161 Significant Meaning (1/2)
Yun Hua's meeting room was a room with white walls, a red floor, and floor to ceiling windows. The atmosphere in the room was serious, yet lively.
More than a dozen doctors in white coats sat on the side of the conference table as they watched the journalists, patients, and Ling Ran, who were all at the middle of the room. They might seem as if they were performing a consultation, but in truth, they all had their mobile phones out and were preparing the post for their Circle of Friends on that night.
If it was a different person, or if they saw a patient give Ling Ran a banner a day ago for a surgery that was usually performed by the Hand Surgery Department, the doctors would only mock them unceasingly. They would definitely not take pictures for him.
It would be very easy for the topic of conversation in their Circle of Friends to begin swaying out of topic if they took Ling Ran's picture to mock him.
But at that moment, more than a dozen chief physicians, associate chief physicians, attending physicians, resident doctors, and Ma Yanlin felt that Ling Ran ought to agree to the interview and accept the banners.
Operating tables were like touchstones.
Chief Physician Wang Haiyang, Associate Chief Physician Fei Zhou, and Associate Chief Physician Guo Jianming could be said to be the most authoritative trio when it came to performing finger replantations in the Hand Surgery Department of Yun Hua Hospital. Yet in the end, the number of fingers they replanted as a whole was practically just the same as Ling Ran.
In the eyes of the doctors, this slap to the face was both surprising, but also gained their respect, but no one will say it out loud.
However, Wang Haiyang, Fei Zhou, and Guo Jianming would just feel dejected.
Being skilled was what surgeons were used to seeing and would acknowledge in another surgeon the most.
If that was the case, Zou Yawen the reporter would acknowledge Ling Ran even more.
She first directed Zheng Qi to position the banner with Ling Ran before she grabbed the cameraman's elbow and said nervously, ”Doctor Ling Ran, eat a red swamp crayfish.”
Chief Physician Wang Haiyang also realized what was going on before he quickly said, ”Ling Ran, this is a good news subject, please cooperate.”
Although he was unsuccessful in poaching Ling Ran to his department, Ling Ran was still publicizing the projects in the Hand Surgery Department, or at least, he was publicizing the projects conducted in Yun Hua Hospital. Chief Physician Wang Haiyang was still very supportive of what Zou Yawen wanted to do.
The value of a celebrity doctor to a hospital could not be dismissed so easily.
It was especially so for hospitals at the level of Yun Hua Hospital. All the hospitals at that caliber pursued fame more than profit.
Gaining profit once you earn fame was as easy as breathing, but if you tried to gain fame for profit, it would get very difficult.
The Hand Surgery Department had gathered ten doctors to perform a finger replantation surgery for a child and invited Zou Yawen because they wanted to be reported in the news.
A patient then came gifting one of the hospital's doctors a banner and peeled a red swamp crayfish. If this could give the department wider publicity, Wang Haiyang would be supportive.
Fei Zhou, a middle-aged male doctor with a plain face, was just about to step out, but he, too, turned around to take a look.
Under the people's eyes, Ling Ran picked up a pair of transparent gloves without getting embarrassed and grabbed the red swamp crayfish that Zheng Qi peeled. He then dipped it in the sauce in the takeaway box and stuffed it into his mouth.
”So photogenic.” Zou Yawen praised and asked the cameraman, ”Did you record it?”
”It's not as if it's difficult or anything.” The cameraman rolled his eyes and said, ”Can you loosen your grip?”
”It's just red. Let's only get embarrassed when I bruise your elbow.” Zou Yawen joked and brushed over the subject. She then asked Zheng Qi again, ”Mister Zheng, why would you think of buying red swamp crayfish for Doctor Ling?”
”Oh, during my rehabilitation, I heard that Doctor Ling liked certain stuff. I thought that after my hand has recovered, I would peel off a crayfish for Doctor Ling to thank him,” Zheng Qi said.
”Who are they?” Zou Yawen asked out of curiosity.
”The nurses from the rehabilitation ward.”
”The nurses also know what Doctor Ling likes to eat?”
”They seem to have a group or a forum to discuss that subject…”
”Um…” Fei Zhou, the middle-aged, plain-looking male doctor, could not stand it anymore. ”Miss... reporter, aren't we talking about surgeries? How did it turn to red swamp crayfish?”
Zou Yawen said with a straight face, ”This crayfish has great significance.”
”Huh?” Fei Zhou.
Zou Yawen raised her chin slightly and looked up. She then said in a lyrical tone, ”A patient who has suffered for a long time went to search for a doctor who could treat…”
”I was an emergency case,” Zheng Qi kindly corrected her.