Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“According to research papers, it is extremely effective to separate adhered tissues using electrocoagulation hooks and suction machines along with ultrasonic knives. However, ultrasonic knives are relatively expensive,” Yu Yuan voiced out during the preoperative consultation. Her back was straight, and she was practically sitting on her lumbar pillow so that she was at least visible from the neck up.
Ling Ran nodded. “Let’s use an ultrasonic knife, then. Doctor Zuo, remember to inform the patient about this.”
“We’ll have to submit a report to the Medical Affairs Department, as this will be considered usage of instruments beyond normal operation.” Zuo Cidian knew how the hospital worked well. He then continued, “Doctor Ling, you’ll have to talk to them to make sure that we get to use a new blade.”
“Sure,” Ling Ran said in acknowledgment.
Endotherm knives were used in ordinary cholecystectomy to reduce the cost of the surgery. It was a little more troublesome compared to ultrasound knives due to reasons such as the thermal effect. Hence, the prognosis would not be as good.
However, according to Yun Hua Hospital’s policies, surgeons were not allowed to simply increase the standard of the instruments used. In other words, surgeons should not strive to use the best instruments, but the ones that offered the best outcome among the cheap ones.
However, an ultrasound knife would be useful as it would reduce damage to a great extent.
Zuo Cidian wrote something down in his notebook and said, “I suggest that we used imported titanium clips too. This way, the patient will basically be funding all the instruments himself.”
Lu Wenbin twisted his mouth and said, “He’s in a company where he has to work more than ten hours a day six days a week, excluding overtime. If he didn’t make enough money to fund his own surgery, it would be a joke.”
Yu Yuan said calmly, “This is also the working hours of doctors. How many doctors make enough money to fund their own surgeries?”
“It’s only tens of thousands of RMB. When illnesses strike, every doctor would be able to come out with this sum of money.” Lu Wenbin snorted a few times.
Zhang Anmin chuckled. “I would rather use whatever is covered by my medical insurance and lie in the hospital bed for a few more days… Ah… One week would do too. I don’t mind staying in the hospital bed, urinate through a catheter and eating through a nasogastric tube. I will sleep until the world ends.”
He yawned as he spoke as if he was drugged.
Affected by him, Su Jiafu the anesthetist who had not said anything yet started yawning too. Next, Lu Wenbin and Ma Yanlin yawned too, and it was as if all of them were in a competition to see who could open their mouths the widest.
“Hm… this is a problem too. Should we get a day or half a day of rest before the surgery?” Zuo Cidian took the opportunity to raise a request. Truth be told, he would like to rest too.
Ling Ran thought about it for a moment and said, “This new project is a long-term one…”
From everyone’s expressions, they seemed to understand this fact.
Right after that, Ling Ran said, “In the beginning stages of the project, the doctors can take a day of rest. All the doctors participating in this surgery can go home and take a good rest at night.”
Zhang Anmin who had a mocking expression on his face immediately froze. “Rest for a day? Isn’t this a little too much?”
As he was still under the Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, he was not able to take part in the first surgery of this project.
Even though Ma Yanlin was part of it, his gaze froze too. “We’re allowed to go home for a day?”
Ling Ran nodded. “Twenty-four hours. Doctor Zuo, do make a new schedule so that the doctors participating in the surgery can get a rest.”
Zhang Anmin was so envious that he almost salivated. He quickly raised his hand and said, “Doctor Ling, I would like to apply to participate in the next similar surgery.”
“Sure.” Ling Ran nodded.
Zuo Cidian took down some notes and asked, “Doctor Ling, will the doctors get to rest before the next surgery too?”
“No,” Ling Ran said without hesitation. “Cholecystectomy is still a routine surgery.”
“Okay, I understand.” There was a smile on Zuo Cidian’s wrinkly face as he looked at Zhang Anmin, and he looked extremely kindly.
They talked for a while about the details of the surgery and things they had to take note of. After talking about the patient’s post-surgical care and matters related to anesthesia, everyone left the meeting room speedily with their documents in their hands.
Since Ling Ran was officially back in the team, work immediately became strenuous for members of the Ling Treatment Group again. This was especially true after Ling Ran started offering consultation, as his treatment group was responsible for all the members he took in. In other words, the members of his treatment group got to share the patients.
Aside from acting as Ling Ran’s assistant and making daily ward rounds, Lu Wenbin also had the chance to act as chief surgeon for M-Tang surgeries that were not too complicated. Even though he did not often get this opportunity, if the time spent on preoperative preparation and postsurgical care was included, each patient might take up more than eight hours of his time. And Lu Wenbin did not have resident doctors to help him out. The most he could do was make housemen and medical interns write medical reports on his behalf.
Zhang Anmin was even busier.
Right now, Zhang Anmin was working in both the Emergency Medical Center and the Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery. When it came to administrative work, Zhang Anmin had to answer to even more people compared to Ling Ran. Aside from this, he also had to carry out freelance surgery in Bazhaixiang. Hence, Zhang Anmin never got a moment of rest.
Even though the doctors of the Ling Treatment Group were able to get quite a lot of rest when Ling Ran was in Brazil, Zhang Anmin was even busier than usual. Zhang Anmin was a traitor of the Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, and right now, He Yuanzheng treated him like nothing but a piece of medical consumable and overworked him whenever possible.
Women who worked in the hospital were treated like men, while men who worked in the hospital were treated like animals. This was the custom. But there were various ways of enslaving animals.
A person definitely did not use the black ox they own the same way they do with their neighbor’s mule.
For the sake of extending his lifespan for a few days, Zhang Anmin went to Ma Yanlin with a piteous look on his face the moment he exited the meeting room. “Young Ma, we get along pretty well, right? You don’t seem that you are willing to have a long break either…”
“If you take three of my night shifts, I’ll let you rest tomorrow and take your place.” Ma Yanlin gazed at Zhang Anmin, and his brain was working hard to come up with ways to make the most out of this.
Zhang Anmin’s lips trembled. “Three night shifts are too many. How about two?”
“Lu Wenbin has already offered to take two of my night shifts.”
“Alright, three-night shifts it is, then!” Zhang Anmin agreed through gritted teeth, as it was quite a rare chance to get twenty-four hours of consecutive rest.
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On Friday afternoon, at six, as agreed, Chen Xiaowang showed up at the Emergency Medical Center of Yun Hua Hospital. He barely made it on time.
“You’re certainly putting on quite the show of being busy! You’re the busiest patient that I’ve ever met. Seriously.” Ma Yanlin who had been on shift all day wore a slightly healthy complexion, and he was in the mood to tease Chen Xiaowang.
Chen Xiaowang explained helplessly. “I couldn’t help it. I told them that I would wrap up the day’s work at five, and I left ten minutes before that. Even though I’ll be absent for work, I had to get everything planned out beforehand.”
“Nothing’s easy in life.” Ma Yanlin smiled, and his youthful face was painted with fatigue.
“Sigh…” Chen Xiaowang sighed and followed Ma Yanlin to the ward for preoperative preparations. He then asked anxiously, “It won’t be a problem for me to only be able to rest for two and a half days, will it?”
“Sixty hours. As long as Doctor Ling is able to make it, you’ll be able to recover within that time frame.” Ma Yanlin did not make any promises.
Chen Xiao Wang lowered his head and watched as the nurse inserted a venous catheter into his vein for a fluid transfusion as well as did other things.
*Buzz*
Chen Xiaowang’s phone vibrated.
He whipped out his phone, took a look at it, and saw that one of his colleagues had messaged him to wish him good luck for the surgery.
Chen Xiaowang flashed a slight smile and casually composed a reply.
*Buzz, buzz*
His phone rang again, and it was a message from the same colleague. [If it’s possible, please take note of how the surgery goes, especially the state you’re in before and after the surgery.]
