Great Doctor Ling Ran

Chapter 872: Non-Standard

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The moment Wei Jiayou walked through the door, the first thing that entered his sight was the tall and handsome Ling Ran.

Even though he had already expected him to be there, he could feel every single one of his brain cells become more energized the moment he saw Ling Ran.

Wei Jiayou had to muster all of his pride to turn away and look at the patient on the operating table.

The patient was in a supine position, and a few doctors were crowding around him. There was basically no way for Wei Jiayou to see what was going on inside the patient’s open abdominal cavity. However, Wei Jiayou was certain that a hepatectomy was being carried out just by looking at the compression pants and thermal pants that the patient was wearing. Aside from that, he had also learned about the situation beforehand.

“Shh.” Yu Yuan had entered the operating theater before Su Jiafu, and right then, she was standing on a stool and watching the surgery. Su Jiafu was standing beside her, and he seemed to be upset because he did not get to sit down.

Even though she was standing with her back facing the door, she could tell from the footsteps and the accompanying aroma that Wei Jiayou, the man who wore ginseng-flavored perfume, was the one who entered the operating theater.

Wei Jiayou had obviously noticed this too. He furrowed his eyebrows in resignation. ‘Does this dwarf have the sense of smell of a dog? I have showered three times with L’Occitane body shampoo before I came over.’

Yu Yuan pointed at Ling Ran and placed her index finger on her lips to gesture at Wei Jiayou to keep quiet. She then pointed at the patient before she turned away and continued watching the surgery.

Undaunted, Wei Jiayou pursed his lips. But he did not utter another sound.

If he were in another hospital or in an operating theater where another doctor was carrying out the surgery, he would not have been so obedient. He had been following his teacher to hospitals all over the country for a show of force, and it was never his intention to appear adorable. He had provoked countless people before.

However, most of the time, he only dared to provoke another person when he was sure that that person was inferior to him. And Wei Jiayou definitely did not feel this way about Ling Ran. Even until now, he could still remember the way Ling Ran carried out prolonged CPR.

As a cardiothoracic surgeon, Wei Jiayou had performed CPR countless times. But Ling Ran’s maneuvers were deeply ingrained in his mind.

Every compression Ling Ran made was on point. More importantly, Ling Ran was able to persist and carry out CPR on a patient for more than one hour, with the confidence to bring him back to life. And most importantly, Ling Ran brought the patient back to life for real, and the patient did not suffer from any sequelae up until the time he got discharged…

At the end of the day, as a doctor, results spoke louder than words. There was no point in talking about mere theories. There were plenty of researchers who were PhD graduates for that, and when it came to their specializations, they could totally thrash clinicians in a debate. But when it came to practical applications of those theories on a single patient, researchers were far inferior to clinicians.

Even until now, Wei Jiayou had not been able to replicate Ling Ran’s feat when it came to prolonged CPR. Of course, this could be attributed to the fact that he was always busy and did not have many opportunities to perform CPR. However, he was unable to perform the kind of prolonged CPR Ling Ran was capable of, and that was the cold hard truth, which always bothered Wei Jiayou.

And to make himself feel better, he planned to defeat Ling Ran when it came to hepatectomy, which was what Ling Ran was best at. At least, he wanted to defeat Ling Ran in the Bazhaixiang hospital branch.

Wei Jiayou looked around the unfamiliar operating theater. He quickly memorized the placement of everything and recalled the usage of equipment of various models…

As he looked around, Wei Jiayou realized that the equipment and facilities in this operating theater looked very similar to the equipment and facilities that he had seen before in another operating theater…

“You guys are also participating in the rescue efforts here? Isn’t the Bazhaixiang hospital branch under the jurisdiction of Cangping District Hospital? Yun Hua Hospital is really generous. This anesthesia monitor is a Phillips model, isn’t it? Wow, even equipment used in rescue efforts nowadays are imported.” Wei Jiayou was truly familiar with all kinds of equipment, and it only took one glance for him to tell whether a piece of equipment was locally-manufactured or imported. Moreover, he was also pretty well-versed when it came to the relationship between various smaller hospitals and larger hospitals. In this respect, he was unlike other doctors his age, who only cared about operating on patients…

Yu Yuan tip-toed a little to get a better view of the surgical field. She said in a soft voice, “This operating theater is a reconstruction.”

“What do you mean by reconstruction?” Wei Jiayou was a little confused.

“Basically, we duplicated Yun Hua Hospital’s operating theaters in the Bazhaixiang hospital branch. For that purpose, we brought in some equipment and facilities of higher quality. This is what it means.”

“A complete duplication?” Wei Jiayou was astonished. Even though the facilities in an operating theater ranged from very cheap to very expensive, duplicating an operating theater definitely cost a lot more than renovating a house.

Plus, from what he could see, duplicating the operating theater definitely cost a lot more than renovating a house.

Yu Yuan knew that Wei Jiayou was astonished, and she was secretly pleased. She continued, “We didn’t purchase these equipment and facilities. We borrowed them from a medical company. After the situation over here gets better, we’ll either ship them back to Yun Hua Hospital or pay rent to the medical company.”

Ever since the Emergency Department of Yun Hua Hospital was upgraded into Yun Hua Emergency Medical Center, they pumped in money for expansion every month. It was very possible for them to either build a new operating theater or replace the equipment in one of the operating theaters.

Wei Jiayou smacked his lips and looked at Ling Ran. He could not help but feel a little envious.

He never had the privilege to be treated that way. Forget about duplicating an operating theater. Right now, he did not even dare to ask for a personal operating theater. Academician Di was the one who called the shots in his department, after all, and he was merely Academician Di’s favorite student.

Truth be told, Academician Di might not even get to enjoy the privilege of such a treatment. Even though hospitals made a lot of money, because of the initial construction of basic infrastructure, most hospitals nowadays owed banks a lot of money. No hospital would dare to spend so much money on such a thing.

“We do enjoy a lot of freedom in local hospitals,” Wei Jiayou said those emotional words in a conceited manner. He then took a few steps forward to stand beside Yu Yuan and looked at the operating table.

The most eye-catching part of the operating table was the patient’s liver, which was exposed courtesy of the abdominal retractor. A group of medical staff members was surrounding it.

The stainless steel abdominal retractor was silver, and it sparkled under the light. There was not a single drop of blood on it. It held the patient’s abdominal muscles and adipose tissue apart, and it could not be helped that some pale-yellow adipocytes were exposed.

The patient was slightly plump. If he were clothed, his body proportions might still look fine. But after an incision was made with an endotherm knife on his skin, a yellow layer of adipocytes could be seen. It was closely adhered to the skin, and its thickness was more than one inch. Some semicircular adipose granules could even be seen, and they looked like the pearls inside cups of bubble tea. Half of them were buried amid the adipocytes.

Wei Jiayou glanced at the adipose layer, and then at the liver. His attention was then captured by the small incision Ling Ran had made. He arched his eyebrow a little and muttered, “It’s a non-standard incision? Who’s the patient?”

“He’s a local. He came over for a physical examination since it was free, but the scans hinted at early-stage liver cancer,” Yu Yuan answered without turning to look at Wei Jiayou.

“Is he a local official or something?”

Yu Yuan furrowed her eyebrows, a little triggered. “What’s with the question?”

“Aren’t non-standard incisions only made when the patient is someone of status?” Wei Jiayou sounded confident.

As he had been practicing hepatectomy, he had met many people from the General Surgery Department and the Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery.

Nowadays, during hepatectomy, surgeons basically only made bilateral subcostal incisions. Every now and then, for right lobe hepatectomy, they would make reverse L-shaped incisions. Non-standard incisions were very rare.

On one hand, it was because open abdominal surgery was a well-developed field. A bilateral subcostal incision was basically enough for most ordinary cases of hepatectomy. There were very few cases that could not be performed using bilateral subcostal incision and reverse L-shaped incisions.

On the other hand, making a non-standard incision made hepatectomy even more difficult. Even for excellent doctors, unless their patient was someone of power and influence who could afford special care, they would usually make a standard incision. No one would make life difficult for themselves for no reason.

Yu Yuan kind of understood what Wei Jiayou meant. She arched an eyebrow and replied in a serious tone, “The patient is a local farmer. He doesn’t have any relative who’s an official either.”

“Then, why has a non-standard incision been made?”

“Doctor Ling feels that this kind of incision is more suitable for the patient’s condition,” Yu Yuan replied.

Wei Jiayou had cocked his eyebrows originally, now, he could not help but let them fall.