Chapter 822 - Break

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Doctor Ling.”

“Doctor.”

“Huh?”

“Yeah…”

When doctors walked out of the door that led to the corridor in the operating area, the patients’ families in the waiting area came forward and surrounded them. Old Xu’s wife and son were moved to the front like an unwanted parcel being passed around.

“The surgery is successful. You can watch from outside the ICU after the patient wakes up.” Ling Ran gave a simple statement and showed a smile befitting societal norms to comfort the patient’s family.

From Ling Ran’s observation, most doctors would not smile in this situation. Having a stern expression while talking to the patients was the norm. Ling Ran agreed to this strategy, but based on his personal experience, a general, polite, and pure smile could also make people feel at ease.

The people in the waiting area outside the operating area needed to feel at ease the most.

Old Xu’s wife and son did indeed feel a little relieved, but they did not know whether it was because of the completion of the surgery or whether it was because of Ling Ran’s smile.

“The patient is rather young, so his body condition is better. Now, if he is sent to the ICU, he can get better nursing care, and his recovery will be relatively better. Mister Xu’s insurance provides quite the complete coverage, so most of his ICU fees can be claimed…” Zuo Cidian slowly spoke while he stood beside Ling Ran and tried hard to draw the possible wrath from the patient’s family to himself.

“Just send him to the ICU. We’ll follow Doctor Ling’s instruction.” Old Xu’s superior, Captain Chu, who had average looks, was quite the crude person, was suspected to be the kind to cause medical disputes, and had a lot of annoying things he needed to deal with, came out from another side, and he made the decision for Old Xu’s wife.

Old Xu’s wife was originally at a loss. When she saw Captain Chu making a decision for her, she just nodded and agreed to it.

Zuo Cidian sighed in relief. After dealing with many doctor-patient relationships, he was also afraid of encountering weird people.

“Um… Doctor Ling, let me give you a treat tonight. After all, performing surgeries is a hard task.” Captain Chu chuckled. He had annoyed Huo Congjun and the others to their limit, but he also collected sufficient information, which allowed him to verify that the doctors in the operating theater were really good, and their performance was great as well.

Once he came to this conclusion from his indirect “interrogation”, Captain Chu was naturally in a good mood, and he was also willing to spend a bit of his income to give a treat.

Ling Ran naturally shook his head. “No need.”

“You don’t have to be bothered by all the trivialities. I have already booked the place. Restaurant Great Red Country, and we’ll get the best room there. Everyone must go,” Captain Chu shouted at the top of his voice.

Zuo Cidian must stand forward to talk when they encountered this kind of situation. With a troubled look, he said, “Captain Chu, we’re not going. Doctor Ling also doesn’t like to go out for meals.”

“Go, everyone must go.” Huo Congjun came from the back.

Captain Chu showed a happy face. “Department Director Huo, you’re smart…”

“I have invited the leader of your city bureau, so I’ll talk to him properly later.” Huo Congjun snorted. “Two tables. I’ll treat your leader on one, while you treat our Ling Ran on the other one.”

Huo Congjun said fearlessly in front of everyone, “As a police officer, you pretended to be a doctor to enter the hospital’s operating area. That’s not allowed. ”

Captain Chu was stunned.

..…

“Doctor Ling, I’ll blanch some tripes for you. You just need to blanch black tripes for eight seconds, and they’ll be ready to be served. They’ll be perfectly crunchy by then. If it’s cooked, it may not be so delicious.” Captain Chu passionately acted as a waiter. All of his future obedience was overdrawn, and he even loaned some of that attitude from payday loan companies.

Ling Ran stared at Captain Chu using the public chopsticks and spoon, thanked him, and said, “I can blanch them myself, you don’t have to do it for me.”

“I’m really grateful to you. Old Xu’s family doesn’t have someone who can take charge right now, so I can only help out a little. Sigh, it must not be easy for you. You’ve saved his life, after all.” As Captain Chu spoke, he put another tripe into Ling Ran’s bowl again.

The tripe which was blanched for only eight seconds was really fresh and crunchy. After Ling Ran ate it, he nodded slightly and said, “You’re welcome. In truth, other doctors can also perform stomach cancer surgery.”

Master Level Gastrectomy was not something that required Ling Ran to be proud of as of current. If he were to be ranked on the national scale right now, he might only be among the top one hundred.

When he thought about this, Ling Ran quietly asked the system, ‘System, what is the rank for my gastrectomy skill?’

“The gastrectomy skill that you mastered is ranked first in Yun Hua City, first in Changxi Province, and 48th in China. If you perform another two hundred to three hundred gastrectomies with no mistakes, you might be promoted by one further rank,” the system answered very clearly.

Ling Ran was slightly surprised. Being ranked 48th in the country did not actually mean there were forty-eight incredibly good gastrectomy specialists in the country, because they may be like him who mastered M-Tang technique, Achilles tendon repair technique, hepatectomy, and other skills. The more skilled the doctor was, the more skills he might have possibly mastered. Just like the experts in the General Surgery Department, it was impossible for them to fail in intestinal surgery when they could perform stomach surgeries well. Doctors who could perform hepatectomies well might be good in gastrectomy as well.

This was why Ling Ran felt that his ranking should be slightly lower.

However, when he considered how his other skills might have added to his skill level in gastrectomy, he could also understand why he was ranked at that position.

Captain Chu continued counting the time he needed to blanch the tripe, chuckled, and said, “I don’t know about other doctors, but Doctor Ling, you performed the surgery for Old Xu, so we feel very thankful. It must not have been easy to save Old Xu’s life.”

“After the surgery, he still needs to continue with chemotherapy. We don’t know what his subsequent treatment plans are yet.” Ling Ran reminded him. In China, the recurrence rate in three years for early-stage stomach cancer was generally lower than 10%, but its recurrence rate in five years would be increased to 15% to 20%, and this was not considered low. Besides, a single patient would only reach this statistic when they received all sorts of treatment methods.

If cancer recurred, the patient’s survival rate would be very low, and there were very few people who could live over three years.

Captain Chu remained silent for a few seconds before he smiled in a manner as if a burden had been removed from his shoulders. “Let’s just see how it’ll go. I am not his father, so I’ll just do as much as I can.”

“Captain Chu, I counted with my watch just now. You’re really accurate when it comes to the eight-second count. It’s exactly eight seconds.” Lu Wenbin was still a young man. He did not like to listen to this kind of topic that already had its conclusion set in stone. He was more interested in tripes.

Captain Chu smiled. “When we are on a mission, we often need to calculate the time. When the superior says to release the dogs in eight seconds, but you released them in seven seconds, you’ll be scolded when you go back.”

Lu Wenbin came to a realization, and he was slightly regretful. “So, this is still dependent on experience, and practice makes perfect?”

“Naturally.”

“What a pity.”

Captain Chu laughed. “If you want to practice, I can arrange some practice sessions for you. We have a training site. But those in our field get injured easily. Look at my knee. I fell from a wall one year during my service, and I never recovered from it. I can’t even run properly now.”

“Haven’t you seen a doctor for it?”

“I have. How could I not have? But the doctor said that I need to undergo surgery, and I was afraid, so I’ve been delaying treatment.”

“What diagnosis did he or she come up with?”

“Something like injury on the meniscus?”

Lu Wenbin could not help but laugh. “You should look for Doctor Ling for meniscus injuries. The knee arthroscopic meniscoplasty Doctor Ling performs is so good that there are patients coming from other countries for treatment.”

Captain Chu was stunned for eight seconds before he stood up, placed two tripes into the skimmer spoon and said, “Doctor Ling, I’ll place my knee into your hands. Let me blanch some tripes for you.”