Great Doctor Ling Ran

by Little Merger

Ling Ran, a med school senior, begins to see the world like a game UI. He uses it to pave his way towards graduation, a residency, becoming the greatest doctor in the world… And finally getting a Transformer from his newbie packs? Maybe. We don’t know yet.

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Chapter 1001: Continue

A heated discussion was going on in the room.

"Let me translate it to layman terms. The expert's opinion is total bullsh*t."

"The bullsh*t is not dirty, but the experts are the ones dirty, right?"

"Doctor Ling's speech has two main points. First, I'm really good, and second, Old Ji is a piece of sh*t."

The doctors who sat under the stage used only thirty to forty seconds to escalate from whispering to shouting boldly.

The young doctors who were sitting at the back of the meeting room even took this opportunity to say something they usually dared not say.

The hospital system in the country treated young doctors badly, particularly the young doctors from the Department of Surgery of tertiary Grade A hospitals. It could be said that their lives were plain torture.

Even if the department director hugged his sixth mistress and looking at his fourth mistress fight with his current mistress, or even when the associate chief physicians had no time to spend his money and could only increase their efficiency by squeezing in time for threesomes and foursomes., for normal attending physicians, they only earned just enough to feed their families, and resident doctors only earned just enough for themselves.

It could be said that doctors below forty years old could only work hard but would gain nothing. And doctors above forty years old could only gain something if they were lucky.

The wealth gap in hospitals would be more apparent in hospitals with higher grades. Most importantly, any doctors who were ranked lower than associate chief physicians would not have their account and password at their workbench. Therefore, they could only use the account of their senior doctors to prescribe medicine. Thus, all the drug commissions belonged to the senior doctors, and it all depended on the senior doctors whether they would give the junior doctors commission for the medicine.

When the hatred accumulated in such an environment burst out even just a little, that would be enough to make the people at the front reel.

The Digestive Diseases Research Center of the General Surgery Department was built a long time ago and had taken up many opportunities. Hence, it also offended many people. So, if two or three people started venting their hate, these people high up in the digestive diseases research center would feel uncomfortable.

Old Ji indeed felt uncomfortable.

Today should be his important day.

The expert opinion article had been produced after much effort. He could not just write down some casual words and be done with it. He had to combine opinions from many people and obtain a decent conclusion before publishing it.

In terms of the standard operating procedures and publications, when the expert opinion article was released, it would just be a simpler version of an expert consensus article.

Old Ji was ready to publish it and go back for a celebration.

When Old Ji looked at Ling Ran on the stage, his anger could be seen from his eyes.

If Old Ji were braver, Old Ji would stand up and challenge Ling Ran right now. Both sides would raise their opinions, and after their argument, they would go back and continue their arguments through their articles.

Even if Old Ji arrived at that point, he could still avoid bringing shame to himself.

However, when Old Ji thought deeper, he felt that he was not that bold.

After all, the next step of arguing with each other through publications would require materials and evidence.

Good materials and evidence could be examined in an academic aspect. This meant that the expert opinion article written by Old Ji would be investigated carefully by the jackals of Yun Hua Hospital.

Certainly, Old Ji would not allow that.

That was because the titanium clips were not the only oversight in his expert opinion article.

In order to form this opinion, it was "unavoidable" for Old Ji to make some compromises.

Since he had done many compromises, his expert advice article could not be examined too carefully by others…

Besides, Old Ji still needed to prevent the personal attacks from the doctors of Yun Hua Hospital.

Old Ji certainly had no doubt that this would happen. That was because each year, Huo Congjun from Yun Hua Hospital would pick someone and scold them. And Huo Congjun never delivered personal attacks when scolding someone.

Old Ji was more than willing to see someone get scolded fiercely by Huo Congjun, but he was not willing to be watched by others if he got scolded.

Old Ji could not help but think, if he did not compromise for the sake of the manufacturer…

When he thought about this, he could not help but stare at the representative from the manufacturer.

The manufacturer representative from Duco was sweating and noticed Old Ji's stare, and he immediately gave an ugly smile. He looked like a rat who had its entire stock depleted, and he felt a chill from the depths of his body. There was despair shining from the depths of his eyes, and there was a stiff look about him as well.

The manufacturer representative stared at the host awkwardly.

The host was even more troubled.

Although his role was to control the situation, how could he control such an occasion?

The situation had turned into a battlefield of arguments.

"Okay, then I'll continue…" Ling Ran's voice could be heard again from the speaker. He seemed like he wanted to continue his speech.

Even the host was surprised. 'How could you continue in such a situation?'

But he did not know that Ling Ran was used to messy situations like this.

When he was in kindergarten, elementary school, high school, and even in university, whenever Ling Ran joined such events, regardless of whether it was a public speaking event or debate, there was always an audience who would descend into frenzy.

So, would the event be cancelled just because of this sort of situation? Of course not. It took a lot of time to write the speech, how could he give up so easily?

Ling Ran lowered his microphone, looked at his speech, and continued his speaking.

He was talking about hepatectomy, and he never expected many to understand him. Although the scenario was a bit chaotic, it did not bring much changes to the meeting.

Furthermore, Ling Ran even deliberately lowered his voice when he read his speech, as though he was worried that he would disturb his audience.

Just as everyone expected, Ling Ran's voice did indeed disappear in the chaotic and noisy room.

At this moment, a soft voice could slowly be heard from the outermost layer.

"Lower your voice please."

"What is Doctor Ling saying…?"

"Take it outside, you clowns."

The objections from the crowds gradually disappeared from the chaotic situation.

Ling Ran's voice could be heard clearly in the room again.

"The main goal of hepatectomy is to remove the targeted lesion as much as possible, but at the same time, optimize the function of the remaining liver and try to minimize surgical invasion. The main goal is to maximize the benefits of the surgery for the patient…"

Chief Physician Ji sat back against his chair quietly. He was thinking about the upcoming arrangements and how he should respond to this.

Ling Ran's voice did not change and he continued to say, "The remaining liver is the main issue here.

"Hemostasis mainly relies on bleeding control and vascular reconstruction…"

"Regarding nursing care during the perioperative period …"

Chief Physician Ji felt that something was wrong as he listened to this.

"This man is acting as if he's giving out an expert opinion." Chief Physician Ji frowned, lowered his head, and muttered.

"Expert opinions are not something just spoken by experts. They can't publish it just because they want to." The chief physician beside him smiled.

"He may not have this thought, but try to listen to his speech. It has the beginnings of an expert opinion article." Chief Physician Ji was incredibly sensitive about it, as he was the one who wrote the manuscript for the expert opinion article from the start to the end.

The chief physician beside him could not help but tremble. "So, he came over here today to…?"

"Not necessary. We're not standing in his way, after all." Chief Physician Ji recalled diffidently.

"Is it because we talked about hepatectomy?"

"He's already meddling with everything. Now, he wants to meddle with other people's hepatectomies?"

"Then why is he doing this? Could it be because we did not mention this to him earlier? Or maybe it's because we did not pay him a visit a few days ago?"

Chief Physician Ji kept shaking his head, and he had a headache as he thought about this.

As he thought, he suddenly thought of a question. "We are the ones who were tortured by Ling Ran just now, so why are we constantly thinking about whether we offended him right now?"

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Chapter 1002: View Ling Ran in a Civilized Way

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Clap clap clap clap*

The applause lasted for a long time as Ling Ran made his way off the stage.

Chief Physician Ji also stood up and clapped his hands as if he was trying to show that he was not resentful, but observant eyes could see displeasure from Chief Physician Ji's face.

Naturally, they could all understand that a lot of effort was put into writing an expert opinion article, and it even involved the international Duco Medical Company. If it had been done well, they could go on a national tour to talk about their opinions. If they put in more effort and went to remote areas in foreign countries to give speeches, would they not become popular and rich?

Zuo Cidian quickly ran to the stage and received Ling Ran. Then, he stood between Ling Ran and the first row. If someone were to go crazy, he could at least put up a short resistance.

Then, a few teenage girls and young women ran over from the other side, passed by Yu Yuan, and directly rushed toward Ling Ran.

Yu Yuan was scared and screamed. She quickly jumped onto her chair and shouted loudly, "Be careful, don't step on people."

"I don't see anyone!" A girl from a medical institute looked around with her bright eyes, but she could not see the one who spoke, so she fervently squeezed through the gaps formed by the people to reach Ling Ran again.

"My world consists of only Doctor Ling, no one else can fit inside." The young woman beside her also squeezed her way through while shouting happily.

"Doctor Ling is so great."

"Doctor Ling, give me your autograph, please. I deliberately came from another place, and I even switched my mode of transportation a few times before I reached this place."

The girl who spoke last raised her hand high and waved a hat.

Ling Ran just stood firmly, and he was not in a hurry to leave.

He glanced around calmly, and just as he expected, his calmness influenced the people around him.

Slowly, the fanaticism around him died off. Although it was still crowded, they were no longer shouting and jumping around.

"If you want to look, please do it in a civilized way." Yu Yuan took the opportunity to shout. She then jumped on the chair to improve the projection of her voice.

"View Ling Ran in a civilized way." A female doctor shouted a slogan.

"View Ling Ran in a civilized way."

"Everybody is responsible for viewing Ling Ran in a civilized way."

When the slogan was shouted, a lot of kind and envious laughter rose around the room, and the place finally became quiet.

"Doctor Ling, do you have anything to say?" Zuo Cidian looked at the situation and knew it was impossible for him to chase them away.

Ling Ran thought a little before he spoke, "Later, there will be another two demonstration surgeries, you may take a look."

The people around him did not even blink. Those who came over did not really come over to listen to Doctor Ling's report and watch his demonstrative surgery.

A few experts who stood outside the circle looked at each other, and their facial expressions did not look good.

Chief Physician Ji even felt slightly faint. 'Ling Ran is like a time bomb, and he has even exploded on me. How can I just allow him to perform the demonstration surgery? During the demonstration surgery, it's impossible for him to not talk, and if Ling Ran starts talking, would he relate it to today's content?'

Chief Physician Ji was worried that no matter how he thought about this. Subconsciously, his gaze went to the manufacturer representative.

The manufacturer representative lowered his head and pretended as if he could not see Chief Physician Ji's face.

In truth, he was the pharmaceutical sales representative dedicated to the main customers of the company. He even put in a lot of effort to prepare this conference, and his rank in Duco Medical Company was quite high. Inviting Chief Physician Ji to publish the expert opinion article, asking Ling Ran to perform a demonstration surgery, among other things, were all used as tricks to invite doctors over and promote the company.

However, he also did not expect that both parties would crash into each other like two comets and hit the earth.

Naturally, it was a normal phenomenon for doctors to find each other an eyesore, especially among elite doctors. Even if they argued in the conference, it was also pretty normal. Huo Congjun always told people off in every conference he went to, but would the manufacturer not invite him because of this?

At the end, the conference held by the manufacturer was just a platform, so the doctors could do whatever they wanted. The most crucial point for its success was that the manufacturer must let the doctors feel as comfortable as they could. For those who did not, it would be fine as long as they did not hold a grudge on the manufacturer.

The manufacturer representative did not raise his head, and Chief Physician Ji also could not squeeze his way into the crowd, so he could only watch from a distance.

At this moment, Zuo Cidian stood close to Ling Ran and whispered to him, "Doctor Ling, say something else. These are all your fans."

Ling Ran was also familiar with this situation. He thought for a while, and in a manner someone else taught him before, he said to the girl who was the most fanatical and still waving her hat. "Did you just mention that you deliberately came from somewhere else far away?"

"Yes." The girl was very happy. She took a pen and passed it to Ling Ran before she passed her hat over and said, "Doctor Ling, please sign the hat for me."

"Sure." Ling Ran signed his name like she wished before he passed it back to her. He asked, "Where are you from?"

"Cangping District!" the girl answered loudly.

Ling Ran looked over, "Yun Hua City has a Cangping District as well."

"It's the Cangping District in Yun Hua. I need to travel through two districts from my house to this place." The girl held the signed hat, and she was very happy.

At this moment, Zuo Cidian could no longer bear listening to her. "Just now, you said you switched your mode of transportation a few times. You're talking about the subway and public bus, right?"

"I even took a shared bike and an illegal cab." The girl added seriously.

Zuo Cidian could not help but sigh. Then, he put on airs and said to Ling Ran," Doctor Ling, your fan is a very calculative sort."

"I think the scientific name is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy." The girl smiled, and even her eyes were smiling, which made the people confused. They did not know whether she was just kidding around or whether she was serious.

The two bodyguards hired by the manufacturer took the opportunity to rush in, and charming voices were heard once more.

"Stinky men!"

"Be careful! you almost bumped into me!"

"Don't stand next to me!"

At this moment, the host walked onto the stage with a sincerely fake smile and said eloquently, "I can tell that everyone likes Doctor Ling. Next, we will let Doctor Ling rest for a while, and he will perform a demonstration surgery. The operating theater for the demonstration surgery is Operating Theater 1 at the Emergency Medical Center in Yun Hua Hospital, and we will stream the surgery live in our meeting room. Also, the Operating Theater 1 at the Emergency Medical Center in Yun Hua Hospital has a visitation room, and it can accommodate fifteen visitors. Doctors who are interested, please register your names with me. Later, a car will send you to Yun Hua Hospital."

The crowd started to disperse. The people who were willing to watch the surgery on the spot had left for registration, but there were still many people staying at the meeting room.

The environment in the hotel was comfortable, the temperature was right, and they could save the trouble of going back and forth. Even the hard workers who were no longer in the mood of working hard could not be bothered running about now.

Furthermore, the room used to stream the demonstration surgery would normally appoint a few experts to give comments about the surgery. Although they would mainly choose to brag about themselves, from another perspective, it was not always pleasant listening to the flattery from experts. However, some experts had been flattering others for many years, and their skills in flattering others had improved, and they could flatter the surgeon performing the demonstration surgery in a very interesting manner, which was considered as a rare enjoyment during academic conferences.

While the crowd started to leave, Chief Physician Ji also caught up with the manufacturer representative. He did not bother wasting his breath with pleasantries and went straight to the point. "Later, when you arrange for experts to go up and give comments about the surgery, I will go with Old Fan and replace Old Xu."

Old Fan was Chief Physician Ji's assistant and also the chief physician in the Provincial Research Institute of Digestive Diseases. He was always inseparable from Chief Physician Ji. Meanwhile, Old Xu was the chief physician in the Digestive Surgery Department of Yun Hua Hospital. In this case, Chief Physician Ji seemed to have a selfish motive.

The manufacturer representative stuttered and dared not make a promise. Over the years he had been in this field, he could easily guess what Chief Physician Ji was thinking about, even with his toe.

"We did not prepare a session for experts to review the surgery today." The manufacturer representative lied, but he was ready to really cancel the review session.

Chief Physician Ji snorted and said, "If you don't give me the microphone, I'll take a loudspeaker and shout."

The manufacturer representative thought, 'That's so low-class.'

However, Chief Physician Ji had expressed his attitude fully, so the manufacturer representative said falteringly, "Even if we set the expert review session up, it's not appropriate for us to change the people we've already arranged for the review."

"Then just add Old Fan among the reviewers. " Chief Physician waved his hand and looked like he did not want to talk anymore.

"I will ask my leader." The manufacturer representative held back his grievance and answered, but his emotions were still stable. After all, the occupation he took was one filled with unfair treatment.

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Chapter 1003: Find Your Faults

At the bottom of the huge projection screen, Chief Physician Ji, Chief Physician Xu, Chief Physician Fan, Guo Liqing, and Chief Physician Hao from the Department of Vascular Surgery in the People's Liberation Army General Hospital all stood in a row, and they smiled like walking groundhogs.

"Chief Physician Ji, this way, please." Guo Liqing had the brightest smile. He was originally not qualified to go onto the stage, as his position as an associate chief physician was not really outstanding for the occasion today. At the very least, when it came to seniority, at least ten chief physicians were more qualified to go up compared to him.

However, Duco Medical Company still creatively pushed Guo Liqing onto the stage so that they would not offend Ling Ran, Yun Hua Emergency Medical Center, and Yun Hua Hospital.

Now, the experts in charge of reviewing the demonstration surgery were confirmed to be two doctors from the provincial hospital, two from Yun Hua Hospital, and one from the People's Liberation Army General Hospital.

Among them, Chief Physician Xu was still a doctor from Yun Hua Hospital who collaborated with Chief Physician Ji and Chief Physician Fan. If he looked at this entire situation through the angle of staff allocation, Chief Physician Ji still had the upper hand if they descended into a debate, which was exactly what Duco Medical Company was worried about.

From another perspective, based on the performance just now, Guo Liqing was also not an ordinary doctor. From the perspective of Duco Medical Company, they could basically be considered to have already set up the appropriate protection for Ling Ran.

Meanwhile, Chief Physician Hao from the Department of Vascular Surgery in the People's Liberation Army General Hospital was there to make up the numbers and to watch the show. At the same time, he acted as a buffer zone.

When the chief physicians from other tertiary Grade A hospitals encountered situations like the one today, they did not even have the will to go on the stage. The manufacturer representative from Duco Medical Company did not force them either. If they were only going to flatter other doctors, it would still be nice to watch the surgery with the experts from every hospital, but since they were going to be up at each other's throats, then it would be better if he did not just send any Tom, Dick, and Harry up there to serve as cannon fodder.

After all, if any of these people who were qualified enough to go on the stage ended up as cannon fodder, it would be fatal to a manufacturer representative like him.

"Chief Physician Hao, after you." Guo Liqing continued chuckling while he allowed the other chief physicians to walk in front of him. He was just like a boxer who would not go on the stage.

He did not bother to know why he was sent to the stage. He was about to go up there, anyway, and this alone was already proof that his reputation had grown.

In the current world of medicine, the experts who could go on the stage to speak could not all be ones who can argue. Some of them had to be there just to make up the numbers, and as long as they could go on the stage, they would continuously have the chance to go up. They would be disqualified from going to the stage just because their skills were bad or ranks were low.

Guo Liqing happily invited four chief physicians to their seats, and he sat at the last seat with a microphone set up in front of it. He stared at the group of doctors and unknown staff, and he felt so satisfied.

When you live in the world, you should just be happy and not ask too many questions about reality. You would enjoy your own brand of happiness before you got urinary calculus, and after you got urinary calculus, you would enjoy your own brand of happiness before you got kidney stones. Even if you had prostatic hyperplasia, as long as you took medicine and could urinate, you could thank the development of medicine and improvement of humans.

Happiness was that simple!

"We'll connect to the server now." The manufacturer representative from Duco Medical Company concealed his worries.

He was not strong enough to control how the world wanted to move.

The manufacturer representative from Duco Medical Company could only comfort himself secretly while he motioned at the technical staff to start broadcasting.

The big screen in front of the meeting room brightened up first, followed by the smaller screens at the sides of the big screen. What was different was that the big screen was a screen projection, while the small screens at the sides were two 100-inch LCD screens.

The technical staff switched the signals back and forth among the three screens. The panorama view of the operating theater was shown for a while, then the surgical field under the shadowless lamp was shown. The technician could also zoom in and out repeatedly.

"The broadcast by Duco this time is going really well." Chief Physician Hao from the Department of Vascular Surgery in the People's Liberation Army General Hospital first took note to turn off the microphone before he covered it, smiled, and said something to try to ease the atmosphere.

Chief Physician Fan put on a false smile and said, "This system might not belong to Duco."

"Oh? Does it not?" No one knew Chief Physician Hao was truly ignorant of this, or whether he was pretending not to know it.

"Yunli Medical Company made it. Department Director Huo now has a lot of money. He placed a few big orders this year," Chief Physician Fan answered.

"He even bought a portable CT scan machine." Guo Liqing was still able to "confront their common enemy" when it came to this topic.

Chief Physician Fan clicked his tongue. "But he should have covered his expenditures, right? Our Emergency Medical Center was expanded a lot this year, and the Emergency Departments in other hospitals are all complaining about it."

Guo Liqing also felt envious, and he chuckled, but he did not say anything else.

When they were trying to fish for clues from each other's words, the operating theater on the screens also switched angles. Ling Ran was seen walking in with both his hands up while he was surrounded by doctors.

"It has started." Chief Physician Hao lowered his head, took a look at the information provided by Duco Medical Company, and said, "Today, he will perform a hepatectomy for a patient with hepatolithiasis and a hepatectomy for an eldery patient with early-stage liver cancer. The surgical volume is high, can he finish it all?"

Chief Physician Hao lowered his head and glanced at his inconspicuous Tudor golden watch, and he was slightly worried that he could not make it to his dinner.

Old Xu smiled calmly at this moment. He took a glance at Chief Physician Ji and said, "Doctor Ling is rather straightforward when it comes to the ways of the world, but his skills are really great, and he has no problem in performing hepatectomies."

This was also a thought many doctors in Yun Hua Hospital had.

Even though many doctors tended to be inclined to think that experience equals seniority, skill was still the most practical weapon in a hospital. Everyone saw the surgeries performed by Ling Ran and the research papers he wrote, so their attitude and thoughts toward him were revealed when they faced outsiders.

Chief Physician Ji curled up the corners of his lips in what resembled a smile. At the same time, he considered himself to have determined Old Xu's personality.

In the future, when he organized any programmes, he would never look for the traitors from Yun Hua Hospital again.

Diversification was most absolutely a dead end.

A team with the same mindset was the way to go!

"Let's start."

Ling Ran's voice was heard from the speakers.

Then, gasps of amazement and praise were heard in the meeting room. It was as if they were at a concert.

Chief Physician Ji frowned. He turned on the microphone and said, "Hmm… since the non-medical staff have gotten in here, we won't chase you out, but please don't make any noise and affect others. Thank you for your cooperation."

The sound of people clicking their tongues were heard in the meeting room, but the talking stopped.

Chief Physician Ji took a deep breath, and his mood lightened. He considered himself to have already won one round. Subsequently, he just needed to pick some holes in Ling Ran's surgery. Even if he could not turn the tables during then, he could still start accumulating some ammo for future use.

When it came to performing surgery, although there was a standard to follow, only a few doctors were able to follow the rules and operate step by step based on the standard.

Over the years they studied as doctors, it was impossible for them to consistently be stable and efficient, and they would unavoidably form some good or bad habits; it was the same for professional athletes. Most of the surgeons did not perform the surgeries according to textbook maneuvers.

Naturally, because the doctors needed to learn and work in the medical system, their dependency on textbooks was still very high. However, if they really wanted to pick out some flaws, they did not even need to find fault on purpose, as there were always certain rules that they must absolutely follow, and some of the surgeons would not follow them.

Chief Physician Ji thought that he would pick a few suitable faults and use them to fight against Ling Ran and Huo Congjun. Then, he would get a mediator to ease the situation, and he would most probably be able to settle what happened today.

Chief Physician Ji stared at Ling Ran while he performed the surgery, and he thought secretly, 'When an old man protects himself, he will be at his most aggressive. Ling Ran, you didn't run away even after you stomped on my tail. Now, don't blame me for picking out flaws in your surgery.'

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Chapter 1004: Growling Sound

Chief Physician Ji cleared his throat and sat up straighter while he placed his hand lightly over the power button at the bottom part of the microphone. He waited for Ling Ran's mistake so that he could point it out clearly.

For him, this was not something very difficult.

When Chief Physician Ji was young, he went abroad for a state funded in-service training. During that time, Changxi Province worked very hard to get a few slots for the state-funded in-service training and held a unified examination in the province. Those who ranked at the top then underwent an interview and political examination before they finally made it to Japan and pursued their in-service training for two years.

After they came back from abroad, this batch of state-funded returnees became the backbone of every hospital, and they were even sent out to carry out foreign aid projects.

At that time, being sent for state-funded in-service programmes was very rare. Regardless of their goal of going overseas, there were still many people who went for it. Besides, the content of the examination tended to focus on the basics.

To sit for the examination, Chief Physician Ji revised everything in his knowledge system, especially the basic theories and operations. He even made sure his maneuvers absolutely adhered to the standard.

This foundation benefited Chief Physician Ji's whole life, or rather, it should be said that he had been able to produce the expert opinion article known as Choosing of Materials for Surgery Sutures for the conference because of the accumulation of knowledge during that year.

Similarly, it was also because of this foundation that Chief Physician Ji knew how difficult it was for a normal doctor wanting to achieve a truly standardized operation.

He turned to the side and looked at the screen while he thought, 'Looking good does not mean you can do whatever you want. Practice your skills before you come to challenge us again.'

On the screen, Ling Ran had made a Mercedes incision on the patient's upper abdomen, which was extended from the middle of the bilateral subcostal incision.

This was one of the most common incisions, and foreigners used it very frequently. It could sufficiently expose the right liver and did not have anything special.

Chief Physician Ji looked at Ling Ran's operation without blinking.

While he performed the incision, Ling Ran used his hands to pull at the skin at both ends of the incision tightly, and his fingers were long and nice… Wait, this was not the main point.

The main point was that the incision was at a sufficient length… and it would seem like the level of exposure was sufficient as well.

During the incision, Ling Ran also avoided the main nerves and vessels… Naturally, this was just a small matter that all doctors could do.

The linea alba was cut open with an endotherm knife. The hemostatic forceps lifted the linea alba from its bottom so that it would not injure the organs in the abdominal cavity below the linea alba… Hmm, it was a very basic operation, and every doctor in the field of general surgery could do it!

As for the exposed surgical field… Ling Ran must ensure visibility. If he could not achieve this, why should he still perform hepatectomy?!

Chief Physician Ji judged Ling Ran's operation while evaluating him secretly.

He did not intend to look for any shocking mistakes or any stupid mistakes, as it did not fulfill his requirement. Chief Physician Ji just wanted to find some rather major mistakes so that he could use it as a topic to help both parties fight for a few rounds.

Then, when the surgery progressed to the hepatectomy, Chief Physician Ji felt that it was now difficult for him to do anything.

After all, when it came to hepatectomy, Ling Ran was the professional one. Although he had approached liver surgery before, he was still not very familiar with it. Now, if he looked back and looked for Ling Ran's faults before the hepatectomy stage, he might end up crashing into an area where Ling Ran had advanced skills and he did not. Worse, he might end up falling into Ling Ran's trap, and it would be very awkward for him.

Chief Physician Ji moved his fingers for a while so that his fingers would not feel sore, but he accidentally pressed on the power button of the microphone.

At this time, Old Xu chuckled by the side and spoke up, "The laparotomy is completed, and he did it smoothly. The oozing of blood on the dermis is very little, and the bleeding control using an endotherm knife was on point. There is no problem."

Chief Physician Ji did not know whether Old Xu was trying to suck up to Ling Ran, so he only clicked his tongue at him and said in his heart, 'Aren't you swearing your loyalty way too easily? What could you get if you're undecided on which side you should join?'

He was already secretly thinking that when he promoted his expert opinion on the Choosing of Materials for Surgery Sutures for Surgery, he would put Old Xu at the end. If he renewed the version later, he would directly remove his name. Anyway, Old Xue did not put a lot of effort in the production of this article. He just provided some fundings and sent a student over to help them with the collection of data. Perhaps it was because of this that he did not really appreciate the results of everyone's efforts?

At this time, Guo Liqing had also turned on the power button for the microphone, smiled faintly, and said, "Doctor Ling's speed for laparotomy is much faster than normal situations. I think he is rather familiar with human anatomy, which is why he can ensure that there is less bleeding, and so it saves him many useless maneuvers."

"The prognosis will be better as well." Chief Physician Hao from the People's Liberation Army General Hospital added, and he could be considered to have made his contribution in the review.

However, after Chief Physician Hao finished speaking, he took another glance at Chief Physician Ji.

This glance made Chief Physician Ji feel a little angry inside. 'Are you looking down on me? Did you think that I can't find any faults? Do you intend to treat me differently?'

Chief Physician Ji's hand shuddered, and he was just about to turn off the microphone…

'That was a close call.'

He pulled his hand back.

But he did not have anything to say right now.

He could not just flatter Ling Ran together with these shameless old men, right?

Even if Ling Ran looked like he was skilled, even if normal reviews mainly consisted of other experts flattering the surgeon and even if Old Ji did not mind flattering other surgeons, he could not flatter Ling Ran today.

"Doctor Ling has started from the hepatic portal. He went straight to separate the gallbladder from the gallbladder bed, the difficulty of this step is very high. " When Guo Liqing talked about it, he smiled and said, "Earlier today, there was a doctor pointing out that the average requirement of vascular sutures is rather high, can titanium clips be used to reduce the difficulty? Let me just ask this: how are you going to lower the difficulty of this gallbladder separation? Haha, when you can't even perform the vascular sutures well, you definitely can't perform gallbladder separation, and you can definitely forget about suturing the next parts."

"Yes, every step of hepatectomy is very difficult. The complexity of its anatomical planes does not exist in other organs. Even if the difficulty in the heart is higher, it might not be as complex," Old Xu went along with what Guo Liqing said and added. He behaved very open-mindedly now, and he did not really bother with how Chief Physician Ji thought.

His base was still in Yun Hua Hospital. Old Xu would basically be cornering himself to death if he acted as a mole for Old Ji for the sake of having his name written in an article as well.

Old Ji could also tell what was going on. While he listened to Old Xu, Old Ji could not help but snort. However, he did not turn on his microphone, so the conversation was only heard among a few of the review experts.

Old Fan knew that he must stand forth and say something now. As the saying went, "The minister should die to show his loyalty to his king." He had worked as Old Ji's assistant for many years. At that moment, he switched on his microphone without hesitation and said, "Although hepatectomy has its difficulties, it is a well-developed surgery. Therefore, he needs to consider the speed of hepatectomy and accuracy of the operation so that it would allow a good prognosis."

"Chief Physician Fan, what do you think about Doctor Ling's surgical speed now?" Guo Liqing looked at the screen and smiled.

Chief Physician Fan turned around to take a look. He saw that Ling Ran had completed the steps for gallbladder separation, and he started to move to the retroperitoneum.

"This…" Chief Physician Fan had just begun his first attack, and it immediately rebounded at him. He nearly embarrassed himself.

At this time, Ling Ran had fully immersed himself into the character of the chief surgeon in the demonstration surgery. He stopped moving his hands for a while before he said, "We've finished the unimportant pre-steps for hepatectomy. They are pretty simple. Next, we will officially begin the procedures for hepatectomy…"

Chief Physician Fan immediately turned off his microphone. He was so scared that his angry growls would be heard from the microphone.

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Chapter 1005: Arduously

"We're separating the lower right lobe right now, and this is a relatively simple step. But there are some details you need to pay attention to…

"This patient's right triangular ligament is relatively thick, and he has a typical transverse, saddle-like liver. The left lobe of his liver is relatively large, so life after hepatectomy will be easier for him as his left lobe would be able to take over more functions that used to be performed by the right lobe. He'll have quite a large chunk of liver left. In short, the margin for error in the surgery is higher…

"The inferior vena cava and the short hepatic vein have to be completely separated too. Similarly, the process will be relatively easy…"

As Ling Ran was carrying out a demonstrative surgery, he had to explain things in a demonstrative way. Of course, this was not very hard for Ling Ran. He merely had to speak in public, and even though he did not really like doing that, he was not aversive toward it either.

And on the bright side, whenever he carried out demonstrative surgeries, the operating theaters would be extremely quiet. The assistants would be fully focused too, and this made things very comfortable for him.

As they usually had to do eight to ten surgeries a day, even Ling Ran could not force his assistants to be fully focused from the beginning to the end every day.

The team worked a lot better than usual during demonstrative surgeries, which made everything easier for Ling Ran.

However, Ling Ran's voice sounded a little shrill to Chief Physician Ji and Chief Physician Fan.

'Why is he only giving a brief explanation for every step? Can't you be more detailed while also keeping it concise?

'Why is every step being done so fast? Are you sure that you're carrying out a demonstrative surgery?'

Most importantly, Ling Ran looked like he had practiced every single step for years, and his maneuvers were so perfect that it was almost unbelievable. Chief Physician Ji was in disbelief that someone was actually able to achieve this.

After all, a skill could not be learned in a day or two. It took months and years of practice.

There were bound to be days when people were not feeling their best. They might be ill or in a bad mood. They might also get affected by external factors such as a cheating spouse or the financial crisis. How was it possible for any doctor to be at their best and give their all to a training session every day? It was very normal for doctors to slip up every now and then, gain weight or get cheated on by their spouse.

However, this phenomenon was not seen in Ling Ran at all.

Chief Physician Ji could not help but look at Old Fan.

They knew each other very well, and Old Fan immediately understood what the other party meant. He could not help but shake his head and whispered to Chief Physician Ji, "Don't you find this young man a little strange?"

Chief Physician Ji actually agreed with what Old Fan had said, but he merely lowered his head and kept quiet.

"Chief Physician Ji, I'm actually not very familiar with hepatectomy." Old Fan was not worried about embarrassing himself. He was Chief Physician Ji's right hand man to begin with, and it was very normal for him to show signs of weaknesses.

Chief Physician Ji hummed in acknowledgement and said slowly, "Focus on the basic maneuvers. He found fault with the way we suture patients, after all."

"Understood," Old Fan quickly replied.

Chief Physician Ji forced a smile. He acted like he had everything under control.

Truth be told, Old Ji was actually extremely anxious too.

He had actually performed quite a lot of cases of hepatectomy. All general surgeons were willing to perform hepatectomy when they were younger. This was after all, the surgical method that could ensure the fast development of their careers.

However, Old Ji was too diffident to say that he knew how to perform hepatectomy in front of what Ling Ran was doing right now.

From the beginning to the end, he had no intention of finding fault with Ling Ran's maneuvers that were exclusive to the surgical method.

He just wanted to find fault in the basic maneuvers Ling Ran performed.

Such as the separation of the liver… Hm… he seemed to have sliced it off already.

Chief Physician Ji turned and saw that Ling Ran was treating the wounded area, and he could not help but go into a daze.

This was where they had their disagreement earlier.

Chief Physician Ji included a suggestion that they could use titanium clips for bleeding control in the expert opinion article, and Ling Ran criticized him so badly that he almost peed his pants.

But in reality, things would be faster with the help of titanium clips.

And when hepatectomy was done quickly, it meant that the patient would lose less blood and have a better prognosis. And the most important steps to hepatectomy was separation of the liver and the treatment of the wounded area.

Due to the rich blood supply to the liver, there were plenty of variables, and things were very complicated. Hence, there were many different ways to go about hepatectomy. It was simple for a surgeon to go with the method that would bring the most benefits to the patient, but things were not always this clear cut. Chief Physician Ji knew very well that because of the complexity of hepatectomy, he could easily find fault in Ling Ran's maneuvers.

"Pay attention to this part." Chief Physician Ji reminded Old Fan.

Old Fan nodded a little. He straightened his back to show how seriously he was taking this.

Guo Liqing saw what the two of them were doing and laughed internally in disdain. 'Doctors from Yun Hua Provincial Hospital have never seen the world indeed. They weren't able to find fault in the beginning parts of the surgery, so what makes them think that they would be able to do it now?'

He had watched Ling Ran operate on patients many times, and he knew Ling Ran's style.

As expected, Ling Ran's voice rang out of the speakers of the venue. "Bleeding control of the wounded area after the separation of the liver is also a very important step. It could be said to be the most complicated part of the surgery…"

As he spoke, he asked for a surgical thread and started stitching up the small blood vessels on the wounded area.

When Old Fan heard what Ling Ran said, he actually breathed an internal sigh of relief. He chuckled softly and said to Old Ji, "Ling Ran probably got scared."

Old Ji's gaze was sharp. "He no longer has a choice in this matter. You know, it's difficult to get something done, but it's easy to find fault with something."

"Of course it is. Look at the way he's dealing with that bile leakage… Wow…" Old Fan had to stop himself from praising Ling Ran.

Old Ji's mouth was wide, too. He looked like a basketball lover who was watching a professional basketball player.

"Chief Physician Ji, why don't you give some comments?" Guo Liqing asked provocatively.

He was merely an associate chief Physician from the Department of Urology, and the hardest surgery that he frequently did was stitching up the ureters of patients that were accidentally wounded by doctors from the Gynaecology Department. Chances to speak provocative words like this during an academic conference was hard to come by for him.

Chief Physician Ji had not given any comments since the surgery began. He chuckled and raised his head to look at the large screen.

There were three screens on the wall. Two were showing a high definition live stream of the surgical field, while another was showing the situation inside the operating theater. Not only could the audience see the assistants who were busy working in the operating theater, but they could also see what exactly the chief surgeon was doing. And Ling Ran was quick, accurate and stable.

Old Ji placed his hand on the switch of his microphone and let it stay there for a few seconds. He waited for a few more seconds as he looked at the screen, but he said nothing.

There was a smile on Guo Liqing's face, and he somehow felt pleased with himself. It was just like the way he always boasted about how there used to be an emperor named Guo Wei in China. Chai Rong, Guo Wei's adoptive son, might have taken over the crown, and his empire was ruined by Emperor Taizu of Song, however, these did not change the fact that there was an emperor with the surname "Guo", and it meant that Guo Liqing came from an excellent family!

Ling Ran almost did not stop at all as he operated on the patient.

Even people who were not familiar with hepatectomy could tell how skilled Ling Ran was.

Old Ji did end up pressing on the power button.

His microphone's red light flashed as Guo Liqing, Old Xu, and a few other people looked at him.

Chief Physician Ji said slowly, "We always try our best to encourage young people."

After he finished speaking, Chief Physician Ji switched off his microphone.

The surgery continued.

The venue was as silent as ever.

Old Xu switched on his microphone and started flattering Ling Ran in an extravagant manner.

The manufacturing representative from Duco Medical Company looked at the harmonious scene with glassy eyes. He neither looked shocked nor sad. He looked like he had no desires in life. He looked like he was about to lose his job.

"Alright, we'll be taking our leave first." At some point, Chief Physician Hao from the People's Liberation Army General Hospital went toward the manufacturing representative. He tapped the other party's shoulder with a smile on his face.

"Ah, okay. I'll get you a car." The manufacturing representative regained his senses.

Chief Physician Hao nodded and looked at Chief Physician Ji, who had only spoken one sentence during the surgery. He said with a smile. "Not bad. Old Ji's able to hold it in."

The manufacturing representative arduously tried to stay calm, and he tried his best not to look at Chief Physician Ji and his entourage.

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Chapter 1006: Quiet and Peaceful

"Chief Physician Ji is a good person."

When Guo Liqing returned to Yun Hua Hospital, he could not wait to start publicizing this fact. He had been able to get on the stage together with the chief physician of the Provincial Digestive Diseases Research Center to give comments, and this was something he could boast about. But how should he flaunt about this fact? Guo Liqing felt that doing it from the perspective of Chief Physician Ji being a good person was not bad.

"As a person, Chief Physician Ji's knowledge structure may be a bit behind times, but as a person, he is nice and reasonable.

"I like people like Chief Physician Ji. He speaks reasonably and walks the talk. He watched Ling Ran's surgery for two hours and didn't even say a word. He's really a good person."

"It's okay even if I had to work a little harder. When it comes to giving comments, if Chief Physician Ji is willing to give comments, it's out of good will. If he's not willing to comment, we can't force him. To not make the situation awkward, I'd have to speak a little more. It's no big deal, Chief Physician Ji is still okay as a person, he's still a good person!"

Guo Liqing always talked about this story with unending patience in the office, in the small cafeteria, and in the conference room.

When someone questioned him, he did not retreat and bravely picked up his mantra. "What I said is true, I promise. If I say something false, I will encounter five patients who will not listen to my orders in succession."

Hence, everyone believed him.

The story about Chief Physician Ji was even more widely publicized.

Of course, if they really wanted to publicize this, it would be even faster if the hundreds and thousands of people who had been in the room publicized it, but in truth, since the circle of doctors was too small, such a hot topic would only need to take a day or two for it to spread throughout Changxi Province.

Those surgeons who stayed in the operating theater for an entire day talked about their children, their wives, celebrity gossip, and other people's wives while they were performing surgery… they were already bored of those topics.

This was especially so for surgeons who wished for a little interaction with the people in the operating theater. Even if it was just to make the nurses smile, they were more than willing to talk about the story about Ling Ran that they just heard.

In just two or three days, Chief Physician Ji passed by his own operating theater and heard some voices from inside.

"Ling Ran's hepatectomy is said to be invincible. Our Chief Physician Ji did not pick out any faults in it."

"There's no fault that Chief Physician Ji can pick on?"

"Yeah, I can't believe it."

Cheerful laughter came out of the operating theater, and with a swish, the operating theater door was closed, but the sounds could no longer be heard clearly.

Chief Physician Ji's face was dark and resigned.

Although this was his own operating theater, he could not just rush in and scold those people.

If he scolded them in this manner, while the other party may bow his head obediently and admit to his wrongs, Chief Physician Ji would also be embarrassing himself.

Chief Physician Ji sighed silently in his heart. 'Forget it, I might as well become a true good person.'

Chief Physician Ji then peeked inside through a small round glass on the operation door, and clearly saw all the people inside before he slowly walked forward. His footsteps were firm and stable, like he was a decent person living an honest life.

"Chief physician, sir." Old Fan came out of the end of the corridor.

"Oh," Chief Physician Ji replied. When he was about to step away, he remembered something, and he said, "Have we decided on the candidates to provide support to the borders this year?"

"I haven't handed the list to the higher ups yet."

"Show it to me." Chief Physician Ji raised his head slightly and continued moving forward. His footsteps were steady and firm.

…..

Yun Hua Hospital was quiet and peaceful.

The centipede tongavines were still as green as ever, and the spider plants were still as long as ever.

Duco Medical Company's manufacturer representative followed Huang Maoshi and whispered, "Brother Huang, I'll have to rely on you this time."

"Watch me." Huang Maoshi schooled his face so that he would not throw his head back laughing.

Large companies like Duco Medical Company were normally in a better and higher position than local companies, and even a manufacturer representative could act superior to those from local companies.

However, they still knew when to be humble when it came to personal self-interest.

Huang Maoshi tilted his head to look at the manufacturer representative and said in an annoying tone, "Old Fang, were you scolded when you went back last time?"

"Of course." Duco's manufacturer representative sighed. "The director scolded me for three cups of tea."

"What do you mean, three cups of tea?"

"Once he's thirsty from all the scolding, he'd drink tea. After that, he'd continue scolding me, and he'd drink again after he gets thirsty. He drank a total of three cups of tea." Old Fang's fingers went up.

Huang Maoshi understood what he meant and was amused, "That's funny. Those who didn't know would think you were referring to the Three-cup chicken recipe."

Old Fang shrugged, ignoring Huang Maoshi's exaggerated expression.

"Alright, just watch me." Huang Maoshi added another sentence, and brought Old Fang's attention back to him. He then asked, "Have you been punished?"

Old Fang smiled bitterly.

"A few months?" Huang Maoshi said, "If we made such a big mistake in our company, we would have at least a season's worth of bonus gone."

"That's a lot of money." Old Fang acted surprised. They were both pharmaceutical sales representatives and were used to flattering doctors every day. However, when they tried to flatter each other, they were not quite able to do it.

Huang Maoshi saw through him and frowned. "Isn't your company the same?"

"Under normal circumstances… yes." Old Fang forced himself to smile.

"How special is your situation?" Huang Maoshi looked at Old Fang strangely and said, "You can't sell your titanium clips anymore, right?"

"Um… actually…" Old Fang smiled hesitantly. Then, when Huang Maoshi showed an unhappy expression, he said, "You should know that we live in an economy of attention. When your reputation is great, the number of new customers coming to you will increase… In fact, Doctor Ling did not say that our titanium clips weren't good, it was just that the scope of use for the titanium clips was problematic. You know, as the news spread, doctors who originally wanted to develop this aspect of the surgery would want to understand the situation more … "

Huang Maoshi was dumbfounded. "You guys still managed to get new customers?"

For pharmaceutical sales companies, new customers were the rarest resource, because domestic medical expansion was not through new hospitals, but mainly through the expansion of existing hospitals. Therefore, the importance pharmaceutical sales companies placed on new customers was unimaginable to those in other industries.

It can be said when a phone call was made from a new customer, even if it was just a simple consultation, it would be enough for a pharmaceutical sales representative to drive his car for a few hours just to introduce his products to the doctor.

And this was done when the new customer just showed a slight inclination of using the product.

Old Fang smiled shyly. "I'm just making up for my mistakes."

"I don't buy it. It's clear that you're about to get more bonuses. With more new customers, you can also develop other projects… Hmm, you wanted me to introduce the doctors in-training to Doctor Ling. Are these doctors in-training your new customers?"

Old Fang nodded. "We've got old customers and new customers among them."

Huang Maoshi suddenly regretted it. He regretted that he had rashly made a promise to Old Fang, and he also regretted the fact that he had recklessly revealed his truth. If he had not spoken so quickly in the heat of the moment, he could have maybe secretly gotten himself a few customers…

"Old Huang, I'll have to rely on you this time. I'll treat you to dinner when you come back." Old Fang saw that Huang Maoshi was having second thoughts, and he quickly stepped forward to calm his emotions.

Huang Maoshi calmed down, sighed secretly, and nodded. "Then, you'll have to treat me to a good meal."

With that said, Huang Maoshi took the lead and walked to the nurse's desk.

Huo Congjun's permission was required in the past to put a few doctors in-training into Yun Hua Emergency Department, but now, it can also be done through Ling Ran.

And in terms of difficulty, it was not too high. After all, doctors in-training worked in the department for free in the beginning, and this was beneficial to the hospital, which was always lacking in manpower.

"Sister Wang, you haven't gotten off work yet?" Once Huang Maoshi saw Wang Jia, he immediately went up and put another bag of fruits on in front of her.

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Chapter 1007: In-Service Training

"Doctor Ling is very busy today." Wang Jia decided to be nice because of the fruits, and she told Wang Maoshi, "If you look for Doctor Ling now, you probably won't get anything done."

"Ah, thank you so much, Sister Wang." Wang Maoshi did not care if the information he received was useful. He quickly thanked Wang Jia and asked, "Why is he so busy today?"

Wang Jia glanced at Old Fang who was standing behind Huang Maoshi. She then smiled and said, "He has always been busy. And he's been participating in an academic conference for the past two days."

Huang Maoshi dragged Old Fang over and said with a smile, "Sister Wang, let me introduce Old Fang to you. He is the manufacturing representative of Duco and also our superior."

Wang Jia nodded at Old Fang as a greeting.

Even though she was only a nurse, because she often worked with Ling Ran at close proximity, all the suppliers and manufacturers had to be nice to her. There was no need for her to get close to manufacturing representatives who she was not familiar with. This was the manufacturing representative's job.

From this perspective, females and nurses were considered the goddesses of pharmaceutical sales representatives. Only the ones with the best abilities to attend to people could emerge victorious, while those who pretended to be cold and aloof with the intention of using reverse psychology would be forgotten after a few days. That was because there was really no way for female doctors and nurses who had been flattered by many to remember missing pharmaceutical sales representatives.

Old Fang flashed a bashful smile. He decided to get to know this young nurse first before conquering her.

Huang Maoshi asked, "Sister Wang, then, when will it be more suitable for me to look for Doctor Ling?"

"He performed more than eight hepatectomies today. What do you think?" Wang Jia was not very polite.

Huang Maoshi hummed in acknowledgment. He then turned to look at Old Fang. Only after Old Fang nodded at him did he turn back to look at Wang Jia and said, "Should we come tomorrow?"

"There will be four patients with ruptured Achilles tendons and two patients with atrial septal defect tomorrow morning. He will continue performing hepatectomy in the afternoon." Wang Jia did not bother to hide things. All of this information could be seen in the schedules for the operating theaters.

Of course, Wang Jia was only willing to speak a little more to Huang Maoshi because he used to be a model and was rather handsome.

If some other ugly guy who looked like a rat came over instead, there would definitely be no young nurse who was willing to talk to him.

Life in the hospital was already stressful enough, and with pharmaceutical sales representatives that looked so ugly bringing about emotional stress to them, this would make their work environment an even more horrible one.

Huang Maoshi clicked his tongue a few times. "Doctor Ling is a busy man indeed."

Old Fang cleared his throat and said, "Then, what if we come at night tomorrow?"

"Doctor Ling sleeps at seven or eight at night. What time do you guys plan to come at night?" Wang Jia snorted through her nose. She did not treat this new guy at the hospital with friendliness at all.

Duco was a large company, and they only hired manufacturing representatives with high qualifications. However, they did not pay their employees well or treat them well. The ones who were still stuck at the company at the ripe old age of more than thirty years old could at most be said to be decent men, and they obviously did not fit the requirement of young nurses.

Old Fang, who was more than thirty years old, was also a little slow due to old age. He gasped in resignation.

Huang Maoshi raised his head a little and flashed a well-trained smile. "How about the day after tomorrow?"

Wang Jia lowered her head and pretended not to hear him.

Huang Maoshi had basically been spending all his time in the Emergency Department of Yun Hua Hospital for the past two years. He merely smiled when he saw that and thanked Wang Jia. He then greeted a few nurses before leaving together with Old Fang.

The nurses treated him quite amiably.

Even though Huang Maoshi was nothing compared to Doctor Ling, he had quite a decent appearance.

Old Fang had no choice but to respectfully say, "Thank God that you were there with me. If I were to come alone, I would not have gotten anything done. By the way… in the end, there was some silent communication between you and the nurse. What's the meaning behind the secret messages you exchanged just now?"

Old Fang could tell that Huang Maoshi enjoyed quite a good relationship with a lot of people in the Emergency Department of Yun Hua Hospital. At least, the nurses there trusted Huang Maoshi a lot more than him.

Huang Maoshi smiled. "What else? The day after tomorrow is a Saturday, so Doctor Ling is probably heading somewhere else for freelance surgery."

This was actually within Old Fang's expectations. He nodded slowly.

"Let me make a call to ask about it." Huang Maoshi had the intention of getting things done well. Since there was no way for him to cut corners, he chose to do the thing Duco entrusted to him well so that Old Fang would owe him one. That way, Old Fang had no choice but to return the favor to Huang Maoshi in the future.

Soon, Huang Maoshi hung up and said, "Doctor Ling would be performing freelance surgeries on Saturday and Sunday, as quite a lot of hospitals have been hiring him lately. We're racing against time. He'll probably also be operating on patients all day on Monday. What are your plans?"

"What do you think?" Old Fang deliberately ignored why more hospitals were hiring Ling Ran for freelance surgeries.

"It's more convenient to chat with him in the bullet train than the operating theater. Doctor Ling doesn't like to talk when he's operating on patients either." Huang Maoshi pointed Old Fang in the correct direction.

Old Fang thought about it and said, "I'll follow your suggestion, then. Is there anything I need to prepare?"

"There's no need for that. Doctor Ling doesn't like to receive gifts."

Old Fang could not help but chuckle. "It's true that a doctor who can perform freelance surgeries two days in a row doesn't need anything else."

…..

On Monday, Old Fang found out which train Ling Ran was taking and bought a ticket. He went early into the small business-class cabin of the bullet train. And when he heard the crew member outside gasp, he immediately stood up and smoothed the creases on his seat. He then smiled from ear to ear.

"Hello, Doctor Ling," Old Fang said.

Huang Maoshi immediately made his presence known too. "Doctor Ling, we'll be taking the same train as you today."

When Ling Ran saw Huang Maoshi, whom he was familiar with, he hummed in acknowledgment and greeted the latter. He then sat in the window seat.

The crew member walked over happily and gave Ling Ran some snacks as well as a cup of tea.

Old Fang turned and took a look at the doctors who came with Ling Ran. There were three permanent doctors: Zuo Cidian, Lu Wenbin, and Yu Yuan. There were also two housemen whose names were not on the list. Old Fang froze a little when he saw how huge the team was.

Including Ling Ran, there were six doctors. How much would the hospital be paying them for transport, accommodation, and food…? A large string of numbers appeared in Old Fang's head.

"Wow, so many people." Old Fang sat beside Huang Maoshi. It was a double seat.

Huang Maoshi nodded. "When Doctor Ling travels for freelance surgery, he likes to work all night. If he were to only bring two or three assistants, they wouldn't have been able to take the workload at all."

Old Fang gasped. "I've seen quite a few doctors who're very good at staying up late…"

"Doctor Ling is especially good at it." Huang Maoshi shook his head a little and continued, "I heard that even Qin Shi Huang sleeps for four hours a day."

Old Fang immediately understood. He said, "No wonder so many doctors are interested in having their in-service training in Yun Hua Hospital. They'll definitely get enough training with this surgical volume."

Huang Maoshi had always been interested in the business behind this. He asked, "What conditions do you set for a doctor before you help them with getting a slot for in-service training?"

Old Fang smiled. "What conditions can there be? As long as they're willing to take it into consideration, we'll help them with it."

"Doctor Ling's team wouldn't be able to fit so many people." Huang Maoshi twisted his mouth and said, "I suggest that you set a higher bar."

For ordinary hospitals and doctors, it was usually a good thing when doctors were willing to go to them for in-service training. On one hand, it was because doctors who were up for in-service training were usually at their peak, and they could immediately help out upon arrival. Even if they were not as skilled in certain areas, they could pick things up very quickly.

Large hospitals usually took in plenty of doctors for in-service training, and in certain ways, those doctors were part of the hospital's manpower.

Of course, large hospitals only took in doctors who fulfilled certain criteria or standards for in-service training. In the past, doctors from small hospitals would rely on their hospitals to get them a slot for in-service training in larger hospitals. They might also rely on connections. But now, plenty of doctors who did not have enough connections or even those with enough connections preferred to ask pharmaceutical sales representatives for help.

At most, they would have to pay some price by making some purchases from the pharmaceutical sales representatives.

After all, doctors headed to large hospitals for in-service training so that they could acquire some skills. So, correspondingly, they would be needing machinery, equipment, and drugs of the same league after they return to their respective hospitals.

Nowadays, many large hospitals were experiencing a shortage of manpower, which made it easier for pharmaceutical sales representatives to help doctors out by getting them a slot for in-service training. Hence, pharmaceutical sales representatives had become more and more into this task.

Of course, the prerequisite was that they must be able to survive and be successful in the said large hospital.

Old Fang knew that he could not fully depend on Huang Maoshi for this, or else, not only might he end up failing to fulfill his end of the deal, but he might also need to pass on the job entirely to Huang Maoshi.

When he thought about this, Old Fang smiled at Huang Maoshi and said, "I'll go and take a look at how things are going."

As he spoke, Old Fang turned to look at Ling Ran. He rose and sat down in the empty seat beside Zuo Cidian.

Huang Maoshi pursed his lips. He did not bother to call Old Fang out on that.

"Doctor Zuo." Old Fang had met Zuo Cidian before. He smiled from ear to ear and said, "Doctor Ling's team is huge indeed. I'm sure that it's full of talented people."

"I'm not considered one of the talented people. I'm just here to help out with physical labor." Zuo Cidian smiled. He never had the habit of offending pharmaceutical sales representatives, so he never acted arrogantly in front of them.

"The Ling Treatment Group is tremendously large. You guys can actually bring a few more people so that it's more convenient if anything arises." Old Fang smiled as he slowly moved toward his target.

"We're just here to help out Doctor Ling."

"If you guys are short on manpower, you can take in a few doctors for in-service training."

Zuo Cidian immediately understood what was going on. "Why? Is anyone asking you to do them a favor and get him a slot?"

Old Fang quickly said, "There's more than one. I was thinking that…"

Zuo Cidian waved in dismissal and said, "For now, we don't have space for any more doctors. We took in three doctors for in-service training a while back, and we took in two more yesterday. For the time being, we're unable to take in any more doctors."

"Then, what requirements do you guys have when you guys take in doctors for in-service training?" Now that Old Fang had managed to strike up a conversation with Zuo Cidian, he quickly explained, "There's quite a lot of doctors on my end who sincerely want to learn from Doctor Ling. If you guys have any requirements when it comes to age or qualifications, I can filter out those who don't qualify for you."

Zuo Cidian looked at Old Fang. He thought about it and said, "I do have one requirement. But after we walk out of this cabin, I won't admit to it."

Old Fang could not help but size up Zuo Cidian's face, which was as wrinkled as a century egg. He was tremendously shocked. 'Don't tell me that this old man wants a doctor with big b*bs and a big a* to come over for in-service training. Even if I manage to get a female doctor like that here, she won't be interested in you anyway.'

Zuo Cidian cleared his throat a few times. "Don't let your imagination run wild. I want a doctor who knows how to cook."

"Huh?" Old Fang widened his eyes.

Zuo Cidian pointed at his team members. "Look at how many people there are in our team. Every single time we travel for freelance surgery, there would be four to six of us. And the trips usually take a day or two, which means that we would be away for twenty to thirty hours, or even thirty to forty hours. We only get to eat hotel food and restaurant food. I don't mind eating these for a day or two, but who can stand this kind of lifestyle for more than a year or two? So, I was thinking about recruiting a doctor for in-service training who's good at cooking and is able to whip up a few home-cooked dishes. This would make things a lot more comfortable and convenient for us."

"Why don't you guys get a maid?"

"Maids wouldn't be as attentive as doctors who are with us for in-service training. Aside from this, we often have to eat in places like Operating Areas and stuff. It wouldn't be appropriate for us to bring a maid along." Zuo Cidian had no intention of mentioning that they would have to pay to hire a maid.

"So, you're thinking about taking in a doctor who's good at cooking for in-service training?" Old Fang concluded.

Zuo Cidian flashed a kindly smile. "There's already a lot of people in our treatment group right now, but we'll take in one more if we find a suitable candidate. If there's no suitable candidate, we won't be taking in anyone."

"I understand." Old Fang saw that Zuo Cidian had expressed his point of view, so he decided to say no more. But a thought appeared in his mind. 'It would be easier for you to get a female doctor with big bo*bs and a big a*.'

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Chapter 1008: I'm Not Afraid That It Will Be Tiring!

At dawn, Ye Sigong took care of his father together with a patient care assistant before he exited his father's ward. He then started to make ward rounds.

Even though he was merely working in a county hospital, the beds in the wards were always full. Most of them were regular patients, but a small part of them were locals who were waiting to be transferred to the city to receive surgery. Overall, their conditions were not considered serious, and the treatments they needed were not complicated either.

Ye Sigong controlled his facial emotions well and tried to be careful in his speech. After he was done making ward rounds, he breathed a soft sigh of relief. As he sat in his office chair, he could not help but feel a little lost.

"Doctor Ye, I have a question. My father's wound is still hurting, and there seems to be some pus…" After knocking on the door, a patient's family member walked straight into the office.

"I was about to write a prescription and give him new medications. We'll see what happens after that. All his other indices are normal…" Ye Sigong smiled, and with difficulty, managed to comfort the patient's family member.

His department director had operated on the patient, but his department director was not that skillful. Aside from that, the patient was not in good health, to begin with, and because the nursing staff lacked skills, his surgical wound had yet to heal even after more than a week. Now that the patient's family member was there to look for him, Ye Sigong had no choice but to come up with an explanation.

He neither had the power nor confidence to make any other decisions.

Truth be told, he was actually the department director's student. But now that all of his department director's students have left the county hospital and moved to larger hospitals, there was nothing honorable about him being the only department director's student who was still here.

"Attending Physician Ye, are you done making ward rounds?" The nurse who had just walked into the office was about Ye Sigong's age, but she came to the hospital eight years earlier than him. She smiled fondly at him and said, "You've prescribed omeprazole to a patient just now, haven't you? We've run out of that."

"Again? I'll deal with it later." Ye Sigong knew very well what was going on, but he did not feel like doing anything about it right now.

"Well, I've informed you about it, so the rest is up to you," the nurse said and left.

"Alright." It would not be appropriate for Ye Sigong to be too impolite. He raised his teacup and took a sip. The tea that he had just made felt bitter to the tongue.

"Doctor Ye."

Another greeting rang out from the doorway, and Ye Sigong had no choice but to put down his teacup.

Ye Sigong turned and saw that it was the pharmaceutical sales representative from Duco Medical Company.

"Hey, Manager Fang," Ye Sigong gave him an insincere greeting.

Since he was only working in the county hospital, Ye Sigong was not as arrogant as the doctors in tertiary Grade A hospitals. Of course, he still felt a psychological advantage over pharmaceutical sales representatives.

Old Fang smiled and said, "Doctor Ye, you mentioned that you desire to go for in-service training, right? I've made some inquiries on your behalf."

"Yeah. Did you manage to get any leads?" Ye Sigong immediately perked up.

"The General Surgery Department of the First People's Hospital of Yun Hua City. What do you think about this? The in-service training will go on for about three months, and you'll be given incentives that are equivalent to the average salary of the doctors there. I don't dare to make any other promises," Old Fang explained things to Ye Sigong with a smile, but he was actually just putting up a front. The income of an in-service doctor and how he would be treated there depended on the department he went to, and that doctor would only find out about all these upon arrival. But there was always a baseline that these doctors could use as a reference.

Ye Sigong was a little tempted.

The passing down of skills in the county hospital he was working at was basically nonexistent now. This was because his department director was too old, and all his knowledge was outdated. Back in the days, he had learned how to perform open abdominal surgery from his department director, but because of limitations imposed by the hospital, the most they could do was cholecystectomy. The hospital used to carry out intestinal surgeries back when he was younger, but they had been doing less and less of that. Not only was that because fewer and fewer patients were willing to receive intestinal surgery there, but it was also because the department director himself was no longer so fond of doing it.

The advent and development of laparoscopy were supposed to be beneficial for county hospitals due to how easy postsurgical care was and how small the surgical wound was. It made things a lot less stressful for patients and doctors. Hence, the department director had arranged for two of his students to learn how to perform laparoscopy a long time ago.

However, due to the rapid development of laparoscopy, his students picked it up very quickly and were scouted by other hospitals a lot earlier than expected. They left way before they could teach the doctors who came after them how to perform laparoscopy.

This was especially true when it came to doctors who started working there in the nineties. For those whose hometown was not there, the first thing they chose to do after obtaining a skill was to jump ship.

It was much ado about nothing, and at the end of the day, the department was back to being an ordinary department in a county hospital again. Plus, they were basically as powerful and made as much money as a local bank.

Nevertheless, this did make getting a promotion easier for doctors who were around thirty years old like Ye Sigong. They basically just needed to become an attending physician to be able to get hired by other hospitals. It would be pretty enviable for them to be able to end up in a tertiary Grade A hospital.

However, things were not as easy for a doctor who wanted to strive for excellence and obtain new skills.

It was easy to stay here and learn how to perform open abdominal surgery from his department director. But not many patients were willing to receive open abdominal surgery for appendicitis and cholecystitis nowadays.

The department director actually did not bother to teach the doctors in his department anymore. What was the point in producing a few students who knew how to perform open abdominal surgery? Not only would they be reducing the number of surgeries he got to do, which were not many in the first place, but they might also jump ship.

Hence, when Ye Sigong and his other colleagues wanted to obtain new skills nowadays, they almost always had to go for in-service training in larger hospitals.

Truth be told, the First People's Hospital of Yun Hua City was a pretty good choice.

Even though it was a smaller tertiary Grade A hospital, they had a steady stream of patients, which meant that the surgical volume would not be low. Aside from that, people might also be kinder in a tertiary Grade A hospital like the First People's Hospital of Yun Hua City, and if he conducted himself well while he was there, he would definitely end up making some friends. If he were lucky, he might even get to know some chief physicians and associate chief physicians, and this would make life easier for him in the future.

As Ye Sigong thought about this, he looked at the pharmaceutical sales representative before him and said, "The First People's Hospital of Yun Hua City is quite a good choice. By the way, we were talking about Yun Hua Hospital earlier. Are there no more slots there?"

"Yun Hua Hospital is very hard to enter right now." Old Fang smiled. He was also having a headache about this.

It was not so easy to find suitable doctors either. He had asked Zuo Cidian about what the latter needed, which meant that Zuo Cidian was expecting a candidate. He could not just leave Zuo Cidian hanging after asking him about what he needed. If he did not give Zuo Cidian enough candidates or did not give him any candidates, the latter might also think that he did not care about the Ling Treatment Group enough and find him an eyesore. Of course, this was not a given, as he did not know what was on Zuo Cidian's mind, and it was the standard example of "judge how he thinks of you by his heart, not by his actions."

However, as a pharmaceutical sales representative, he could not afford to offend a doctor like Zuo Cidian.

Ye Sigong did not know what Old Fang was thinking about. He smiled and said, "Of course it's hard to enter Yun Hua Hospital. But is there no chance for me to go there for two or three months at all? The Emergency Medical Center is definitely experiencing a huge lack of manpower right now, isn't it?"

"You want to enter Doctor Ling's treatment group, and Doctor Ling no longer performs many emergency surgeries nowadays. If you did not mind going to any treatment group as long as it's in the Emergency Medical Center of Yun Hua Hospital, I would have been able to get you in." Old Fang was only telling a half-truth.

Ye Sigong chuckled. "We can only go for in-service training for two or three months, and

I can't just waste the entire duration in the Emergency Department. If I had more time, I don't mind spending some energy and putting in some hard work there…"

"It's actually good enough already. Two or three months, I mean." Old Fang consoled the other party.

"Yeah, that's the good thing about working in a small hospital." Ye Sigong flashed a smile.

That was actually one of the benefits of working in a small hospital. They had the chance to go for in-service training every two or three years, and this was how their department director pacified them. If the department director refused to give any opportunities to the junior doctors, those junior doctors would feel like they have a bleak future and a boring life. They might even end up resigning and becoming a pharmaceutical sales representative.

For the past few years, Ye Sigong had not gone for any in-service training because of his father's illness. Hence, he had quite a lot of choices right now.

Old Fang chuckled a few times and said, "Truth be told, if you were to ask me this half a year ago, I would have been able to get you into the Emergency Medical Center of Yun Hua Hospital. But things aren't as easy right now."

Even though this was an exaggeration, there was also some truth in it.

It was indeed easier to get a slot for in-service training in Yun Hua Hospital half a year ago.

Ye Sigong asked, "What new requirements do they have now? Are they qualification-related or age-related?"

Doctors from different hospitals had different preferences. Overall, no matter what high-ranking doctors preferred, no matter how absurd their preferences were, the pharmaceutical sales representatives would fulfill those doctors' demands.

For example, certain high-ranking doctors like young men, so they would not take in doctors over a certain age. Certain doctors who had high qualifications themselves would only take in doctors from prestigious universities who had high qualifications. Not only did they like people of their own kind, but they could also show off their high qualifications at the same time.

There were also high-ranking doctors who disliked certain kinds of doctors. When it came to qualifications, there were doctors who disliked medical students who studied an eight-year course. There were also those who disliked doctors who took four years getting their bachelor's degree and another four years getting their masters degree and PhD. There were also high-ranking doctors who disliked doctors who got a diploma before getting their degrees, and some who only looked at a doctor's first degree when deciding on whether to take him in for in-service training.

However, doctors who were in a hospital for in-service training would leave after a few months anyway. Hence, most departments would not reject doctors who were willing to go over for in-service training, and the departments who set certain requirements were usually excellent and powerful departments.

This was because if departments that were weak were to take in a legion of excellent doctors, they would become a joke within the medical industry if their own doctors were to make rookie mistakes in surgery.

Old Fang had been in the industry for quite a while, and he knew what Ye Sigong's question meant. He flashed an anguished smile.

"Do you have some inside scope?" Ye Sigong suddenly thought of something. "Don't tell me that Doctor Ling has some sort of fetish?"

"No, no." Old Fang did not dare gossip about such a thing. He quickly said, "You might not believe this, but the members of the Ling Treatment Group have not been eating well lately…"

Old Fang described the situation in detail.

He had no choice but to do it because if he were to skim on some of the points, he was worried that it would cause some strange rumors to arise.

Pharmaceutical sales representatives who intended to stay in the industry for the long run did not dare create such trouble.

Ye Sigong paid a lot of attention to what Old Fang was saying. After Old Fang finished speaking, he thought carefully about it and asked, "From what I can gather, what they need now is a doctor who knows how to cook?"

"Exactly." Old Fang looked at Ye Sigong and asked a little probingly, "Could it be that you inherited some cooking skills from your family?"

"No. My father used to be a doctor. Everyone in my family is a doctor," Ye Sigong said and paused for a moment. He continued, "But I usually cook for myself at home."

"Are you good at it?"

"I'm pretty good at making shredded potatoes stir-fried with vinegar and pepper as well as curry chicken."

"Oh…" The tiny flicker of hope in Old Fang's heart extinguished.

He had already sent cooking videos of a few doctors to Zuo Cidian, and he had even let Zuo Cidian try some cookies and cakes made by those doctors. But it was obvious that Zuo Cidian's requirements were very high when it came to the cooking skills of the doctor he wanted. And with the workload of doctors nowadays, it was very hard for ordinary doctors to be good at cooking.

In Old Fang's opinion, only doctors who were born to a family of chefs and were already good at cooking before they even finished high school could fulfill Zuo Cidian's requirement.

"You aren't able to find any suitable candidate right now?" Ye Sigong thought about it for a moment and asked Old Fang.

"Of course not. Do such doctors even exist?" Old Fang said in exasperation, "Actually, cooking is just a small matter, don't you think so? Those who go to larger hospitals for in-service training nowadays, especially those who end up in treatment groups of doctors like Doctor Ling can benefit a lot from it. Even if you were to disregard other things, Doctor Zuo made it very clear that he would bring the doctor they take in every time they go for freelance surgery. From what I know, every assistant in the Ling Treatment Group gets a fixed allowance of 2,000 RMB a day. Aside from this, they also get stuff like food allowance, and they can get a total of 5,000 RMB for two days of freelance surgeries. They're able to get ten or twenty thousand RMB of allowance a month from freelance surgeries itself, and Yun Hua Hospital also gives out large sums of bonuses…"

Ye Sigong trembled a little.

Nowadays, attending physicians who worked in departments that reaped in high profits made around 30,000 RMB a month, and this was already considered a lot. Doctors working in the General Surgery Department were basically poop diggers, and the attending physicians there would not mind at all as long as they got to earn 20,000 RMB a month.

Ye Sigong did not even need 20,000 RMB. If he were able to earn 15,000 RMB a month, he would be able to cover his house loan and his father's treatment fees. His life would really become an easy one then.

"Alright, I get what you mean. Let's keep in touch." Ye Sigong had come up with an idea, but he did not plan to let Old Fang know about it. He merely sent Old Fang off.

Old Fang assumed that this doctor from a county hospital was just being polite. He quickly thanked Ye Sigong before leaving the department.

Ye Sigong sat back down in his chair. He whipped out his phone and opened his contact list. He tapped on the name "Tai Fung Lau Peking Restaurant Chef."

"Hello, Old Jiang." The call went through.

"How long do you think I would need to quickly become a trained chef?

"That's such a long time! Sigh. I don't mind working more and resting less, you know?

"Ten hours is nothing. Back when I was in medical school, when exams were coming, I would only sleep for ten hours every two days. I did that every single year

"I'll definitely be able to withstand it for half a month. I'm a surgeon, after all, and this is very common for us.

"No, I wouldn't dare to. I'm not looking down on you. I'm just… This is what I'm thinking. I do know a thing or two about cooking. So I'm thinking about training for about twenty hours in your restaurant for about ten days to half a month. I just want to be able to make home-cooked food well. You know, those that are tasty and healthy at the same time. Do you think that it's possible?

"I'm not afraid that it will be tiring! Just treat me as your servant. As long as you don't hit my head, you can do anything you want to me."

"Hey, what kind of life do you think that I live in the hospital?"

"Yes, that's the way. Give me an hour. I'll go and apply for leave before going over to the restaurant to look for you."

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Chapter 1009: At Ease

"Hm, this tastes…" Zuo Cidian took a bite of the cabbage stir-fried with sweet and sour sauce before him and widened his eyes so much that his eyes looked like two gaping holes on his face.

"Give this stir-fried potatoes with beef a try." Ye Sigong extended his hand and gestured at the dish to showcase his handiwork.

He employed the same strategy as he did as a doctor, showcasing only what he was best at. The seven or eight dishes on the table right now were his best dishes.

He knew more than just how to prepare the ingredients, cook the dishes according to the steps, and control the fire as well as cooking time well when it came to those dishes. He knew how to tweak the taste of those dishes, especially the undertones. This only came with repeated practice…

Ye Sigong was also capable of cooking many other dishes right now, and he would have plenty of time to put in some practice to perfect his skills when it came to those dishes.

What he needed to do now was to emerge victorious among all his competitors by being the best in making home-cooked food, since the members of the Ling Treatment Group merely wanted good home-cooked food.

"How much oil and seasonings did you put into this dish?" Zuo Cidian ate a slice of beef and nodded slowly.

"I focused on serving healthy and tasty dishes today. Take the beef as an example. I could have stir-fried it with oil first, but I didn't. Of course, when I'm actually serving it to you guys, you guys can tell me what to do." Ye Sigong knew what Zuo Cidian meant very well. Since Zuo Cidian was a middle-aged man who looked older than his age, he reckoned that Zuo Cidian's requirement when it came to food was like that of his grandfather: healthy.

Zuo Cidian could not help but nod again. He then tried the other dishes, including scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and stir-fried snow peas.

"If you're able to make vegetarian dishes taste so good, you're capable of making more than just delicious home-cooked food." Zuo Cidian showered Ye Sigong with praises.

"I'm pretty good at meat dishes too." Ye Sigong smiled and continued, "But I heard that Doctor Lu is pretty good at braised dishes, so I believe that you guys need more vegetables for a balanced diet."

"Hm, you're right. Ah, all doctors are smart." Zuo Cidian laughed.

Ye Sigong smiled and said nothing.

"Manager Fang, I really need to thank you this time." Zuo Cidian shook hands with the manufacturing representative of Duco Medical Company.

Manager Fang quickly registered what Zuo Cidian said. He quickly replied, "My contributions are minute. Go ahead and continue your discussion. I'll be taking my leave first."

"Have a safe journey, Manager Fang." Zuo Cidian smiled as he watched Manager Fang leave.

After that, Zuo Cidian looked at Ye Sigong. His expression had become slightly more solemn. "Since you know about how Doctor Lu is good at making braised dishes, it means that you know quite a lot about us already. I won't be bothering you with other questions, but I have to ask you this. How long do you hope that this in-service training will last for?"

"Two years… is this too much?" Ye Sigong gritted his teeth.

When he was training in Tai Feng Restaurant, Ye Sigong had done a lot of thinking as he stood before the stove, the steamer, and the chopping board.

He no longer wanted to work in a county hospital.

Doctors in county hospitals were not like those in tertiary Grade A hospitals. Their lives were more relaxing, and they enjoyed more freedom and fewer responsibilities. Moreover, people were kinder there.

However, Ye Sigong had a paralyzed father who had to stay in the hospital all year long, and he still needed to pay his house loan for twenty years. He had no car either, and he had never enjoyed life in the city like what he had always watched on television.

The in-service training was the only chance Ye Sigong could get to obtain a better life.

He would probably be able to master a surgical method after two years of in-service training. He did not want to think about what would happen if he was not able to do so. He had already taken the leap, and there was no point in doubting himself.

Zuo Cidian was not surprised at all as he looked at Ye Sigong. He said with a smile, "Two years? Then, do make sure to get along well with all the team members."

"Of course," Ye Sigong quickly said when he saw that Zuo Cidian was inclined to agree to his request.

"I don't object to you being with us for such a long time. But that would exceed the time period for normal in-service training, and I'm not sure if such an arrangement can be made. What does the hospital you're working in think about this?"

"I'll cross that bridge when it comes." Ye Sigong had not decided on what to do either. It would not be worth it to resign immediately, but if he could, he would like to delay the inevitable for as long as possible.

Zuo Cidian nodded. "I'll leave that up for you to deal with. On our side, we basically have no problem with you coming on board. But I can't give you a guarantee when it comes to how much you'll get to learn and how much you'll earn. Truth be told, you're pretty high up in the pecking order because of your cooking skills, and the rest is up to you to strive for."

"Noted."

"The doctors in the Ling Treatment Group are relatively young, so you have to take extra care when it comes to interpersonal relationships. You have to understand what you want and think of how to achieve them." After Zuo Cidian said that, he continued to speak in a different kind of tone. He chuckled and said, "When it comes to your cooking skills, you really need to tell me how you're going to put it to good use. Hmm… you can tell me if you need to buy anything or prepare anything. It's better if we talk about it beforehand."

"Sure thing. I had been thinking about this too. If we aren't going too far away, it would be best if we drive a car over." Ye Sigong glanced at Zuo Cidian and continued, "I'm not sure if the team often does freelance surgeries in hospitals nearby, and how far you guys usually travel."

"Half of our freelance surgeries are in the hospitals nearby, and half of them are further away. But as Doctor Ling prefers to travel via bullet train, we mostly carry out freelance surgeries in hospitals that are not too far away nowadays, and only about one-third of our journeys involve hospitals that are further away. We mostly work in several provinces near the ocean… Hmm, we can get some seafood locally…" There was a smile on Zuo Cidian's face.

"Let's do this, then. We'll need a set of cooking utensils. When we have no choice but to take the plane, I'll have to make simpler dishes. But if we're only going somewhere nearby, we can drive a car over, and I can make more complicated dishes…" The more Ye Sigong talked about it, the easier things sounded to him.

It actually was not that simple to carry out freelance surgeries. More often than not, a doctor did not get to decide whether he would be going to hospitals nearby or those that are further away for freelance surgeries.

This was a form of imperfect competition. In short, it was because the pay for freelance surgeries depended on the skills and fame of a doctor. This had nothing to do with the distance that the doctor had to travel. This was why doctors would usually be more inclined to carry out freelance surgeries in hospitals nearby, as this would make the journey more bearable.

However, in Yun Hua City itself, there were three large general tertiary Grade A hospitals: Yun Hua Provincial Hospital, Yun Hua Hospital, and the People's Liberation Army General Hospital. There were also twenty more tertiary Grade A hospitals of various sizes. All the chief physicians there needed to make an income too.

Even though a doctor would not be able to carry out all the freelance surgeries in the world even if he worked his a* off, they needed more than skills alone to be able to consistently carry out freelance surgeries in hospitals nearby. They also had to be extraordinarily charismatic and talented.

Aside from this, there were also certain senior doctors who preferred to carry out freelance surgeries in hospitals that were further away. This was a way to show that they were renowned.

It would not be easy for a doctor to become a freelance surgeon if he was not so renowned that hospitals far away knew about him.

Ye Sigong was feeling quite satisfied right now. Since the Ling Treatment Group was of such caliber, it would probably be fairly easy for him to get a job at another hospital two years later.

Perhaps, he would be able to stay in Yun Hua Hospital for a longer time, and he would only need to look for a job four or five years later.

As Ye Sigong gazed at Zuo Cidian's wrinkly face that was rather ugly and the latter's tired eyes that looked rather hideous, he suddenly felt a little more at ease.

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Chapter 1010: I Hired Someone

"Doctor Ye, let me help you get it." Yu Yuan proactively scurried in front of Ye Sigong. After carefully looking at the items around him, she helped to take up a bone cleaver that was in a casing and put it on her shoulder.

Ye Sigong turned his head around to have a look, and he had a shock. He thought, 'If I used a camera and took a photo without anything else in the picture to serve as a comparison, other people would think that you're holding a zhanmadao and going to a battlefield.'

"There's no need to, Doctor Yu," Ye Sigong politely said to Yu Yuan. He just joined Ling Ran's treatment group. Naturally, he would need to be careful and conscientious so as to not offend anyone.

Yu Yuan glanced at Si Yegong in displeasure and said, "Are you complaining that I carry too little?"

In truth, honestly speaking, and from the bottom of his heart and all his rationale, Ye Sigong did actually think that she was carrying too little.

Using a bone cleaver to chop a hare normally could not be said to be easy. But when that bone cleaver was placed on Yu Yuan's shoulder, Ye Sigong was really afraid that if she were careless, the casing would fall apart, and it would chop off the only chief resident in the team on the spot.

"It's not about carrying less or more. I'm just embarrassed to let you carry it. I can carry it myself. It's not particularly heavy, and I'm used to it. Your hands are delicate and meant for holding pens, you shouldn't be doing this work." Ye Sigong wore an honest, innocent look. Although he was trained in a county hospital, he did not fall behind in learning the skill he needed to spew bullsh*t and kiss another person's a*.

Yu Yuan grunted and said, "I was being considerate because you have to suffer a lot since you have to cook for an entire day and also perform surgeries."

Ye Sigong quickly said, "I'm just doing my job."

"Homecook dishes are pretty nice. Last time, when we go out as freelance surgeons, we would be busy going back and forth between places, and we would just deal with our meals in random restaurants. Now, many hospitals and doctors come to find Doctor Ling. Usually, we'll need to be out for two days, and if no one cooks for us anytime soon, we'll die from all the salt from Lu Wenbin's dishes." Yu Yuan was smiling.

"I'm happy as long as you enjoy it," Ye Sigong humbly replied.

"We like it. I especially like that beef stir-fry." Yu Yuan sighed in her mind. 'We finally got to chat about the main topic.'

"If you like it, that's great. Then I'll make another beef stir-fry today." Ye Sigong had somehow started to understand what was going on, but he was secretly rejoicing. As a newcomer in-service training doctor, not being able to mix into the Ling Treatment Group was Ye Sigong's greatest worry. If that were the case, even if he had Zuo Cidian's support, he reckoned that he would not be able to continue staying for a long time.

Things were pretty good like this. Although he had to spend a lot of time in the kitchen, it was fine, because all in-service training doctors had to do non-medical related stuff all the time.

"Your candied apple fritters are actually not bad too," Yu Yuan added.

Ye Sigong nodded continuously. "These are all simple dishes, no problem."

"By the way, there's this one dish that I really like when I was young. It's called braised aubergines, but many people can't cook them well…"

"I'll go and learn it from my teacher." Ye Sigong obediently smiled. "My teacher works at Tai Fung Lau Peking Restaurant, and their skills are handed down throughout the generations in his family. It has been in my county for almost a hundred years."

"That's incredible. That'd be great." Yu Yuan nodded in satisfaction and put down the zhanmadao from her shoulder before passing it over to Ye Sigong. She laughed and said, "Then, you have to learn it well. How did you know him?"

Ye Sigong laughed and said, "He had a stomach ulcer and underwent surgery at Yun Hua Hospital. Then he went to our county to change the dressing and receive an IV transfusion. That's how we met. At that time, I was still a resident doctor."

"Oh… that master chef had a stomach ulcer because he ate too much?"

"It's mainly because he didn't have a fixed schedule for his meals. It'd be too easy for him to overeat or drink…" Ye Sigong recalled and said. "It's also mainly because a few customers ordered dishes that were not delicious, and some of them ordered dishes that were too delicious…"

"Being a master chef is not easy," Yu Yuan emotionlessly offered a word of praise.

…..

Like a storm sweeping through everything in its wake, Ling Ran's team went from Yun Hua Hospital to Liukai County Hospital. Then, they went to Yiyuan County Hospital and moved on to the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City…

There were very few hospitals that could provide a full day's worth of patients to the Ling Treatment Group.

There was a big difference between a treatment's group efficiency in performing surgeries and its working capabilities versus a simple freelance surgeon.

Ling Ran was different from a normal freelance surgeon. He did not particularly care about money, partly because he was one of the high contenders for freelance surgery in the market, and the other reason was that he was one of the few who were willing to bring their treatment group along.

Normal freelance surgeons would only take surgeries for money. Practicing their surgeries could only be considered their second reason behind performing freelance surgeries. After all, being a doctor was so tiring that every rest day was like a blessing. If it were not for the huge sum of income, very few people would be willing to rush around performing surgeries. It would be better to roast some meat at home and smell its aroma.

It was precisely due to this that the freelance surgeons in county and city hospitals were mainly the chief physicians from high ranking hospitals. Associate chief physicians would need to stay in their hospitals to perform surgeries and attend to the patients that came for treatment so that he could let the chief physicians perform freelance surgery elsewhere without worries.

In terms of career progression, those chief physicians who had reached the peak really did not have much else that they wanted to do and could do besides earning money from performing freelance surgery.

Under such circumstances, those chief surgeons who pursue safety would complete their own surgery, at least most of it, and then leave a few menial tasks to the local hospital's doctor. If those chief surgeons went after efficiency, they would finish only the main parts of the surgery and pass over the remaining work to the local hospital's doctor to finish them up.

However, no matter what pattern it was, they could not compare with the treatment group which Ling Ran led.

The treatment group members that Ling Ran brought along with him—regardless of whether they were Lu Wenbin, Yu Yuan, or Zuo Cidian—had experience in being assistants for hundreds of surgeries. Lu Wenbin even possessed a certain degree of experience as a chief surgeon.

Ye Sigong, the other in-service training doctors, and housemen could still operate the retractor and chatted to display their battle power, even if they did not fulfill the requirement of being a first assistant.

Such a team could not only become Ling Ran's assistants. When the number of surgeries was large, they could independently handle a certain number of surgical tasks. For example, when it came to Achilles tendon repairs, Ling Ran would complete the suturing of the Achilles Tendon, while most parts of the suturing of blood vessels would be given to his team, along with the other parts. Take another example. During hepatectomy, Ling Ran would complete the exposure and the process of removing the liver before leaving the rest to his team… The way they operated during the surgery alone was already no different from the way Ling Ran performed surgery in Yun Hua Hospital.

If the local hospital's doctor wanted to join, they could also join the team to perform the surgery. In normal situations, this would increase the surgery speed instead of slowing things down.

By venturing out two to three times every month to perform freelance surgeries and clearing up all the surgeries in the area, Ling Ran's efficiency made the hospitals in Changxi Province to be unable to accumulate a large number of cases.

As he kept on treating all the patients until he reached the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City, Ling Ran's team finally encountered a minor problem.

"We contacted an expert from Shanghai to perform the surgery." The patient's family suddenly changed the previous plan during the preoperative discussion, and it surprised Zuo Cidian, who was going through the formalities.

An orthopedist of the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City's orthopedist and Liu Cishan, an assistant lecturer of the Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, was also shocked when they rushed over.

The First People's Hospital of Wuxin City could already be considered to be Ling Ran's territory, and it had been his for a long time. The assistant lecturers like Liu Cishan could be said to have had their skills in hepatectomy developed under Ling Ran. The Orthopedics Department's expansion into arthroscopic surgeries and Achilles tendon repairs could also be said to have been entirely Liu Cishan's doing.

"Why did you guys… suddenly change your mind?" The orthopedist could not throw a fit. He could only speak to the patient's family nicely.

"I'm the patient's elder sister. I'm working in Shanghai, and I know a few people in the medical system. I was quite occupied with work, so after returning back, I feel that, if possible, I'd like to hire a doctor from Shanghai to perform the surgery. It should be a better option" The patient's backbone was obviously this forty-year-old career woman.

The orthopedist was furious. "If you invited another hospital's doctor to perform the surgery, don't you need to inform us as well?"

"Am I not informing you now? After all, we're still inviting doctors from other places to perform the surgery, but the one we invited is far better, so it's only natural that we should use ours…" The career woman spoke forcefully and with great justification.

Liu Cishan held back the orthopedist who was fuming and looked up before he said, "About this, it's normal for you to have your own ideas as family members, but you could have told us beforehand. Now, the freelance surgeon we originally hired is here."

"I'm sorry. Since Shanghai doctors are busier, we weren't sure if we could reach him. This time, we're lucky…" The career woman paused and looked at the people in front of her. She pouted and said, "If they won't accept it, I'll give them a red envelope."

She squared her shoulders, and her Chanel blazer was dazzling.

"That's not considered a red envelope." When the orthopedist said this, he looked at Zuo Cidian with a troubled expression. The other party was willing to pay double the amount. He was afraid that if he continued and enraged the patient's family, things would escalate, and this would become a huge trouble.

Freelance surgeries were always very tricky.

Zuo Cidian felt like he should not continue talking. He laughed and said, "A patient choosing which doctor to operate on him is normal. You don't have to pay any fees."

"Remember what you said." Someone in the family immediately hung onto his words. It was only natural that they were not willing to pay more.

Zuo Cidian acknowledged this and said, "If you don't mind me asking, which hospital in Shanghai is the doctor operating on your younger brother from?"

"The Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center."

"Academician Zhu's hospital?"

"Yes, I hired Academician Zhu's apprentice." The career woman squared her shoulders and smiled. "I had to do a lot of favors for others before I was able to hire him, so I'm terribly sorry about this."

"It's fine." Zuo Cidian smiled, and he tugged the doctors from the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City's doctors before they left.

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Chapter 1011: Doctor Qu

"Doctor Zuo, I'm really sorry." Liu Cishan of the Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery was the most embarrassed one after causing such chaos.

Zuo Cidian's smile faded as he said, "Now that things have progressed in this manner, there's nothing to say anymore. Now, instead, we have to act carefully so as to not have the patient or his family members complain about us."

"Yes, I have asked the doctor-in-charge to talk to the patient." The person who represented the Orthopedics Department of the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City was also an associate chief physician.

Zuo Cidian nodded and said, "There's nothing else apart from that. This kind of thing usually doesn't happen. I'll just notify Doctor Ling."

"Okay, we will be more careful in the future." Liu Cishan felt dejected.

The scale of the First Hospital of Yun Hua City was not very large. It was somehow similar to basic tertiary Grade A hospitals. Liu Cishan had worked in this hospital for twenty years. He was already very familiar with the people in the area, and he also had a very clear idea of how things go about in this sort of situation. Hence, he did not expect that he would end up embarrassing himself because of the patient's family.

However, for doctors, the unpredictable changes of diseases could never be compared with the changes in the patients' families.

Liu Cishan did not dare to promise anything as well. After a while, he laughed it off, and he was relieved that this matter was considered settled.

However, after sending off Zuo Cidian, the first thing the associate chief physician of the Orthopedics Department did was immediately calling for the patient's doctor-in-charge and asking him questions in detail while also giving him instructions.

The patient's doctor in-charge was a little uneasy.

The associate chief physician of the Orthopedics Department said, "The patient's family members can't just hire a freelance surgeon without going through us. What did the patient's family say?"

"The patient's family members suggested that if it is not convenient for us to have the surgery, they would consider looking for a private hospital to have the surgery."

The associate chief physician could not help but glance at Liu Cishan.

"This family is a little stubborn anyway, so it's better to send them off. But still, it's up to you." Liu Cishan could not tell the people in the Orthopedics Department how to do their job. He could only give suggestions.

"The Achilles tendon repair is actually a minor surgery. The point is, the patient is still a coach, and he has requirements for his mobility. So, we introduced him to Doctor Ling's freelance surgery. Who would have guessed a sister like this would appear among the patient's family members?" the associate chief physician of the Orthopedics Department explained and said, "If things just don't work out, it's best to transfer him to another hospital."

Liu Cishan nodded. "The thoughts of the patient and his families are rather hard to grasp."

"Yes, I am also afraid they will be disgruntled again."

"No matter what, Doctor Ling isn't making any complaints, so let's not worry." Liu Cishan was also not quite certain about how he should progress with the situation now. Although once in a while, some of the patients' family members would do simple yet incredibly stupid things, doctors would also make inexplicable decisions because of certain reasons as well. So, he was not entirely too sure what Doctor Ling would truly do.

…..

At the airport…

"Your coat, sir." An air stewardess smiled and handed over a new Gucci coat to Doctor Qu.

"Thank you." Doctor Qu took his coat with a smile on his face and stretched out his hand to pick up his suitcase. He felt relaxed.

He bought the coat using the money he made from the freelance surgeries he performed previously. It cost as much as his current month's salary.

However, Doctor Qu did not care about this kind of thing now. Once a doctor started freelance surgeries, his perspective on money would change completely.

Doctor Qu walked out of the passage slowly, dragging the suitcase behind him without considering it as a burden.

In the Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center, there were various chief physicians and branch directors ranked above him, and there were a number of highly educated, talented young doctors with hair ranked below him. He was never able to relax in that environment.

Doctor Qu was at the peak of his life when he served as Liu Weichen's attending physician.

At that time, Doctor Qu wanted to perform the surgery for Liu Weichen. Although the probability of success was not high, he still held hope that he would get to perform the surgery

After Liu Weichen finished his surgery, Doctor Qu felt that the more surgeries he performed, the less interesting they became.

He knew that his skills would never reach Ling Ran's level, and it was also not easy for him to get a promotion.

"Doctor Qu, this way." A local representative of the pharmaceutical sales company the Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center worked with and a family member of the patient had set up a sign at the pick-up point. They waved at him.

Doctor Qu's feet were light as he walked with a smile on his face.

Compared with struggling in the Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center, it was better to come out and make a living while he was young.

Of course, it was not so easy to come out and make a living, especially when he was aiming for the big hospitals.

Doctor Qu could only spare some time to perform one or two freelance surgeries after he had completed all his work.

Most of his surgeries were associated with private clinics in the Shanghai market. These private clinics would want a commission, and the places they arranged were usually places that doctors who were even more famous were not willing to go to. However, Doctor Qu did not care about that so much.

He was very satisfied as long as he could perform freelance surgeries, even if it would take three to four hours to get to the place.

He was unable to set a high price or perform multiple surgeries at one time like the chief physicians anyway.

He was only able to search for suitable chances for him to perform freelance surgeries in places that were not in Shanghai and cities that were not provincial capitals.

"You have worked hard, Doctor Qu." The local pharmaceutical sales representative had never met Doctor Qu personally. It was just that his colleagues had asked him to pick up Doctor Qu at the airport.

However, pharmaceutical sales representatives were all cunning and slick people. They knew how to establish a good relationship with anyone.

He picked up Doctor Qu's suitcase and said, "Our ride is here. It's just a call away. We'll take a high-speed rail lasting for two hours in a while. Doctor Qu, do you want to depart immediately or eat something first?"

"Let's depart immediately." Doctor Qu had predicted the journey, but he still felt a little sentimental. It was really a lot easier to perform freelance surgeries at Yun Hua hospital. After all, flying over to Shanghai was a long journey.

However, it was only an idea at the back of Doctor Qu's mind. Yun Hua Hospital was like Ling Ran's base camp. If he were to crash there, Doctor Qu would not be able to accomplish anything.

Doctor Qu had really studied Ling Ran's Achilles tendon repair technique carefully.

After all, his research was in this area.

To be honest, Doctor Qu was not able to believe that he would finish completing the Zhu-Ling Achilles Repair Technique, even mastering it by 80% sounded impossible to him.

This knowledge caused Doctor Qu to give up on getting higher qualifications, and he decided to start pursuing money instead.

The medical field had always been a world belonging to genii. Doctor Qu had known this for a long time. However, only when he distanced himself from a genius, especially those matchless genii, would he be able to decide his fate.

There were many times where Doctor Qu thought that Ling Ran had come over to the Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center just so he could perform some freelance surgeries.

Of course, it was impossible for Ling Ran to get paid the same amount as he would receive in freelance surgeries when he went to perform surgeries at the Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center, but Doctor Qu did not think that the treatments given by Ling Ran were any different from that of freelance surgeons.

"Wuxin City is not close to Yun Hua." Doctor Qu commented after he sat in the high-speed rail. Then, he looked at the distant Yun Hua City, and his heart became increasingly calmer.

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Chapter 1012: We Believe

There was harmony in the ward of the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City.

"Doctor Qu is here." The patient's sister became happier when she got back from receiving a call.

She took an orange, peeled it, and fed herself while she said, "News from the clinic said that Doctor Qu is already on the bullet train and will reach the hospital soon."

"Is he performing the surgery in the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City or some other place?" The patient on the bed felt worried and asked.

"I guess we have to do it outside." When the sister talked about it, she looked slightly unhappy while she said, "Nowadays, the hospitals are not willing to take up any responsibility. But it's alright. I've called a private ambulance over. Later on, when the doctor comes and takes a look, we'll take a ride and go to the appointed hospital."

"Okay." The brother was not very excited.

He was a P.E. teacher in a high school in Wuxin City, and he worked part-time as a coach for a basketball team. At the same time, he was also a referee in the province, and he was still very young, so he had a higher requirement on the condition of his Achilles tendon.

The First People's Hospital of Wuxin City had performed the first diagnosis on him, and they suggested that they could hire a freelance surgeon from Yun Hua, which was why he decided to stay here.

Naturally, it was naturally great that a doctor from Shanghai came over. However, compared to the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City, having his surgery in a private hospital still made him feel slightly worried.

The sister comforted her brother by saying, "Don't think too much. The hospitals now are very commercialized. The condition of the operating theater in a private hospital is not worse than a public hospital, and the main difference just lies in reimbursement. But if the doctor is good, it's fine even if we can't get any reimbursement."

"Alright."

The sister smiled and said, "I'm not joking. At that time, when I went to a private clinic, they gave me a book of resumes, and they asked me to choose a doctor. I opened the album and looked through it, and I just picked this Doctor Qu…"

"It'll be good if you can also as straightforward as this in your matchmaking sessions." Their parents were just sitting in front of them, and they could not help but say at the moment.

The tension in the room was instantly relieved at this moment.

The sister pretended that she did not hear anything. "Doctor Qu's skill is very good. In the Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center, he performs at least ten surgeries of Achilles tendon repair technique every month. Your Achilles tendon repair surgery is not very difficult, and we hired him to get a better outcome so that we'll be more at ease."

The brother nodded. "I know. I've searched about him on my phone before."

The sister smiled and said, "Right? So just be at ease. This is the best choice we can get at the moment. Actually, if it's possible, getting Academician Zhu for the surgery is the best. But Academician Zhu is too old, and he doesn't really perform surgery on his own now… Oh yes, when Doctor Qu comes, let's not mention these…"

"Of course."

As the siblings discussed things, they felt better.

At this moment, an associate chief physician of the Orthopedics Department and anesthetist came to the ward and performed an examination.

"Doctors, we'll be counting on you now." The sister looked around the ward and took out two red envelopes when she saw no one around.

"No need." The associate chief physician of the Orthopedics Department dared not receive a red envelope from this kind of patient, so he immediately rejected it and said, "You looked for the doctor on your own, and later, you'll be discharged. I won't be saying anything else. This is your choice, and our hospital also respects your decision."

"Doctor, actually, we don't want to go to another place. Can you consider letting us receive the surgery in the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City?" The sister took out the red envelope again, and she whispered, "It's not money inside."

The associate chief physician of the Orthopedics Department subconsciously pinched the envelope. Indeed, there was no money inside the red envelope. It was a card.

This made him hesitate.

"Sigh, with the channel you used to find the doctor, we don't even know what situation and skills the doctor you hired have, so we really could not allow it." The associate chief physician of the Orthopedics Department regretfully pushed the red envelope with the card back to the sister.

When the sister saw this, she could only put the red envelope away and send the associate chief physician of the Orthopedics Department off. When she turned around, she smiled in relief. "It's alright, we have tried everything we can. Since we can't have the surgery in the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City, we'll just have it in another place. It's just a little more expensive, but the main point is that the doctor's skill is good."

"Yes, as long as the doctor's skill is good." The family members repeated this sentence to strengthen their belief.

Soon, Doctor Qu happily appeared in the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City.

He was just in his forties, and he was still in the prime of his life. However, since his career in Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center did not progress smoothly, Doctor Qu had started thinking about working as a private doctor.

He left his information in many private hospitals and private clinics. Although it was against the rules, it was not illegal. Then, Doctor Qu tried his best to smile while he tended to his patients.

As a doctor who came from a top public hospital, smiling was very rare for them to do.

"I've read your scans. I'll perform a physical examination first, and if there are no other problems, we'll depart." Doctor Qu smiled.

The patient and his family members quickly nodded.

His sister even handed him a red envelope and said, "Doctor Qu, we appreciate your help."

"Ah… it's not a big deal." Doctor Qu went along the flow and kept the red envelope. Then, he lowered his head to perform the examination.

He had done this kind of basic operation a lot, but when he did it in another hospital, he still needed to perform whatever examinations that he could do.

"Yes, there's not much of a problem with you." Doctor Qu performed a general examination and boldly gave his comment.

"That's good." The patient's sister was obviously relieved.

"Next, I'll call the ambulance over to send him…" Doctor Qu chuckled while he talked about the procedure. Then, he started to introduce the exact content of the surgery.

The sister felt very good. She also smiled and said to her brother as well as other family members, "The doctors nowadays are good. If it's a doctor from a public hospital, he may not say so many things."

Doctor Qu smiled and thought secretly, 'When I became famous in the future, I would ask the junior doctors to explain things.'

When the people in the room spent a happy time together in a harmonious atmosphere, someone knocked on the door to the room lightly.

"Doctor Qu." Zuo Cidian stepped into the room, and he immediately recognized the bald doctor sitting at the foot of the bed.

Doctor Qu was also very surprised. "Doctor Zuo? Why are you here?"

"Wuxin City is the second-largest city in Changxi Province." Zuo Cidian smiled and answered.

His facial expression made Doctor Qu immediately remembered the dialogue by those fierce men who smoked cigars and held old-fashioned mobile phones in the cop films from Hong Kong and Taiwan he had seen in the past. They would say things like, "Bro, you've overstepped your boundaries."

Doctor Qu coughed, and he looked slightly embarrassed as he said, "I was introduced by a private clinic…"

"It's fine." Zuo Cidian magnanimously waved his hand and said, "Since Changxi Province is so big, it's impossible not to allow other doctors to come."

Doctor Qu quickly showed a smile. Then, he asked, "Is Doctor Ling also here?"

"Yes, Doctor Ling is invited to perform a few surgeries."

"Oh, that's not bad. What surgeries are they?"

"Hepatectomies, Achilles tendon repairs, and arthroscopies." Zuo Cidian's face showed a calm smile.

"This…" Doctor Qu's IQ finally started working, so he quickly understood what was going on, and he looked at the siblings on the bed.

The sister hesitated a little. She saw Doctor Qu's face and thought he might need some support. So, she said, "We still believe in Doctor Qu's skill more."

Two or three years ago, Doctor Qu performed surgery with Ling Ran, and they performed an Achilles tendon repair together.

At that time, the spoon-feeding technique that Ling Ran mastered was able to satisfy Doctor Qu fully.

Doctor Qu stared at the patient and his family members with an indescribable look, and he secretly sighed. 'I don't even believe in myself!'

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Chapter 1014: The Art of Praise

The set-up of the surgical floor at the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City was not much different from Yun Hua Hospital, except that the surface area of the surgical floor was smaller, the grade of the operating theaters was lower, the equipment in the operating theater was less advanced, the experience of the Department of Surgery was lower, the qualification of the Department of Anesthesiology was lower, the control of nosocomial infection was weaker, and the commonly used instruments were older…

Other than that, the operating theaters between these two hospitals were not much different.

After Doctor Qu watched the patient enter the operating theater, confirmed his identity, and examined him, he took out a stack of documents, smiled, and said to the circulating nurse of the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City whom he was not familiar with, "Nurse Li, please send the MRI scans from our side to Doctor Ling. I've put on a sticker on the scans, and I also wrote the order and bed number."

Doctor Qu's attitude was docile, and he wore a gentle smile that only appeared when he faced his boss.

The medical staff of the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City still respected the doctor from the Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center in Shanghai to a certain degree. They also felt a certain degree of affection toward Doctor Qu since he categorized the scans, put on the labels, and arranged them accordingly.

The circulating nurse of the operating theater immediately agreed, smiled, and said, "Then, I will bring them over. Do you have something you want to say to him?"

"Just say that I'm asking Doctor Ling for guidance." Doctor Qu was also a middle-aged adult. Although he was able to say something even more embarrassing, since Ling Ran was not around, he did not find it necessary to say the even more embarrassing words.

Nurse Li smiled and took up Doctor Qu's request before she took the stack of scans and left.

"I'll go and wash my hands." Doctor Qu breathed a sigh of relief before he gave a few more instructions and got ready to go out.

"Then, shall I anesthetize the patient first?" the anesthetist asked.

Doctor Qu stopped moving, thought about it, and said, "Wait for me to come back first."

"Alright." When the anesthetist saw Doctor Qu stepping on the door and leaving, he mumbled, "As long as you're not worried."

Normal freelance surgeons would just blaze through the surgery. When they entered the operating theater, they wanted their patient to be anesthetized to the point that they were like a drugged Wu Dalang. They also wanted their blood pressure to be so stable that it resembled a bedridden Pan Jinlian, and they wanted their instruments to shine as brilliantly as Ximen Qing's sword would when he drew it.

However, that was just how things usually were. Even if Doctor Qu did not begin his work hastily, the anesthetist would not be bothered by it as well.

"I'll take a nap," the anesthetist said to the nurse by his side. He crossed his legs and laid down. He looked exactly like the lame version of the tiger with a white forehead and fierce eyes, who lived six miles behind Jingyang Hill, at the sixth hollow of the cave 1.2 miles up the slope. [1]

The patient lay on the cold operating table. The circulating nurse had just confirmed his particulars on his wristband, such as his name, and he felt mentally and physically ready, but at this time, for some reason, he felt slightly abandoned.

"What's going on now?" The patient raised his head and looked at the doctor's assistant, who was still working at the side.

The doctor's assistant today was an attending physician from the Orthopedics Department in the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City. He understood what Doctor Qu meant, so he dragged over a stool with his leg, sat near the patient's leg, and calmly said, "Wait for the doctor to come back. Don't move around, or else the draping will move out of position."

"It's slightly cold." The patient moved a little again.

The attending physician from the Orthopedics Department calmly said, "Let me rephrase my words. If you don't move, no one will see your nuts."

The patient thought about what he had said, and the scuffling sounds disappeared.

The operating theater was as quiet as a classroom, and even the set-up was exactly the same. There was a student there who scored among the first tier during the national college examinations and was taken to a ket university, one of them scored among the second tier and got into an ordinary university, one of them got into a specialized school, and one of them was sick.

In a while, Doctor Qu returned to the operating theater.

"Wake up the anesthetist." Doctor Qu had his hands positioned in front of his chest, and he started to put on his scrub and gloves.

The assistant woke the anesthetist from his nap, and he started performing spinal anesthesia on the patient.

The patient curled up his body and had his back face the anesthetist. His thighs stuck to his tummy, and he could not help but feel nervous.

The anesthetist was used to seeing this. He could not even be bothered to comfort the patient, and he used the usual intimidation tactic he used. "Don't move. If I inject the wrong nerve, you may need to spend the rest of your life in a wheelchair…"

The patient trembled even more greatly.

The female nurse walked over and said softly, "Relax, it's just a small thing. We are now sanitizing your back."

The patient trembled slightly less, just as they expected.

As Doctor Qu watched, he found the sight pitiful but also aggravating. He thought. 'You're in this state right now because you were overthinking. If you're so worried, then you should have searched for more information.'

The idea just flashed in his mind briefly, and Doctor Qu's facial expression never changed.

He would not hand his life over to some idiot and let them decide his life.

Shick*

The circulating nurse entered the operating theater. There were two orthopedists behind her, and they were both associate chief physicians in the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City.

"Nurse Li, you're here. Any news from Doctor Ling?" Doctor Qu immediately asked. He did not try to hide the fact that he had asked for guidance just because two associate chief physicians of the Orthopedics Department in the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City were in front of him.

He would not come to Wuxin City anymore, and it was highly possible that he would also not come to Changxi Province anymore in the future. Therefore, finishing today's work well was his only aim.

Nurse Li nodded and said, "Doctor Ling said it's a common interrupted rupture of the Achilles tendon."

"It's quite common, true." Doctor Qu quickly asked, "Did he say anything else?"

"He didn't say anything else."

"Please think. Whatever he said will be alright."

Nurse Li slowly shook her head. "Doctor Ling was performing surgery, so he was not free to pay attention to me."

"I might need to trouble you to go again. Please say that the patient has had the spinal anesthesia, and we're ready to begin operating on the surgical field. I'm prepared to perform a four-inch incision inside, and it'll be behind the Achilles tendon through the wound. I've observed that Doctor Ling always makes a big incision. If it's not enough, I will lengthen the incision, or should I lengthen it now?"

Nurse Li did not move.

If this happened in his own operating theater, Doctor Qu might have started scolding the nurse.

He was not a resident doctor who could be bullied. Hence, the reason why she did not move even after he gave her such clear instructions was clear.

However, this was not his operating theater.

Therefore, Doctor Qu could only smile and politely say, "Nurse Li, I need you to go there again."

"You have a phone, so why aren't you making a call? What's the point in me running around? What if I deliver the wrong message?" Nurse Li could not be bothered to go out.

"It looks more sincere to deliver the message in person." Doctor Qu sounded a little more severe, and his gaze turned sharp. He was like an obedient stray dog who started to feel hungry.

Nurse Li did not care. She replied with a drawl, "Opening and closing the door frequently will affect postoperative nursing care. Even if you don't care about it, Doctor Ling will not allow it."

This reason became stronger when Doctor Ling's name was added into the mix.

Doctor Qu knew how serious Ling Ran was toward surgeries, so he could not help but consider things a little deeper, as he was afraid that he would end up not flattering Ling Ran instead.

"Alright, let's make a call." Doctor Qu surrendered.

Nurse Li rolled her eyes. She directly took out her phone, dialed a number, and said, "Doctor Qu here wants to talk to Doctor Ling."

In a while, Ling Ran's steady voice was heard along with some light music.

"Hello?"

A baritone with a great projection made the patient on the bed have goosebumps break all over her skin. It was too pleasant to the ears!

"Doctor Ling, I'm Old Qu." Doctor Qu's remaining pride did not allow him to call himself "Young Qu" when the two operating theaters were connected. He praised himself, sighed about the hypocrisy of the world, and repeated what he said to Nurse Li just now to Ling Ran.

"You are the chief surgeon, is it necessary to ask me?" Ling Ran frowned in the other operating theater.

"After all, I'm using the Zhu-Ling Achilles Repair Technique. I also hope for a chance to learn more from you." Doctor Qu quickly jumped on the conversation and said something pleasant.

Ling Ran muttered to himself for two seconds before he said, "Four inches will not be a problem."

"Alright, please don't hang up the phone." Doctor Qu lowered his head, asked for a scalpel, and started to make the incision. He said, "I'm now stripping the subcutaneous tissue…"

"Don't strip too much." Ling Ran took the initiative to say. In his opinion, as long as the call was connected, he would still be able to increase the success rate of the surgery, and it was not much of a problem for him to help increase the success rate of Doctor Qu's surgery, anyway.

Doctor Qu quickly replied. A paradoxically uneasy yet relieved look was seen on his face while he kept talking,

"I'm ready to flip the tendon sheath."

"Hematoma is quite serious. I'm starting to clean it up now.

"Got it. I'll try to ensure the blood supply. I'm suturing the small vessel… it's truly hard…"

The regionally anesthetized patient opened his eyes wide and listened to Doctor Qu's obsequious voice. It seemed like he was still performing the surgery according to Ling Ran's guidance, and the patient instantly found himself a little stunned.

The situation was different from what his sister told him!

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Chapter 1015: Flattering

"The surgery was very successful." Doctor Qu followed the gurney out of the operating theater and nodded proudly and confidently at the patient's family members.

With his experience, he could be said to have done this surgery very perfectly. The patient had enough blood supply, and he could guarantee that the patient could regain plenty of Achilles tendon strength. Even though the other party might need to rest for relatively long and it would be impossible for him to go through training and competitions that are as strenuous as Liu Weichen's, it was basically good enough for a PE teacher.

These words were what the patients were waiting for the most. They thanked Doctor Qu non-stop when they heard that.

The patient's older sister bent down to look at her younger brother, and she said with a smile on her face, "It's great that the surgery had gone well. All that hard work didn't go to waste."

Her younger brother was conscious at that moment, but he looked a little glum as he laid on the gurney.

"What's wrong? Are you feeling any discomfort?" his older sister immediately asked as she noticed his glum expression.

Her younger brother forced a smile. "Not really."

"Just say whatever you're feeling." His elder sister thought, 'If you don't say anything you have to say while the doctor's here, are you going to wait until tomorrow or the day after tomorrow to speak?'

Her younger brother pursed his lips in resignation. He looked like he wanted to say something, but there was something holding him back.

"Hey, you're making me anxious. What's wrong? Did your ureter drop out?" The elder sister believed that her younger brother was hesitant due to embarrassment.

"I'm not using a ureter." Her younger brother sighed in resignation and said, "I was conscious during the surgery, and I heard Doctor Qu calling someone else for help non-stop while he operated on me."

The moment he said that, his older sister was utterly shocked. She almost jumped to her feet as she questioned Doctor Qu, "Why are you operating on someone if you don't know how to do it?"

There were a lot of people in the waiting area, to begin with. Many of them were bored and anxious, and when they heard something so interesting going on, they immediately crowded around Doctor Qu.

Doctor Qu was not considered a talented doctor, but he was an attending physician in the Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center. He had more than ten years of experience dealing with patients' family members.

There was a calm expression on Doctor Qu's face, and he was level-headed as he gazed at the pair of siblings and the onlooking crowd. "First of all, not only do I know how to operate on patients, but I'm also very good at it. Second of all, I performed this surgery very meticulously and earnestly. And last but not least, like what I had said just now, the surgery is a very successful one."

Doctor Qu came out with three points to defend himself, and the onlooking crowd suddenly felt that things were not as interesting as they had thought.

The patient's sister froze too. Actually, this was no rocket science. Private clinics charged quite a lot of money for their services, and there was no need for them to hire a doctor who did not know how to operate on patients after receiving so much money.

In this time and age, it was probably more expensive to hire an actor compared to an excellent doctor.

Aside from that, the most important thing was that the surgery was a successful one. If surgery went successfully, other people would not make a valid point even if they were to point out problems.

"Then what about what my younger brother said?" The patient's elder sister bent down and asked her younger brother a few questions. She then continued, "What did he mean when he said you called someone else non-stop to ask for help during the surgery?"

"It's because Doctor Ling is here." Even though Doctor Qu's expression was dark, he was feeling happier and happier.

The thing he was the most afraid of right now was that Ling Ran would set him up using his power and influence after the surgery.

Doctor Qu believed that doctors like Ling Ran were the hardest to decipher.

Skillful doctors had always been very powerful and had great control over things. In fact, their influence extended to other hospitals. A doctor whose career was largely limited by the hospital he was in would have skillful and powerful doctors imposing various limitations on him if he were not careful.

Hence, throughout the surgery, Doctor Qu was plagued by one question: how should he flatter Ling Ran the right way?

Giving him calls to ask him about the surgery was one of the methods that Doctor Qu had thought of. But he did not know whether that was enough to ensure his survival in the Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Center.

Doctor Qu felt that it was really dangerous to deal with a skillful and powerful doctor.

It would be way too easy for Ling Ran to set him up, and he was not sure about what was on the other party's mind.

Fortunately, the patient's family members gave Doctor Qu another chance to flatter Ling Ran.

Before the patient's older sister could make any further inquiries, Doctor Qu loudly said, "I've already explained this before the surgery. Doctor Ling was the one who invented the Zhu-Ling Achilles Repair Technique that was used on the patient. Truth be told, Doctor Ling could be said to be the number one doctor in the country when it comes to Achilles tendon repairs. Since he happened to be here when I was using the surgical method he invented, is it not a given for me to ask for his guidance? This is also a way for me to show how dedicated I am at treating the patient, isn't it?"

As Doctor Qu spoke, his tone became more and more solemn, and he emanated a domineering aura.

The patient's older sister widened her eyes. 'What the heck is going on?'

The onlooking crowd started whispering to each other.

"Since when is there such an excellent doctor in Wuxin?"

"Stop making a fool of yourself. That doctor is from Yun Hua. He's very famous in Yun Hua Hospital."

"How do you know that?"

"My brother-in-law received hepatectomy at Yun Hua Hospital, and this doctor is considered a renowned one in the country. Even though he looks extremely young, it's very hard to get a consultation slot with him. I only managed to get my brother-in-law a consultation slot with him in Wuxin City through connections. I heard that scalpers are selling tickets for consultation slots with this doctor for more than 1,000 RMB…"

"No, wait. Why do you sound so happy even though you have a brother-in-law who's receiving hepatectomy…? Oh…"

The pair of siblings found themselves unable to wrap their minds over this entire matter as they listened to the people around them speak.

The patient's elder sister tried her best to focus. She then looked at Doctor Qu and said, "There's a loophole in your story!"

"What?" Doctor Qu looked at the patient's elder sister. 'Are we filming a detective series now?'

"You said that you're a skillful doctor. Then, why do you have to ask for guidance? This doesn't make sense. Moreover, you said that your surgery was done very well… Since you can do it so well, there's no need for you to ask for guidance from another young doctor, isn't it?" The patient's older sister insisted on her own point of view.

"Under normal circumstances, of course not." Doctor Qu nodded and continued, "But Doctor Ling's skills… Let me put it this way. In the context of our country's field of orthopedics, although I'm considered pretty good, Doctor Ling is the number one in our country. He's the best at it. Do you get what I mean? So, by asking for guidance from Doctor Ling, I'm able to operate on the patient even better. This is good for the patient, and recovery would definitely be even better than expected."

The patient's older sister looked at Doctor Qu in a daze. "The private hospital we went to said that you are one of the best orthopedics surgeons in our country. And… and… you're working for the Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Center, aren't you?"

"You're right, but Doctor Ling is an even better orthopedics surgeon compared to me. Don't you get it?" Doctor Qu was actually intentionally flattering Ling Ran with so many people around, even though Ling Ran himself was not in the room. Now that someone was playing along with him, he was flattering Ling Ran even more earnestly. "Let me make an inappropriate example. If I were a high school student, with my skills, I'll probably get able to get into a key university without problems, but if I were lucky, I would get into one of the universities listed under Project 211. If I'm even luckier, I'll get into one of the universities listed under Project 985. As for Doctor Ling, he'll definitely be one of the top students in the country."

The people around him could not help but gasp.

The patient's older sister said in a daze, "Did I make a wrong choice?"

Doctor Qu said unhappily, "It's not like you guys got into a losing deal with me being the surgeon, okay? Even if you were to disregard other things, when it comes to Achilles tendon repair alone, I'm better than most doctors. You have to know that the average student can only enter a third-tier university."

"But before this…" The patient's older sister did not know what else to say.

"You guys merely didn't luck out, but it's not like you got a bad deal." Doctor Qu pursed his lips. He felt that he had flattered Ling Ran enough, and he did not bother saying anything else. He merely said, "Hurry up and accompany the patient back to the ward. When it comes to recovery, only 30% of it is dependent on the care the patient receives. 70% of it depends on the patient himself."

After he finished talking, Doctor Qu turned and returned to the corridor of the operating theater. He then went to the operating theater where Ling Ran was working to make a report.

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Chapter 1016: Prove

Ye Sigong fixed his gaze on Ling Ran's hands as he held the aspirator. He was so focused that he looked like a fox who was waiting to pounce on a rabbit.

He used to know how to carry out Achilles tendon repair surgery.

Like many other county hospitals and small-town hospitals, the hospital where Ye Sigong worked mostly carried out minor surgeries that larger hospitals were not interested in. The doctors at the General Surgery Department operated on every part of the patients from head to toe, and there was not really any distinction when it came to their job scope.

Even though it was the same surgical method, from Ye Sigong's perspective, he felt like he was learning a brand new surgical method.

The scans that they referred to before the surgery were well-done, and the incision was made very precisely, and even the angle at which the scalpel was used mattered. They had to pay so much attention to the steps of the surgery that it was as if they were making pastries.

The first thing Ye Sigong noticed was how rhythmic Ling Ran's movements were.

It was the kind of feeling that could be understood but could not be described. Those who were able to feel it certainly had adequate skills.

Take writing as an example. Some people who wrote quickly looked like they were in a rush, and they almost seemed agitated. However, there were people who wrote so slowly that they seemed agitated. Truth be told, the speed at which a person was writing did not determine whether he was good at writing. But those who were good at it would be able to do so at a comfortable pace.

It was Ye Sigong's private opinion that the way Ling Ran operated on patients resembled a master chef who was extremely good at fire control.

Ling Ran did not seem like he was in a rush, but he was not too slow either. He did not seem like he was putting in any extra effort, but in truth, he was extremely familiar with the ingredients, temperature, and steps…

Ye Sigong stole a glance at Ling Ran. There was so much admiration in his eyes that it was not even possible for him to hide it.

"Doctor Ye, if you're tired, I can take your place." Ren Qi's voice rang out from behind him, and it made Ye Sigong feel incredibly resigned.

Ren Qi was a doctor who came earlier than Ye Sigong to Yun Hua Hospital for in-service training, and his background was almost like that of Ye Sigong's. He was also from a county hospital where the doctors' main entertainment at night was going to the karaoke bar, and he was also an experienced attending physician from the General Surgery Department…

The only difference was that Ren Qi came earlier, and he had learned more skills compared to Ye Sigong. However, because he did not know how to cook, his value in the group seemed to be lower than Ye Sigong's.

Even though Ye Sigong had only been here for a short while, everyone in the Ling Treatment Group had already remembered his name. People like Yu Yuan and Ma Yanlin mentioned Ye Sigong's name many times in a day.

"Ye Sigong, what are we having for lunch?"

"Doctor Ye, what's our afternoon snack today?"

"Young Ye, what will we be having for supper?"

Yu Yuan, Ma Yanlin, and the rest of their entourage were the core members of the Ling Treatment Group.

To medical interns, housemen, and in-service training doctors who were from the towns and villages around Yun Hua City, it was very important for them to receive attention from the core members of the group. This was especially true for doctors like Ren Qi, who had finished his in-service training, but refused to leave and intended to stay in Yun Hua Hospital.

In a way, Ren Qi and Ye Sigong shared the same position in the Ling Treatment Group's food chain.

Ye Sigong relied on how much he was needed for his cooking skills to move forward, while Ren Qi maintained his position due to the fact that he was the first doctor who had come to the Ling Treatment Group for in-service training.

Since both of them were sharing the same position in the food chain, it was obviously a little crowded there.

Even if they did not want to, they would have no choice but to compete with each other.

"I'm just operating the retractor. It's not something tiring." Ye Sigong smiled and said politely.

"You'll have to cook tonight. What if your arm gets tired and you're not able to hold the spatula properly later?" Ren Qi looked like he was dispensing advice in a kindly manner. Not only did he want to take Ren Qi's place in the surgery, but he was also trying to remind the doctors in the operating theater to not tire the cook out so that the quality of their dinner would not be affected.

This was also something Ren Qi was concerned about.

Even if he were to disregard other things, it was a fact that Ye Sigong was extremely good at cooking.

"You're mistaken. It's exactly because I'm used to holding the spatula for long periods of time that it's not tiring for me to hold the retractor. Besides, cooking's also made my hands more steady," Ye Sigong replied with a smile and utterly defeated Ren Qi.

The doctors in the operating theater who were watching the surgery pretended that they did not hear the childish conversation between the two doctors.

They were saying all that to appeal to their boss, and the other doctors' opinions did not matter. As long as their boss found it cute, it would be fine.

Ren Qi sneaked a glance at Ling Ran's expression and saw that he did not seem to be paying attention to the conversation. He could not help but feel relieved.

"Doctor Ling, your maneuvers in this surgery are super amazing too." Ren Qi decided to try another method. He started flattering Ling Ran.

Ye Sigong was unwilling to be defeated and said, "Yes, among all the doctors I have encountered, Doctor Ling is definitely the most skillful. You're so much better than other doctors. Back when I was working in the county hospital, whenever I watched my department director operate, I always thought about how even specialists in Yun Hua Hospital and Beijing wouldn't be that much better compared to him. I have never imagined that it would be two worlds apart. It's like the difference between… A housewife who had been cooking for a few years and a chef in a Michelin restaurant."

Lu Wenbin who was acting as the second assistant toyed with the patient's leg for a bit and said, "I might be even better at cooking legs compared to surgery."

"You know what? You're right," Ma Yanlin agreed.

"By the way, it's been a few days since we have eaten Lu Wenbin's pork trotters. Why don't we have some braised pork intestines today?"

"Goose leg actually tastes pretty good in braised soup."

Everyone quickly changed the topic. It was as if they did not notice the competition between the two doctors who were there for in-service training at all.

Truth be told, they did not really notice it. Of course, they knew that something was going on, but they did not care at all.

It was day time, and they had a short break, so junior doctors who had time were here to learn from Ling Ran. As the night drew closer, those who had time to rest would do so before they started their boring night shift…

Every time they made a trip, the members of the Ling Treatment Group had to carry out more than ten surgeries in total.

This was how things were like with Ling Ran right now. It would be impossible for any other doctor from Yun Hua Hospital to gather such a large team of freelance surgeons.

The junior doctors of the Ling Treatment Group loved going for freelance surgeries.

Truth be told, in the past, a doctor who was only with them for in-service training like Ren Qi might not have the chance to join Ling Ran every single time he was out for freelance surgeries.

It was extremely lucrative to go for freelance surgeries. Hence, even though a doctor would not be able to enjoy the weekends because of it, everyone in the treatment group would fight to be a part of the team every time Ling Ran was traveling somewhere for freelance surgeries.

Among all the doctors, junior doctors were the ones who needed money the most. They did not mind working longer hours for some extra income.

Ling Ran stitched up the patient's blood vessels in a rather relaxed manner. He merely had to move his hands effortlessly to recover the blood vessels' normal function.

Things were a lot easier for him now compared to the past. After all, all the doctors under him were considered well-trained already.

When it came to doctors who had been with him since the very beginning such as Lu Wenbin, they were already more skillful compared to ordinary attending physicians in Yun Hua Hospital when it came to surgical maneuvers and the basics.

Ding.*

[Mission: Prove]

[Mission Details: Make your subordinates prove that they are more skillful than their colleagues from the same batch.]

[Mission Completion Status: 0/5]

[Mission Reward: Intermediate Treasure Chest]

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Chapter 1017: Are You My Subordinate?

As Ling Ran was performing the surgery, he saw the mission. He could not help but stop for a while, and he started thinking about it.

'Make my subordinates prove that they are more skillful than their peers?'

The keyword was: prove.

After all, the few doctors under him already possessed skills that far surpassed most of their peers. It was obviously impossible for them to surpass all their colleagues from the same batch. For example, Ling Ran entered the hospital after Lu Wenbin, and his skills were superior to his peers. If there was a genius doctor among each batch, who could guarantee that no genius doctor who was super talented academically among the colleagues from the same batch as Lu Wenbin or Ma Yanlin existed?

Furthermore, it was also hard to tell whether there was another doctor who also had a cheat item known as a system.

As he thought about this, Ling Ran raised his head and looked at his subordinates, who were currently learning under him.

Lu Wenbin was the one who set his mind at ease the most. He had learned from Ling Ran for a very long time. He had already performed plenty of surgeries, regardless of the number of times where he served as the assistant or chief surgeon. His skills in finger replantation and M-tang technique had surpassed his colleagues and classmates from the same batch.

Ma Yanlin should also be above average. Although his skills were slightly inferior compared to Lu Wenbin, it was mainly due to his age and his basic skills, and Zhang Anmin's case was similar to him. Naturally, among doctors from the same batch, Zhang Anmin was better than most of them, but if he were to be judged based on the standard of an associate chief physician, he might not be any better.

At this time and age, doctors who could become associate chief physicians were all pretty skilled.

Aside from these three skill-based subordinates, it was a little hard for Yu Yuan and Zuo Cidian to beat their peers based on their skills.

Forget about Zuo Cidian. His colleagues from the same batch who did well might already be on their way to become academicians in the Chinese Academy of Engineering. At the very least, it was not uncommon for them to become a Changjiang Scholar at their age.

Yu Yuan was also not young now. After her Master's, she had her progress delayed for a few years before she was finally able to be promoted to a chief resident. However, it was considered normal for a doctor at her age to become a chief physician or associate chief physician.

Ling Ran subconsciously frowned a little. In this case, he only had three people who would easily fulfill the five person target for the mission?

Perhaps the other two were the ones where the difficulty lay?

For Ling Ran, this was most challenging.

Zuo Cidian and Yu Yuan were not people who could improve their skills after putting in effort…

"Doctor Ling? Is something wrong?" Lu Wenbin rarely saw Ling Ran stopping in the middle of a surgery, so he could not help but ask.

Ye Sigong served as the second assistant, and he was currently doing retraction. He changed his posture uneasily.

The actions of the person next to him immediately snapped Ling Ran to attention.

Ling Ran subconsciously inspected Ye Sigong.

He was in his thirties, had normal qualifications, normal experiences, normal eye-hand coordination, normal patience for surgeries, and had a willingness to learn skills… He was also considered normal among doctors… Overall, he was just a normal doctor in a normal hospital.

However, if he looked at this from the perspective of probability, doctors who could get seventy to eighty marks in all aspects were actually really rare.

Take Yu Yuan, who was in the same group. Her qualifications were quite good, and her patience for surgery and the hospital she had been trained in were great, but… her surgical maneuvering ability obviously could only allow her to afford to perform surgeries of medium difficulty or below. In other words, her final potential in mastering surgical techniques was not even comparable to Ye Sigong.

"Doctor Ling?" Ye Sigong became anxious as Ling Ran kept staring at him.

"Hmm… Doctor Ye, are you considered my subordinate?" Ling Ran was not very sure, so he decided to just go ahead and ask.

Ye Sigong was shocked, and his hands might have slipped if it were not for the fact that his hands had been trained to become stable after years of being a doctor.

'What did he mean?

'Is Doctor Ling not satisfied with me?

'No!

'With Doctor Ling's personality, if he's not happy with me, he'd just need to let me go and forget about me. A few days later, I'll be a corpse by the road.

'Maybe Doctor Zuo will even bring me to a corner, and I'll end up as a pitiful and miserable corpse.

'Then, did Doctor Ling just creatively tease and insult me in front of everyone?'

Ye Sigong secretly shook his head thirty-six times.

'There's no need for that at all.'

First, Doctor Ling was not a doctor who liked to scold his subordinates. Second… Ye Sigong asked himself, 'What did I do to deserve having Doctor Ling spend his precious mental power to creatively tease and insult me?

'… Hey, with the way I phrased it, that's a compliment, not an insult, right?

'So…'

Once he overturned all other possibilities, even if the last remaining possibility sounded completely impossible, it would still end up as the answer.

During that short instant, Ye Sigong finished thinking and obtained a conclusion that he himself found difficult to believe, but was one he was willing to believe in.

'Does Doctor Ling intend to take me in as his disciple or direct disciple?'

Ye Sigong's legs subconsciously trembled a little. If he did not hold a retractor on his hand, which was the instrument that had served as an obstruction to him for the entire surgery, Ye Sigong believed that he could do something very extreme on the spot.

Ye Sigong shook his head thirty-six times again.

Then, Ye Sigong raised his head and showed a sincere smile to Ling Ran, "Of course. Since the first day I entered Yun Hua Hospital, I've become your subordinate, Doctor Ling."

Ling Ran slowly nodded. "Alright. I'll let you suture the skin."

Ye Sigong said happily, "Thank you, Doctor Ling!"

Although the reward of suturing the skin was more suitable for interns, at the moment, Ye Sigong felt that he could lower himself to the level of an intern.

Why should he not be willing to work as an intern under Ling Ran?

By the side, Ren Qi was so envious that his eyes almost bugged out of his eye sockets.

He joined much earlier than Ye Sigong, after all.

In fact, he joined way earlier.

However, Ling Ran had never asked for confirmation about whether he was his subordinate.

Ren Qi stared at Ling Ran wide-eyed.

At the same time, Ling Ran also turned around and looked at Ren Qi.

Including Ye Sigong, he now had only four subordinates who were suited for the mission.

And Ren Qi had been hanging around in front of Ling Ran for a really long time.

Ling Ran then asked, "Doctor Ren…"

"I do!" Ren Qi shouted immediately.

He looked forward to Ling Ran's question way too eagerly.

Unlike Ye Sigong, he was still currently authorized in the county hospital, which meant he still had a path to survive if he could not stay here.

However, Ren Qi's training period had ended, and he insisted on staying here, which meant that he had basically lost his authorization in the country hospital.

At this moment, it was only natural that Ren Qi would be more desperate for Ling Ran's recognition.

However, his hasty response made the operating theater remain silent for a few seconds.

Only Ling Ran remained calm and sober.

He had experienced this kind of conversation for a long time over the course of his life.

He could just say something random, and someone would appear and shout "I do". Ling Ran was not quite sure why many people liked to do this, but anyways, he did not quite understand jokes, and he also did not study it.

"Doctor Ling, you can call me Ren Qi or Young Ren." Ren Qi masked his embarrassment by saying this.

Ling Ran slowly nodded. "The form of address is not important. What kind of surgery do you prefer to perform?"

Ren Qi glanced at Ye Sigong, who was closing the incision, and he started to think.

For him, this was an important moment.

A doctor as busy as Ling Ran would not easily ask for his preference again.

In other words, his choice now could possibly decide his future development.

This was just like how a master in a martial arts sect would ask his disciple. "Boy, what sort of martial arts do you want to learn?"

And everything would be decided for the disciple at that point.

It was easy to answer, but a simple answer might affect his whole life…

Ren Qi quickly came up with various thoughts in his mind, and finally, all his thoughts gathered into a sentence, "I will do the one Doctor Ling thinks I'm good at…"

Perhaps the truth in his sentence was even greater than all of his previous flattery.

Ren Qi was not a newbie who had just started to study medicine. He knew orthopedists and cardiologists earned a lot, and he also knew Ling Ran had some contribution in both fields.

He also knew about Ling Ran's reputation in hepatectomy and his possible future if he managed to master this technique.

However, after working as a doctor for such a long time, Ren Qi also knew that doctors needed to consider talent and adaptability as well when they wanted to choose their path.

If he learned under Ling Ran and his aim was just to master a skill at Novice Level, why should he stay in Yun Hua Hospital illegally?

Perhaps asking Doctor Ling to choose a suitable learning direction for him was the most beneficial plan.

Ren Qi looked at Ling Ran expectantly.

"In this case…" Ling Ran muttered to himself for a few seconds before he said, "Later, when we get back to Yun Hua Hospital, you will help in the Emergency Department."

Ren Qi's smile slowly turned into a puzzled look.

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Chapter 1018: Prepare a Reward

"Doctor Ling, let's have dinner together tonight." Doctor Qu waited outside the operating theater and wanted to extend his invitation before the doctors from the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City.

He wanted to go to the operating theater and flatter Ling Ran. However, there were too many people in Ling Ran's operating theater, and the circulating nurse he brought along controlled the number of people inside. She did not give Doctor Qu the chance to go in.

After considering the pressure he would have flattering someone in front of everyone else, Doctor Qu decided to do the sensible thing and left the operating theater then waited at the waiting room.

Some doctors from the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City also waited in the same room. Due to the capacity limit of the operating theater, they could not even get the chance to seek advice from Ling Ran. In the end, those who could enter the operating theater were those doctors who were either associate chief physicians or were ranked above associate chief physicians.

That was the only option available to them, since they were a hospital without a visitation room.

Ling Ran had not expected to be surrounded by the people when he entered the waiting room. Certainly, he was used to this kind of scenario. Even if someone passed him a stack of love letters or one thousand paper cranes, Ling Ran would be extraordinarily calm.

Ling Ran immediately gave his reply with familiar ease. "Not going."

Doctor Qu could not help but be stunned.

'So direct? Have I offended Doctor Ling?

'Hmm, I shouldn't worry too much just yet. Maybe it's because I haven't applied my subsequent flattery yet. Once I do, Doctor Ling's impression toward me might change.'

Doctor Qu looked at Zuo Cidian while thinking about it.

Zuo Cidian showed a kind smile and said, "Doctor Qu, Doctor Ling does not like to eat outside, especially as of late. So, maybe next time."

Doctor Qu hesitated for a few seconds and smiled bashfully. "I understand that people nowadays love to eat home cooked dishes because they feel that the dishes out there are too oily and salty. However, aren't we in Wuxin City now? You can't just go back to Yun Hua City to have your meal and come back again, right? In fact, the restaurant that I booked serves homemade dishes. The taste should be reasonable after I give them some instructions. It's healthy too…"

"Doctor Qu, I'm the one who cooks meals for everyone when our team is out." Ye Sigong stood out and said energetically. He used a serious and formal tone as he stressed his words. "Doctor Ling loves to eat the meals that I cook!"

As Ye Sigong spoke, he took off his white coat, nodded at everyone, and said, "I'll leave and prepare my meals first."

Doctor Qu looked at Ye Sigong's back dumbfoundedly. He found that Ye Sigong walked straight and in high spirits, just like… a soldier that was ready to sacrifice his own life for war.

"What… did he mean?" Doctor Qu felt that his mind was numb and uncivilized.

Zuo Cidian smiled faintly and said, "The small kitchen in the operating theater of the hospital can't really operate as a fully functioning kitchen. It's okay to use it to make some soup or heat up some dishes, but it's not possible to use it to fry or stir-fry food. We usually eat more complicated dishes during the day. So, Young Ye will contact a place that allows him to cook, and once he is done preparing the meals, he will send it over. In this case, it would be easier to control the quality of the dishes, and the taste can also be assured…"

"Wait… This person left to cook meals?"

Zuo Cidian smiled without saying anything. He could not just say he recruited Ye Sigong because of his good culinary skills, right?

Although surgeons were also a skill-based occupation, just like a chef, which meant that there were certain similarities to them, Old Zuo was too lazy to make up a story.

"Let's wait for a while. Doctor Qu, if you're not in a hurry, we can have a meal together," Ling Ran said while nodding at Zuo Cidian.

"I'll ask Doctor Ye to take note of that." Zuo Cidian nodded while smiling and raised his chin at the intern student, Qi Zao.

The intern student, Qi Zao immediately took out the note book and made some simple records.

Doctor Qu seemed to be a bit surprised. But since his original intention was to eat together with Ling Ran, he smiled and said insincerely, "Is it appropriate for me to eat with you, Doctor Ling?"

"It's okay." Ling Ran gave a warm smile.

Ling Ran's mother, Tao Ping had taught him to treat others kindly after decisively rejecting their initial invitation.

While he was in school, Ling Ran would usually treat them to a drink. If he brought his bag along, he usually would give away the yogurt he brought. Since yogurt was light, he always brought a few bottles to deal with emergency scenarios.

Whenever this happened, even if the girl was sobbing, she would still take the yogurt and bite down on the straw hard so that she could gradually calm down.

Doctor Qu even accepted his invitation without any hesitation.

He sat together with Ling Ran and got a cup of green tea.

The new tea leaves floated in the beautiful porcelain tea cup, and this made Doctor Qu feel like he was at the luxurious hotel.

"You brought this tea set and tea leaves?" Now, Doctor Qu knew a little bit more about Ling Ran's treatment group. Even though these people were out for freelance surgeries, their quality of life was much higher than his, and it was… truly worthy of envy.

Ling Ran nodded and said, "Using porcelain to drink makes us feel more relaxed than using a glass cup."

This was also a ritual passed down in the family.

Doctor Qu could not help but look at Ling Ran. He saw Ling Ran hold the saucer with one of his hands while in the other, he held the teacup. His posture was not considered perfect, but he gave off an elegant feeling, and it would make others feel that they should learn his posture.

"I really hope that I can perform surgeries with you so that I can learn more…" Doctor Qu took a sip of his tea and said in a semi-fake, sentimental tone.

Ling Ran also took a sip of his tea, smiled, and said, "My team is full now."

Ling Ran already had many people working under him, particularly the two subordinates that he just recruited. Thus, Ling Ran did not intend to recruit more people.

Even if he intended to recruit people, he wanted those who were younger. Doctor Qu was already in his forties, and he might even be older than Zuo Cidian. His competing capacity was too weak. If Ling Ran received a similar mission in the future asking him to prove things, he might be stuck.

Doctor Qu had just had his emotions become stable while he drank hot tea, but when he heard this, his entire body became stiff.

'Ling Ran is really bad at chatting, huh?'

Doctor Qu looked down and sighed heavily. In the next minute, he readjusted his emotions. He smiled and went along with the topic. "That's too bad, then. Actually, I'm happy just to be able to observe your surgery. If it is possible, I want to gather the doctors under me to come for surgery observation."

Ling Ran could not help but put down his teacup and started to think, 'In order to prove that my subordinates' skills have improved, it is a must for others to come for surgery observation. However, how many people are needed and how long they need to observe the surgery is also a problem.'

"You can organize your subordinates and bring them for surgery observation at Yun Hua Hospital." Ling Ran immediately decided and replied Doctor Qu.

This time, even Doctor Qu's eyeballs had stopped moving.

He knew that Ling Ran had just treated his casual banter as something real, again.

However, what troubled Doctor Qu was this. 'Should I tell Doctor Ling that I was just trying to be polite just now? No, the main problem is, will I be causing trouble to myself by doing this?'

"Surgery observation? It's good," Doctor Qu said. He tried to delay coming to a conclusion for this topic so that he had more time to think.

Yet, when someone's mind stopped working, it was pointless no matter how much time he had to think.

"If I have time, I'll organize an activity like this. No, I mean I'll enquire other doctors." As Doctor Qu spoke, he looked at Zuo Cidian and tried to ask for help.

Zuo Cidian could still be considered as one of considerate members within the Ling Ran's treatment group.

Zuo Cidian could not quite guess Ling Ran's thoughts right now as well, so he did not say anything. Instead, he just remained smiling.

Ling Ran continued with the conversation. "It's okay to organize an event like this only once. We can invite the young doctors from a few hospitals to come over for an exchange so that we can all learn."

Doctor Qu was dumbfounded. He had no idea what Ling Ran was up to, but he dared not ask.

Zuo Cidian realized that the situation had gotten a bit out of hand, so he immediately said, "Doctor Ling, even if we want to organize an exchange, there should be a limit. Furthermore, we must have an appropriate reason for this, right? Besides, in whose name are we to invite these young doctors, and from where should we invite them?"

He had started to think about the implementation in detail.

"We can carry out a selection or give them rewards." Ling Ran thought about it and said, "I remember Department Director Huo said that there is some money left from the ICU fund. Maybe we can take a portion out? Zuo Cidian, go and ask if this is possible."

"Um…" Zuo Cidian's first reaction was to think that it was impossible. Certainly, there was some money leftover from the hospital construction, and they knew that quite a lot of it was left, but everyone also knew that Department Director Huo kept it for Ling Ran, which meant that there was not actually any money left from the construction fees. Moreover, the selection process and giving rewards were not simple matters…

However, the thought of rejecting Ling Ran only appeared for a brief moment in Zuo Cidian's mind. On the other hand, another thought popped out in Zuo Cidian's mind.

'In this case, Doctor Ling could master the concept of giving rewards and selecting doctors.

'In terms of qualification, Doctor Ling is already at the stage where he can do these things.'

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Chapter 1019: Shrimp Head

"The concept of a training camp is not too bad. We can apply offensive and defensive measures whenever we like. It's a pretty good idea. We can do it once first. We can hold a selection process and give rewards during the camp." Huo Congjun read the proposal given by Zuo Cidian and nodded nonstop. "The planning is quite thoughtful as well. Since the Emergency Medical Center has expanded, it is necessary to increase the number of in-service training doctors and medical interns we have. Coincidently, we have a hostel too. That can save up quite some costs…"

"I discussed the details with Doctor Qi Zao." Zuo Cidian did not want to argue in such a place. He also had no intention of suppressing Qi Zao despite the fact that she was just a medical intern.

"Oh," Huo Congjun replied, and he noticed the lady who stood behind Zuo Cidian. He smiled and said, "Young Qi, you're still a medical intern, right? You're from Yun Hua University School of Medicine?"

"Yes. I'm from the same university as Doctor Ling," Qi Zao said and immediately explained, "I'm not a fangirl of Doctor Ling, but I'm proud of Doctor Ling."

"Okay, very good. Good sentiments." Huo Congjun was happy with the medical intern, Qi Zao.

In the hospital, department directors usually treated doctors below the rank of resident doctor pretty well. Perhaps it was because their social distance was just too far apart. Hence, as long as they were fond of the newcomers, they would not be too fierce to them.

Even if Huo Congjun wanted to scold someone, he would scold the doctors who were attending physicians or associate chief physicians.

However, when Qi Zao saw Huo Congjun's face, she was still so nervous that her body became stiff.

"If you're in charge of the training camp, do you think you can handle it?" Huo Congjun's gaze fell on Zuo Cidian again.

Zuo Cidian's face was slightly wrinkled, chubby, dry, dark, and had large pores scattered all over his face. Regardless of whichever angle he stood, he looked like a laborer, and other people would be unable to control themselves from giving him work.

Zuo Cidian was used to it, and he was even well prepared for it. When he heard Huo Congjun's words, he immediately said, "No problem, but the cost of the training camp is high…"

"That's nothing!" Huo Congjun waved and looked at Qi Zao again. He said, "Our ICU has extra money left from its initial budget. I'll inform the hospital administration. It shouldn't be any problem to give you some money for your expenditures."

"That's great." Zuo Cidian could not help but smile. He was more excited than fearful, as he was in charge of such a huge project. For Zuo Cidian, this might be a chance for him to overtake others. Or rather, if he did this project successfully, this might redefine his life.

At the same time, this might redefine the hospital structure of Changxi Province.

Huo Congjun thought about the same problem. He patted Zuo Cidian with a steady hand and said, "Let's shut the door to talk about this. The hospital relies very much on medical interns and in-service training doctors, and it's especially so after our ICU is built. There's an even higher demand for them after that. However, after we recruit them, our own attitude toward them is very important as well. Doctors, even those in-service training doctors might be a bit arrogant…"

Zuo Cidian said demurely, "I understand. Before we decide on which in-service training doctors come in, I'll treat them as politely as I treat the relatives I visit during the new year."

"What happens after they join?" Qi Zao, who lacked working experience, asked curiously.

Zuo Cidian smiled faintly. "Of course we'll treat them as politely as we do to our relatives during the Chinese new year visitation. And by that, I mean we'll treat them as politely as we do to them AFTER the new year."

…..

Ren Qi was a bit lost and looked around the operating theater.

Work in the Emergency Department was the most unfulfilling work in the hospital. This department needed to bear great pressure, and it needed to face the most prominent doctor-patient conflicts. Most importantly, this department was the most neglected department of the hospital, despite the fact that this department needed to handle many dirty and messy scenarios.

If Ren Qi was given the choice to choose again, he would most likely choose to master atrial septal defect closure, which was a surgery belonging to the Cardiology Department, or knee arthroscopy of the Orthopedics Department, or even hepatectomy…

Ren Qi, once again, did not know what to do, but he did curl up the corners of his mouth with amusement…

"You over there. Why are you standing around doing nothing?" Doctor Zhou walked over leisurely.

Ren Qi knew that he could not run away when he saw it was Doctor Zhou. He obediently showed the calmness of an in-service training doctor. "Doctor Zhou, I just did a physical examination for a patient."

"Okay, well done." Doctor Zhou nodded.

In-service training doctors were similar to medical interns. They could be used as they pleased, but when they used them, they had to pay more attention to how they used them, and they also had to be more polite.

Ren Qi was confused by Doctor Zhou's polite tone.

"Please follow me." Doctor Zhou did not waste his breath. He put his hands behind him and brought Ren Qi around.

In Doctor Zhou's experience, when someone put his hands behind his back, not only did it show that he was capable, the patients and their family members would also be calmer, and their attitude would be better as well. Afterall, if they placed their hands behind their backs, they would look like leaders.

In truth, Doctor Zhou could be considered as the leader in the emergency room, because the chief physicians and associate chief physicians usually preferred the operating theater and resuscitation room.

Ren Qi had no choice but to follow Doctor Zhou. He knew he was the next doctor to be exploited by Doctor Zhou.

Luckily, Doctor Zhou was willing to teach something. This allowed Ren Qi to slowly calm down. After all, he was not familiar with the emergency room.

The reception nurse immediately sent a patient over and said, "Doctor Zhou, the patient says that he swallowed a shrimp head whole during his breakfast… Now, his throat is not feeling well, and it's hard for him to swallow…"

"Why eat shrimps for breakfast?" Ren Qi could not understand.

The patient looked at Ren Qi so calmly that he even looked aloof.

Ren Qi coughed, and he quickly schooled his expression to one of calmness as well.

"Doctor Ren, please give him a diagnosis," Doctor Zhou said with the tone of an examiner, and he passed all the workload to Ren Qi.

Ren Qi hesitated for a few seconds and said, "So, is there a foreign object in his throat?"

"Yes," Doctor Zhou replied and asked, "And?"

"And… I'm to take it out?" Ren Qi whispered.

Doctor Zhou glared at Ren Qi.

"Firstly, use a laryngeal mirror. A fiber laryngoscope is okay too…" Ren Qi thought about it and, finally, he said something useful.

Doctor Zhou nodded. "Let's start, then."

He moved his hands from behind his back, but he just placed them in front of him, making it clear that he did not intend to do anything.

At this moment, the family members that followed the patients rushed forward and said, "Excuse me… Doctor, I would like to say something, I hope you won't be upset."

The patient's family member was a fifty-year-old man. He wore a pair of glasses and looked like an intellectual.

Doctor Zhou would not spend much of his stamina on consultation. So, he gave the patient's family member a smile and said, "It's okay, please go on."

"My son just came back from the USA. You know how it is. He kept praising the USA. So, I told him that China's medical treatment is fabulous too. I even used a fish bone as an example. In the USA, it costs a lot to take out a fish bone. But in our own country, this process only costs a few RMB, and we only need a few minutes to get it done." Then, the man smiled and said, "Doctor, can you please give my son a lesson?"

His words were reasonable… and they also revealed that there was a story behind this entire accident…

If this happened to hardworking doctors, most of them would perform the surgery.

However, when Doctor Zhou thought about this, he said, "In our country, we can't promise that it costs only a few RMB and takes only a few minutes to get this surgery done. We'll check first. If we can see it using a laryngeal mirror, it'll be a simple surgery."

"Okay, okay." The patient's family member could only nod.

Doctor Zhou instructed Ren Qi to continue.

Ren Qi turned around and asked in puzzlement, "You were talking about fish bones just now, right? Did he deliberately swallow the shrimp head?"

The father said seriously, "How could it be possible? Our family just eats shrimp this way!"

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Chapter 1020: Nauseous

A laryngeal mirror was a small mirror with a long handle, and it looked kind of like a longer and larger ear digger. The doctor would pull the patient's tongue and shove the laryngeal mirror into the patient's throat, and they were able to get plenty of information by doing so.

Laryngeal mirrors also came in various shapes and sizes, and some of them were thicker than the others. It was not a very comfortable examination method, but it did not take long.

Ren Qi took a laryngeal mirror pack from the nurse. He did not open it immediately. Instead, he rested his hand on the packaging and tried very hard to recall everything he had learned about laryngeal mirrors.

He did not use to work in the Emergency Department, which was why he was not familiar with emergency surgeries. As an experienced attending physician in the General Surgery Department, he spent most of his time digging people's shit and rarely had the chance to shove laryngeal mirrors down patient's throats.

Everything Ren Qi knew about laryngeal mirrors was what he had learned back when he was a houseman and medical intern.

He was probably more skilled at it back when he was a houseman.

Aside from this, back when he was a medical intern, he had learned how to use the laryngeal mirror in the Otolaryngology Department. This was because when he was doing his internship in the Emergency Department, the doctors there always transferred patients who needed laryngoscopy to other departments.

Ren Qi was torn. He looked at Doctor Zhou and asked, "Why don't we send the patient to the Otolaryngology Department?"

Doctor Zhou said languidly, "I'm telling you to do it, so just do it."

As Huo Congjun wanted their Emergency Department to be involved in many fields of medicine, they had invaded the territories of departments like the General Surgery Department and the Orthopedics Department. Would it not be a joke for them to send a patient with a bone stuck in his throat to the Otolaryngology Department?

"Alright." Ren Qi was a little annoyed, but he had no say in this matter.

To be fair, he was also an experienced attending physician. Back when he was working in a county hospital, he always ordered housemen and medical interns around too. Hence, he could even kind of tell what was on Doctor Zhou's mind.

But what could he do about it? As a doctor who was doing his in-service training in Yun Hua Hospital illegally, he had no choice but to be obedient.

"Please come over and sit in front of me." Ren Qi sighed and asked the patient to lean forward. He pointed the spotlight at the patient's oral cavity and hesitantly grabbed the laryngeal mirror.

"Open your mouth and stick out your tongue." Ren Qi grabbed a sterile gauze. He then held the patient's tongue and gently pulled it out.

The patient groaned a few times, but he showed no objection. Ren Qi breathed a sigh of relief.

When it came to his skills… Honestly, he basically was not skilled at laryngoscopy at all. The fact that the patient was cooperative made him feel a lot more at ease.

Doctor Zhou crossed his arms and urged Ren Qi. "It's time to insert the laryngeal mirror."

"Alright!" Ren Qi tried his best to recall all the steps. He took a size 16 laryngeal mirror and hesitantly inserted it into the patient's oral cavity.

"Which corner of the mouth should you insert it from?" It only took one look for Doctor Zhou to know that Ren Qi had forgotten everything about laryngoscopy. Hence, he gave Ren Qi a reminder.

After Ren Qi heard this, he immediately remembered what he should be doing. He turned the mirror and inserted it into the patient's throat from the left corner of the mouth.

"Answer my question." Doctor Zhou never bothered to be polite with his subordinates.

"From the left corner," Ren Qi quickly answered.

Doctor Zhou hummed in acknowledgement.

The patient's family member who had been standing beside them was now certain that Doctor Zhou was the boss. He went forward again and said to his son who was receiving laryngoscopy, "See, unlike doctors in the United States, doctors in China always solve our problems quickly and efficiently. Remember the time we were in the United States? We encountered this American Chinese doctor who made you do an X-ray and a CT scan even though you merely had a fish bone stuck in your throat. We spent a lot of money, and in the end, the problem wasn't solved at all!"

Even though the patient's family member looked like he was speaking to his son, he actually wanted the doctors to hear it.

He was doing so with hidden intentions, but this did make the doctors rather happy.

Ren Qi felt a little pressured for some reason. This was a time when he should make his country proud.

He became even more focused, and he carefully examined the patient's root of tongue, epiglottis and epiglottic vallecula of the patient using the laryngeal mirror.

The patient's father took a look at Ren Qi's earnest demeanour, and he became even more happy. He continued praising the doctors, "In my opinion, the healthcare system in the United States is f*cked. You know, doctors in America make it a point to avert responsibility every time they do something. They don't care about whether they are able to nurse you back to health at all. They're afraid of responsibility and are always worried about getting sued. Of course, they are always thinking about making money too. Hence, they make you go through multiple examinations that are tremendously expensive. There was this one time when my lumbar spine hurt, and they made me do a… What was that again? Ah, MRI scan. It was 10,000 USD! Fortunately, I had insurance!"

"You don't have to worry about things since you're insured, do you? It's still better than how things are here." Another patient who was standing near the patient's family member came over to join the conversation when he heard that the other party was talking about healthcare systems of different countries.

The patient's father chuckled. "Insurance isn't free, you know? The health insurance for my whole family costs more than 10,000 USD annually. There are also procedures that are not covered. Most importantly, they don't even handle your problems the right way. You know, when you've a fish bone or shrimp thorn stuck in your throat, they will send you to the operating theater right away."

"What the heck is a shrimp thorn?"

"That thorny thing on shrimps' heads," the patient's father explained earnestly.

The other patient was shocked. "Does that thing even get stuck in people's throats?"

"Why not? If you don't consume fish carefully, a fish bone might be stuck in your throat. So, if you don't consume shrimp carefully, a shrimp thorn might be stuck in your throat."

"No, the question is, who the heck eats the heads of shrimps? It's not even delicious, and it contains a lot of heavy metal. Only idiots would eat that thing."

The patient's father turned abruptly to look at Doctor Zhou. He asked, "Doctor, you guys probably encounter quite a lot of patients with fish bones or shrimp thorns stuck in their throats, right?"

"Yeah, patients with fish bones stuck in their throats are quite common." Doctor Zhou smiled.

"How about shrimp thorns?"

Doctor Zhou schooled his expression. He thought about it for a long time and said, "Sometimes, there are patients with chicken bones stuck in their throats."

The people around them laughed softly.

Not every patient in the Emergency Department was in critical condition. This was especially true in the treatment room. Some of the patients there were merely hit with a rock by their friends, had scratches on their body because their friends pushed them onto the floor, and drank too much alcohol because their friends or family forced them to. All of them were capable of laughing.

However, Ren Qi was not in the mood to laugh.

He examined the patient's soft palate, tonsils, root of tongue and epiglottis… But he was unable to find the legendary shrimp thorn.

"Could it be that it has been flushed away by saliva?" Ren Qi reckoned.

However, the fact that he could not find the foreign object did not mean that the foreign object did not exist.

Ren Qi turned and looked helplessly at Doctor Zhou, but the latter merely gave Ren Qi a cold expression.

"Doctor Zhou?" Ren Qi had no choice but to call out for help.

"If you can't find it, just send him for an X-ray scan so that the position of the foreign object can be determined." Doctor Zhou paused for a moment and continued, "Go ahead and contact the Medical Imaging Department. Get the patient and his family member to sign the informed consent form too."

"Alright." Ren Qi rose in resignation and put down the laryngeal mirror. He then said to the patient, "I'm sorry. If you still feel like the foreign object is in the throat, do go for an X-ray scan."

"Sure, let's go." The patient looked at his father. He seemed pleased with himself, and his expression was animated.

The patient's father was reluctant. "About this… Doctor, I didn't know that doctors in China send patients for X-ray scans too!"

"Why not? If the foreign object cannot be found, there's no choice but to get an X-ray scan."

"Sigh, you guys… you guys…" The patient's father had a grim expression on his face, and he looked angry.

Ren Qi breathed a sigh of relief and politely checked on the patient, who was feeling nauseous. "How do you feel? It's very normal to experience throat discomfort after laryngoscopy. Don't worry…"

"I'm okay. I'm very used to this. Just need to vomit a few times." The patient nodded in understanding and retched several times.

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Chapter 1021: Proving Oneself

"Fluoroscopy was done on the patient, and barium flocculant was used, but no flocculation nor obvious expansion and peristalsis in the esophagus was found…

"Fiber laryngoscopy has been done, and no foreign objects were detected.

"The laryngeal mirror was used again, and no abnormality was found."

Ren Qi reported the situation with a slightly helpless expression.

For doctors, even if they did not feel like performing any more surgeries, they still hoped to carry out whatever surgery they had at hand smoothly once they took over.

Ren Qi really felt that he was blind, because he just could not find such a small shrimp thorn.

Doctor Zhou never made a move since the beginning. At this moment, he kept a detached attitude and smiled calmly. He looked at the scans from the fluoroscopy, which were attached on the lamp box, and said, "It's normal that we couldn't detect the flocculation. Just like a small fishbone, or even a small chicken bone, it might not be seen clearly by an X-ray scan either. The possibility of flocculation will increase because of it, but the possibility of no flocculation will also increase."

"Okay." Ren Qi pursed his lips. 'What's the point in you giving me all these explanations when I still can't find the shrimp thorn?'

"The fiber laryngoscope is done in a laryngoscope room?" Doctor Zhou asked.

Ren Qi nodded. "Of course. But I haven't found anything even after searching for a long time."

Doctor Zhou thought about this for a short period of time.

Ren Qi said, "The Medical Imaging Department thinks that the shrimp thorn was too small and may have fallen off, which is why it could not be found. Since the patient is in a stable condition, we should discharge him first. If he feels discomfort tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, he can come back."

"If he comes back, he will probably go to the Otolaryngology Department for treatment. Maybe he will go to the provincial hospital's Otolaryngology Department," Doctor Zhou said plainly.

Ren Qi was stunned. "Is the competition so fierce nowadays?"

"The department director is now running an Emergency Medical Center. You can only transfer this case to another department when you can't solve this problem at all, understand? Have we reached a point where we cannot solve this case yet?" Doctor Zhou said as he looked at Ren Qi.

Ren Qi understood where Doctor Zhou came from, but he did not agree with his idea.

Of course, he did not say it out loud.

He was still a low-level in-service training doctor staying in Yun Hua Hospital illegally, so he should have neither insistence toward any ideals nor ambition. Even if he had one, he would just keep it to himself.

When he faced Doctor Zhou's question, Ren Qi said, "There are all kinds of possibilities now, I think the most reasonable course of action is to discharge the patient."

"The number of patients who return because they feel the presence of a foreign object in their throat is very high. This patient has stated that the presence of a foreign object in his throat is very apparent, pushing him away is not the best solution." Doctor Zhou stopped and said with a smile, "Besides, won't you feel embarrassed if he were to go to the Otolaryngology Department for treatment?"

Ren Qi really wanted to say that he was not embarrassed.

However, when he looked at the Doctor Zhou's expression, Ren Qi tentatively asked, "Should I be embarrassed?"

"You should." Doctor Zhou nodded.

"Alright, what shall we do? Should I go to the department director?" Ren Qi decided to just give up on thinking.

Doctor Zhou smiled. "Do you think it's appropriate for us to go to the department director for this?"

Ren Qi went along with Doctor Zhou's words and said, "I don't think so?"

"Of course not. The department director is not Doraemon, he can't do everything. The department director is for burn emergencies. If you were to go to the department director, you'll be just like the shrimp thorn, understand? You have to find someone who has experience in finding fishbones."

These words allowed Ren Qi to fully understand what Doctor Zhou meant. Then, Ren Qi's eyes lit up. "Do you mean… You actually want me to…?"

Doctor Zhou laughed like an alpha ram. "Think again."

"Not you?"

"Of course not." Doctor Zhou thought. 'Even if I'm usually too lazy to do anything, I wouldn't still not lend a hand when things have already progressed to this state.'

Ren Qi felt like a little ram who had been driven out of his flock. He hesitated and said, "There are other doctors in our department who are very good at finding fishbones?"

"I'm not sure about fishbones, but I do know a doctor who is good at removing foreign objects from bodies. Go to Doctor Yu Yuan and ask her if she can get the shrimp thorn out. If she can, the patient and his family will not have to travel back and forth to the hospital. By the way, we might even bring glory to our country." Doctor Zhou did not keep him guessing anymore.

As Ren Qi listened, his eyes widened.

This was not happiness appearing on his face. This was his "Seriously?! You can do this too?!" and "This old man is really rotten to the core!" face.

"Doctor Yu usually removes foreign substances. I think she is very familiar with the anatomical structure of the human body, and her hands are also small. I'm sure it will be useful to find the shrimp thorn."

Doctor Zhou said calmly, "You've forgotten a crucial point. Experience is also very important. If we're talking about her when she just started with removing foreign substances, Doctor Yu's skills are mainly honed for the part down there, but now, she has removed a lot of foreign objects, so she must have her own experiences by now."

"I'll listen to you. I'll go see Doctor Yu." Ren Qi did not say anything else. In fact, there was no room for argument when senior doctors gave orders to junior doctors. He only dared to ask a couple of questions since Ren Qi himself was quite old.

After a while, Ren Qi and Yu Yuan stepped out of the office.

Just a while ago, Yu Yuan was in front of a computer typing an article for Ling Ran. She had a toolkit in her hand as she took her time walking. She gave off the same presence that Ling Ran usually gave others.

It was the feeling of someone who was fully prepared, confident, and even enjoyed performing surgeries.

Ren Qi was dumbfounded as he watched her.

To be honest, it was not an easy choice for Ren Qi to stay in Yun Hua Hospital and give up his position as an attending physician in the county hospital.

The main reason he did this was because of Ling Ran.

From a utilitarian point of view, Ren Qi believed that if he followed Ling Ran, he could gain a greater future. He felt that if he followed Ling Ran, it would be easier for him to gain better skills or higher income.

After all, he could foresee his future in the county hospital with just one glance. Meanwhile, Ling Ran's skills were the strongest among the doctors Ren Qi had encountered over the years. There was no one as good as him.

And after he made this decision in his heart, Ling Ran's temperament, presence, and attitude toward surgeries were also imperceptibly changing Ren Qi. When he slept at night Ren Qi could not help thinking about what kind of person he wanted to be.

However, what Ren Qi did not expect was that today, Yu Yuan would give off the same presence that Ling Ran usually gave others.

It was true that Yu Yuan had been with Ling Ran for a long time, but she was not famous for her skills.

"Where is the patient?" Yu Yuan's nostrils were slightly flared; she was obviously happy.

"Over here." Ren Qi's surprised expression faded as he hurriedly led Yu Yuan to the patient.

The patient was already moving restlessly.

The patient's father continued to comfort the patient. "Don't worry, even in America, you will still need several examinations before you can remove the shrimp thorn. The examinations over there are even more expensive and time-consuming. I had a friend from the same town who went for an examination, and he only managed to get his MRI scan after three days. He was already fine by then."

Yu Yuan saw him speaking, and she glanced at the youngster.

He was a skinny guy with a small face, was a little quiet, and was cool-looking. His neck was a little thick. She was not sure if it was swollen or he was born like this.

"I'll give you a check-up." Yu Yuan sat opposite the patient, exercised her hands a little, and opened her toolkit.

There were all kinds of tweezers, forceps, scissors inside, and they were of different models and different lengths.

A nurse came over with a laryngoscope bag, and she could not help but laugh. "You brought your own special instruments, Doctor Yu?"

"Yes, when it comes to certain instruments, it'll be for the best if I can use the ones I'm used to," Yun Yuan said as she took out a large laryngoscope and two tongue depressors from the laryngoscope bag. She stood on a chair and said to the patient, "Lower your head a little bit, I'll check it carefully for you."

Then, Yu Yuan began to examine the patient in detail.

She checked from one position to another, then from one angle to another.

Yu Yuan had always been very patient. After she became used to removing foreign substances from bodies, she became even more patient.

Usually, it would normally take hours to remove foreign substances such as table tennis balls, golf balls, or billiards balls. Sometimes, in order to reduce the damage as much as possible, doctors would have to deal with slippery and wet balls for two or three hours.

For Yu Yuan, the throat was just a small matter.

Several curious doctors also gathered around.

"I found it!" Just as everyone was still chatting, Yu Yuan shouted.

"Tweezer, please." Yu Yuan reached out her hand for her toolkit.

The nurse had seen Yu Yuan's exclusive surgical instruments many times. At this moment, however, she could not help but hesitate for a few seconds before she said, "Doctor Yu, why don't you use the tweezers in the laryngoscope bag we just opened…"

"No, I'll use what I'm familiar with." Yu Yuan turned her head around and saw the nurse's expression. Then, she said seriously, "My instruments have been carefully sterilized, so it's okay even if we use them straight away."

"Alright." The nurse looked at the skinny, cool youngster who came back from abroad, dodged his gaze, and handed out a pair of tweezers.

The patient who just returned to his country chuckled to himself. 'I knew it, girls like people like me.'

…..

After a few minutes, Ling Ran, who was performing hepatectomy in an operating theater, suddenly received a system notification.

[Mission: Prove]

[Mission Details: Make your subordinates prove that they are more skillful than their colleagues from the same batch.]

[Mission Progress: 1/5]

[Reward: Intermediate Treasure Chest]

Ling Ran could not help but be surprised. "How did I finish a mission so soon? Who managed to prove his abilities?"

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Chapter 1022: Stop

At the bright operating theater, the doctors and nurses carried out their duties, and they incised, exposed, separated, drained, and sutured the patient who did not know what was going on…

Surgery in the modern hospital was similar to an advanced production line. With proper management and skillful personnel, they could continuously complete the surgery plan appropriately.

From the perspective of a bystander, such a scenario was truly wonderful.

This wonderful scenario was scary too, yet, it was still wonderful.

However, if no accidents occured from the patient or from the people participating in the surgery, such a wonderful moment would slowly become scary.

Ling Ran suddenly stopped.

The assistants who were chatting happily became like cats who had their tails stepped on, and they looked at Ling Ran.

"Okay. We'll delay the next surgery." Ling Ran shut down the system and said this. Then, he started to cut up the patient's hepatic blood vessels.

Zhang Anmin, who was the first assistant today, felt that he just experienced an information overload. He immediately raised his head and asked, "Can't this surgery be completed on time?"

Ling Ran looked at Zhang Anmin in a strange way and said, "Sure we can."

Zhang Anmin was terrified as Ling Ran stared at him. He immediately showed a smile that an associate chief physician would have when he faced the department director. "No, what I mean is, Doctor Ling, you usually continue surgeries one after another. Now, you suddenly announced that you want to stop, and that made us really… really…"

"Confused." Wang Jia added, and this made the scenario become less awkward. Of course, she was curious too.

Ling Ran performed his surgeries with an extremely high rate of continuity. Once a surgery was completed and the next surgery was not prepared yet, Ling Ran would wait inside the operating theater. Now, no assistant dared make Ling Ran wait. After all, not everyone would have a stable and lackadaisical attitude as Doctor Zhou, who always behaved like he was a whale sunbathing at the beach.

Furthermore, it was very rare for Ling Ran to delay any surgeries. That was the reason why Ling Ran's treatment group was rising in power steadily.

The whole treatment group would perform more than ten surgeries each day, and this number never changed. If they were in any other hospital, the management would definitely place a high value on them, and the group itself would have no problem in doing the work of two small departments on their own.

Ling Ran was not entirely too sure as to how he should explain this. He thought about it and said honestly, "I want to take a look at the condition of my subordinates. So, let's stop for a while after this surgery."

"Okay, then." The one who first spoke was Nurse Niu, who came over to look. The surgery group of the Emergency Medical Center was expanding quietly as well, and their most important task every day was to make sure that Ling Ran's surgeries ran smoothly. Nurse Liu, who was in charge of the surgery group, was relieved when she saw that Ling Ran was just strolling around. She smiled and said, "It's good to stroll around too. Doctor Ling, you must be bored."

"A bit." Ling Ran nodded. He felt puzzled. Because he did not know who managed to complete the Proof mission, and he had to investigate it.

After hearing Ling Ran's reply, the young nurse who specially came to the operating theater to visit Ling Ran could not help but to take out her phone and sent a message into the Spoon-feeding Group.

[Doctor Ling said he's bored, and he wants to take a stroll.]

[But he's just strolling around at the hospital.]

[It's hard to tell. He might want to look for someone to watch a movie with him.]

Ye Sigong, who was learning at a corner, tiptoed forward and stared at Ling Ran. He felt safe and thought, 'I'm a subordinate personally confirmed by Doctor Ling. I'm also someone who got attention from Doctor Ling…'

When Ye Sigong saw that Ling Ran still remembered him despite being busy, he had warmth bloom in his heart. That feeling was just like how a pregnant woman would feel when her baby moved in her womb.

Ling Ran continued with the surgery.

Ling Ran had completed the surgery successfully and at a relaxed pace. He did not wait for the nurse to help him. He used his hands to pull off the surgical gown and immediately tore off the single-use non-woven surgical gown from his body. The surgical gown fell on the floor.

In the operating theater, none of the single-use surgical gowns ever remained in perfect shape after they were taken off.

The young nurse, who was prepared a long time ago, took out her phone and captured this moment. She said happily, "So masculine."

Lu Wenbin, who was the second assistant, was unhappy, and he grumbled, "Everyone tears off their surgical gowns, you know?"

As he spoke, Lu Wenbin removed his gloves. Then, he also placed his hands on his surgical gown. He exerted force in his arms, and with a loud rip, his surgical gown was also torn into two pieces and fell on the floor.

Nurse Niu pointed at Lu Wenbin, and her finger trembled. "You're wearing a 100% cotton surgical gown!"

The 100% cotton surgical gowns were similar to scrubs. They were all to be collected and washed. Full cotton cloth was tough and durable, and it was usually more popular than the single-use surgical gowns. Thus, the number of full cotton surgical gowns was lower.

A few nurses stared at Lu Wenbin with surprised looks. They subconsciously directed their cameras on him, and they also added voiceovers for it.

"So barbaric."

"Just like a wild boar who broke a fence."

"Like an out-of-control Siberian Husky."

Lu Wenbin slowly lowered his head and saw the 100% cotton surgical gown lying limp on the floor. He sighed and said, "I'll pay for it."

Then, Nurse Niu pulled back her trembling finger and said firmly, "I'll fill in the form and send you the amount needed."

…..

Ling Ran had changed into a whole new set of underwear and scrubs. He felt incredibly comfortable when he walked around the emergency room.

Speaking of which, it was still easier to get new underwear. However, it was hard for him to get a whole new scrub that had not been ironed many times and retained the smoothness of fabric.

"Where is Zuo Cidian?" Ling Ran stood at the main hall of the Emergency Department and looked for someone who could handle things.

"Coming." Zuo Cidian sneaked out from a corner.

"What were you doing just now?" Ling Ran asked and raised his head to look at his watch at the same time. He then added, "Around half an hour to an hour ago."

'Why is he asking with such a specific time frame in mind?'

Zuo Cidian was stunned. It seemed like something had happened, and Ling Ran was not actually here to take a stroll.

As he thought about that, his mind quickly conjured all the things he did just now, and he said, "I was accompanying the people from the Medical Affairs Department to filter out the contractors for our training camp. We can organize this camp, but we can't just be in charge of everything. We definitely have to give away the task of signing contracts to someone else."

"Is there any outcome from what you did just now?" Ling Ran interrupted and asked.

"No, it's still under discussion." Zuo Cidian said helplessly.

"Then, there's nothing else." Ling Ran nodded and confirmed that it was not Zuo Cidian. If the mission given by the system was completed, that person would need to at least complete a task.

Ling Ran also asked Ma Yanlin, Ren Qi, and Yu Yuan accordingly, and he could basically understand the situation.

"You took out a foreign object?" Ling Ran lowered his head and looked at Yu Yuan. He felt sentimental.

"Yes," Yu Yuan replied and said excitedly, "After looking around, I confirmed that the shrimp thorn was at the posterior tonsil pillar. It's not easy to find it since it is stuck at a difficult location. It's also mainly because the shrimp thorn was too small, and it poked deep into the tonsil before it broke off, so only a very small portion can be seen."

Ren Qi said politely, "Other doctors could not find it, even if they had used barium flocculant. Initially, doctors from the Medical Imaging Department had suggested sending the patient back…"

Ling Ran nodded slowly. "It seems like Doctor Yu has done what other doctors could not do."

Yu Yuan jumped excitedly and said, "Coincidently, this is my expertise. I have performed countless surgeries to remove foreign objects."

"In this case, it will be more suitable for you to stay focused on a particular field." Ling Ran nodded slowly. The Proof Mission required five people. Aside from Lu Wenbin and Ma Yanlin, he was only 80% certain that Zhang Anmin could surpass the others. In that case, two more people were needed. When he said this, it meant that if he were unlucky, he needed two more people aside from the three he thought of just now to prove themselves.

Yu Yuan tried to be humble. "I'm not really an expert yet. I'm just trying to take over all the patients who require foreign object removal when I see them. I also did some research on the related topic and observed what others did. In fact, I have half a mind to expand my collection…"

The doctors who surrounded Ling Ran suddenly moved away subconsciously.

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Chapter 1023: Be the Assistant

At two o'clock in the morning, Lu Wenbin got out of bed, walked into the bathroom groggily, and washed his face before he climbed into his big bathtub, which was 22 to 26 feet in length. Then, he exhaled long and hard.

It was a newly-purchased smart bathtub, and its brand name was a bit of a mouthful. However, as the most expensive kind in the mall, its effects were very good. Over the past few months, Lu Wenbin used it to wake himself up.

After bathing for a while, Lu Wenbin struggled to come out of the tub. He took a quick shower, then went to the gym next door to begin his morning workout.

Half an hour later, Lu Wenbin's mind was completely awake. He got ready in the gym's shower room before he made his way to the kitchen on the ground floor and started his routine preparation of ingredients.

Since his pork trotter business got on track, Lu Wenbin rarely and could not control the source and production of every pork trotter.

However, Lu Wenbin was not willing to pass the preparation of ingredients to other people.

He prepared the ingredients in his own kitchen and turned his own dining room into the storeroom to mix the ingredients every day before he allowed his staff to take it out.

Lu Wenbin had initially gotten used to such a lifestyle. Then, Ling Ran suddenly decided to give him double the chances to be the chief surgeon…

Lu Wenbin was now forced to arrive at the hospital before four in the morning, which was an hour earlier than the past. Then, he needed to meet up with the anesthetist, Zuo Cidian, the patient, and the patient's family members. After that, he had to ask Ling Ran for advice and make the last confirmations…

Lu Wenbin was only able to last until now due to the pleasure of being the chief surgeon.

However, to be honest, the support given to him by that pleasure was waning.

The happiest time of being a chief surgeon was when a doctor had just started. The more times a doctor worked as a chief surgeon, the more it felt like any other normal task. Additionally, responsibilities and pressure would also become greater.

"Old Lu, you're here." Ma Yanlin's arrival time was about the same as Lu Wenbin's, and that meant he could have an extra hour of sleep.

Lu Wenbin stared at Ma Yanlin's indistinct dark circles with great jealousy because that indicated he had enough sleep. He changed his attire while he asked, "You've had your number of surgeries increased too, right?"

One good thing about the hospital was that it had every single facility, and if the hospital's grade was high enough, its conditions would be good as well.

Theoretically, a doctor could live in the hospital for 365 days a year. There were places to eat and sleep, and of course, when he was sick, he did not need to compete for a hospital bed. As long as he was willing to write his own medical record, he could lay on whichever hospital bed he desired. Even when he wanted to make love with his wife and have a baby, it could all be done in the hospital, so it was extremely convenient.

The operating area in Yun Hua Emergency Medical Center was connected to the incomplete ICU. Its interior had been renovated and improved, while its internal space had been increased. The facilities including the dressing room and shower room had also been improved as per Ling Ran's request.

The members of Ling Ran's treatment group were not the only ones who liked to go in and out of the dressing room. Even the doctors in the Emergency Medical Center also liked to go to the dressing room now.

After sweating, staining their clothes with blood, having s*x, or working overtime at night, taking a bath and changing into a new attire was the most comfortable thing they could experience.

For single men like Lu Wenbin and married men like Ma Yanlin, the hospital's operating theater was more like a cultural medium for huge babies (surgeons).

If they did not need to attend matchmaking sessions, they could just wear their scrubs all day and night. Then they could put on their white coats occasionally and hang around until it was Chinese New Year or other festivals before they changed into their own clothes again.

Compared with Lu Wenbin, Ma Yanlin stayed much longer in the hospital's Operating Area.

He was still renting a house now. After joining Ling Ran's treatment group, Ma Yanlin moved from staying in a rented house to a house in an urban village to a resettlement residential area before moving to a high-quality bachelor apartment (even though he was married), but his bathroom still could not accommodate a bathtub. Besides, instead of wasting his hot water, he preferred taking a bath in the hospital.

Ma Yanlin took off his clothes very quickly before he stepped into the shower room and shouted, "It's increased to four every day. I feel like I can do it until the end of the world."

Ma Yanlin seemed to be pretending to be pitiful.

If Ling Ran performed the same surgery, he might complete it in a few dozen minutes. However, if it was Ma Yanlin, he might need two to three hours…

From that perspective, there was not much difference between a doctor performing surgery and a student working on exercises. Students who were good at a subject would more accurately solve the exercises at a faster speed. Meanwhile, those who were not familiar with the knowledge required for the exercises would take a longer time to solve the questions, plus their accuracy would be lower.

A clinician's skills were generally trained through clinical practices.

The phrase, "perseverance and consistency" was very suitable for clinicians. With the exclusion of the time they took to study, they would still need an additional twenty years to get the hang of being a clinician.

As for Ma Yanlin and Lu Wenbin, they were currently improving at an incredibly quick rate.

"I've also done four today." Lu Wenbin sighed emotionally. "I never thought that we would perform four surgeries in a day."

Regardless of which hospital, having its surgeon perform four surgeries a day was not considered an easy task. Slightly complicated surgeries that were up to Level 3 could even take an entire day to complete.

For resident doctors such as Lu Wenbin and Ma Yanbin, serving as the chief surgeon for four surgeries in a row still made them feel both tense and proud, even if the surgeries were M-Tang technique surgeries and Achilles tendon repairs, which they were the most familiar with.

"Are you guys ready yet?" Wang Jia rushed over in a hurry, glanced at the shower room in disgust, and said, "Control the time of the first two surgeries well. Doctor Ling will be performing the surgeries with you."

"Huh? How?" Lu Wenbin had just turned around to show off his back muscles, but he nearly sprained his waist.

Wang Jia seriously answered, "He'll be working as the first assistant for you guys in turn. It'll be your first and second surgeries today. So, who's going first, and who's going later?"

"Is he crazy?" Lu Wenbin could not believe his ears. "Doctor Ling can't even finish all of his own surgeries."

"Doctor Ling said that he wants to help you guys improve your skills." As Wang Jia spoke, her voice grew nasally. "Doctor Ling is so good. He doesn't scold or beat you guys, and he also doesn't set unspoken rules for you… Now, he's even using his own surgery time to improve your skills. When you go back to your hometown this year, you should go and thank God for your blessings."

Ma Yanlin quickly dried his body. He then put on his scrubs and stepped out of the shower room. "Previously, we prayed to God when our family went out to the sea."

"Your prayers have paid off." Wang Jia pursed her lips before she urged them to hurry up with an answer. "Who's going first?"

Lu Wenbin and Ma Yanlin glanced at each other, and sparkles shone in their eyes. They raised their hands at the same time.

Everyone knew that a doctor was in his best condition when he performed the first surgery, especially when it came to newbie doctors like them. Performing surgery for two to three hours was considered normal. While they did not know if Ling Ran would feel tired by the time the second surgery rolled around, they knew that whoever the chief surgeon was may already feel exhausted.

In that case, if they wanted to learn with the highest efficiency, it was obvious that they needed to learn during the first surgery.

"Go and get ready in your own operating theater. I'll ask Doctor Ling to go to the operating theater of the one who's starting first." It was only then that Wang Jia pulled all her tricks and proudly broke into a maternal smile. "Complete your surgery faster. We want to clock off work earlier."

"How is it possible to clock off work earlier? Even if we finish these surgeries earlier, we still need to proceed with our next surgery." Lu Wenbin laughed.

Wang Jia glared at him. "Do you really want me to make it clear? Everyone wants to be done with your surgeries earlier so that they can go to Doctor Ling's."

The air conditioning seemed colder at that moment.

Lu Wenbing smiled in embarrassment. "If we operate slower, our labor intensity will also be lower, right?"

"Doctor Ling completes a 30 RMB surgery in forty minutes, but you guys complete it in three hours. Do you think we're idiots?" Wang Jia increased the volume of her voice and made the resident doctors speechless for some time.

When you were not as good as others, it was really hard to speak for yourself.

"I'll buy milk tea." Lu Wenbin immediately changed his mind.

"Doctor Ling has already bought milk tea." Wang Jia snorted and wore a little smile on her lips. She then waved her hand in a show of magnanimity and said, "You guys don't usually treat us to things, so consider yourselves to be under our debt."

Lu Wenbin wanted to say that he was rich, but Ma Yanlin had already thanked Wang Jia profusely without any hesitation right then.

Wang Jia smiled and nodded. Lu Wenbin and Ma Yanlin were considered resident doctors whom the hospital had high hopes for despite the fact that they had not been promoted yet. This meant that once they became attending physicians in the future, it would not be easy to curry favor to them.

Even young nurses would have relatives and friends who would come over for treatment on a regular basis. At that time, if they did not gain their favor, they might reject them when the nurses needed them.

Lu Wenbin and Ma Yanlin were still like junior high schoolers who did not completely understand the thoughts of the girls in their class. After they sent Wang Jia away, they looked at each other, and the flames of rivalry burned in their eyes.

They could not guess the girls' thoughts, but they knew the development within Ling Ran's treatment group very clearly. As of now, the current period could be considered a time in which if they were just one step ahead of the others, they could form a chain reaction that would allow them to surpass others later on.

Whoever was in the position of the chief surgeon and whoever obtained the first opportunity would get more resources in the future.

Ma Yanlin and Lu Wenbin lowered their heads at the same time to tighten the drawstrings on their pants while they simulated the surgical procedure in their minds.

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Chapter 1024: The Day Will Come

"Old Ren, it's been a while." Zhu Qianli, an attending physician who was as fat as a pig, was so excited that he called out to Ren Qi loudly when he saw him in the emergency room. He sounded like a pig who was about to be slaughtered.

Ren Qi turned out of reflex and asked in astonishment, "Old Zhu, what are you doing here?"

"Why? Aren't you glad that your old friend is here in Yun Hua City?" Zhu Qianli laughed out loud. He fondly wrapped his arm around Ren Qi's shoulder and tapped the latter's back.

Ren Qi was a little confused.

'Are we even that close? You used to call me Young Qilin. It's only been a while since we last met, and I'm now an Old Qilin? Did I gain weight or something?'

They were colleagues back when Ren Qi worked in Qiu County Hospital. They were around the same age and often had lunch together and hung out. However, it was because there were not that many doctors there, to begin with. Most doctors there enjoyed a good relationship with one another.

At the end of the day, Ren Qi and Zhu Qianli were merely colleagues. Zhu Qianli was closer to the doctors who liked drinking and going to nightclubs, while Ren Qi preferred karaoke bars. They were so different that it was as if one of them was a wild boar, and the other was a domestic pig.

As Ren Qi had left Qiu County for quite a while, he was being quite vigilant now that Zhu Qianli was trying to act like they knew each other very well.

"Are you… sick or something?" As a doctor, Ren Qi made a highly possible hypothesis.

With Zhu Qianli's body size and lifestyle, it would not be weird for him to get sick.

Zhu Qianli laughed. "No! It's not my turn yet."

"That's great, then."

"Hey, old friend, you've become even nerdier than you used to be. Why don't we hang out tonight? I'll treat you to a meal, and we can have some beer and visit a karaoke bar. We can do whatever you like."

Ren Qi shook his head firmly. "Nah, I'm super busy. I won't be able to leave early."

"But you'll still need to eat, right?"

Ren Qi sighed. "There's no use convincing me. Nowadays, I'm lucky if I get to enjoy my dinner break for thirty minutes. I won't be able to go out for dinner. You know what? How many days will you be in Yun Hua City? I'll adjust my schedule and tell you when we can hang out."

"I'll be here for quite a few days." Zhu Qianli thought about it for a few seconds and slowly said, "Truth be told, I'm here to ask you for some inside information."

"Go ahead." Ren Qi breathed a sigh of relief. At least Zhu Qianli was not there to try to occupy one of their hospital beds. Right now, the Ling Treatment Group was experiencing a serious shortage of hospital beds, and not even the members could make room for their connections.

Doctors may be dodgy beings, but it was extremely immoral to chase patients out of the hospital. Now that all of their hospital beds, including additional beds, were occupied, it would be extremely troublesome to make room for a patient.

Zhu Qianli looked around and saw many anxious and flustered patients as well as their family members. There were also doctors clad in large white coats and nurses wearing their green uniforms.

Zhu Qianli dragged Ren Qi to a corner and sneakily said, "Old Qilin, are you part of the training camp Yun Hua Hospital is organizing?"

As Ren Qi gazed at Zhu Qianli, something completely irrelevant suddenly flashed past his mind. 'With Old Zhu's body size and appearance, he would make a very bad spy.'

"Old Ren, I really want to give it a try this time. You don't have to give me much help. I just need some information. Can you do me this favor?" Zhu Qianli thought that Ren Qi did not want to answer his question, so he asked Ren Qi about it again with a sincere tone.

Truth be told, the moment Zhu Qianli heard that Yun Hua Hospital was organizing a training camp, he immediately became interested.

Food and accommodation would be included, and he would get to elevate his skills. This was basically a gift from heaven. Of course, he was interested.

Such training camps could actually be found in Beijing and Shanghai all year long, and some of them came with plenty of perks. However, it was not easy for a doctor to get a slot in one of those training camps. Even though application would be open for doctors all over the county, most of the doctors who made it into those training camps were well-trained ones from tertiary Grade A hospitals in prefecture-level cities, and they also served as the pillars in their own hospitals.

Doctors who worked in county hospitals, whether they were resident doctors or attending physicians, were obviously not qualified to train alongside those excellent doctors.

However, now that there was a training camp in Yun Hua Hospital, things were different.

After all, Yun Hua Hospital was merely renowned in Changxi Province or at most, a few provinces around Changxi Province.

As a tertiary Grade A hospital, Yun Hua Hospital was only inferior to the likes of top hospitals like Huaxi Hospital. However, it was not impossible for doctors like Zhu Qianli to obtain a training spot there.

If he tried hard enough, it was possible.

The fact that Ren Qi was doing his in-service training there made Zhu Qianli a lot more confident about this.

"You want to leave the county hospital too?" Ren Qi looked at Zhu Qianli, and there was a slightly disbelieving expression on his face.

Ren Qi only gave up his high position in Qiu County Hospital and became a lowly doctor in Yun Hua Hospital because he had witnessed Ling Ran's excellent skills multiple times. He had made the decision after thinking about it long and hard.

Ren Qi did not believe that Zhu Qianli, who had been taking bribes and living a good life for years in Qiu County Hospital, would have this kind of determination.

As expected, Zhu Qianli merely glanced at Ren Qi with a baffled expression. "I merely want to join the training camp, and I'll bring the skills back to Qiu County Hospital. Unlike you, I have children and aging parents at home. It's impossible for me to move somewhere else to work."

Ren Qi smiled. "The hospital leaders don't know that you're here, do they?"

Zhu Qianli smiled too.

Ren Qi answered his own question, "Guess how I knew about that? I'm working in the Emergency Medical Center of Yun Hua Hospital as a legitimate in-service doctor. Wouldn't the department director go crazy if he hears that you intend to participate in the training camp organized by the Emergency Medical Center of Yun Hua Hospital? If he knew about it, you wouldn't even be able to make a trip here for inside information. The department director will probably send one of his subordinates to go to your home to force you to work."

Zhu Qianli froze for a moment. He then laughed up loud again and gave Ren Qi a thumbs up. "Excellent hypothesis. Very excellent indeed!"

"So, if you really get a spot for the training camp, what are you going to do about the county hospital?" Ren Qi asked. His expression did not change.

Zhu Qianli's expression darkened when he heard this, and he looked even more like a domestic pig right now.

Ren Qi crossed his arms before his chest and looked at the patients and their family members who were walking around the emergency room. He quietly waited for Zhu Qianli's reply.

"I'll cross that bridge when it comes. Right now, I just want to get a spot in the training camp." Ren Qi had expected that answer as he knew what kind of person Zhu Qianli was. Zhu Qianli was often more concerned about the present, and he had always dealt with the future when it came.

"Are you really certain about this?" Ren Qi decided to confirm things again.

"I've given it a good thought." Zhu Qianli straightened up, and he answered firmly. He sighed loudly and said, "Old Ren, it's not like you don't know how uncertain and hard things are in Qiu County Hospital right now."

"Huh?"

"Let me put it this way. After you left, I've never received the full sum of the bonus I'm supposed to get. The health insurance companies kept giving us fines, and according to the hospital policies, doctors are supposed to be responsible for those fines. So, it's not easy to work in Qiu County Hospital now," Zhu Qianli said what was on his mind. He then continued, "I've thought about it. For doctors, skills speak louder than anything. Old Ren, just imagine. After you go back to Qiu County Hospitals, all the departments will be fighting for you. I just need to explain things after I finish the training camp. That would solve all the problems."

Ren Qi did not know whether to be envious or look down on the simple and honest Zhu Qianli.

"Let's go. We'll talk about it as we walk." Since Zhu Qianli had already made his point clear, there was nothing much that Ren Qi could do to change his mind. He walked to the operating area together with Zhu Qianli.

Ren Qi asked Zhu Qianli to change into scrubs and said, "The exact details of the training camp are not out yet. Since you're here already, I suggest that you watch a few surgeries and decide on a direction first."

"I have to decide on a direction?"

"Yes, Doctor Ling will be dividing the participants of the training camp into a few groups: hand surgery, knee surgery, general surgery, liver surgery, and emergency surgery. I'm telling you this privately. I reckon that you'll get a better idea of things after watching a few surgeries performed by other members of the Ling Treatment Group." Ren Qi was basically explaining the training camp to Zhu Qianli according to the normal protocol. He had no intention of giving Zhu Qianli any inside information.

Zhu Qianli realized that too, and he reluctantly said, "I don't mind watching surgeries, but why do I have to watch those performed by other members of the Ling Treatment Group?"

"So that you can get a better idea of things and decide on a direction." Ren Qi smiled and took a look at the schedule. They then headed to Operating Theater 3.

There were a lot of things on Zhu Qianli's mind, but he followed Ren Qi to the operating theater. He was not that enthusiastic about it. He merely watched the surgery quietly.

Ren Qi did not say anything either. He stood in a corner of the operating theater together with several doctors whom he did not know.

Lu Wenbin, who was operating on the patient, was not aware of this at all.

When the Ling Treatment Group started introducing this protocol several days ago, Lu Wenbin was not really used to it.

He kept feeling that he should be putting on a better performance because doctors from other hospitals were watching him.

However, now that doctors from other hospitals had been watching him for several days, Lu Wenbin was starting to feel like a panda in a zoo who had gotten used to being watched. He was unperturbed as he operated on the patient and showcased his muscles while he was at it.

He was acting as the chief surgeon in an M-Tang surgery, and he was getting better and better at this surgical procedure.

The best way to become more skillful at a surgical method had always been to act as the chief surgeon for that method.

He also had the advantage of receiving guidance from Ling Ran.

Lu Wenbin's head was lowered, and he carefully separated the patient's tendon. He was almost as good at handling human tendons as he was at dealing with pork trotters nowadays.

"Hm…" Lu Wenbin extended his hand confidently.

The nurse placed a needle holder on his palm, and a 5-0 surgical thread was attached to the needle.

Lu Wenbin started suturing the patient's tendon.

He used the standard starting position for the M-Tang technique, and it only took him a few stitches to secure the patient's tendon back to its normal state.

Zhu Qianli squirmed and shoved the doctor beside him with his soft belly so that he could get a better view of Lu Wenbin's maneuvers.

He was not interested in how good Lu Wenbin was at the surgical method. He merely wanted to see the way Lu Wenbin stitched up the tendon.

Lu Wenbin's maneuvers were well-controlled, and the stitches were uniform…

Zhu Qianli believed that there were definitely surgeons in Yun Hua Hospital who could stitch up patients' tendons better than this doctor, who looked a decade younger than him. But he also believed that if he successfully obtained this skill, he would definitely be able to make a name for himself at Qiu County Hospital.

No wonder Ren Qi was reluctant to leave.

Zhu Qianli could not help but look at Ren Qi and whisper, "You've found the perfect place to work at. When are you going to show me what you've got?"

Ren Qi flashed a profound smile. "The day will come."

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Chapter 1025: Helping Out

Lu Wenbin operated on the patient at a moderate pace.

Even until the end of the surgery, Zhu Qianli did not detect any obvious problem. There was a part where Lu Wenbin had to perform the end-to-end anastomosis of blood vessels, and he only took seven or eight minutes for it. After he removed the vascular clamps, no blood seeped out at all. Zhu Qianli was secretly astonished.

In the field of surgery, the end-to-end anastomosis of blood vessels could be said to be a mid-range basic maneuver. Surgeons would usually hook a surgical thread around the blood vessels and slowly tighten it until the blood vessels were closed.

Ordinary doctors would take around ten minutes to perform end-to-end anastomosis of large blood vessels. But like how people talked about how an ordinary Chinese citizen earned 10,000 RMB, this figure was neither the average nor the median. It was merely a figure everyone could accept.

It was a figure used for conversational purposes, and doctors could talk about how end-to-end anastomosis of blood vessels took around ten minutes just like how people talked about ordinary salarymen earning about 10,000 RMB a month.

Doctors who took a longer time to perform end-to-end anastomosis of blood vessels would naturally keep quiet during these discussions. Sometimes, they might talk about how their department director only took five minutes to perform end-to-end anastomosis of blood vessels just like how people talk about having a friend who earned 30,000 RMB a month just to feel better about themselves.

However, unlike people's monthly salary, which was a more private topic, it was easy for doctors to find out how long other doctors took to perform end-to-end anastomosis of blood vessels.

For example, from what Zhu Qianli knew, in Qiu County Hospital, only several experienced and excellent associate chief physicians, chief physicians, and department directors could perform end-to-end anastomosis of blood vessels in ten minutes. It was normal for other doctors to take thirteen to fourteen minutes or even fifteen to sixteen minutes.

Zhu Qianli himself usually took more than fifteen minutes to perform end-to-end anastomosis of large blood vessels. Moreover, after he was done with it, there would usually be plenty of blood seeping out of the blood vessels after he removed the vascular clamps, and he would have no choice but to make one or two figure-eight loops to solve the problems.

Zhu Qianli might not fully understand all the maneuvers of the surgery Lu Wenbin had just performed, but watching the latter perform end-to-end anastomosis of blood vessels was thrilling for him.

Truth be told, ordinary doctors only performed ordinary surgeries, and there were only several basic maneuvers involved. Hence, doctors like Zhu Qianli were easily impressed when harder basic maneuvers like end-to-end anastomosis of blood vessels were done well.

After the surgery ended, Zhu Qianli watched as Lu Wenbin extended his hands and tore off his scrubs, and he immediately went forward. "Doctor Lu, this surgery of yours is really well done."

Ren Qi, who was standing behind Zhu Qianli, suddenly recalled the way Zhu Qianli licked his lips and praised the owner of the barbeque restaurant, "This skewered meat you've made is really delicious!"

Zhu Qianli's tone of voice and movements were basically the same in both instances.

Even though Lu Wenbin had been the chief surgeon for quite a few surgeries lately and had gotten used to being watched, he was very thrilled that someone was praising him in such a straightforward manner.

"Thank you so much," Lu Wenbin quickly replied humbly.

"I should be the one thanking you. I didn't expect to witness such an excellent surgery the moment I stepped foot in Yun Hua Hospital. Oh, by the way, my name is Zhu Qianli, and I am an attending physician from Qiu County Hospital. I'm Old Ren's colleague." Zhu Qianli made use of his connection with Ren Qi without hesitation.

"Ah, nice to meet you, Attending Physician Zhu." The fact that Zhu Qianli was a fat guy with the surname "Zhu" [1] left a deep impression in Lu Wenbin's mind.

"You're too courteous. Just call me Young Zhu."

"That wouldn't do. I'm younger than you," Lu Wenbin said and glanced at Ren Qi. "Doctor Ling will be helping out in my next surgery, so I have to start getting prepared now."

"Sure, go ahead, then," Zhu Qianli quickly said, and he watched as Lu Wenbin left the operating theater. He could not help but say to Ren Qi, "Is he really younger than us? He's quite a humble person."

"You mean Doctor Lu? He's at most twenty-seven or twenty-eight. He's still a resident doctor," Ren Qi answered and smiled. "He looks pretty mature for his age."

"Very." Zhu Qianli decided to stop talking about Lu Wenbin. He asked, "He mentioned that he'll be performing his next surgery with Doctor Ling. Can I go ahead and watch it too?"

Ren Qi nodded. "Yes, you can, but Doctor Ling will be the one helping out with the surgery instead. Lu Wenbin had been performing surgeries as chief surgeon lately."

Zhu Qianli did not understand what Ren Qi meant. "What do you mean?"

Ren Qi could not hide the envy on his face. "Doctor Ling has been allowing Lu Wenbin and Ma Yanlin to act as chief surgeons these days, and he helps them out once a day as the first assistant."

Zhu Qianli was so shocked that his mouth was wide open. "Doctor Ling is acting as the first assistant for resident doctors? Every single day?"

"It's been quite a few days." Ren Qi pursed his lips and said, "Why else would Lu Wenbin be doing so well?"

As a surgeon, there was a huge difference between acting as the chief surgeon for one, five, ten, and twenty surgeries.

Surgeries were just like mock examination papers. A student who had mastered all the relevant knowledge would become a lot more excellent after doing twenty mock examination papers compared to if he only did one, five, or ten.

Of course, while that student was doing those mock examination papers, he had to continue reading and learning.

During this process, if he had an excellent teacher who taught him everything step by step, he would be able to learn even more.

Zhu Qianli was so envious that he was almost salivating. "Doctor Ling acts as their first assistant in the entire surgery? How about his own surgeries?"

"He'll perform his own surgeries after he's done helping out. He said that we're experiencing a shortage of hospital beds these days, but at the end of the day, he still practices preferential treatment…" There was a surge of jealousy in Ren Qi's heart. "He's even willing to forgo the opportunity to perform freelance surgeries. With the time he uses to help those two resident doctors out, he could have done two or three freelance surgeries. Sigh, there's no helping it, those two are his direct disciples, after all."

"Are all direct disciples in Yun Hua Hospital treated this way?" Zhu Qianli clicked his tongue. "My dad doesn't even treat me this well."

"That's surely an exaggeration, isn't it…?"

"Back when you were a student, did your dad spend all day helping you with your studies, forgoing all forms of entertainment such as watching television shows, reading newspapers, and reading novels? And did he do it week after week?"

Ren Qi thought about it for a moment, and his smile froze on his face.

…..

Ling Ran entered Operating Theater 1 a little later than Lu Wenbin, and he habitually read all the scans that were pasted on the wall first and memorized everything. He then walked toward the operating table and stood opposite Lu Wenbin.

Even though he was only acting as the first assistant, unlike other first assistants, he naturally did not have to be responsible for all the miscellaneous tasks. Aside from this, there were many doctors who were with the Ling Treatment Group for in-service training, and the group also had many medical interns. Those people were responsible for miscellaneous tasks.

Lu Wenbin waited obediently for Ling Ran to take his spot, and he only grabbed the scalpel when Ling Ran gave him the green light to get started.

The two of them quickly separated the patient's Achilles tendon.

They had performed M-Tang surgery countless times, and they did not even need to speak to work together well.

There was a commotion in the visitation room upstairs, though.

It was not a very rare surgery, but it was considered quite difficult, as Zone II was involved. If Ling Ran were the chief surgeon, it would have been no surprise that the surgery was going so well. But the chief surgeon today, Lu Wenbin, was a nobody…

"I really want to have Doctor Ling as my godfather," Zhu Qianli said emotionally.

Ren Qi tugged at Zhu Qianli's sleeve. He shook his head slowly and pointed in a direction with his chin.

Zhu Qianli looked over and saw that a few doctors who were clad in large white coats had just entered the visitation room and sat down. Some were older, and some were younger. Even though they looked like ordinary doctors, Zhu Qianli immediately understood what was going on and stopped talking.

In the field of medicine, a doctor must not offend older doctors with subordinates.

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Chapter 1026: Hold It In

Clack*

The visitation room door was opened once again.

This time, it was Huo Congjun who entered with his disciple.

His disciple was Zuo Liangcai, an attending physician. He was the same age as Doctor Zhou, but his personality was totally different. He had always been the type to seize opportunities, and there was a high chance he had just been spontaneously caught by Department Director Huo to make up the numbers.

"Huo Congjun!"

"Old Huo!"

The doctors in white coats each greeted him in their own way. It all sounded chaotic, but it sent a huge message.

Zhu Qianli was the first to look at the doctor called "Old Huo". He was an old man with gray hair, and his clothes were messy. He never thought someone like that would have such qualifications.

Huo Congjun responded with a smile and similarly called out to the person who addressed him as "Old Huo."

"Old Wang."

He was always someone who struck back after his enemy delivered an attack. Before he found anything to rebuke someone, he would remain modest and gentle.

"The training camp you've built is pretty impressive." Old Wang had been selected by everyone else to talk to Huo Congjun. He did not beat around the bush and just went straight to the main subject.

All the doctors who heard what he said became interested.

Over the past few days, the topic of the training camp at Yun Hua Hospital had been the hottest topic among those in Changxi Province's medical field.

Everyone knew that Old Huo wanted to get a large batch of free laborers. In the interests of departments or hospitals, in-service training doctors were really good "things". There was no need for them to authorize these people, they did not need to provide them with insurance and housing funds, and they did not even need to promise them bonuses and salaries. They could only receive such privileges depending on their leaders' mood and conscience. That was not all, but the working hours of in-service training doctors were also not guaranteed. During busy times, it was entirely normal for the in-service training doctors to work for twelve hours.

Although using a larger number of interns meant that they would get sufficient manpower, in-service training doctors were all matured or nearly-matured doctors. In-service training doctors were much more skillful and useful than interns.

Everyone knew just what kind of plot Yun Hua Hospital was cooking by organizing the training camp, just like how everyone knew exactly what Sima Zhao was thinking of.

However, the real difficulty lay in how the Changxi province doctors would solve the problem that was Huo Congjun's training camp, as how the people of Great Wei had to solve the problem that was Sima Zhao.

"Department Director Huo, I understand that you want to expand the Emergency Medical Center, but it makes us uncomfortable that you've suddenly come up with this training camp." Old Wang was the department director of the General Surgery Department in Second People's Hospital. He was not very tough, but he had a lot of experience. He could act casually with Huo Congjun whenever he wanted.

Huo Congjun snorted a couple of times but did not overreact. Instead, he just said, "We'll only accept a few dozen people for the first training camp. What's wrong with giving junior doctors a chance to train?"

"Train?" Old Wang laughed out loud. "Aren't you just trying to lure them to your hospital with the promise of authorization?"

"Not this time," Huo Congjun stressed. He smiled again and said, "Let's not talk about it first. They're about to suture the tendon."

However, while they were still talking, Ling Ran and Lu Wenbin had already stripped the tendon.

Doctor Wang and the others turned around in tacit agreement and looked at the operating theater below.

They did not want to cause too much tension with Huo Congjun, anyway, so they put off the topic for the time being.

Zhu Qianli's desire for gossip had yet to be fully satiated, so he turned to Ren Qi and whispered, "The way you've all built the visitation room is really good. It's definitely the first in Changxi province."

"This has been prepared by Department Director Huo for Doctor Ling," Ren Qi said with pride.

Zhu Qianli smiled. "I know, my godfather is really good."

Ren Qi looked at Zhu Qianli in displeasure. He had been in Yun Hua Hospital illegally for half a year. Compared with this person, he was obviously more qualified to say those words!

However, Ren Qi could not argue with him in the crowded visitation room. He could only watch the operating theater below him in anger.

Ling Ran neither knew nor cared about the crowd watching him.

He worked as Lu Wenbin's assistant with familiar ease, and only when he reached the crucial suturing steps did he give Lu Wenbin a reminder, "You need to control the contact point of the cut section. The surface area should be as large as possible, and you have to connect the vessels well…"

"Noted." Lu Wenbin took a deep breath and readjusted the movement of his fingers to operate as carefully as possible.

He had mastered the steps of the M-Tang technique a long time ago and completed almost fifty cases independently.

With his current technique, eighty percent of the flexor tendon Lu Wenbin sutured would score above excellent when the patients were tested on their hand functions, and the remaining fifty percent out of the eighty percent was considered good.

That ratio was acceptable no matter which hospital he was in.

It was even better by the standards of the Emergency Department.

However, Lu Wenbin was not satisfied.

His superior, Ling Ran was obviously not satisfied with it as well.

In order to steadily increase the rate of his excellence, Lu Wenbin had to improve his accuracy in each step of the surgery.

"Focus on the strength of the knot," Ling Ran reminded again.

Lu Wenbin agreed in a hurry.

He often faced the same type of problem as well. Tendon anastomosis was simple. All he needed to do was to trim the ruptured tendon and suture it back. In essence, it was no different from vascular anastomosis. Both required the use of a thread to surround the tendon once.

Among them, the difficulties in suturing the blood vessels lay in the size and strength of the blood vessels. If the strength he put into the needle was too great when he performed the suture, the blood vessel would easily tear apart. He also had to pay attention to the density of the stitches to avoid blood leakage.

The requirements for tendons in terms of density and strength were quite different.

In fact, if not for the location of the flexor tendon, it would have been easier to suture the tendon than the blood vessels.

However, the more a person wanted to achieve perfection, the more often he or she would encounter complex problems.

For example, if a person wanted to improve his or her tendon strength and reduce the adhesion, he or she would need to connect the tendons tightly. When performing knots, not only did he have to apply pressure on the ruptured end to make sure that the surface was as smooth as possible, he also had to prevent the ruptured end from flipping outward.

If the standards for the process were lower, any doctor would be able to do it.

Once the standard rose, however, the difficulty also increased exponentially. Only an incredibly professional doctor would be able to do it.

Take, for instance, the making of a ball. Anyone would be able to make a snowball or a mudball. If they were slightly more serious, they could even make the surface smooth. However, if a person wanted to make a ball so round that it could serve as a proper bearing in a wheel, his hands would not be enough to take up the task.

Lu Wenbin's actions were shown in several monitors in the visitation room.

"How's our junior doctor's performance?" Huo Congjun noticed that everyone was very serious, so he started to talk with a smile.

Old Wang glanced at him and faintly said, "By the standards of a junior doctor, he's pretty good."

"Yes, our doctors in the Hand Surgery Department also say that junior doctors trained by Doctor Ling have met the requirements of their attending physicians."

'For this one single surgery.'

But Huo Congjun did not say that out loud.

However, that was not important. Doctors nowadays, especially junior doctors, only aimed for the highest value in one single thing, not comprehensiveness.

Yun Hua Hospital's Hand Surgery Department was still famous. Some doctors smiled as they looked at the gray-haired Wang.

"Very good but not unusual." Old Wang's reply was very concise and a little disdainful.

"Doctor Lu has been practicing with Doctor Ling for less than a year. Recently, he's been focusing on his training and even started to be a chief surgeon. All of it has only taken place within a month," Huo Congjun said with a smile.

The crowd's expression changed. No one said a word.

Huo Congjun chuckled. He turned around, puffed out his chest, and assumed an air of superiority as he stared into the distance. "We've set up the training camp to improve the skill level of all the junior doctors in our province. I think with Doctor Ling's skills, he can still take up this position to help them improve."

"It's not about whether he can take up the position or not—"

"I say that Ling Ran can take up the position of their trainer because I want to prove that we're not unreasonable people," Huo Congjun interrupted Old Wang. His voice began to rise, and he started to sound unreasonable. "If you think there is a better way to train junior doctors than a training camp… I will take back my suggestion."

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Chapter 1027: Juniors

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"Old Huo, it's no fun if you're being like this." The gray-haired Old Wang looked like an onion with hair growing out after his face turned red.

"So?" Huo Congjun had scolded many people before. Although occasionally he scolded people just for the sake of scolding them, today's situation was different.

The other party was not even worthy.

He did not even bother to remember the names of the several people who followed Old Wang.

He may still scold them in the future anyway. To act friendly and be an acquaintance would only affect his emotions.

Old Wang was so angry that even his hair started to tremble after feeling Huo Congjun's contempt.

'That's too f*cking materialistic!'

'When I'm old and without power as well as technique, must I be discriminated against by you?

'I've so many years gaining experience in the medical field of Yun Hua Hospital, and everyone who sees me would greet me as "Chief Physician Wang".

'You could have just said a few words, given some compensation, then respectfully sent us away and things would be settled right? What's with your attitude now? What kind of attitude is this? Are you looking down on people now?'

Old Wang thought of it even further and felt his anger building up in him. After seeing that Huo Congjun suggestive face of "you better be careful, I could scold you till death", he subconsciously stressed his tone and emphasized, "Old Huo, let me remind you, you're not the only one who can organize a training camp. When several of us join together, we would have a bigger momentum and be able to recruit more people than you. But is it necessary to do so?"

If his reply did not end with a "but", the doctors behind Old Wang would have revolted on the spot.

At that moment, someone coughed to remind Old Wang, 'This is not what we said before.'

Old Wang returned his gaze. 'Don't be afraid, I'm just scaring them.'

Huo Congjun was actually worried for a second, and in a flash, he laughed.

'Did you actually think it's easy organizing a training camp?'

Having in-service training doctors was not charity work. Whoever had them in their hands had to use them well to produce equivalent benefits.

Only an extremely busy hospital like Yun Hua Hospital would recruit as many in-service training doctors as possible.

In fact, if it were not for the expansion of the Emergency Medical Center leading to insufficient manpower that could not be filled in within a short period of time, Huo Congjun would not dare to get dozens of in-service training doctors to come over in one go.

In-service training doctors were indeed a very useful immediate combative force. Its advantage was that they did not need to be authorized and could be immediately used. But why were the in-service training doctors willing to do this? Because they wanted a better future and a higher income.

The mindsets of in-service training doctors, housemen, and medical interns were especially different when it came to income.

Practicum and housemanship were hospital policies, and it was a process that must be experienced by young doctors, but not for in-service training doctors. Moreover, most in-service training doctors have graduated for several years. Those who were quick would have started a family and built their career, whereas the slower ones would also have mortgages and car loans, and also have to spend money on fitness, insurance, buying items to satisfy their wants, and maybe raise a pet. The income of a houseman was only enough to allow them to survive, and that was not enough. Hospitals and departments could certainly provide a lower salary and bonuses to in-service training doctors. In fact, they could even pay these in-service training doctors far less than their authorized doctors, but all in all, those who could be used would be considered cost-effective, but those who could not be used would just be wasting their money, and they would still suffer a dent in their resources even if they were only paying around ten of these in-service training doctors.

Moreover, when it came to the bottom line in their accounts, even the department director and even the hospital director could not hide how they spent the hospital's money. The income of in-service training doctors was taken from the department's vault, after all. If these in-service training doctors could help to reduce the workload and increase the hospital's income, the doctors would naturally be welcoming toward them, but if they just threw money at these doctors when they did nothing, the other doctors would not speak well of it.

If a department director could not lead the doctors to a better future, then his words would not hold much value.

The only hospitals in Yun Hua City who were qualified to organize training camps were the three major hospitals. The remaining tertiary Grade A hospitals, such as the Second People's Hospital where Old Wang was at, could never dream of organizing a training camp because they were already in a bit of a struggle to ensure that the authorized medical staff in their departments had enough for their necessities.

'Organize a training camp?'

Huo Congjun's eyes scanned Old Wang's face. Then, he started looking at the old fools in the room.

Old Wang and the others were confused for a few seconds, but they soon stood in their proper positions and looked at Huo Congjun calmly.

Huo Congjun smiled faintly. "Our training camp only takes a few months. After it ends, you can reorganize your plans. This is good for everyone. We can also reduce the waste of resources. That's all I have to say, you can decide the rest for yourselves."

Old Wang listened to Huo Congjun's words. His nostrils almost flared. "How can you speak like this…"

Huo Congjun's gaze was eerie, and he looked like he was always ready to turn Old Wang's status in his mind as a friend to an enemy.

While Old Wang was speaking, he subconsciously stopped for a moment. Then, he switched smoothly from making personal attacks to having a discussion on technical perspective. "Even if you recruit so many doctors for in-service training, what are you going to teach them? When you talk about training camps, you must give people the opportunity to train. We can't lead the juniors astray."

"As for this, I have Ling Ran." When Huo Congjun saw that Old Wang's attitude had changed, his tone also became milder. If these two to three kittens were obedient and did not affect the training camp plan from being carried out, he actually did not really care about scolding them.

Old Wang laughed out loud, just as he had expected. "Do you think Ling Ran alone can organize a training camp?"

"Ling Ran can pick a few first, and the rest can share what remains. As for the ones who aren't picked, we can send them to our own ICU." As Huo Congjun said this, the corners of his mouth curled upward in a smug smile.

The imposing aura Old Wang and the others built vanished without a trace.

'Right, they have their own ICU, how can I justify things further?!'

Moreover, the ICU was the most terrifying in terms of the consumption of manpower. An eight-bed ICU would need at least twelve doctors to function. Even if they decided to allocate more manpower there, having sixteen doctors inside would still not be considered a lot.

Based on the situation now, Huo Congjun really needed to organize his training camp.

Old Wang's gaze subconsciously moved to the screen.

At that time, Lu Wenbin was about to be done with suturing the tendon. He used seven #0 threads to wrap a circle around the tendon, and he could be said to have done his duty very seriously.

"How's the suture?" Huo Congjun noticed several people's expressions and could not help but rejoice.

The Lu Wenbin one year ago would not be able to perform at his current level, even though he was already a chief surgeon. His skills could only be said to be at the level of an ordinary attending physician. However, after going through spartan training for a month under Ling Ran, Lu Wenbin and the others' skills had obviously transformed.

Their skills in handling certain details in particular amazed Huo Congjun. It was no longer an exaggeration to say that he had reached the level of the attending physicians of Yun Hua Hospital's Hand Surgery Department.

Of course, this was not surprising. It was the same principle as to how many in-service training doctors who went to top-grade hospitals were able to become the pillars of support for their hospitals. First, the doctor must accumulate enough experience, and next, there must be a capable doctor guiding them.

It was easy for someone to tell others to pay attention to details and point out where they should pay attention to, but a doctor's personal experience was usually needed to attend to those details during these busy, tedious, and stressful operations.

As far as the M-Tang technique and even tendon repair skills were concerned, Ling Ran was one of the best in Yun Hua Hospital, and only he can guide someone else into being able to perform such meticulous work.

It was extremely hard for someone to be able to reach Lu Wenbin's degree and learn the essence of a skill through pure observation and without direct guidance.

This was where the strict ranking system held among the surgeons manifested its ugly head. It was very difficult for young doctors to grow if they were not meek and subservient. If they did not receive guidance or if their senior doctors did not teach them with care, the results of their growth would be completely different from those who did receive guidance and had attentive senior doctors.

Some chief physicians would only teach their skills to the people under them right before their retirement. Their ways and trains of thought were similar to the craftsmen of the past millennium.

Old Wang and the others also sensed something unusual from Lu Wenbin's technique.

"The suturing is good." There was an old doctor standing on the side. He was Li Bian from Zhongshan Hospital, and he asked, "This doctor of yours… Doctor Ling Ran, I mean. Will he be teaching the entire course?"

"Yes, we're not leading young people astray." Huo Congjun looked proud.

"His foundation is really good." The old doctor, Li Bian wore a slight smile and looked at the screen again.

The surgery was also nearing its end.

After Ling Ran watched for just a while, he lost interest. He then threw away the forceps in his hand and left, leaving the second assistant to become Lu Wenbin's first assistant.

The doctors in the visitation room looked at each other and began to leave in groups of two to three.

Ding dong*

Huo Congjun's phone rang as a reminder that a message had arrived.

When Huo Congjun opened it, he saw a message sent by an unfamiliar number. [Department Director Huo, I'm Li Bian from Zhongshan Hospital. I'd like to know if you could give me a slot for Doctor Ling's training camp. I'd like my son to try.]

Huo Congjun raised his head before he cast a sideways glance at something. He smiled before he replied.

[Sure.]

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Chapter 1028: Encouragement

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"How many were there on the upper floor watching the surgery just now?" After Ling Ran stepped out of the operating theater, entered the shower room, took a bath, and changed his attire, he asked Zuo Cidian this question when he came over to serve him.

Zuo Cidian found this slightly strange, but he did not say anything else. He first passed a quick-drying towel to Ling Ran before he answered, "About twenty people. The seats in the visitation room were all full, and there were people who stood."

"How many young doctors were there who were about the same age as Lu Wenbin?" Ling Ran continued asking.

"A few, I didn't pay much attention. Is there anything wrong? I can get the surveillance video out." Zuo Cidian subconsciously became tense.

Ling Ran waved his hand, and he did not give any further explanation.

Over the last few days, he guided Lu Wenbin and Ma Yanlin and performed more than ten surgeries, but notification telling him that he completed his mission never popped out.

That made Ling Ran slightly puzzled.

There was also no response from the system after he made an inquiry, so Ling Ran could only read the instruction of the mission again.

[Make your subordinates prove that they are more skillful than their colleagues from the same batch.]

The concept of subordinates should not be the problem, and Ling Ran had confirmed it.

Then, the problem laid in the subsequent two concepts: colleagues from the same batch, and proving skills.

Recently, there were quite a number of doctors who came over, so it was impossible that no one who was about the same age came over.

Then, what about skills?

In Ling Ran's opinion, Lu Wenbin's skills must have surpassed the average level of his colleagues from the same batch. In fact, he was far more skillful than them.

However, if he thought more deeply, it was obviously impossible to say that Lu Wenbin was more skillful than all his colleagues from the same batch. Perhaps his case was different compared to Yu Yuan's, maybe the system required him to be more skillful than all his colleagues from the same batch in the room?

When Ling Ran thought about it, he could not help but shake his head.

It clearly did not fit the situation in the room. At the very least, Lu Wenbin had outperformed all his peers in the room for many of his surgeries, and Ling Ran was very confident with this. At Lu Wenbin's age, his ability to perform the M-Tang technique was already impressive. If anyone could perform better than Lu Wenbin, then they would have surpassed the level of the medical world in Changxi province.

Ling Ran thought for a while, and he recalled the moment when Yu Yuan succeeded.

What happened at that time?

There was a certain level of difficulty for Yu Yuan to complete her foreign body removal skill, but it might not be right to say she was more skillful than a professional high-ranking doctor from the Otolaryngology Department.

"Doctor Zuo, do you remember how Yu Yuan removed a foreign object from the patient who had his throat poked by shrimp thorn a few days back?" Ling Ran could not figure out the answer, so he tried to ask in order to reorganize his thoughts and think.

Naturally, Zuo Cidian nodded, smiled, and answered, "Who would forget it? At that time, Yu Yuan held a pair of big forceps and pushed it straight into the patient's mouth, and the forceps were just… Ahem. Anyway, she did it quite well. The patient was discharged today."

Ling Ran nodded slowly. "What are your comments on Yu Yuan's foreign body removal skill just in terms of her skills alone?"

Zuo Cidian hesitated slightly. This question sounded quite serious.

Zuo Cidian carefully thought for a while, before he slowly answered, "I think she did very well. In fact, at that moment, the other doctors did not have any other solution. When Doctor Yu took over, she solved it simply and quickly. Honestly, I felt quite shocked. I did not expect Doctor Yu to have developed her own way in the surgery…"

When Zuo Cidian was talking, he also paid attention to Ling Ran's facial expression.

However, Ling Ran had always been lagging behind others when it came to expressing his emotions on his face, so Zuo Cidian could not decipher his emotions.

In fact, all of Ling Ran's attention was placed on "solving the problem".

"What did the other doctors think about Yu Yuan's foreign body removal skill?" Ling Ran asked again.

Zuo Cidian thought and answered, "It's hard to say. But I think there was a certain degree of surprise. Isn't this what they mean a person should be treated differently if they've improved? At that time, no one would expect that Doctor Yu's rectal foreign body removal… No, I mean, no one would expect that Doctor Yu's foreign body removal skills would be so good."

"So, it was an unexpected skill?" Ling Ran concluded.

Zuo Cidian thought about what Ling Ran had said, thought about it, and answered, "Skills are rigid. But at that time, what Doctor Yu did was quite impressive, and no one had expected it."

Ling Ran nodded in agreement before he asked, "If I give Lu Wenbin a similar chance, what skill will he have to make everyone to… treat him differently?"

"Is it because Lu Wenbin has performed quite a number of surgeries recently, so you want to give him a chance to encourage him?" As Zuo Cidian asked, his emotions were stirred by his own words. In his impression, Doctor Ling was always a person of such character—Although he did not like to talk, he always used his actions to warm their hearts…

Just like the present.

Lu Wenbin and Ma Yanlin were becoming dispirited. It was not obvious when they were performing surgery, but their low spirits were pretty obvious during their short breaks.

Zuo Cidian understood them very well. Although learning was very precious and important, consistently learning was not an easy thing. For example, while it was very precious and important for students to learn during high school for their national college entrance examination, there were still plenty of people who could not score well during the test.

Lu Wenbin and Ma Yanlin had been controlling their emotions very well. In fact, their ability to cheer themselves up and persist through the days had always been very rare among people. Before this, Zuo Cidian did not expect there would be a better plan to cheer them up other than holidays and bonuses.

Perhaps giving them suitable encouragement might make their emotions more stable.

"The M-Tang technique done by Doctor Lu today was actually pretty good," Zuo Cidian made a tentative statement.

Ling Ran shook his head. "He hasn't reached the level where he can be regarded differently yet. He must reach the same level as Yu Yuan's foreign body removal skill."

"Only his pork trotters can reach the level of Yu Yuan's foreign body removal skill," Zuo Cidian said and laughed.

A thought unwittingly bloomed in Ling Ran's head. Lu Wenbin's pork trotters were quite…

"What about his medical skills?" But Ling Ran soon remembered that Lu Wenbin's pork trotters were sold all around Yun Hua. If his skill of cooking pork trotters were effective for the mission, Lu Wenbin would have helped Ling Ran complete his mission a long time ago.

"Finger replantation?" Zuo Cidian whispered, "What Doctor Lu learned are mainly the M-Tang technique and finger replantation. If you compare the two, would finger replantation provide more visual impact?"

Ling Ran slowly nodded. "I did not consider it more comprehensively. When the M-Tang technique isn't providing any effects, I should change it to finger replantation and try it again."

"The M-Tang technique isn't effective?" Zuo Cidian mumbled to himself because he did not quite understand what Ling Ran meant.

Ling Ran still did not explain anything. He only gave an instruction, "Go and contact patients who need finger replantation. Also, are there many doctors registered for the training camp? Pick some who are the same age as Lu Wenbin and have them watch his surgeries."

"Alright." Zuo Cidian knew that picking the doctors who were the same age as Lu Wenbin could strengthen Lu Wenbin's confidence and give him strength.

At that time, there was an indescribable urge in Zuo Cidian's heart, making him want to broadcast Doctor Ling's warmth and wisdom to the world.

In the hospital, there was never a doctor who would spend so many resources just to train a resident doctor, and it was even rarer for a superior doctor to take care of a resident doctor's emotions.

Unfortunately, Zuo Cidian could not share that with everyone. He could only lower his head, work hard, and share Doctor Ling's stress…

If he was even stressed, that is.

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Chapter 1029: Unanimous Decision

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The arrival of a large number of in-service training doctors had actually reduced the work intensity in Yun Hua Emergency Medical Center.

The busyness and tension of the hospital were largely due to a shortage of manpower. For any hospital or institution, authorization was extremely rare and scarce. One, it was because the superiors were unwilling to authorize a large number of people. Two, when the doctors in the hospital were promoted to middle management and had a certain amount of decision-making power, there would be little incentive for them to add more people.

An authorized doctor was usually the doctor who would earn the most. Although a resident doctor and attending physician could not compare to the amount an associate chief physician and a chief physician earned, they could still earn a lot, but if the number of people in the department increased, a large amount of bonus which was supposed to belong to the associate chief physicians and chief physicians would still be taken away from their hands.

In that respect, the tension and busyness in a hospital were also partly manmade.

Comparatively speaking, getting in-service training doctors who had a certain level of skill, were flexible, and would not be involved in the competition for power in the hospital was the best way for hospitals to fill the shortage of manpower.

At least, for doctors, this was the most acceptable solution.

All the levels of management in Yun Hua Emergency Medical Center were in favor of Huo Congjun and Ling Ran's policies. After all, the upgraded Emergency Medical Center would not only have to take care of the patients brought by Ling Ran's treatment group but would also have to take care of the patients from other groups. It could be said that each treatment group was in an extremely busy state.

Just more than twenty in-service training doctors joining alone had completely changed the ecology of the Emergency Department.

Even if each treatment group could only use these in-service training doctors temporarily, once they obtained three to four in-service training doctors, in a day, they could solve dozens of patients' problems.

"Old Zuo, if there are any more in-service training doctors, send them to me." When Chief Physician Tao met Zuo Cidian, he was all smiles.

He was about to retire soon, and now, he cared only about two things— making money and slacking off. An in-service training doctor can help him do both, making them Chief Physician Tao's favorite people.

Zuo Cidian smiled and said, "If there are more coming, I'll help you ask whether they want to join your group."

"Well, you can't let them all choose. If there are good seeds, pick them out in advance and send them over." Chief Physician Tao sent a signal to Zuo Cidian.

Zuo Cidian laughed. "I dare not agree to this, several leaders are watching my actions."

"Sigh, you could just lie to this old man over here," Chief Physician Tao said with a smile and was about to enter the office when Zuo Cidian suddenly had an idea.

He rushed forward and said, "Chief Physician Tao, since we coincidentally bumped into each other, would you happen to be free over the next few days? Can you bring a few people over to support Doctor Lu?"

"Doctor Lu?" Chief Physician Tao did not like to care about departmental matters, and for a moment, he could not remember the names of the young people outside his group.

"Lu Wenbin. He's the one who makes really good pork trotters, and he's often Doctor Ling's first assistant." Zuo Cidian looked at Chief Physician Tao's facial expression, and he saw no signs of aversion. He guessed that Lu Wenbin had not offended Chief Physician Tao and then continued saying, "Doctor Ling has arranged a number of surgeries for Doctor Lu recently, and all of them have been done very well. Department Director Huo had also come over deliberately to take a look at his surgery. I'm thinking that it will be great if you have time to observe his surgery and give a few comments."

Chief Physician Tao snorted. "Ling Ran wants to promote Lu Wenbin, huh? If he's under Ling Ran, he should be a resident doctor. Is he about to go through an appraisal and become a chief resident?"

Zuo Cidian scratched his head and said, "No. You know how Doctor Ling is. He usually only thinks about things from a technical perspective. Therefore, over the past few days, Lu Wenbin and Ma Yanlin have been arranged to perform more than four operations per day. The skill level of the two doctors has improved very quickly. So we just want to report this to a few of the leaders."

Chief Physician Tao listened to Zuo Cidian's words, and he sucked in a sharp breath. "Four operations per day? What's with young people these days?"

Zuo Cidian actually understood what he meant. Forget about everything else, just the fact that they were performing four operations alone meant that they were basically required to stand in the operating theater for more than twelve hours. Even if they did nothing, standing for twelve hours was downright exhausting. Plenty of young women who tended to the store, served as concierges, cosplayed, and worked in the sauna centers or in the hotel industry had been forced to stand for eight to ten hours a day. As a result, they were so tired that they resigned.

Besides, being a chief surgeon required a lot of brainpower.

"All in all, the two of them have persevered till now, and Doctor Ling also wants to encourage them. On my side, if I go back and arrange in-service training doctors to observe the surgery, I will give priority to Lu Wenbin and Ma Yanlin's surgeries." When Zuo Cidian said this, his tone became gentle, and he once again felt sentimental for Doctor Ling's kindness.

Chief Physician Tao finally understood his request, and he could not help but be surprised. "Using the lingo of you, youngsters, this Doctor Lu basically has main character power right now."

Zuo Cidian was stunned for a while. "We … don't speak like that."

Chief Physician Tao's gaze was locked on Zuo Cidian's face for a few seconds, and he smiled. "What I'm saying is, I'm old, and I always feel that your generation is still young. Well … Young Zuo, you are also over forty already, so you're not young anymore…"

A long sigh was how Chief Physician Tao mourned his youth.

Zuo Cidian's expression was basically the same as the Doge meme.

…..

Ling Ran walked slowly and leisurely along the corridor.

With the large number of in-service training doctors entering the scene and Lu Wenbin as well as Ma Yanlin beginning to perform surgery as chief surgeons, the hospital beds in the Emergency Medical Center were used up faster than ever. After two weeks, the ward had reached the point where not even putting in extra beds were enough to accommodate all the patients.

Whenever that happened, the head nurse would go to Ling Ran and ask him to reduce the number of surgeries he performed. In fact, whenever this happened, it was time for Ling Ran to be a freelance surgeon.

There were so many cities in Changxi Province, and there was the Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center—which he was familiar with—plus several more familiar hospitals in the surrounding provinces. With a period of one to two months, these hospitals would have enough beds and patients to feed the entire Ling Ran's treatment group.

However, Ling Ran was too lazy to perform freelance surgery today.

One, it was because his frequency of performing surgeries lately was somewhat high, and two, Tian Qi called and made an appointment for dinner.

Since it was an appointment, he naturally prepared in advance.

Ling Ran gave himself an hour to serve as leeway to prevent any accidents during the operation that would cause him to be unable to excuse himself.

Of course, the reality was that the operation was over fifteen minutes ahead of the expected time. Ling Ran simply wandered around and came to the fountain to feed the big white goose Fragrance Yard.

Fragrance Yard flapped its wings obediently as it drove the children nearby away before it lay in front of Ling Ran.

The big white goose was fatter than before. It might weigh more than 16 pounds now, and there was a possibility that it could even weigh 22 pounds.

Ling Ran rustled Fragrance Yard's feathers. The surrounding children were so envious that they could barely suppress their urge to touch the goose.

"Don't disturb Doctor Ling." The young mothers persuaded their own children and exchanged information about Doctor Ling with each other.

"Aren't doctors all extremely busy?" The young fathers and boyfriends also whispered to each other to criticize Ling Ran with the way he behaved right now.

"Doctors are not just tools, they'd also need to have leisure time."

The discussions around him were soft and meticulous, like a thick smoke rich with the flavor of life as it enveloped Ling Ran.

"The king asked me to patrol the mountains…"

Ling Ran's phone rang like a spring of water that sent snow scattering in all directions.

"Hello—"

"Doctor Ling, I've arrived at the hospital. Have you finished your operation?" Tian Qi's voice was as clear and sweet as spring water.

"Yeah. I completed it in advance."

"That's great. Um… my car arrived early as well, so can we add another activity?" Tian Qi sounded hopeful.

Ling Ran agreed immediately, "Alright. I'll be there soon."

While Ling Ran spoke, he patted Fragrance Yard and walked toward the parking lot with his phone.

Tian Qi asked, "You're not going to ask what's the additional activity?"

"I'm fine with anything," Ling Ran replied with a smile. The activities organized by Tian Qi had always been very comfortable and not weird, and this will be no exception as well.

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Chapter 1030: Orchestra

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At the harbor, the Rolls-Royce took the VIP lane, and it managed to arrive at its destination without any problems. It stopped before the huge cruise ship.

It was a real cruise ship that weighed in at 12,000 tonnes, and it was longer than 1,000 feet. Just the part above the water consisted of twelve-stories, and it looked like a skyscraper that was placed on the surface of the sea.

"This is the Oasis Crusader, and there's a well-equipped Spanish restaurant inside. It's one of the chain restaurants of Harvey, the renowned culinary expert. Even though he doesn't usually come over, if we invite him over with enough sincerity, he would be willing to come over to cook the guests a meal." Tian Qi had introduced the restaurant to Ling Ran on their way to the cruise ship. She continued, "Harvey's dishes are renowned for being complicated, and he's an advocate of molecular gastronomy. Hence, he would only come over to cook if the restaurant is well-equipped. Aside from this, he always brings a large team over with him."

"He's a little like cardiovascular surgeons." Ling Ran nodded when he heard that.

"Cardiovascular surgeons?"

"Yeah. They only like to perform surgery if the operating theaters are well-equipped, and they care a lot about whether they are familiar with the operating theaters and the facilities inside. They'll also bring a large team with them whenever they carry out freelance surgeries," Ling Ran explained.

Even though Tian Qi did not know what Ling Ran was talking about, she felt that he made a lot of sense.

That was when the car stopped. Tian Qi smiled and walked elegantly out of the car after the chauffeur opened the door.

To outsiders, Tian Qi looked as dazzling as a white swan right now. As for the man beside her…

So handsome!

When the crew members looked at Tian Qi and Ling Ran at the same time, they could not help but feel that life was beautiful, and even their mood became better.

Click*

One of the crew members, who was a young woman, tried to stealthily take a photograph of them. However, she forgot to turn off the volume.

"Didn't I tell you guys that you're not allowed to take photos? Delete it now!" The supervisor immediately walked over and said sternly.

"I'm not taking a photo of Miss Tian. Only Doctor Ling is in the photo." The young woman refused to let go of her phone.

"Who's Doctor Ling?" The supervisor furrowed his eyebrows.

"Ling Ran, Doctor Ling. The one who came in the same car as Miss Tian. Don't you go online? His videos and photos are all over the internet."

"Why does someone so handsome need to work as a doctor?"

"The world is really unfair."

"Why have I never encountered such a man when I go matchmaking?"

The supervisor ignored the other crew members who were whispering among themselves. He looked at Ling Ran's back. He then turned and said to the young woman who took Ling Ran's photo. "It doesn't matter if you only take a photo of that guy. You must delete all of them."

"Why are you making this such a big deal? I'll just stop." The young woman tightened her grip on her phone as she clutched it before her chest. She looked like she was about to scream.

When the supervisor saw the way she was acting and heard her tone of voice, he had to force himself to calm down. He tried to reason with her. "You are part of the company, and you must obey the company's policy…"

…..

Ling Ran followed Tian Qi into the cruise ship, and on his way, he saw plenty of crew members who were wearing all kinds of uniforms. But there was not a single tourist inside the cruise ship.

That made Ling Ran feel good.

There had always been cruises in Yun Hua City, but Ling Ran had never been to any of them. This was mainly because, in all the news reports, the people in charge of cruise ships always boasted about how many passengers the ship could carry, and it was always four figures. This made Ling Ran stay away from cruises.

"We're almost there. Today's surprise, I mean." Tian Qi reached out and grabbed Ling Ran's hand. She then pointed at the signboard before them.

"The concert hall?"

"Yup, it's a performance by a symphony orchestra from Northern Germany." Tian Qi stuck out her tongue and said, "They're having their rehearsal tonight, but the repertoire is the same as on the actual day of the performance. The audience will only consist of us and the director. Ah, there might be a few crew members too."

Ling Ran nodded in understanding. "We won't be disturbing their rehearsal, will we?"

"No. The Oasis Crusader is only docking at Yun Hua Harbor for a few days, and no passengers are scheduled to board the ship here. The symphony orchestra boarded earlier so that they could get used to the venue. They'll be having a few concerts on the cruise ship after this." Tian Qi was holding Ling Ran's hand, and there was a blush on her face. She continued, "Live symphony orchestra concerts are really nice. All the scores they're performing today are specially selected, and they're short and nice at the same time, so you don't have to worry about wasting time."

Since Ling Ran was there already, he decided that he might as well enjoy things. He replied, "Let's enjoy some music, then. Is there anything I need to pay attention to? I'm new at this."

"If you're worried that you'll do something wrong, just remain silent during the performance. Whatever it is, it'll be fine." Tian Qi smiled and continued, "Back when I was young, I remember clapping when there was a break in the music when I was watching a symphony orchestra concert. My father ended up giving them a standing ovation, and the musicians had no choice but to stop the music and wait…"

Tian Qi chuckled a few times. She then nodded at the crew member who opened the door for them and walked side by side with Ling Ran into the concert hall. Only then did she stop smiling.

There were many concert halls in the Oasis Crusader, and each of them could fit in three or four hundred people. Half of the audience would be seated in the balcony, and right now, all of those seats were empty. There were a few people sitting in the first few rows of the concert hall, and they were chit-chatting.

Tian Qi did not greet any of them. She merely led Ling Ran to one of the seats at the center.

The seat was spacious, soft, and warm.

Tian Qi leaned against Ling Ran, and she could feel enjoyment in every cell of her body. She then raised her head to look at Ling Ran's face. She was a little worried that Ling Ran would not enjoy it, but when she saw the curious expression on Ling Ran's face, she immediately felt a lot more at ease.

This symphony orchestra from Northern Germany should be more than enough for a beginner.

The musicians did not let the audience wait for long. The spotlight shone on the stage, and a couple of dozens of middle-aged men and women, who were dressed well, jogged onto the stage.

The violinists held their violins as they sat down in the front row. Meanwhile, the cellists were empty-handed as they headed to the back row. Their dark-colored cellos were waiting for them there.

"I learned how to play the cello when I was young, and I found it very heavy." Tian Qi saw that Ling Ran was looking at the cellos, and he commented in a soft voice.

"Indeed, it's almost as heavy as a cardiopulmonary bypass machine." Ling Ran could understand where Tian Qi was coming from.

Tian Qi nodded to show that she accepted his comparison.

The conductor started waving the baton, and the string musicians immediately started playing their instruments.

There were more than sixty of them, and it was as if they were releasing all the hidden energy within their body at the same time. They were able to work together as seamlessly as a busy team of emergency physicians.

Truth be told, to Ling Ran, the musicians were totally in the zone, and they seemed like they were able to work together far better compared to a team of emergency physicians.

It was just that they had a different target audience, which meant that the level of complication of the situations they had to deal with was different.

Ling Ran wondered how their training system was.

He also wondered if any of them received help from a system.

As the music echoed in the concert hall, all kinds of thoughts appeared in Ling Ran's mind. The first song ended…

This was when a notification rang out in Ling Ran's mind.

[Mission: Prove]

[Mission Details: Make your subordinates prove that they are more skillful than their colleagues from the same batch.]

[Mission Completion Status: 2/5]

[Mission Reward: Intermediate Treasure Chest]

Ling Ran could not help but furrow his eyebrows. How dare the mission complete itself when he was not around! He had to figure out who the doctor involved was.

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Chapter 1031: The World Will Not Stop for Anyone

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"Doctor Zuo, record what the doctors under us have been doing over the past ten minutes." Ling Ran went out of the concert hall and called Zuo Cidian.

The mission this time was actually not too difficult and did not need him to personally take action. However, it was a bit complicated.

However, if he could use these two completed missions as examples and have the last three imitate them, he should have an easier time completing the mission.

Therefore, Ling Ran explained in a detailed manner. He limited the time frame and area tightly.

Zuo Cidian was a little dumbfounded when he received the call. 'What is the purpose of this request?

'Is there any medical malpractice? Or is there someone coming for an inspection?'

The further Zuo Cidian thought about it, the more he felt that something was off, but he also had a feeling that it was not his place to ask. He thought and said, "Doctor Ling, do you need it to be as detailed as possible, or…?"

"The more detailed it is, the better."

"Should I take out the recording from the CCTV?" Zuo Cidian started to think very fast. When he was still at the township hospital, he had to carry out a similar task every day, but most of the time, it was a meaningless task.

Ling Ran also felt that this was a good idea and immediately agreed to it. He said, "Make a record while everyone can still remember what they did. There is nothing to hide since it's not a bad thing."

Zuo Cidian was subconsciously relieved and quickly agreed to it.

Since Doctor Ling said that it was not something bad, then it should not be a bad thing. Zuo Cidian trusted and admired Ling Ran in this aspect very much. He would say anything he wanted to, and he would not hide it on purpose or lie. For a skill-oriented doctor, perhaps his manner of doing things would cause some people to be unable to adapt to his style in the beginning, but once they were used to it, such a skill-oriented doctor would be more respected.

The young Ling Ran had actually been able to reach his current status at Yun Hua Hospital because his personality had brought him certain benefits as well.

Even Department Director He Yuanzheng from the Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery knew Ling Ran only wanted to use the hospital beds of his department and did not intend to take over his place. So, he could force himself to accept his current situation.

If anyone had been in Ling Ran's place, He Yuanzheng might have defended his position desperately.

Regardless of the staff or their family members, when the people in Yun Hua Hospital fell ill, if their illness fell within Ling Ran's skill coverage, they would definitely come and consult Ling Ran without thinking about a second person to serve as the backup.

This meant that everyone had confidence in Ling Ran's character and personality.

Zuo Cidian hung up and continued doing his work.

Ling Ran also put down his phone and said to Tian Qi, "I'm sorry. If I don't make the call now, it will be tedious later."

"It's okay." Tian Qi was generous. She smiled and said, "My family members used to make calls during mealtime. My grandfather always said that when we think we are doing something very important, something more important might be happening in other parts of the world. The world will not stop for anyone."

Ling Ran nodded and agreed with what Tian Qi had said.

An old Spanish waiter was waiting at the entrance. He came forward and welcomed them when there was a pause in Ling Ran and Tian Qi's conversation. He lowered his head slightly and said in Spanish, "Doctor Ling, Miss Tian, Mister Harvey has prepared for the meal. The meal can be served at any moment."

Two interpreters also came forward. One was brought by Tian Qi while the other one was assigned by the cruise. Both of them had communicated beforehand and translated what the Spanish waiter said.

Tian Qi listened carefully and covered her mouth to giggle after they finished. "That's great. I feel hungry when I think about the seafood risotto made by Chef Harvey."

The Spanish waiter smiled gently. "Today, Mister Harvey deliberately made his special seafood risotto, and he purposely chose newly caught fresh Giant Scarlet Prawns. Mister Harvey's son, Harvey II meticulously chose the prawns from the fishing boat that arrived at the Port of Barcelona this morning, and they were then sent over by a chartered airplane. Also, the seafood risotto prepared today is also made with Newfoundland Cods that were picked by the purchaser of the dining hall…"

"Sounds perfect." Tian Qi expressed her thanks politely.

At the same time, Tian Qi and Ling Ran followed a waiter who led the way and headed toward the direction of the dining hall.

There was a distance between the concert hall and Harvey Dining Hall. Thus, the waiters either lit up the light thoughtfully or guided them along the way. The servants and bodyguards brought by Tian Qi also quickly followed behind them so that they could take care of them should the need arise.

The slightly old Spanish waiter also followed Tian Qi and the others tightly. He waited for a while before he asked with the help of the interpreters, "Miss Tian Qi, what song would you like us to play during your meal?"

Tian Qi looked at Ling Ran and asked, "What song do you hope to hear?"

"I've no idea. No comment." Ling Ran did not care about such matters.

Tian Qi thought about it and said, "You may make arrangements as you will. We want something with a relaxing tempo, and make it so that there are fewer people in the dining hall."

"Alright." The Spanish waiter bowed and wanted to leave.

"Wait," Tian Qi called him and said, "no dancers are needed."

The waiter remained in a bowing position and said, "As you wish."

Very soon, both of them arrived at the newly decorated Harvey Dining Hall.

As one of the pay-to-eat dining halls in the Oasis Crusader, the location of the Harvey Dining Hall was ideal. The scenery was beautiful and faced the harbor directly, which allowed them to see a boundless expanse of seawater.

The tables and chairs in the dining hall were put away, and only a row of small tables was placed near the window. On one side of the table was the spacious and bright dining hall, and on the other, a shining surface of seawater. Anyone who saw this would have their bodies relax along with their hearts.

Ling Ran moved his arms like he was preparing for surgery. He felt quite relaxed. Although he may receive endless happiness by staying at the operating theater, a normal doctor could also enjoy the happiness of a normal person outside the operating theater.

"Miss Tian Qi." Chef Harvey wore a chef's coat and chef's hat that had his name stitched on it. He quickly walked out of the kitchen. From the distance, he put one of his hands in front of his chest, just like how a knight would greet someone of noble status.

"Chef Harvey." Tian Qi also smiled, greeted him, and said, "Sorry to trouble you this time as well."

"No, your presence brings glory to our humble dining hall!" Harvey used a Chinese proverb in his sentence, and his pronunciation was quite accurate.

Tian Qi smiled and expressed her thanks.

Chef Harvey shifted his sight to Ling Ran, smiled, and said, "This must be the legendary Doctor Ling, right? I've… heard a lot about you."

The second Chinese phrase used by Chef Harvey was much weaker in tone and pronunciation compared with the first.

Ling Ran broke into a socially-accepted smile and listened calmly.

For Ling Ran, he was used to the polite and respectful tone from strangers. As long he was patient enough, all these formalities would soon pass.

The melodious sound of violins was heard next to him.

It was the orchestra arranged by the dining hall and the cruise.

Chef Harvey returned to the kitchen, and soon, the dishes were served at a calm pace.

After all the dishes were served, they took a few sips of the wine. Tian Qi's assistant stood a few feet away from them and looked at Tian Qi.

Tian Qi smiled at Ling Ran and said, "It seems like something has happened.

Ling Ran replied with a smile, "No problem. Just like what you said, the world will not stop for anyone."

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Chapter 1032: Turned Black

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The assistant Tian Qi brought along with her was wearing a pair of pointed heels, and they made clicking sounds as she walked on the floor. She looked like the White Bone Spirit. [1]

She discussed something with Tian Qi in a soft voice for two or three minutes before noting down a few things in her notebook. She then left with a solemn expression.

Ling Ran could tell that Tian Qi seemed to be really busy.

"I'm sorry." Tian Qi sat down again and apologized. "The company that I have just acquired isn't running well, and there are many decisions that I need to make."

"It's okay. Since your subordinate has already raised the problem to you, it's better if you solve it immediately." Ling Ran did not seem to mind. In the hospital, department directors had to treat every single problem raised by their subordinates earnestly even if they were unhappy about it. This applied even if the person who raised the problem was merely a resident doctor. This was especially true for night shifts. No one would happily make a call to seek his superior for help. Similarly, those superiors would also be reluctant to pick up calls.

Tian Qi flashed a sweet smile, and she's obviously pleased that Ling Ran was being understanding. She looked at the sunset outside the window and the way the evening sun illuminated Ling Ran's face. Her heart was bursting with joy.

There was so much sweetness in her heart that even chocolate could not compare.

Click, click, click*

The clicking sounds of high heels rang out again. Tian Qi's assistant was back.

Tian Qi looked over and saw that her assistant was gesturing at her. They had agreed upon this gesture beforehand.

Tian Qi immediately waved and called her assistant over. She leaned in and whispered, "Is it true that someone happened to get injured?"

"Yes, one of the crew members seemed to have injured his hand. He went to see the doctor working on the cruise ship, but the doctor only gave him some painkillers. He isn't satisfied and plans to get off the ship to see a doctor. I immediately came over to tell you about it once I received the information," Tian Qi's assistant said in a hushed tone.

"Someone got injured, and tried to seek treatment from the doctor working on the cruise ship but failed?" Tian Qi nodded slowly and deliberately asked, "Isn't this too much of a coincidence?"

"I feel so too. But the Security Department thinks that the risk of the secret being leaked out is low, and they had also run a background check on the injured crew member…" Tian Qi's assistant explained the situation carefully.

"Got it," Tian Qi answered. She did not ask her assistant to leave before she asked Ling Ran, "Doctor Ling, there's an injured crew member on the ship. Are you interested in treating him?"

Ling Ran was full already. He put down the spoon he was using for dessert and asked, "What are his symptoms?"

"His index finger has turned black from the fingernail to the middle part, and the fingernail of his middle finger is also a little blackish," the assistant replied. "He had gotten it checked out at the cruise ship's clinic. The doctor prescribed some painkillers for him and suggested that he get it checked out at the hospital at the harbor."

"Painkillers?"

"According to the crew members, the doctor working on the cruise ship prescribes painkillers all the time no matter what illnesses they are suffering from. This applies to colds, injuries, stomach pains, and headaches." The assistant had obviously done her research.

Ling Ran was starting to take an interest in the case. "Where's the patient now?"

"I came over here together with him in a buggy, and he had to pass by the restaurant anyway. I asked him to rest in the waiting room for a while."

Ling Ran nodded. "Since he's here already, I'll go and take a look."

Ling Ran then rose and looked at Tian Qi.

Tian Qi smiled before Ling Ran even said anything. "Since you're done with the dessert anyway, you can go and check the patient out if you want."

"Sure." Ling Ran did not bother to hide his interest. After leaving the hospital for a few hours, he did miss the feeling of treating patients and performing surgeries quite a lot.

Tian Qi smiled and walked behind Ling Ran. Ling Ran was walking at a moderate pace.

The waiting room was attached to the restaurant, and its interior was beautiful and spacious. There were even a few couches in it.

Several crew members in uniforms were sitting on the couch near the door. One of them had one of his hands propped up, and he looked rather uneasy.

"Don't be anxious. If I can't treat you on the spot, the nearest hospital isn't that far away." Ling Ran looked at the patient and walked over. He sat down and explained the situation to the patient.

As expected, the crew member calmed down.

"Are your fingers injured? Let me take a look." Ling Ran whipped out a bottle of alcohol-based hand sanitizer from his pocket and washed his hands. He then turned the patient's wrist gently and observed the fingers that had turned black.

Both the patient's index finger and middle finger had turned kind of black, but they were neither swollen nor damaged.

"I don't know what's going on either. They were fine in the morning, and then they suddenly started turning black. And they're getting blacker and blacker…" The crew member's hand trembled as he showed Ling Ran his fingers. He then continued, "I searched about it online, and it seems that it's quite a serious issue. Some say that it might be a heart problem, and some say that it might be a liver or kidney problem. There are even some that say that I might need to get amputated…"

Ling Ran did not continue the topic. He looked at the other party and asked, "Do you remember injuring your fingers?"

"No." The crew member thought about it and shook his head slowly. "But I've been to the warehouse a few times today, so I might have accidentally touched some machines. I was very busy today and I have been running everywhere, so I might not be aware that I have injured myself."

"Hm."

"Is my condition serious?" The crew member carefully observed Ling Ran's expression.

"Let me make sure of a few things and come out with a conclusion." As Ling Ran spoke, he rotated the crew member's wrist. He then continued, "I'm going to touch your fingers. Tell me if you feel pain."

After he said that, Ling Ran carried out a physical examination and started inspecting the crew member's finger bones.

He possessed a Master Level Physical Examination skill, and he had performed a few hundred finger replantation surgeries. He could detect problems with other people's fingers without any issue.

The crew member furrowed his brow a little, but he did not scream in pain.

"You're not feeling any pain?" Ling Ran asked.

"It hurts a little like a needle is poking it," the crew member said hesitantly.

Ling Ran hummed in acknowledgment. He stood up and said, "It'll be fine, then."

"Really?" The crew member was pleasantly surprised. The rest of the crew members could not help but breathe a sigh of relief too.

"Really," Ling Ran confirmed.

"Then… is there anything he needs to do to deal with it? Does he still need to go to the hospital at the harbor?" one of the crew members who was also in the waiting room asked. Tian Qi and her assistant, who arrived later than Ling Ran, also looked over in curiosity.

Ling Ran thought about it for a while and said, "To deal with it, you can try washing it with soap first. If it doesn't work, you can try washing it with gasoline or alcohol… As I don't know what the colorant is, you might need to try a few methods."

"What do you mean?" The crew members did not understand what was going on.

Ling Ran explained things in another way. "The black thing on your finger is just colorant, and you just need to wash it off. There's nothing else that you need to do."

"Colorant? I'm not injured?"

"No."

The crew member anxiously said, "But I still feel a bit of pain when I press these fingers. They feel different than my other fingers."

"It's because the colorant is corrosive. This is why you're feeling a slight burning sensation which amplifies when you touch it." Ling Ran paused for a moment and said, "It would have hurt a lot more if you were injured."

The crew member's fingers trembled a few times.

The people around him also smiled, and all of their smiles meant something different.

"Okay, let's go back." Ling Ran rubbed his belly. He decided to return to the hospital to take a look. This patient whose fingers were only dyed with colorant was not enough to satisfy him.

Tian Qi covered her mouth as she smiled. "I'll send you back, then."

…..

Most of the doctors at the Emergency Medical Center had already gotten off work.

Lu Wenbin, Ma Yanlin, and Zuo Cidian were still in the hospital, though.

Now that Lu Wenbin and Ma Yanlin finally had the chance to act as chief surgeons, they treasured it very much. They were unwilling to let go of any opportunity.

In tertiary Grade A hospitals nowadays, attending physicians definitely had so many opportunities to perform surgeries that they could barely finish it. However, it was extremely hard for resident doctors to get a chance to act as chief surgeons. Many young doctors who had just started working in the hospital had to wait for a long time for such an opportunity. Sometimes, even after their girlfriends broke up with them, their s*x dolls were damaged from overuse, and they had to get a new large white coat because their old one was dirty, many of them would still not get the chance to act as chief surgeon.

That was also the fate of many doctors working at the Emergency Medical Center. If it were not for the fact that Lu Wenbin and Ma Yanlin were part of the Ling Treatment Group, they probably would have had to continue acting as the first assistant for a year or two before they could act as a chief surgeon in so many surgeries.

By that time, Lu Wenbin would be an attending physician already.

Even Zuo Cidian was extremely envious right now.

Of course, he did not go home not because he wanted to participate in surgeries. It was mainly because his house was empty and quiet, and there was nothing he could do at home.

"Whoo!!"

A cacophony of cheers rang out from the operating theater's corridor.

"Doctor Ling's here." Even though Zuo Cidian was inside the operating theater and he could not hear what the people out there were shouting about, he could tell what was happening from the noise and the cheers.

Soon, the door of the operating theater was opened.

"Doctor Ling."

"Doctor Ling!"

All the medical staff members who were operating on the patient greeted Ling Ran.

The patient, who had received brachial plexus anesthesia, turned to look at Ling Ran in curiosity. Right after that, he sucked in a sharp breath.

The tired anesthetist raised his gaze and realized that the figures in the monitor were skyrocketing. He was calm as he educated himself about the situation. 'It's okay. The patient is a guy. I'll just wait for him to calm down.'

"Is the surgery going smoothly?" Ling Ran walked over to the chief surgeon.

"Finger replantation surgery. It's going quite smoothly so far. The patient is a thirty-seven-year-old carpenter," Lu Wenbin gave Ling Ran a brief introduction.

Ling Ran nodded when he heard that and took a look without disturbing Lu Wenbin. He then turned and said to Zuo Cidian, "I've read the records you sent me when I was in the car just now. Lu Wenbin was carrying out M-Tang surgery at that time, and Chief Physician Tao and a few other people were watching him?"

"Yes," Zuo Cidian replied, "I specially invited Chief Physician Tao over."

"Was there anything special about the surgery compared with when other doctors were watching?"

"I guess Chief Physician Tao is more talkative," Lu Wenbin answered.

Zuo Cidian agreed. "Indeed. Chief Physician Tao even explained things to the medical interns and the doctors who were doing their in-service training. He said that Doctor Lu is good at M-Tang Surgery and that he is one of the best at it in the hospital. Young Lu was smiling from ear to ear."

Lu Wenbin cleared his throat a few times. "Chief Physician Tao is good with words."

"I know, right? There are only two types of surgeons who are good with words: those who aren't good at surgery and those who are retiring soon…" Zuo Cidian said meaningfully.

Ling Ran nodded when he heard that. "If that's the case, do invite Chief Physician Tao to watch Ma Yanlin operate."

"Chief Physician Tao explains things pretty well during surgeries." Zuo Cidian knew what Ling Ran was implying. "Since he's good with words, we'll let him talk more."

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Chapter 1033: I Want to Dance

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Ordinary junior doctors did not get to talk with chief physicians very often.

It was even harder to request the chief physicians of anything.

Even for Ling Ran, an unreasonable request may be rejected.

However, Zuo Cidian was no ordinary doctor.

He easily found a suitable way to get his request accepted.

"Chief Physician Tao, everyone said that your speech is really good. We really wish you will come to these on-the-spot lectures more often." Zuo Cidian took a box filled with four big pork trotters and put them on Chief Physician Tao's table. He said with a smile, "Young Lu deliberately selected a batch of big pork trotters and then boiled them with firsthand stew. Because of it, it retained its original taste. You can bring them back to your family for a taste."

Chief Physician Tao laughed. "Young Lu sure is considerate. Old Zuo, you too. Okay, then. I'll take it."

"Oh, come now. With your identity, you can buy a whole van of pork trotters with just one freelance surgery. As long as you give good speeches, everyone feels that they've learned something from you. You know, junior doctors nowadays are so different from before. When they listen to the speeches from senior doctors, not only do they want to listen to a speech chock full of important points, they also want it to be detailed, interesting, and full of feeling." Zuo Cidian smiled. He indirectly complimented Chief Physician Tao.

Chief Physician Tao was about to enter retirement. Surgeons at this period of time were like mafia bosses lying on hospital beds; they were most humane and vulnerable at that point.

Chief Physician Tao glanced at Zuo Cidian, who was as respectful as usual, and felt incredibly satisfied. He even wanted to pat Zuo Cidian's head.

"Chief Physician Tao, if you are free over the next few days, you can stop by Ma Yanlin's surgeries to give some advice." Zhu Cidian noticed that Chief Physician Tao became more amiable, so he took the opportunity to make a request.

"Huh… Another one? Junior doctors would be tired of listening to me." Chief Physician Tao hesitated.

"How would they? Well… they may be tired of listening to the chief physician's speeches, but if you're the one giving the lecture, they will be reluctant to see it end." Even though Zuo Cidian's words were not very flattering, his skin was definitely thick.

He was like a hard-working royal coachman. Although he was not as skillful as his other gifted colleagues, he could still achieve his goal as long as he kept his momentum.

Because, in truth, unlike what ordinary people thought, most people who were targets of flattery would not actually have many demands when the time came for them to be flattered.

Chief Physician Tao had not expected Zuo Cidian to flatter him up to the high heavens.

Surgeons could not avoid flattering someone at some point of time in their career. To be honest, everyone was rather lax in polishing their skills in flattery. Almost all of them relied on their talent to put food on their table. Few surgeons would really work hard to learn this skill…

"Alright, which of Ma Yanlin's surgery is suitable for me to comment?" Chief Physician Tao was persuaded by Zuo Cidian.

Of course, for him, this was not a big deal.

But for Ma Yanlin, he needed to pay a little attention.

Regardless of how meaningless a surgery was for a chief physician to watch a surgery and even comment on it, he had to be more energetic in order to keep up his appearance.

At four in the morning, Ma Yanlin reached the hospital. He brought a large package of seaweed shrimp skin, sprinkled them on tofu pudding, and made a large bowl of kimchi. After he was full, he took two interns, a houseman, and invited another anesthetist to go to the ward. The hospital had in-service training doctors, who were doing surgeries on weekdays so he still had enough manpower. However, Ma Yanlin could not order in-service training doctors to work at this time. After all, they were licensed doctors, which meant that they were protected by the law.

Normally, doctors of Ling Ran's treatment group would not start working until five o'clock.

Knock, knock*

"Hello, we are here for ward rounds." Ma Yanlin went straight into the targeted room.

"Huh?" After a long time, a puzzled sound rose from the ward.

"I'm Doctor Ma. I informed your family yesterday that I would come for the ward round earlier today." Ma Yanlin knocked on the door twice and stood quietly outside.

This was a familiar scene for doctors of Ling Ran's treatment group.

Patients were mostly new to getting up this early, and the patients' families were usually the same. Therefore, no matter how accustomed the doctors of Ling Ran's treatment group were to getting up early, or how many surgeries they had performed in the morning, new patients and their families would always ask the same questions.

"Doctor Ma?" The patient's family member opened the room door with a sleepy look. Once he found that it was indeed Ma Yanlin, his eyes were filled with puzzlement. "I thought you meant six or seven in the morning when you mentioned earlier ward rounds…"

"We are the most efficient in the morning. We plan to perform the surgery on your father at nine in the morning, which is the best time. It's, in fact, considered the golden hour. Therefore, we also need to request sufficient preparations from all of you. We need to take a blood test. If there is no problem, we will have your father get anesthetized on time."

"It's true that if you are the only patient, we can do this ward round later on, but we can't. There are many patients we need to check during the ward round as well."

"Let's do the examination first. The main reason you came to the hospital is to have treatment, right?"

Ma Yanlin was skillful in dealing with the problems of patients' families. In that, he was quite calm when facing this scene.

"How do you feel?" Ma Yanlin headed toward the patient who woke up. He looked at the form hanging at the edge of the bed as he asked him.

The old man in bed hummed a couple of times and said, "Of course I am sleepy, it's four in the morning."

Ma Yanlin smiled at the angry old man and said, "Do you still insist on having an open surgery? How is the discussion between you and your family?"

"I will have an open heart surgery, that's my final say." The patient was in his early fifties, and his son, who accompanied him, was twenty years old. He was very ignorant and had no idea what to do.

"Did no other family member come with you?" Ma Yanlin continued asking.

"No, it's just a broken hamstring. I don't see the need to tell the whole world about it." The patient waved his hand, sat up straight, and said, "I'll sign whatever that needs to be signed and get the surgery done."

Ma Yanlin smiled and said, "It's good to do minimally invasive surgery at your age. Our open surgery is mainly for athletes, sports enthusiasts, or anyone who's extremely sporty…"

He had several alternative patients. Although the condition of the patient in front of him was more suitable for open surgery, he must make things clear.

The patient looked at Ma Yanlin and glanced at the people who followed him. He pursed his lips and said, "If you're going to ask the same question, I will give the same answer. I need to dance once I go back. Don't underestimate the amount of exercise involved in dancing. People with poor Achilles tendons can't dance…"

Ma Yanlin reminded him, "Open surgery for the Achilles tendon can be regarded as major surgery. Our incision is about four inches long. If it's just for dancing, is it necessary?"

The anesthetist also reminded him, "Minimally invasive surgery requires only regional anesthesia. Open Achilles tendon surgery must require general anesthesia, and the surgery is expected to last for four hours."

He gave a slightly longer explanation about the surgery time, but he did not scare the patient. Instead, he scared the patient's son.

"Dad, why don't you just go for minimally invasive surgery? It's almost the same anyway." The patient's son was scared out of his wits.

The patient asked his son without bothering to conceal his emotions, "Almost? By that, you mean I'll just end up with a normal tendon. Are you willing to stay by my bedside for the rest of your life, just like the past few days?"

His son paused for a while, "Aren't you just fine like this?"

"What about the next time? I am in my fifties already, my body will get weaker and weaker in the future. If I don't get a stepmother for you while I can still dance, do you intend to take leave every single day in the future?" When the patient said that, he looked at the doctors again and said, "There's no need to say anything else. I want my Achilles tendon in its best condition. I have practiced dancing for so many years, and I won't have all my efforts destroyed by one tendon."

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