Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Due to the shock he received after seeing the single-site laparoscopy, Ren Qi was able to carry on until the afternoon without having a mental breakdown.
He was even a little excited as he entered the operating theater again.
That was extremely hard to come by. Ren Qi was a little excited during his first two days in Yun Hua Hospital, but the tediousness of work had worn that down.
Ren Qi deliberately changed into a pair of new scrubs, as the one he was wearing was soaked in sweat after he worked for a whole morning.
The surgery was held in Operating Theater 2, which was not equipped with a visitation room. Hence, a few doctors who had no surgeries on their schedules entered the operating theater to watch the surgery. The red light of the high-definition camera mounted on the ceiling was also shining.
Ren Qi stuck out his tongue when nobody was looking at him. He had been in Yun Hua Hospital for a few days, and he had not walked around Yun Hua City for even a single minute. He spent all his time in the operating theaters, so he knew the doctors in the hospital quite well. He knew that only a few renowned doctors in Yun Hua Hospital got to receive this kind of treatment.
Even department directors of ordinary departments would not have such a big audience unless they were carrying out demonstrative surgeries.
Humans did not have much tolerance for ordinary things.
That was even truer in hospitals since it was an ivory tower.
Renowned doctors merely had to raise their hands, and thousands of other doctors would follow them. However, top-class doctors who were slightly less skillful than those renowned doctors would have no choice but to spend their days alone.
Aside from this, the camera lenses in the operating theaters were also a double-edged sword, and not every doctor dared to take up this challenge. That was especially true for older doctors and the one who had never received training from an excellent academy. They had an instinctive fear of the camera lenses in the operating theaters.
They did not mind carrying out live demonstrations, but it was a completely different thing when their maneuvers were being captured on camera, allowing other people to watch every single detail.
Many doctors who managed to obtain their positions through social connections naturally disliked being watched by doctors they were not familiar with.
Ren Qi moved closer to the operating table and greeted the doctor beside him. “It’s a single site laparoscopy today, isn’t it?”
“Oh, it’s a single site one?” The resident doctor beside Ren Qi looked like he had just regained his senses.
Ren Qi froze for a moment. “Then, what are you here for?”
“Hmm… Surgery for chronic appendicitis?” The resident doctor sounded rather hesitant, and this was mostly because of Ren Qi’s age. To resident doctors, all men who were old with wrinkles and were wearing large white coats were senior doctors.
Ren Qi was also paying attention to the other party’s age. He deliberately asked, “Aren’t you excited that it’s a single site laparoscopy?”
The young resident doctor asked in a baffled manner, “Why should I be?”
Ren Qi licked his lips, and for some reason, he felt a surge of bitterness wash over him. Even the young doctors in Yun Hua Hospital were used to this kind of technology, but these technologies were new to him, and he yearned for them.
Single site laparoscopy was indeed a new technology that Ren Qi yearned for.
Very few surgical methods were carried out in the county hospital, and all the patients who suffered from serious illnesses head to Yun Hua City for surgery. There were even patients who would go straight to Beijing or Guangzhou.
Aside from idiots, who were rare to come by, only those with minor ailments were willing to get operated in the county hospital. For example, patients with appendicitis or cholecystitis. They either found it inconvenient to head to Yun Hua City or were worried that the medical fees in Yun Hua City would be too high, and these were the only reasons that made them willing to receive surgery in the county hospital.
However, even patients who were willing to get operated in county hospitals hoped that they would receive the kind of quality treatment that they could receive in Yun Hua. In reality, the probability of this was extremely low, it would not hurt to give patients something to look forward to. Hence, it was important to leave a good impression on them.
Laparoscopy was becoming increasingly common in secondary hospitals, and this was because it was hard for the General Surgery Departments that did not have laparoscopy as a surgical method to even survive. Even though patients knew nothing about the field of medicine, the differences between open abdominal surgery and laparoscopy were plain to see.
There were always patients who would choose to receive surgery at a provincial hospital that was closer to their homes and they were more familiar with just because both the provincial hospital and the hospital in the city offered open abdominal surgery. They might also choose to receive surgery at a provincial hospital that was closer to their homes and they were more familiar with the occasion where both the provincial hospital and the hospital in the city offered laparoscopy. However, if the provincial hospital only offered open abdominal surgery while the hospital in the city offered laparoscopy, these patients might choose to head to the latter.
Single site laparoscopy was also a similar determining factor. Even though it would not influence a patient’s decision as much as the choice between open abdominal surgery and laparoscopy, the difference between having three or four incisions on the abdomen and having only one incision on the abdomen was very obvious to patients.
Ren Qi hoped that he would be able to master single scope laparoscopy so that he could launch this surgical method in the General Surgery Department of his county hospital in Qiu County.
He could imagine the way he would receive more and more patients after launching this surgical method. He might even get promoted to associate chief physician or chief physician because of this.
Doctors from the same departments rarely chose to further their skills in the same surgical method, as the competition would be as tough as when there were two manufacturers offering the same kind of product in a seller’s market.
However, he would not face the same sort of challenge for single-site laparoscopy.
Hence, Ren Qi felt that he could make this his ultimate aim.
Ren Qi gulped. He turned toward the operating table with the decision to focus on the surgery.
He had long since realized that the doctors in Yun Hua Hospital were not the same kind of people as he was.
*Shick*
The airtight access door slid open.
Ling Ran entered the operating theater with his hands clasped behind his back, and he totally ignored the young doctors around him. It was normal for him not to pay attention to those who were crowding around him.
“Ma Yanlin will be the chief surgeon today.” Ling Ran did not change his plan because of the big audience. He announced this and took the position of an assistant.
Ma Yanlin had been officially transferred to Yun Hua Emergency Center, and he was now a new resident doctor of the Ling Treatment Group. As he was no longer a houseman, there were more opportunities in store for him.
He used to focus on Achilles tendon repair, but his skills were lackluster. He was not adept at it enough to act as a chief surgeon in the event where patients required great use of their Achilles tendons. Comparatively, he was more talented when it came to general surgery.
And right now, all patients with appendicitis or hemorrhoids were assigned to Ma Yanlin.
Ling Ran did not even need to show up if it were not for the fact that it was a single site laparoscopy today.
A doctor got bored when he saw Ma Yanlin assuming the role of the chief surgeon, and he left the operating theater. The other junior doctors did not move.
Ren Qi did not leave either.
He did have the desire to act as an assistant. However, even though he really wanted to participate in a single site laparoscopy, Ren Qi did not think that making requests during his first week of in-service training in Yun Hua Hospital was the right thing to do.
Since he never had many opportunities to witness single scope laparoscopy anyway, Ren Qi decided to just take it as a learning opportunity.
“We will get started with the single-site umbilical laparoscopy now.” As per the tradition, Ma Yanlin announced. He then double-checked things with the anesthetist before making a small incision on the belly button. He then created a pneumoperitoneum and muttered. “1,300.”
He was referring to the fact that the air pressure in the stomach had to be 1,300 pascals.
The patient’s abdomen became slightly inflated.
The atmosphere in the operating theater also became slightly livelier.
“It’s easier to operate on thin patients, isn’t it?”
“It’s the fact that it’s an appendectomy that makes it easy.”
“Single-site laparoscopy will never be too easy. I still find the old school method more convenient.”
“What are you saying? Do you think that young women nowadays would prefer to have a few incisions on their tummy when they could choose to have one single small incision that wouldn’t leave any scar? They still have to wear crop tops, you know?”
“Ah, young women look quite nice when they’re wearing crop tops.”
“Old Liu, stop being a pervert. Yes, they look nice, but do you have the guts to look?”
“It’s not a matter of whether I dare to look or not. It’s mainly about whether I have the ability to do so.”
Ma Yanlin was listening in to their conversation, but his maneuvers were not affected at all. He inserted the insufflation needle and cannula.
The difference between single-site laparoscopy and traditional laparoscopy was that in single-site laparoscopy, all three laparoscopes were inserted in through the same incision on the patient’s belly button. To make it easier and to give the surgeons more room for maneuver, a small disk with three holes would be placed on the patient’s belly button.
However, since the room of maneuver was smaller, the surgery could not be carried out the same way as traditional laparoscopy. To solve this problem, there were some extra maneuvers that were only used in single-site laparoscopy.
Since Ma Yanlin was not familiar with them, he had no choice but to focus.
Ling Ran stood beside him and watched him. He was not thinking about anything else either.
He possessed Perfect Level Appendectomy, and he could have finished this surgery in around fifteen minutes if he were to act as chief surgeon. However, it was important for him to train the members of his treatment group. Nowadays, people suffered from appendectomy all the time. He could not just spend all day carrying out an appendectomy.
Even though the audience was focusing on the surgery too, they continued chit-chatting.
“Old Liu’s been pretty promiscuous lately, don’t you think so?”
“Well, now that he’s an attending physician, things are no longer the same.”
“Old Liu, calm your t*ts. You’ll always be able to find girls as long as you’re alive, so make sure not to tire yourself out.”
Ma Yanlin suddenly froze, and he looked around vigilantly.
As if a spell was cast on them, the doctors who were chit-chatting suddenly froze and stopped speaking. Their gazes shot toward the monitor and the screen.
“Is there a hemorrhage?” After a long time, one of the doctors asked hesitantly.
“I was seeing things.” Ma Yanlin laughed in embarrassment and lowered his head.
“That scared me.”
“It’s pretty exciting, isn’t it? Young Ma gave me the impression of a young woman who’s wearing a crop top just now.”
“Well, his waist is quite thin.”
