Chapter 880 37/1 Great Doctor Ling Ran
Chief Physician Li looked calm, but he was secretly excited when he welcomed the reporters from Yun Hua.
These reporters took to the trouble of coming to Bazhaixiang, and so, it was important for doctors to fight for the chance to promote themselves and spread what they were doing to the public.
For Chief Physician Li, the success of public health programs was even more dependent on the media and reporters.
However, society always expected medical doctors to hold themselves aloof from politics and material pursuits. In old times, experts in medicine always hid in the forest while they treated people. When they entered a big city like Beijing, the reviews on them would be immediately changed.
Chief Physician Li wanted to promote himself, but he did not want to make it too obvious because of his bashfulness, so it was actually very hard for him to put on the act.
He was not the only one being awkward, the other doctors also acted awkwardly.
They all fought hard for their chance to come to Bazhaixiang.
After working on so many things, reporters finally came to interview them, so everyone also wanted a chance.
Most of the doctors tried as hard as possible to perform their best.
Those who were capable of performing high-end surgeries would grab the chance to occupy the operating theater and display their skills. For some who were good at performing a particular surgery, the calculative ones would perform on the patients they had prepared before, while those who did not think beforehand eagerly wanted to immediately have a patient for them to work on.
The reporter and cameraman shot the scenes calmly, while the government staff who followed along seemed to be slightly bored.
This was not their first time doing something similar in a hospital, so they had seen such a similar scenario more than once. Once they had seen plenty of it, they naturally became less excited and more bored.
“Alright, thank you.” The reporter nodded at Chief Physician Li calmly.
Although the doctors worked hard to perform highly difficult surgeries, surgeries they were familiar with, interesting surgeries, or even complicated projects, they were all the same for reporters.
Chief Physician Li found himself unable to accept this, and he said, “Let me bring you around the place.”
“We can go around on our own.” The reporter pulled the cameraman along and wanted to leave.
“It’s fine, I’m familiar with the hospital.” How could Chief Physician Li be defeated by a few words? He continued to follow them while he eased their nonexisting anxiety of the chaos around them. “It’s too crowded in the hospital, and we have too many tasks on our hands right now. Oh yes, what kind of photos do you want to take?”
“The doctors will definitely be in the photos.” The reporter thought that Chief Physician Li wanted to ask about that, so he answered before the reporter said, “We want to find some events happening behind the scenes. We can’t just report perfect heroes, the readers won’t like it.”
“You’re right.” Chief Physician Li chuckled but thought, ‘With how newspapers operate nowadays, are you really searching for events behind the scenes? You just want to make those your main content, right?’
During the conversation, the trio went down the stairs. Then, they were blocked by Associate Chief Physician Deng, who heard about the arrival of the reporters.
The chief physician and associate chief physician from the provincial hospital did manage to stop the government staff and doctors from small hospitals, but the official reporter and cameraman pretended they did not see them and continued moving around in the small Bazhaixiang hospital branch.
As they walked around, they entered the emergency room.
When they saw Ling Ran, the cameraman naturally lifted his camera.
Nowadays, when someone filmed a movie, they would naturally look for good looking actors. Hence, when they interviewed people and ran into handsome doctors, they should naturally record it.
The reporter, who looked stern since the beginning, could not help but show a smile and slowed down his steps.
“This is Doctor Ling Ran, right?” The reporter asked Chief Physician Li, who was by his side.
Chief Physician Li smiled bitterly and said, “He is Doctor Ling.”
“He’s truly… very handsome.” The reporter covered his mouth and smiled. He looked really happy.
“Indeed.” What else could Chief Physician Li say?
“What is Doctor Ling doing now?” The reporter did not go forward immediately, but he stood at the back and wanted to know more about what was going on. Naturally, he had never acted this way. After all, the reporter did not bother about what sort of impression the doctors had of him.
Chief Physician Li secretly sighed before he craned his head to see that Ling Ran was already within the coverage of the camera. Then, he said to the reporter, “He is now performing a suture.”
“Do you mean suturing a wound?”
“Yes.”
“What are the difficulties and main points in this?” The reporter looked very serious, and he seemed to humbly request for knowledge. He looked even more earnest than the time he watched another surgeon cut a pancreas just now.
Chief Physician Li hummed before he watched Ling Ran perform a suture with a curved surgical needle. He then said to the reporter, “He’s just suturing a wound.”
“There are good and bad sides for suturing a wound, as well as easy and difficult aspects, right?”
“For Ling Ran?” Chief Physician Li smiled and said, “If you really want to know, good suturing will mean a good recovery. A small scar would also make the patient feel more comfortable. That’s it.”
“Oh, that’s good enough.” The reporter kept nodding. The previous surgery was too hard for him to understand. But now that they were talking about sutures alone, the reporter could understand it clearly.
Chief Physician Li felt helpless.
‘This is not a difficult skill, okay?
‘It would have been good if you behaved this way for every surgery, but just now, there was a major surgery involving four people, and here, Ling Ran is just suturing the arm for an elderly woman, but you didn’t react that way for that major surgery!’
“Doctor Ling, from what I know, you’re one of the doctors who entered Bazhaixiang earliest, and you have performed many major surgeries in Bazhaixiang. But why are you here in the emergency room performing a small surgery like suturing?” The reporter came to Ling Ran at this time and asked a question, but no one could guess his intentions for asking it.
Chief Physician Li felt anxious. ‘Is this guy here to cause trouble?’
However, Ling Ran continued suturing without raising his head, and he said, “Since the patient has been wounded by a woodworking tool, she needs a suture.”
“Hmm?” The reporter was stunned, then he shook his head and said, “Doctor Ling, I mean you’re now a well-known doctor for major surgeries, so why are you still willing to perform such a minor surgery in the emergency room?”
Ling Ran cast a puzzled glance at the reporter and asked, “Then, should I just let the patient bleed?”
The reporter was a little baffled by Ling Ran’s answer. He could not say that Ling Ran’s answer was not relevant to his question, but his answer was not totally reasonable either, and perhaps a language teacher would not be pleased with his answer.
The reporter took a deep breath and asked again, “You can pass this kind of minor surgeries to other doctors, right?”
“Yeah.”
“But you still decided to do it yourself?”
“Yes.”
The reporter felt slightly relieved that they were finally having a normal conversation, so he continued to ask, “Is there any reason behind it?”
However, Ling Ran was slightly annoyed now. ‘Do I need a reason to perform surgery?’
Ling Ran stopped working and took a glance at the reporter, then he looked at the camera again and said, “Because I encountered a patient who requires me to treat her.”
“Because you encountered a patient?” The reporter became stunned again. He suddenly felt the interview today was incredibly tiring.
The cameraman by the side, Chief Physician Li, and Associate Chief Physician Deng were also exhausted by just listening to the conversation, but they remained quiet without making any noise.
“So… your reason is that you encountered a patient, so you want to treat her, right?” The reporter decided to use his specialty and started to make up a story. “When you run into a patient at the disaster response site, you need to give him or her treatment. You don’t need to consider your level and skills, you just need to the patient. Is that so?”
Ling Ran glanced at the reporter like he would when he looked at a Zebu. Then, he lowered his head and continued suturing.
In just a few minutes, the patient’s wound on her arm was closed by the surgical silk suture.
“Dressing.” Ling Ran performed a simple checkup and cleaned the wound before he gave up his spot.
At this time, a light shone in front of him
[Mission Completed: Perfect Surgery (37/1)]
[Reward: Basic Treasure Chest]
Ling Ran’s expression changed a little. A debridement and suture surgery like this was considered a mission as well?
*Clap clap clap clap*
The reporter clapped and praised Ling Ran. “Well done, Doctor Ling. Smile for the camera, please.”
Therefore, Ling Ran showed a smile that fulfilled the expectations of society.
The reporter even smiled like a flower. His grip around his tie loosened.
