277 Medal (1/2)

The operating theater of the Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center.

Ling Ran clasped his hands behind his back and leaned forward to look at the operating field under the shadowless lamp. His face was full of longing.

If it had not been for the sufficient distance between Ling Ran and the surgical field, Xue Haochu would have really been worried about Ling Ran salivating.

”Doctor Ling, why don't we go back to the hotel to rest first?” Xue Haochu asked in a fuss.

”They're doing a hip replacement surgery now, huh?” Ling Ran simply ignored him and watched Ji Tianlu's actions until his neck was strained.

In the Orthopedics Department, hip replacement surgeries were the highest form of surgery.

The most epic part of the orthopedics field was reflected in hip replacement surgery. For example, the surgical opening was super large, the prosthesis was super large, and the perioperative period was super complicated...

The only way for a surgeon to show how epic he or she was through any other surgery other than hip replacement surgery was endoscopy.

However, Ling Ran did not know how to do hip replacement surgeries or use an endoscope.

In comparison, the surgeries he knew were more in line with the identity of an intern. Both the finger replantation technique as well as Achilles tendon repair technique were relatively simple and straightforward surgeries. The M-Tang technique was even more so. These surgeries could be perceived directly through human senses.

Hip replacement surgeries and endoscopies were not so straightforward. They were usually divided into two directions in a hospital's Orthopedics Department. If a director in a hospital could perform an open surgery well and if the person was young, the deputy director would be better off learning arthroscopy and splitting the department into two.

Of course, the Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center was equivalent to a large department. There were plenty of internal positions in there, so it was possible to a retain high-ranking director and elite doctors such as Ji Tianlu. However, the flow rate of resident doctors and attending physicians was extremely high because the competitors they faced were not only a dozen peers in the same hospital. There were also postgraduate students and even visiting doctor from all over the country who went there for knowledge exchange and in-service training. Positions such as ”associate department director” were likely to be taken by doctors who had worked in the United States.

For Ling Ran, such hip replacement surgeries were not commonly sighted, because the Orthopedics Department in Yun Hua Hospital rarely carried out the operation. Their skills were focused on hand surgery and arthroscopy.

As a young man in his twenties, it was quite rare for him to see such an operation directly.

Xue Haochu was a little anxious from waiting. He was the small butler in the Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center. He often did a lot of work on behalf of Zhu Tongyi, and he could not spend his entire time in the operating theater.

”Doctor Ling, Academician Zhu has gone to Beijing. He can't come over today. So he asked me to take care of you. Why don't we go and take a rest first?” Xue Haochu urged Ling Ran to move again.

Ling Ran turned to look at him and said, ”I'd like to perform surgery.”

”Ah… about that... Today's not suitable.” Xue Haochu forced himself to chuckle. The number of beds was actually enough, but he was still a little afraid that something would come up. Besides, it would be more difficult to manage the patients if there were more people in the ward. They would need to leave some room for visitors who would come later.

Ling Ran sighed helplessly. ”Then forget it, I'll just have a look.”

Ji Tianlu looked up and stared at Ling Ran. He found the situation a little amusing, so he shook his head before he peered down to work again.

He was also planning to use the hip replacement surgery that day to show off at the conference. In China, if such a surgery could be done neatly, people would give him the thumbs-up.

”Doctor Ling...” Xue Haochu called out to him again.

Ji Tianlu felt a little annoyed as he listened, and he said, ”Young Xue, you may leave if you have something to do. You won't be able to persuade Ling Ran.”

Xue Haochu was stunned. ”Yes, I guess I was too full of myself.”

”Aren't you?” Ji Tianlu ​​laughed out loud a few times and lowered his voice. ”If Doctor Ling didn't constantly have the urge to perform surgeries, how would he have managed to get his skills, you think?”

Ji Tianlu's logic was so straightforward that Xue Haochu was immediately convinced.

In the blink of an eye, Xue Haochu became a little embarrassed. He had made all those excuses to urge them forward, but in the end, he just wasted Ling Ran's time.

When he saw the yearning look on Ling Ran's face while Ling Ran watched the operation, Xue Haochu could not bear the sight anymore and opened his mouth to say, ”Doctor Ling, why don't we—”

”Young Xue.” As a chief physician, although Ji Tianlu was young, he was also a genius with a sharp eye. He knew what Xue Haochu had in mind. Ji Tianlu had to remind him and say, ”Don't be too full of yourself.”

”Huh?” Xue Haochu was a little confused. 'I was going to change tactics because of your suggestion, you know?'

Ji Tianlu snorted and said, ”Do you still remember the speed at which Doctor Ling performed his surgeries before this? If you let him loose, you'd best believe that he'll stuff the beds full with patients.”

Xue Haochu heard him and understood what he meant. He immediately felt guilty.

The Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center had a total of one hundred and eighty beds, and now, there were less than eighty left. It was not because the remaining one hundred beds were filled, but Zhu Tongyi had completely revoked the three-person rooms in order to reflect a good medical environment. Half of the remaining rooms were single-person rooms.

Therefore, the research institute did not have many beds at that point. If Ling Ran performed at full capacity using the Achilles tendon repair technique, he could complete an Achilles tendon repair surgery in thirty minutes...

Xue Haochu shuddered.

If Ling Ran filled up all the ward beds, Zhu Tongyi would definitely kill him when he returned. Xue Haochu could not let that happen.

Xue Haochu shook his head repeatedly. He did not dare speak.

Ji Tianlu looked at Ling Ran and smiled. He said, ”Doctor Ling, have you ever performed a hip replacement surgery before?”

”No, this is my first time seeing it,” Ling Ran told the truth.