260 Legendary Achilles Tendon (1/2)

Ling Ran put on the gloves before he applied disinfectant on the patient's calf and massaged it. He exerted some force on it while he massaged it. Once he was done with the massage, he said, ”Countdown for twenty minutes.”

He only had around twenty minutes left to utilize his Skill Serum. If he managed to finish the surgery within twenty minutes, then the entire surgery would be performed using the Legendary Level Achilles Tendon Repair Technique.

Of course, even if he could not finish the surgery within twenty minutes, nothing bad would happen.

When Ling Ran performed his surgeries in the Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center, the average time he took to utilize the Achilles Tendon Rupture Repair Technique was around thirty minutes. Since the preparatory work had been completed, and it was not an extremely complicated surgery, Ling Ran felt pretty relaxed.

As for the doctors in the Orthopedics Department of Yun Hua Hospital, their emotions and expressions were not in the realm of calm anymore.

The time for a normal doctor to perform an Achilles tendon rupture repair was around one hour. Also, several bad habits that made the doctors dawdle around during surgery often caused the operation to be slower. So, it was common for a doctor to use one and a half hours for the surgery.

Sometimes, there were doctors who tried to complete the surgeries fast. They managed to shorten the surgery time for an Achilles tendon repair to fifty minutes. But no one would treat it as a competition and put a very short time limit on a surgery, much less twenty minutes.

What could be done within twenty minutes? For surgery, twenty minutes may not even be sufficient for the closing of an incision, especially for new doctors. It was normal for them to spend dozens of minutes to close an incision.

Even a skilled orthopedist would not ever think of completing a surgery within twenty minutes. A doctor would need more than twenty minutes to complete the process of taking out the bone from a bone cancer patient, and boiling it.

Ling Ran did not care about what other orthopedists thought.

He was not good in considering other people's opinions. If he wanted to make everyone around him happy, he would have been engaged to one hundred and sixty-six girls when he was in kindergarten. This number was the sum of girls in his kindergarten, his teachers' daughters, and parents who had daughters.

Therefore, Ling Ran already understood when he was still very young, that no one could ever please the whole world and make everyone happy.

The most possible scenario was pleasing one person while offending another.

Once Ling Ran grew up, he learned to only concern himself with facts, not with individuals.

Take, for example, the surgery before him. If he could complete it within twenty minutes and had no choice but to complete it within twenty minutes, he would limit himself to complete it within that time. If the other orthopedists felt embarrassed or troubled because of that, he could do nothing about it. This was just like when someone confessed to you in public, but you did not have any feelings for that person. What else could you do besides reject that person?

”Scalpel.” Ling Ran extended his hand. When he received the scalpel, he used the fiddle bow hold and cut an S-shape where the lines were drawn.

With the addition of the Skill Serum, his fiddle bow hold had been upgraded from Specialist Level to Master Level.

A Specialist Level skill was normal in top hospitals like Yun Hua Hospital.

If attending physicians could not obtain any Specialist Level skill, it would be hard for them to stay in Yun Hua Hospital, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that they were just wasting their life away. Most of the attending physicians mastered at least two or three Specialist Level skills. If they had three to four types of Specialist Level skills, they could somewhat be considered masters.

However, only the doctors with Master Level skills would be considered true masters.

However, forget attending physicians who were in their thirties, even associate chief physicians who were not talented could not master Master Level skills. In other words, even doctors with talent needed more time and opportunities to gain a Master Level skill.

For instance, the M-Tang technique of Department Associate Director Pan from Yun Hua Hospital's Hand Surgery Department had yet to reach Master Level. It was not due to his lack of talent, but due to Yun Hua Hospital not providing him any opportunities to perform the M-Tang technique. The M-Tang technique project was not present in Yun Hua Hospital before Ling Ran came. Department Associate Director Pan started to learn the M-Tang technique from scratch and developed it on his own. Not only did he spend lots of his time and effort on it, but it was also very difficult for him to learn the skill.

So, Department Associate Director Pan was already very great for polishing his M-Tang technique to Specialist Level. But if he wanted to make it to Master Level, he might need another one to two years or even three years of practice to reach a breakthrough and achieve Master Level.

In the hospital, associate directors like Department Associate Director Pan were considered experts among the elites.

The average level of the Orthopedics Department was not even comparable to the level of the Hand Surgery Department in Yun Hua Hospital. The doctors in the operating theater were mostly attending physicians and resident doctors. None of them had mastered any Master Level skills.

However, there was an associate chief physician who strolled in because he was free, and he knew what was going on. He patted the doctor beside him on the shoulder and said, ”Record it.”

The appointed resident doctor gasped before he immediately took out his phone and switched on the recording mode.

The associate chief physician nodded and said, ”No phones are allowed when you come in and out of the operating theater. Don't do it the next time.”

”Oh, yes…” The young resident doctors looked at his screen sadly.

Phones, socks, and sandals were the main contaminants in operating theaters.

The chief surgeons, assistants, and scrub nurses only promised not to touch them. It was very rare for them to not bring their phones in. Even if the hospital gave them repeated warnings and orders, it had no effect on the personnel in the operating theaters. Doctors would follow all kinds of rules and regulations except leave their phones aside, change their sandals more often, and give up their socks.

Therefore, the phone was also known as Schrödinger's phone in the hospital. When you enquired and observed the doctors, they usually did not have a phone with them. But once the doors to the operating theaters were shut, you had no idea how many phone calls they made, or how many levels they cleared in Anipop.

Naturally, the associate chief physician also brought his phone along. As long as he did not take it out, it meant that he did not have his phone on his person.

The young resident doctors who had been criticized were brought to the front of the operating table. An attending physician patted him on the shoulder, smiled, and said, ”It's okay. We used to forget to put our phones away. You'll know when you work for another two years.”

The young resident doctor kept his phone facing the operating table. He grunted before he whispered unhappily, ”If you didn't bring your phone, what's that thing poking my waist?”

”Who puts his phone in that location?”

”What?”

…..

Ling Ran immediately cut open the spot where the Achilles tendon was for the young white-collar worker, and looked at it carefully.

At that moment, what Ling Ran saw was the Achilles tendon, yet in his mind were the different parameters of the patient's MRI scan.

With his Perfect Level MRI Analysis on Four Limbs, Ling Ran did not need to memorize the exact values of the patient's MRI results. He could simply gain a perceptual understanding when he read the scans, then he would generate his own opinion from the key parameters in the MRI scan.

He could form his own opinion regarding things such as the hardness of the tendon, the tenacity, thickness, whether or not there was calcification, the muscle density, the thickness of the adipose tissue, and so on.