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“Completed… We can really have a carefree time when performing surgery with you, Doctor Ling.” Xiang Xueming chuckled and tried to butter up Ling Ran.
He truly felt no worry whatsoever when he performed the surgery.
At Bazhaixiang hospital branch, he can already be considered an expert surgeon. The doctors who remained were either too lazy to work or too old. Sometimes, Zhang Anmin would come and become the assistant for him, and he might even get scolded if he did not handle the surgery with care.
A surgeon can face many problems during surgery. For a doctor like Zhang Anmin, it was unavoidable for him to face some problems that he could not solve. And the only solution he had was to scold his assistants.
Ling Ran was used to the silence in the operating theater.
For other doctors, they might place some music in the operating theater to show how much they were at ease performing surgeries.
But that was for a normal doctor. Ling Ran usually did not care about what others thought. Anyway, he would usually receive lots of praise and nothing else…
For Ling Ran, he just wanted to do his tasks well.
This was not just limited to the operating theater, because he did the same thing outside the operating theater.
For the assistants, it would be lucky for them if the chief surgeon did not scold them, and it would be even better if the chief surgeon was a quiet person. Doctors like Ling Ran, who usually talked very little, and when they did, usually guided the assistants, something junior doctors were not used to, and they just wanted to kneel down to thank them.
Xiang Xueming could not help but think of his life at Yun Hua Hospital and felt a little regretful. He was indeed too young at that time, and he was just a normal intern. Although he learned a lot, if he went to learn under Ling Ran again, he might be able to learn even more.
After he thought for a while, Xiang Xueming thanked Ling Ran for giving him a chance to learn at Yun Hua Hospital.
From the moment he started observing surgeries, he was already watching the best surgery operations. His basic training can be considered to have been completed under Ling Ran. After learning with Ling Ran for half a year, he slowly had the ability to learn on his own and was able to pick up the role of a surgeon at Bazhaixiang hospital branch. Later, he became familiar with the role, otherwise, if he caused problems with one surgery, he might not actually have the courage to perform his second surgery.
The only thing Xiang Xueming regretted was that he could not stay at Yun Hua Hospital. However, this kind of matter was never something a normal student can control. Previously, he was willing to go to Cangping District Hospital in order to stay at Yun Hua Hospital. Who would have known that he would be sent to the rural Bazhaixiang hospital branch by Cangping District Hospital?
“Doctor Ling, why don’t we go and rest for a while? We should let them tidy up the operating theater a little.” Xiang Xueming squashed down all the wild imaginations in his head and said politely.
Ling Ran gently nodded and asked, “What’s the next surgery?”
“Trauma on the left leg. From the X-ray scan, the joints still look good.” Xiang Xueming looked at the small notebook and said, “He also fell from a high place. There are lacerations caused by branches, along with residues in the wound.”
This debridement would be a bit more difficult.
Ling Ran used to do this often two years ago, but once he obtained his skill in hepatectomy, he did fewer debridements.
Afterall, debridement was much simpler compared to hepatectomy. For Ling Ran, this was similar to if he can choose to do analytic geometry. If he can choose analytic geometry, he will not deliberately choose to do euclidean geometry.
However, if questions relating to euclidean geometry were placed in front of him, Ling Ran was still willing to do it.
“I’m not resting. I’m going to shower now. I’ll wash my hands when I come back, then continue with surgeries. If the wound is not serious, I can deal with the wound in the debridement room, and we won’t be using the operating theater.” Ling Ran’s thoughts were clear, and he turned around before he went to the bathroom.
The instruments at Bazhaixiang hospital branch were quite normal. But other common facilities such as the bathroom were very clean and met Ling Ran’s expectations.
After showering and changing to a new pair of underwear and scrubs, Ling Ran entered the debridement room. He felt very relaxed… Or rather, he felt more relaxed.
From Xiang Xueming and the other’s perspectives, Ling Ran looked very relaxed and handsome, and he even gave others a dashing feeling.
“It’s too much of a waste to keep Doctor Ling in the operating theater.” Qi Zao felt so sad until her tears almost fell. She put aside her feelings, lifted the single-lens reflex camera, and kept pressing the shutter.
The patient was a woman in her thirties. She lay down on the operating theater and was stunned when she saw Ling Ran. She could not help but say, “Well, this is amazing, my leg was not in pain anymore when I looked at this doctor.”
“Because I anesthetized you.” Su Jiafu sat on the stool, and his voice was as cold as the wind that blew across the mountain stream.
The patient could not help but to look at Su Jiafu and smiled kindly, “Maybe it’s all due to you.”
“Scrub and wash the skin.” Ling Ran ordered and took the brush to do the task as well.
Xiang Xueming immediately said by the side, “Doctor Ling, just let us do the hard work.”
“No need.” Ling Ran had already received a mission and did not need Xiang Xueming’s clear attempts of trying to be attentive to his needs.
When Xiang Xueming looked at Ling Ran, he was worried that he had done something wrong. He could not help but look at Zuo Cidian.
“If Doctor Ling said that he doesn’t need help, that’s what he meant. You just need to be the assistant.” Zuo Cidian did not want to be the assistant in the first place, so he took the initiative to give Xiang Xueming the position.
As a resident doctor who was over forty years old, Zuo Cidian’s head, neck, back, and waist gave him real pain everyday…
Debridement was not an attractive surgery, so Zuo Cidian naturally would avoid it if he can.
Ling Ran was extremely serious about scrubbing.
He was already very serious in his routine surgery. In fact, he was so serious that his assistants could not understand it. However, he would still give his assistants room to use their skills.
Surgery was always about teamwork, especially when it came to performing surgeries for a long duration of time. Help from the other doctors in the team was definitely required.
However, Ling Ran wanted to perform a perfect surgery today. So, when he worked, his operation was different.
Half of the patient’s leg was scrubbed cleanly by Ling Ran. Not only were the contaminants from the fall removed, even the dead cells on the leg were removed by Ling Ran.
The patient was touched when she saw Ling Ran scrubbing her leg seriously.
Su Jiafu was surprised when he saw that. “How do you feel? Does it hurt?”
“Not at all,” the patient said with a choked voice.
“It still doesn’t hurt even now?” Su Jiafu said angrily, “Just be honest with what you’re feeling. Is your leg in pain? Do you sense anything at all…?”
“No… I just feel that it’s not easy to become a doctor…” The patient pursed her lips and stared at Ling Ran while her eyes were filled with gratitude.
Su Jiafu gritted his teeth and slowly sat back on his stool. He was like an old pine tree on the mountain top; no matter how hard the wind blew at it, it would not move an inch.
“Saline.” Ling Ran took over a bottle from the nurse and poured the solution directly on the wound to wash it.
Then, he trimmed the edges of the skin, and Ling Ran worked even faster when he performed the steps to remove the fascia.
When Xiang Xueming regained his consciousness, Ling Ran had started suturing.
Xiang Xueming could not help but blinked. He had learned debridement and suturing at Yun Hua Hospital, and initially he wanted to do some revision. But now, when he let his mind wander for a while, the surgery was almost completed.
“6-0 surgical thread.”
Before Xiang Xueming snapped back to attention, Ling Ran had sutured the epidermis.
“Doctor Ling, let me do the final steps” Xiang Xueming wanted to share some workload.
Ling Ran lowered his head and looked at the patient’s leg hair, shook his head, and said, “If I suture it, the scar will be smaller.”
This time, the female patient’s gaze fell on Ling Ran, and she used a stern look to stare at Xiang Xueming. “Doctor, can you stop disturbing this handsome doctor when he’s treating me?”
