feel sad when she came back.
Ling Ran smiled while listening. “It will be better if the storm can stop earlier.”
“Doctor Ling, you also agree?” Ma Yanlin gazed at Ling Ran in surprise.
“Since we are out for so long, the hospital beds at Yun Hua Hospital should be empty… After the storm, we can go back to Yun Hua Hospital to perform surgeries. In comparison, I’m still more familiar with Chinese anatomy…” Ling Ran answered Ma Yanlin in a logical manner.
Ma Yanlin gulped and said, “After the storm, it’s obvious that we will have to rest for a few days.”
“You can rest for two days if you need. I do not need that.” Ling Ran did his work by drinking Energy Serums, and resting was usually placed very low on his priority list.
Selena trailed behind them. She followed both of them and whispered to Ma Yanlin at that moment, “Are you surprised?”
Ma Yanlin glanced at her. “After the storm, we can go back to China, do you have a visa?”
Selena’s expression changed a little bit. She snorted and ignored him.
“I’ll take a look at the main hall and go for a ward round. Ma Yanlin, please go to the recovery room.” Ling Ran was used to the storm at Guozheng Charity Hospital. After he performed a major surgery, he walked slowly to the main hall to perform minor surgeries while doing some minor maneuvers like changing the dressing, then went to wander around the ward.
Guozheng Charity Hospital stopped its operations as many medical staff went away. But before the storm, all wards remained functioning normally, so even after the storm, the accommodations at Guozheng Charity Hospital became better. If it were not due to the lack of nurses and care workers and everyone treated the rooms as normal lodges, even if one person took up one room, there will still be extra rooms left.
While Ling Ran did his ward round, he soon received seven Sincere Gratitude Basic Treasure Chests.
‘Open them.’ Ling Ran had received hundreds of Sincere Gratitude Basic Treasure Chests over the past few days. Almost every patient had given him a Sincere Gratitude Basic Treasure Chest. Even if they gave these Treasure Chests to him one after another, the ratio was the highest among what Ling Ran had ever encountered.
The only thing he found regretful was that he did not obtain any skills.
The current situation did not allow Ling Ran to accumulate Treasure Chests quietly too. So, he would open all Treasure Chests right when he received a batch.
He turned around and saw a skill book standing arrogantly in blue light.
Ling Ran could not help but stood in the corridor, waved his hands, and opened this prideful skill book. He saw a line of words on its cover page.
[Single Skill Book: Milligan-Morgan Skill (Perfect Level)]
[Description: The most commonly used hemorrhoid ligation and resection skill at the current age. There are some improvements on this technique, such as segmenting jugged ligation, semi-open suture, retaining the dentate line, and so on.]
