112 An ambition of Completing Six Hundred Surgeries in Three Years (2/2)

”He has completed at least one or two hundred surgeries using the M-Tang technique. It's a very high number even in Japan.”

”Two hundred cases isn't much.” Pan Hua laughed. He then said, ”I have done hundreds of surgeries using the M-Tang technique in Japan in just a few months, and I did not publicize it as much. When I was in China, I also performed plenty of them. I think I did about dozens of cases. Moreover, it's not as if I specialize only in the M-Tang technique…”

”But if it's just flexor tendon injury surgeries…”

”Soon, we will perform at a rate where Ling Ran will not be able to reach, even if he works himself to death. The more operations we perform, the less he has to scavenge. It could not be helped. At some point, patients will also become resources,” Pan Hua laughed and said, ”If I have to say, we are doing this for Ling Ran, too. I heard that he only started doing more surgeries after knowing that I am about to come back. So, he should understand that when we come, he would have to stand aside. Therefore, it is no big deal claiming a slightly larger volume of surgery.”

”Is that so?”

Pan Hua smiled gently and said to Hayato Ueda, ”Professor Ueda, your goal in coming to China was to do surgeries. How many surgeries do you want to do? Two hundred cases? Three hundred cases?”

Hayato Ueda's cheeks became rosy, and he slowly said, ”My goal is to do six hundred surgeries. My previous record was four hundred cases, if I can do another six hundred cases, my surgery count will have me become the fifth-ranking doctor among the doctors currently in-service in the Orthopedics Department…”

”Oh, do you want to complete six hundred cases in a year?”

”Huh? That's impossible.”

Pan Hua laughed, ”In China, as long as you want to do it, that's not a problem. You just need to do two cases a day.”

”About that…” Hayato Ueda mumbled in Japanese. ”There are only two hundred working days a year.

”If you count it that way…”

”We won't be able to perform surgeries on consultation days. There will also be inpatient consultation days and meeting days. If we calculate things in this manner, the days where we can perform surgeries can only be less than one hundred and fifty days.” Hayato Ueda carefully calculated. ”I will need to work overtime a lot more if I were to do one hundred and fifty days of surgeries.”

”If you have to put it that way…” Pan Hua laughed again. ”An average of four surgeries a day is really a little too much.”

”Yeah. If you perform surgeries every day, two surgeries per day is a lot.” Hayato Ueda forced himself to chuckle a few times and said, ”I am going to complete my plan in three years.”

Six hundred surgeries in three years meant that he only needed to complete two hundred surgeries per year.

Pan Hua smiled as he wrapped up the current consultation. Pan Hua could not help but recall his in-service training in Japan. He thought to himself, 'The Japanese are really too lazy. Although four surgeries per day is a bit too much, the average of three is not a problem. Two hundred surgeries a year is nothing.'

Another patient sat down and handed over his test results.

Pan Hua read the report as he spoke to Hayato Ueda in Japanese, ”We have to do more surgeries. This is the last bout for Ling Ran to do several surgeries every day, there is a possibility that he has burnt out. However, even you will find it a waste, if you hand over all the surgeries to a young man, right?”

Hayato Ueda knew what Pan Hua meant. In fact, in Japanese hospitals, it was more common for surgeons to fight over surgeries.

This was primarily so for young doctors. They would spend a lot of time and effort just to practice their skills. Because of this, Hayato Ueda had come to Yun Hua to get a chance to perform surgeries.

Since there was a limited number of patients available, the more surgeries Pan Hua and Hayato Ueda did, the fewer surgeries Ling Ran would be left with.

Hence, no matter how many surgeries Ling Ran could do every day, it was meaningless.

But there was a possibility that Ling Ran had run himself to the ground because of this day, and was eagerly waiting for him to take over his surgeries.

”We can handpick our patients. We can do whatever surgeries that we like. Just leave the ones that we don't like to Ling Ran. I am the Hand Surgery Department's associate chief physician. No one will pick him first.” Pan Hua added another sentence.

Hayato Ueda was happier after he heard this, because he had not received such a treatment when he was in Keio.

Hayato Ueda thought, 'If that is the case, I can adjust the difficulty of the surgeries myself. Not only can I accumulate enough surgeries; I can also improve my skills. It is not a fantasy for six hundred surgeries to be done within three years.'