Chapter 714: Not Easy
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“Signal connected.”
An IT engineer from Yun Hua Hospital who stayed at Yunli Medical Company told Zuo Cidian, an assistant in the operating theater, that he was going to leave before he went out.
The resident engineer of Yunli Medical Company was very skilled in debugging the high-definition live broadcast in the operating theater of Yun Hua Hospital Emergency Department, yet there were still complaints.
“It’s just a matter of flipping the switch. Can’t a doctor do it?
“Don’t the doctors in the Medical Imaging Department work on instruments every day? And in the end, when they use machines from another company, they come to us.
“Doctors are such giant babies.”
The IT engineer complained in a low voice. When they used the cameras, aside from flipping the switches, doctors would directly call the employees of Yunli Medical Company for help when they ran into any other technical problem.
Such was also the habit of doctors. In addition to the commonly used instruments, all the machines from the third party required maintenance from the sales company. It could be said that the doctors would not do anything to the machines if they could. When they started to use the electronic medical record during the earliest stage of its implementation, it was common for the sales representatives of the sales company to help the doctors print medical records all day long.
At this point, there was a reason why the equipment sold to hospitals was expensive.
Even the doctors themselves were unaware of it.
From the doctors’ point of view, buying a company’s product was basically the same as buying the company’s employees. For example, when they bought a company’s steel plates and Kirschner needles, it was reasonable for the doctors to ask the company’s sales representatives to come and bend the steel plates. When they bought a company’s gurneys, it was normal for the company to send someone to push the gurneys around for half a month. Similarly, if they were to buy a company’s catheter, they would be performing the insertion of needles. This was considered very cheap labor, not the doctors being completely shameless…
However, the prices of the cameras and livestreaming systems were still in accordance with the doctors’ acceptable price range. Their complex functions made doctors avoid asking for troubles.
Those who were free would go for ward rounds. For those who were impatient, they would go over to learn photography techniques.
Therefore, when the time came for the doctors to use HD cameras, Yunli Medical Company engineers would often come forward for assistance.
Yunli Medical Company was also very proactive in this. Although the IT engineers who had to work were very reluctant, no one cared about the likes and dislikes of those engineers.
Mai Chun heard that Ling Ran was going to do a livestream to a rather large area of people. So, she came over in-person to supervise the engineer and ensure that the broadcasting signals were connected and everything ran smoothly.
Ling Ran just needed to wait for the scheduled time to arrive and enter the operating theater.
Zuo Cidian whispered into his ear, “Doctor Ling, Yunli Medical Company gave us a signal accessible for the entire country. Now, many hospitals in Changxi Province, the hospitals in China and especially in Beijing have access to our live surgery.”
He looked at the numbers at the corner and whispered, “Now, there are twenty-two hospitals who can see the signal.”
By the standards of mass media, twenty-two signals were very weak.
But in terms of the requirements of professional media, twenty-two broadcasts was a big number. Even in the current era, there might not be one hundred doctors who will watch a live demonstration surgery even during an academic conference. And it was normal for there to only be three people standing behind the screen connected to the broadcast signal.
In truth, the people who would access the signal to watch the live broadcast of Ling Ran’s surgery were mainly the doctors from the Departments of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery from hospitals such as First People’s Hospital of Wuxin City, which Ling Ran frequented for freelance surgeries.
This was what it meant by academic influence. For example, the doctors in the First People’s Hospital of Wuxin City’s Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery obtained a lot of benefits through inviting Ling Ran over as a freelance surgeon and learning as well as training themselves. Hence, their skills were highly connected to Ling Ran’s movements during a surgery. This naturally attracted them to watch Ling Ran’s live demonstration surgery.
For the Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery of the First People’s Hospital of Wuxin City, to learn or not to learn hepatectomy was a choice. After they made a choice, their path of learning was correspondingly fixed.
Lecturers and assistant lecturers in a hospital could not just quit their jobs and go back to universities. If they wanted to improve further, other than self-study, they could only find a teacher and improve slowly.
It was sort of similar in the academic world. If the university a person graduated from and the lecturers were not good, that person will have to either be self-taught or make the effort to find good teachers. Otherwise, that person can only fall and become an underling.
What was worse in hospitals was that those good teachers were all involved in clinical practice. Their schedules were jam-packed, and they had a lot of tasks in their hands. They were unlike the experts in the academic world, who could just have their underlings work for them. In addition, those doctors who wanted to learn were not likely to put down their work just to learn. Therefore, those who wanted to make progress must seize all the time they have to learn.
Twenty-two broadcasts meant that twenty-two hospitals were trying to learn. There might also be some demonstration rooms where the doctors switched on the screens subconsciously or the students in medical colleges subconsciously watch the surgeries.
But for Yun Hua Hospital’s doctors, the surgery was still quite stressful.
“Ma Yanlin, stand further to the right.” Lu Wenbin was still the first assistant. When he arrived at the operating theatre, he wore scrubs and started to seize his position. The surgery would take several hours, it was very important to stand comfortably.
Ma Yanlin obediently gave up a little more space. There were black circles under his eyes, revealing how tired he was.
“Can you go on? If you can’t, please take a rest,” Lu Wenbin, a bachelor, said to Ma Yanlin with a great look of disdain, “You don’t have to work hard every time your wife comes back. You should manage your time well. Today’s surgery is very important.”
“As if there are days when the surgeries are not as important,” Ma Yanlin retorted coldly, “My wife is not back.”
“Ugh, you brat, you’re spoiled. Housemen nowadays can play with the unspoken rules now? Or did you sneak out for a fling?” Lu Wenbin was so envious he bared his teeth.
Ma Yanlin said lackadaisically, “I was on duty yesterday, and I pulled an all-nighter. Then, during my morning ward rounds, I encountered another emergency. I’ve worked for a total of thirty hours already.”
The day shift of Yun Hua Hospital was from nine in the morning to six in the evening. Theoretically, it was an eight-hour shift with a one-hour lunch break. Night shift started at six in the evening until nine o’clock the next morning. The doctor on duty could go home and have a rest the next day after their shift.
It did not sound like a very crazy system, but when it was executed in hospitals, it mutated into a monster, because hospitals often encountered emergencies, when it came to the next morning and they were about to change shifts, the department will suddenly need more manpower. Which was more important at that time? To rest or save patients’ lives? Which was more important, to rest or follow leaders’ orders? Often, there was no choice.
The only place where there was hope for a doctor to be lazy on duty was that they can sleep during night shift, so the doctors worshipped the Night Shift God, placed apples on the tables as offerings, and regarded the prospect of mangos as offerings in disdain.
Ma Yanlin was unlucky. Not only was his luck during night shifts bad, but his luck during day shifts was also bad. He stayed awake until now, and he could barely take it anymore.
However, he had no problem in pulling the retractor.
Lu Wenbin did not feel sorry for him. “Thirty hours is nothing, I often… ahh, you just have a poor foundation. You need to do certain things in moderation.”
“It’s not like I wanted this, but what can I do? I spend more money on condoms than on my meals nowadays.”
Lu Wenbin’s mouth twitched. “Nourish yourself with some pork trotters.”
“If you want to save money, you can have chives instead. You guys can do it on the balcony since your apartments don’t have backyards. You can dig out PVC pipes, cultivate the soil, and grow some chives. You can harvest one after another and eat them for a long time.” Zuo Cidian also gave a very reasonable suggestion.
Lu Wenbin and Ma Yanlin looked at Zuo Cidian simultaneously.
“Old Zuo, you’re something else.”
“You’ve worked hard, Doctor Zuo.”
