Chapter 909 - Surge of Emotions

Huo Congjun had a tense face as he left the meeting room.

He was afraid that if he laughed, it would make it too awkward for the other doctors, and thus, affect subsequent collaborations between them.

But after returning to the Emergency Medical Center, Huo Congjun could not help but burst out laughing.

“Ling Ran, did you see the last look on Wei Qing, the one from the General Department? It’s so amusing.” Huo Congjun shook his head and laughed, his white teeth reflected the light from the ceiling lights, but the light reflected was faint.

Ling Ran gave Department Director Huo a rather general smile, which both soothed his mood and allowed the dialogue to continue.

“The General Surgery Department has always been conservative. This time, you could be said to have punched them in the gut.” Huo Congjun recalled the scene in the meeting room and could not help but chuckle cheerfully.

After He Yuanzheng had given up, the other people from the General Surgery Department such as Wei Qing and the others, had also given up on trying to speak, which was equivalent to them surrendering their rights over the patient with both hands.

If a person without any ulterior motives whatsoever said something to a person, a person with a different intention would decipher his or her words differently, which meant that the listener will be the one definitely suffering a setback.

Besides, Ling Ran also had absolute power and authority in hepatectomy.

In fact, doctors and even researchers would usually avoid this kind of situation. Regardless of at what scale the meeting was held, as long as it was a professional topic, it was inevitable that the voice of professionals would be better than that of non-professionals. The weightage would be even more skewed to the professionals when it came to a patient’s life and death. If there was no absolute need, no one would want to have any confrontation.

Take, for example, the operation on a stomach cancer with a metastasis from the liver. Forget about everything else, because Ling Ran might truly be the only person in the meeting room just now who could handle the operation on his own. This point itself caused Wei Qing and the others to have no way of competing against Ling Ran.

This was also the normal life in a hospital: a person had to stay quiet if his skill was not as good as another. The more formal the occasion, the more everyone did not care about the wails of a defeated dog and its inner struggles, pain, along with its helpless consideration of its dreams and pursuits…

Surgical abilities were the most important benchmark for surgeons. Only when everyone was on the same level would there be room for fair discussion of skills. Otherwise, it was only natural that those who had stronger skills would bully those who were weaker.

Huo Congjun deeply enjoyed the nature of such unfairness.

“Maybe, one day, we’ll just open a gastrointestinal clinic.” This sudden sentence from Huo Congjun’s mouth was not just a spontaneous idea that popped up in his mind.

Emergency Departments opening gastrointestinal clinics were actually a common sight. Compared with specialist outpatient clinics, it mainly dealt with common intestinal diseases such as acute diarrhea. It did not mean much for the General Surgery Department, but it was an important part of Huo Congjun’s plan to create a big emergency department.

If not for the strong capabilities of Yun Hua Hospital’s General Department, he would have opened a gastrointestinal clinic a long time ago.

Ling Ran furrowed his eyebrows and said, “I don’t really have time to perform surgeries on intestines for the time being.”

Huo Congjun chuckled softly. “It’s mainly things like infusion and fluid replacement. You can just continue doing your hepatectomy. Right, for the patient’s side, let Zuo Cidian explain and make things clear to him. We’ll need at least two copies of documents such as informed consent forms. The patient as well as the family members must sign them. It would be best to get a few of his immediate family members to sign the papers.”

“There seems to be no one else in the patient’s family.” Ling Ran paused for a moment and thought about it before he said, “The couple should be the only ones in the family.”

“Oh, I remember now. They eloped, right? Was it because the woman’s parents disapproved of their relationship? What about the man’s parents?”

“They all died,” Ling Ran answered.

“Oh,” Huo Congjun said, and stopped pursuing the matter. He then said, “Having relatively simple family relationships is good as well. That means that we don’t have to be too bothered. Then… we still need to take more photos when you’re performing the surgery. How about this? I will find someone to record you, and it can be used as material in the future. It would be convenient for you to use it to give lectures for the housemen and interns, and it’ll also be easy for you when you write articles.”

“Alright.” Ling Ran agreed.

In the world’s top hospitals such as Mayo Clinic, photographers were directly attached to the operating theater and were called surgical photographers. That was because the surgeries that were performed in Mayo Clinic could mostly be used to show off to the world.

Of course, it was also because the cost of cameras nowadays was really low now.

“Well… then that’s settled. If there is anything else, let’s talk about it later, you’ll just need to prepare for the surgery,” Huo Congjun said and started to laugh again.

He actually had the intention to promote this case. The number of people in China performing stomach metastasis from liver cancer had only just begun increasing over the recent years. As Yun Hua hospital had not carried out a lot of such cases themselves, it was even rarer to see such cases being carried out in Changxi Province. If the surgery was successful, with a little bit of work, it would be good promotional material.

However, it was not necessary to say these things to Ling Ran. Instead of just increasing the pressure on Ling Ran, Department Director Huo was more willing to laugh at the details of the previous meeting.

He thought so and did the same. His row of white teeth had never stopped shining after entering the Emergency Medical Center.

The resident doctor who looked so ordinary that no one could remember his name watched Huo Congjun’s terrifying laughter and could not help but worry, “Is there a major accident that led to a large number of casualties today?”

“Why do you say so?” Doctor Zhou had his hands placed behind his back. He watched his resident doctor work and asked casually.

“I think Director Huo’s smile is abnormal. He’s smiling too happily.”

Doctor Zhou looked up and saw only Huo Congjun’s back. He could not help but smile, “Old Huo is not Hanba [1]. It’s not like if he smiled, a serious injury or death would occur.”

“Doctor Zhou, you better remember those words.” The resident doctor quickly emphasized.

Doctor Zhou pouted. “And what words would those be? Just do your work. Look at you. You’re a resident doctor, and you have been one for so many years, but you’re still performing sutures for me. Look at Ling Ran, he has already started to perform combined resections of the liver and pancreas.”

The resident doctor who looked so ordinary that no one could remember his name looked directly at Doctor Zhou. “Are you serious?”

“A man who does not work hard in his youth will end up grieving when he grows old. You have to motivate yourself at all times. Alright, I will leave it to you to deal with it. Write the case report in a while, and be quick to read the test report as well. There’s also a woman who has just been hospitalized so that she can be under observation. Remember to perform an electrocardiogram scan for her, and change the medicine of the old man we checked earlier in the morning… “Doctor Zhou walked as he spoke. The more he talked, the more somber he sounded, and the farther he went…

…..

It was visitation hours for the ICU right now. Wang Chuanwen, Wang Chuanming, and Wang Chuanmao sat in the waiting room politely and let their youngest brother pay his respect and visit Wang Chuanli, who was still confined to his bed.

When Ling Ran arrived, Wang Chuanwen, Wang Chuanming, and Wang Chuanmao quickly got up. They looked as if they wanted to give him a small but grand welcome.

“Doctor Ling, are you doing ward rounds?” Wang Chuanwen asked a superfluous question in a respectful manner.

Ling Ran acknowledged Wang Chuanwen and said, “Your brother’s condition is stable. If he lasts for a few more days, he should be able to be transferred to a general ward. Don’t worry.”

Ling Ran behaved like many other surgeons in this case. The more critical the patient’s condition, the longer he stayed in the ward, and the better Ling Ran’s attitude became, just like other surgeons. He would also speak more, and the memories relevant to the patient also became clearer.

A few of Wang Chuanli’s organs were removed, and he was naturally one of his more critically ill patients. Ling Ran obviously had a deep impression about him.

Wang Chuanwen quickly thanked him, then hesitated for a few seconds, and said, “I heard that you’re going to perform an operation on the young man who eloped and is inside the operating theater?”

“I’m intending to.” Ling Ran did not care why he asked, he just answered the question when it was directed at him, but he said it more briefly. Wang Chuanwen was one of Wang Chuanli’s family members, but he was not related to Young Dai.

However, Wang Chuanwen heaved a long sigh and nodded again and before he said, “That’ll be alright then, I believe that if you are the one performing the surgery, the young couple will not have to suffer so much.”

Ling Ran froze and looked at Wang Chuanwen, as he did not understand why he said those words.

“The young couple is very pitiful. The girl actually eloped with her husband, and her family disowned her. She can only depend on her husband. They could have originally lived an ordinary, steady life, but now that her husband is diagnosed with cancer…” Having said this, Wang Chuanwen smiled helplessly, looked up, and said, “Isn’t that how life is? I guess, if the girl’s parents see their daughter like this, they will regret their decision.”

Ling Ran nodded and did not say much.

“I wish your surgery to be a successful one.” Wang Chuanwen just wanted to express his emotions. The days of looking after his younger brother in the ICU were enough for him to feel depressed, and now he cannot help but want to say a thing or two.

Ling Ran still nodded just a little, stood in front of the door for a little while before he replied, “Sure.”

The three brothers of the Wang family felt an inexplicable surge of emotions when they stood behind Ling Ran.