Cai Qiong entered the operating theater of Bazhaixiang hospital branch with disdain.
This disdain was dedicated to Bazhaixiang hospital branch and also to Ling Ran’s treatment group.
Naturally, he had heard of Ling Ran’s reputation before. In Changxi Province, Ling Ran was known as a celebrity doctor who shocked everyone whenever he decided to do something. And it was precisely because of this that Cai Qiong despised them even more.
From Cai Qiong’s perspective, being a celebrity doctor and being young were both disadvantages.
After all, as a senior attending physician who was older than Zuo Cidian, Cai Qiong had an advantage in terms of experience. When he faced a young doctor, even if said doctor was the leader of a treatment group, Cai Qiong could still proudly say, “When I first became a doctor…”
Zuo Cidian could sense some of Cai Qiong’s thoughts, but he only treated whatever Cai Qiong thought with disdain in his heart.
“Doctor Cai, this way, please.” Zuo Cidian showed the way, leaving little room to have small talk.
They quietly walked forward. Their slippers tapped against the terrazzo floor.
“Defreeze a few more blood bags, don’t let Doctor Ling touch them with his hands. What if he catches a cold?” The whispered discussion between young nurses was heard from the supply room next door.
The doctors pretended that they did not hear it.
“Doctors from the provincial hospital are so bad. When they can’t treat a patient, they pass the patient to Doctor Ling. Doctor Ling already worked hard over the past few days, and he practically did not sleep. Now, he finally has the chance to relax, and they send another critically ill patient over…”
“That’s right. If they aren’t good, then don’t send the patient over. In the end, they still need to trouble Doctor Ling.”
“Oh yea, how did you know that Doctor Ling did not sleep?”
“Well, I just know.”
The three doctors from the provincial hospital who followed Zuo Cidian became more quiet. The youngest doctor pursed his lips a little. He wanted to refute, but in the end, he said nothing.
What was he supposed to explain, and what use was there for him to explain anything.
“Doctor Ling prefers silence in the operating theater. So, don’t talk if you don’t have anything to say.” When they stood before the operating theater, Zuo Cidian made another statement before he stepped open the airtight access door of the operating theater and brought those three inside.
There was no need for Zuo Cidian to even make any introductions, Cai Qiong could see Ling Ran performing surgery inside immediately when he went in.
Ling Ran stood straight, and he only lowered his head a little. He looked very busy.
Cai Qiong did not see Ling Ran’s face from the front, so he could only look at his back from behind him. As he watched Ling Ran’s light movements and obvious handsomeness from behind him, suddenly, Cai Qiong was unable to show his scorn.
Cai Qiong was even so shocked when he saw the layout in the operating theater that he almost gasped in amazement.
The common C-arm in provincial hospitals, the common display screen, the common ultrasonic knife…
These instruments were commonly seen in provincial hospitals, but they were extremely precious in Baizhaixiang.
In truth, if they had suitable equipment, the doctors from the provincial hospital could perform the surgery themselves. In the worst case, they can just request for the provincial hospital to send a hepatobiliary expert over. After all, it was not something impossible for them to do.
“Why do you have these?” Cai Qiong did not believe these belonged to Bazhaixiang hospital branch. Forget about the fact that Bazhaixiang hospital branch cannot afford the equipment in this operating theater, all the equipment was also very new.
“We brought them.” Zuo Cidian’s answer was extremely simple.
Cai Qiong shook his head. “Did you bring so many instruments along? You’re crazy.”
“You think too much.” Zuo Cidian lowered his voice and said, “You still remember what I’ve said before, right?”
Cai Qiong immediately remembered what Zuo Cidian mentioned about being rich, but he did not believe him and said, “You can’t spend in this way even if you’re rich.”
Zuo Cidian smiled. “You misunderstood. What I mean is you can’t afford these even if the provincial hospital is rich. So, this is not what we call crazy.”
Cai Qiong eagerly wanted his eyes to be lasers so that he can burn Zuo Cidian’s wrinkles with his gaze alone.
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“How’s the blood pressure?” Ling Ran’s voice was heard, and it made the operating theater become silent immediately.
Ling Ran’s focus was on the patient’s abdominal cavity, so he did not raise his head.
“80, 40.” Su Jiafu frowned a little. His control of the patient’s blood pressure was not very ideal.
Ling Ran only frowned a little and said, “Take note to replenish fluid.”
Then, he inserted a hand into the patient’s abdominal cavity.
“Barehanded bleeding control.” Zuo Cidian suddenly felt proud.
He had seen Ling Ran using barehanded bleeding control many times, but whenever he saw it, he still shuddered, for some reason.
This was a skill with a combination of talent and skill. For a normal doctor, it was a special skill that they can only hear about but never be able to see, it was also a skill that they thought was something that they can use to boast at any moment.
Cia Qiong was surprised again.
The surgeons were actually conservative people. Abdominoscopy had been developed for many years, but there were still a number of surgeons who insisted on open abdominal surgery, and the major reason for them to do so was to see the situation inside the abdominal cavity with their eyes.
Cai Qiong was, indeed, a senior attending physician who cannot be promoted because of how talkative he was, but he was also a surgeon.
While he stared at Ling Ran’s movements, Cai Qiong walked a few steps forward stiffly because he wanted to have a clearer look.
And he was indeed able to see clearer.
In the abdominal cavity of the patient was a large amount of blood in the abdominal cavity, and it was being sucked out. The color of the injured liver had changed slightly. A liver that lost its pinkish color was like a Barbie doll that lost its hair and did not look cute at all.
The others were all contaminated blood and liver tissues.
Cai Qiong observed while thinking in his mind. ‘What if I encountered a case like this?’
Then, Cai Qiong tried to compare what he would do with Ling Ran’s actual operation.
The actual operation was always more complicated and difficult than what a person can imagine, even if the surgeon faced the same surgery. Since Cai Qiong was only imagining it, the difficulty of the surgery became lower, but his imagination ran even wilder.
This made Cai Qiong feel more arrogant.
He turned to glance at Zuo Cidian before he said in a low voice, “Doctor Ling performs the surgery quite well.”
Zuo Cidian cast Cai Qiong a sidelong glance, “Are you saying that the provincial hospital is unable to handle this surgery?”
“We don’t have a complete set of facilities.” Cai Qiong defended himself before he turned around and watched Ling Ran perform the surgery.
One second, five seconds.
Cai Qiong suddenly realized that Ling Ran had intercepted the hepatic portal vein, and the operation was completely different from what he imagined.
Cai Qiong could not help but become focused.
Surgical methods can be seen as a formula to treat a problem.
Different people used different formulae to solve problems because they had different mindsets, and it was the same with surgical methods.
Cai Qiong was no longer a doctor who pursued skills, but he was still curious toward Ling Ran’s operation method.
Ling Ran can be seen with a hand in the patient’s body while he stood by the operating table. His other hand operated independently, and he quickly completed ligating the blood vessels.
After Ling Ran pulled out his hand, Cai Qiong realized in a daze that Ling Ran controlled and interrupted the blood flow in the hepatic portal vein at a distance, allowing him to control the bleeding.
How familiar was he with the anatomy of the liver?
This thought popped up in Cai Qiong’s mind, and he looked at Ling Ran’s operation before he thought. ‘How did he learn this kind of skill?’
When he was thinking about it, he heard Ling Ran say, “Lu Wenbin, I’ll pass this to you.”
Then, he saw Ling Ran pass the major portion of suturing the patient to Lu Wenbin, the assistant opposite him.
Lu Wenbin lowered his head and started to suture, and his movements showed familiarity.
Cai Qiong could not help but raise his head and stared at Lu Wenbin.
When Lu Wenbin was performing the suture, he suddenly raised his head and showed a happy smile to Cai Qiong. He exercised his neck and shoulder before he tightened his muscles. “You managed to tell, right? I recently trained my splenius capitis muscle.”
