Chief Physician Ji cleared his throat and sat up straighter while he placed his hand lightly over the power button at the bottom part of the microphone. He waited for Ling Ran’s mistake so that he could point it out clearly.
For him, this was not something very difficult.
When Chief Physician Ji was young, he went abroad for a state funded in-service training. During that time, Changxi Province worked very hard to get a few slots for the state-funded in-service training and held a unified examination in the province. Those who ranked at the top then underwent an interview and political examination before they finally made it to Japan and pursued their in-service training for two years.
After they came back from abroad, this batch of state-funded returnees became the backbone of every hospital, and they were even sent out to carry out foreign aid projects.
At that time, being sent for state-funded in-service programmes was very rare. Regardless of their goal of going overseas, there were still many people who went for it. Besides, the content of the examination tended to focus on the basics.
To sit for the examination, Chief Physician Ji revised everything in his knowledge system, especially the basic theories and operations. He even made sure his maneuvers absolutely adhered to the standard.
This foundation benefited Chief Physician Ji’s whole life, or rather, it should be said that he had been able to produce the expert opinion article known as Choosing of Materials for Surgery Sutures for the conference because of the accumulation of knowledge during that year.
Similarly, it was also because of this foundation that Chief Physician Ji knew how difficult it was for a normal doctor wanting to achieve a truly standardized operation.
He turned to the side and looked at the screen while he thought, ‘Looking good does not mean you can do whatever you want. Practice your skills before you come to challenge us again.’
On the screen, Ling Ran had made a Mercedes incision on the patient’s upper abdomen, which was extended from the middle of the bilateral subcostal incision.
This was one of the most common incisions, and foreigners used it very frequently. It could sufficiently expose the right liver and did not have anything special.
Chief Physician Ji looked at Ling Ran’s operation without blinking.
While he performed the incision, Ling Ran used his hands to pull at the skin at both ends of the incision tightly, and his fingers were long and nice… Wait, this was not the main point.
The main point was that the incision was at a sufficient length… and it would seem like the level of exposure was sufficient as well.
During the incision, Ling Ran also avoided the main nerves and vessels… Naturally, this was just a small matter that all doctors could do.
The linea alba was cut open with an endotherm knife. The hemostatic forceps lifted the linea alba from its bottom so that it would not injure the organs in the abdominal cavity below the linea alba… Hmm, it was a very basic operation, and every doctor in the field of general surgery could do it!
As for the exposed surgical field… Ling Ran must ensure visibility. If he could not achieve this, why should he still perform hepatectomy?!
Chief Physician Ji judged Ling Ran’s operation while evaluating him secretly.
He did not intend to look for any shocking mistakes or any stupid mistakes, as it did not fulfill his requirement. Chief Physician Ji just wanted to find some rather major mistakes so that he could use it as a topic to help both parties fight for a few rounds.
Then, when the surgery progressed to the hepatectomy, Chief Physician Ji felt that it was now difficult for him to do anything.
After all, when it came to hepatectomy, Ling Ran was the professional one. Although he had approached liver surgery before, he was still not very familiar with it. Now, if he looked back and looked for Ling Ran’s faults before the hepatectomy stage, he might end up crashing into an area where Ling Ran had advanced skills and he did not. Worse, he might end up falling into Ling Ran’s trap, and it would be very awkward for him.
Chief Physician Ji moved his fingers for a while so that his fingers would not feel sore, but he accidentally pressed on the power button of the microphone.
At this time, Old Xu chuckled by the side and spoke up, “The laparotomy is completed, and he did it smoothly. The oozing of blood on the dermis is very little, and the bleeding control using an endotherm knife was on point. There is no problem.”
Chief Physician Ji did not know whether Old Xu was trying to suck up to Ling Ran, so he only clicked his tongue at him and said in his heart, ‘Aren’t you swearing your loyalty way too easily? What could you get if you’re undecided on which side you should join?’
He was already secretly thinking that when he promoted his expert opinion on the Choosing of Materials for Surgery Sutures for Surgery, he would put Old Xu at the end. If he renewed the version later, he would directly remove his name. Anyway, Old Xue did not put a lot of effort in the production of this article. He just provided some fundings and sent a student over to help them with the collection of data. Perhaps it was because of this that he did not really appreciate the results of everyone’s efforts?
At this time, Guo Liqing had also turned on the power button for the microphone, smiled faintly, and said, “Doctor Ling’s speed for laparotomy is much faster than normal situations. I think he is rather familiar with human anatomy, which is why he can ensure that there is less bleeding, and so it saves him many useless maneuvers.”
“The prognosis will be better as well.” Chief Physician Hao from the People’s Liberation Army General Hospital added, and he could be considered to have made his contribution in the review.
However, after Chief Physician Hao finished speaking, he took another glance at Chief Physician Ji.
This glance made Chief Physician Ji feel a little angry inside. ‘Are you looking down on me? Did you think that I can’t find any faults? Do you intend to treat me differently?’
Chief Physician Ji’s hand shuddered, and he was just about to turn off the microphone…
‘That was a close call.’
He pulled his hand back.
But he did not have anything to say right now.
He could not just flatter Ling Ran together with these shameless old men, right?
Even if Ling Ran looked like he was skilled, even if normal reviews mainly consisted of other experts flattering the surgeon and even if Old Ji did not mind flattering other surgeons, he could not flatter Ling Ran today.
“Doctor Ling has started from the hepatic portal. He went straight to separate the gallbladder from the gallbladder bed, the difficulty of this step is very high. ” When Guo Liqing talked about it, he smiled and said, “Earlier today, there was a doctor pointing out that the average requirement of vascular sutures is rather high, can titanium clips be used to reduce the difficulty? Let me just ask this: how are you going to lower the difficulty of this gallbladder separation? Haha, when you can’t even perform the vascular sutures well, you definitely can’t perform gallbladder separation, and you can definitely forget about suturing the next parts.”
“Yes, every step of hepatectomy is very difficult. The complexity of its anatomical planes does not exist in other organs. Even if the difficulty in the heart is higher, it might not be as complex,” Old Xu went along with what Guo Liqing said and added. He behaved very open-mindedly now, and he did not really bother with how Chief Physician Ji thought.
His base was still in Yun Hua Hospital. Old Xu would basically be cornering himself to death if he acted as a mole for Old Ji for the sake of having his name written in an article as well.
Old Ji could also tell what was going on. While he listened to Old Xu, Old Ji could not help but snort. However, he did not turn on his microphone, so the conversation was only heard among a few of the review experts.
Old Fan knew that he must stand forth and say something now. As the saying went, “The minister should die to show his loyalty to his king.” He had worked as Old Ji’s assistant for many years. At that moment, he switched on his microphone without hesitation and said, “Although hepatectomy has its difficulties, it is a well-developed surgery. Therefore, he needs to consider the speed of hepatectomy and accuracy of the operation so that it would allow a good prognosis.”
“Chief Physician Fan, what do you think about Doctor Ling’s surgical speed now?” Guo Liqing looked at the screen and smiled.
Chief Physician Fan turned around to take a look. He saw that Ling Ran had completed the steps for gallbladder separation, and he started to move to the retroperitoneum.
“This…” Chief Physician Fan had just begun his first attack, and it immediately rebounded at him. He nearly embarrassed himself.
At this time, Ling Ran had fully immersed himself into the character of the chief surgeon in the demonstration surgery. He stopped moving his hands for a while before he said, “We’ve finished the unimportant pre-steps for hepatectomy. They are pretty simple. Next, we will officially begin the procedures for hepatectomy…”
Chief Physician Fan immediately turned off his microphone. He was so scared that his angry growls would be heard from the microphone.
