Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
After Old Xu was placed in the Emergency Medical Center’s ward, the entire department started moving into action.
It was partly due to surprise and curiosity, but it was mostly for the sake of efficiency. The Emergency Department had never performed stomach cancer surgery before. The assistants in Ling Ran’s treatment group had never done it. The nurses in the department had never nursed such patients before. So at the moment, it was obvious if those who needed to learn would try to learn what they could, and those who needed assistants will immediately go and ask for one.
No one would say that it was unreasonable for Ling Ran to perform a stomach cancer surgery. Most people were not qualified to say this. Furthermore, everyone had seen how Ling Ran performed various surgeries from appendectomy to hepatectomy in a little over two years. They all knew that he was someone who would delve into a new field soon, but never did they expect it to be related to cancer.
Moreover, for other people in the department, it was also surgery on the stomach. Operating on stomach cancer had higher benefits than on a stomach ulcer, just like how operating on liver cancer will have higher bonuses than just operating on the liver alone. At present, more than one-third of the bonuses in Yun Hua Emergency Medical Center depended on Ling Ran’s treatment group. When Ling Ran wanted to start operating on a surgery that provided higher benefits, everyone would naturally be more inclined to cooperate.
Huo Congjun was attending a meeting and only managed to scold half of the people there when he received the news. He hurried back to Yun Hua Hospital. After he found Ling Ran, his first thing was to ask, “You’re going to perform a stomach cancer surgery?”
“Yes, Department Director Ouyang also promised to be my assistant,” Ling Ran answered very comprehensively.
“Is it Ouyang Kan?”
“Yes.”
“Oh, Ouyang Kan is that easy to talk to?” Huo Congjun’s nervousness was relieved instantly. For senior surgeons, learning a new surgical method was not as complicated as it would be to a young doctor. This was like how a senior repairman who focused on repairing cars would encounter countless problems when he was sent to repair a tank, but the speed at which he entered Novice Level and Specialist Level will be much shorter than a young newcomer.
If an analogy was needed, a doctor who could do hepatectomy was at least equivalent to a senior engineer who could repair a ship. Forget about changing to another type of ship, even if he was to change to a completely different vehicle and needed to repair an aircraft, as long as someone was guiding him, his learning progress would also be blazing.
The most important thing was that if Ouyang Kan was present, even if Ling Ran did not do it well, at least there would be someone else to cover for him, and Huo Congjun would not panic.
“What are you thinking of? Why did you suddenly want to perform stomach cancer surgery?” Huo Congjun asked again, “You can’t even finish all the surgeries as it is now.”
“We don’t have enough hospital beds now.” Ling Ran’s expression was calm, and he had so many remaining Energy Serums that they were becoming moldy, but the Emergency Medical Center hospital beds were becoming more scarce.
Huo Congjun froze, he chuckled after a moment, changed the topic quickly, and said, “What’s the situation with the patient?”
He has been the department director for many years, and knew for a fact that the management of a department needed to place a high importance on surgeries, but the operation was ultimately the patient’s business.
Ling Ran naturally would not hide the facts, and he described the situation thoroughly as it was and said, “It was the patient’s request. I am also willing to perform a gastrectomy on him…”
“You haven’t performed a stomach cancer operation before, does the patient know?”
“He knows.”
“Let Ouyang Kan perform the surgery and you can become his assistant. Will the effect be better if that’s the way?” When Huo Congjun heard that Officer Xu was the only son of someone who died for the country, his words and his perception changed slightly. He was originally a military doctor and still had a lot of affection for the disciplined services.
Ling Ran shook his head without hesitation. “I can do it better.”
The chief surgeon was the doctor who would decide the overall idea of the surgery and would also have absolute authority over a surgery. Ling Ran would not have bothered if he had not mastered gastrectomy, but now that he had the relevant skills, then, when it came to the surgical approach, the operation, the choice of the resection range, the control of the surgical process, and lymphadenectomy, Ling Ran’s skills surpassed Ouyang Kan’s in all these areas.
In terms of surgical experience, Ling Ran, who had performed nearly a thousand cases of hepatectomy, can look down on Ouyang Kan, who had done nearly a thousand cases of gastrectomy, no matter what situation they were in.
In the surgical chain of contempt, operating on the stomach was a bit more advanced than removing feces, but the range of the advancement was only about as much as the distance from the stomach to the intestine. If you used the contents in the stomach to describe the surgery, it can be said to be a semi-feces removal surgery, and when listening to that term alone, it might actually sound rather high end.
The only place where Ouyang Kan had an advantage was that he had performed more stomach cancer surgeries and understood the operation better. But this advantage, compared to the skills mastered by Ling Ran, was just a small weight on the scales. This was just like the surgeons in the American system. After the end of their resident doctor career, once they have become attending physicians, they will be focused on achieving hegemony in departments with different focuses. They will do hepatectomy today and gastrectomy tomorrow, and this was very common. Powerful doctors can even operate from the brain all the way to the urinary tract.
Of course, this was also because the number of surgeons in the United States was scarce, and the number of surgeons that they can afford in a hospital was not high. But since the surgeons in the United States can perform operations in multiple departments and maintain a certain standard, Ling Ran was confident that the variety of skills he currently possessed will definitely bring better medical results than Ouyang Kan.
Ouyang Kan was never a talented surgeon, he was just an excellent doctor who followed the rules.
This kind of excellence can make him stand out during medical school when he was studying and be assigned to the best hospital in Changxi Province, became the fastest to rise to power as an attending physician and then an associate chief physician in his batch. But that was about it. In terms of being a genius, at the national level, even saying He Yuanzheng was a genius because he managed to become a department director in his forties was a bit of a stretch, because he only managed to get to his position because of coincidence.
A strong genius doctor would be someone who can publish seven papers in The New England Journal of Medicine in five years, develop a new technique in three years, and re-create new standards in the related disciplines every fifteen years.
Ling Ran was not familiar with Ouyang Kan, but when he was sure that his skills were better than his, he did not hesitate to say, “There would be a higher success rate if I’m the chief surgeon.”
“Let’s not joke around.” Huo Congjun seriously sought for a confirmation again.
Ling Ran stared at Huo Congjun’s expression without answering.
Department Director Huo laughed out loud. “I’m just kidding, I know you’re not joking.”
Ling Ran still just silently looked at Department Director Huo.
Huo Congjun laughed and sighed again. “In this case, you have to speak to Ouyang Kan nicely. Does he have any requirements?”
“No,” Ling Ran answered.
Huo Congjun laughed, picked up his phone, and called Zuo Cidian.
A few minutes later, Huo Congjun put down his phone and said in surprise, “Associate Department Director Ouyang really doesn’t have any requirements and is willing to be an assistant?”
Ling Ran did not answer.
Huo Congjun still said to himself, “If he is going to participate in the preoperative consultation, then he would be able to give some advice on techniques, and then act as your assistant while also serving as backup? Is this person so easy to be bullied?”
Ling Ran raised an eyebrow.
Huo Congjun’s expression gradually lit up, “It’s not easy to find such a doctor who is so easy to bully now. Ling Ran, you did well, you did well!”
“I only plan to perform an operation on Officer Xu.” Ling Ran felt that Huo Congjun was straying from the topic.
Huo Congjun just gave a hearty laugh, like an emerald Pixiu rolling about in an elderly tour group.
