286 Livstreamed Surgery (2/2)

The patient looked around, dazzled, and joked while he felt a little embarrassed. ”This is my first time. Doctor, please be gentle with me.”

”There's no need to be anxious. Doctor Ling is extremely skilled in Achilles tendon repairs. He performed a surgery that is similar to yours before this, and the patient had just won a bronze medal in a competition.” Yu Yuan consoled the patient.

The patient flashed a bitter smile. ”The patient used to be capable of winning medals in the national games, and only got a bronze medal in the competition this time, right?”

”That's not it,” Yu Yuan said. She did not know anything about sports and did not know what else to say.

The patient laughed in a self-deprecating manner. ”I was already planning to retire anyway. If it really doesn't work, I'll just retire earlier…”

”The Achilles tendon repair surgery we are about to perform on you is one that is riskier but comes with better results. It's mainly performed on more demanding cases when it comes to the post-surgical quality of their Achilles tendon and those who want to recover faster, such as athletes. If you plan to retire, I suggest that you consider receiving an ordinary Achilles tendon repair,” Ling Ran suddenly added when he heard what the patient said.

The patient froze for a moment. After he contemplated for a long while, he said with a sigh, ”Let's just do it according to the original plan. I'm already twenty-seven years old this year. Even though I'm already planning to retire, but you know, sometimes, human beings just refuse to admit defeat. I just feel that—”

”Dalang, drink this medicine before you carry on with the conversation.” The anesthetist lifted his instrument when he saw Ling Ran's gesture.

The patient tilted his head to the side, and he fell asleep.

”Achilles tendon repair surgery.” Ling Ran reminded the others before he lifted the scalpel and made an incision.

As the first assistant, Ji Tianlu widened his eyes to watch Ling Ran work.

He had watched recordings of surgeries performed by Ling Ran before. Now that he had a chance, he naturally wanted to take a good look.

Even though he did not have clear categorizations when it came to skills in his thought process, it was still obvious to him whenever he saw that someone's skills had elevated by a huge margin. For example, Ling Ran's performance in the video. It had made Ji Tianlu very astonished.

Ling Ran's Legendary Level Achilles Tendon Repair Surgery had exceeded even the limit of Ji Tianlu's imagination.

Of course, Ling Ran's skills right now was only at Perfect Level. However, even at Perfect Level, his Achilles tendon repair was way ahead of Ji Tianlu's skills.

One could not go from Master Level to Perfect Level merely by performing a few hundred surgeries as practice.

Ji Tianlu might be expecting to see watched Legendary Level maneuvers while he watched Ling Ran's Perfect Level maneuvers, but he was still extremely fascinated.

In reality, even with his Perfect Level maneuvers, Ling Ran still ranked among the top hundred in the world.

If a doctor's skills when it came to a certain surgical method was confirmed to be ranked among the top hundred in the world, he would certainly receive favorable treatment. Even in this international conference, none of the participating surgeons could rank among the top hundred in the world.

Ji Tianlu and Zhu Tongyi had never treated Ling Ran as if he was one of the top hundred in the world since the beginning.

However, if one's skills were excellent, others would be able to see it.

If a surgeon was only slightly more excellent compared to other surgeons, others would not find him that amazing. However, if you were to look at it from a wider perspective, you would be able to see the difference in skills. It was just like how in school, many students who ranked second place in class did not see much difference between them and the ones who got first place. However, if they were to look at how they ranked in the entire form, they would realize that the difference in ranking between them and the one who ranked first place in the entire form (who also ranked first in class) was around thirty or forty places. If they were to look at it from an even wider perspective and see how they ranked in the entire region compared to the one who got first place in class and who also ranked number one in the region, they would find that there were hundreds of places between them. Similarly, their difference in ranking in the entire city would be of a few thousand places, and their difference in ranking in the entire province would be almost ten thousand places.

The world of adults was much more complicated than the world of students.

It was still alright for junior doctors, as they only faced competition from those around their age and those from the same hospital. A doctor would only meet doctors from other hospitals once he became an attending physician. However, once a doctor was promoted to an associate chief physician or chief physician, he would have to compete with all the doctors in the city and even the province. Those who happened to be fortunate and had excellent skills could even compete with doctors all over the country.

Those who emerged victorious in the competition with doctors all over the country such as Chief Physician Ji Tianlu would sometimes think about competing with the rest of the world.

In reality, doctors in China rarely thought about competing with doctors abroad. This was because the medical fees in China were very cheap, and the patients' income was also lower than the world average. Even if hospitals and doctors abroad could provide better treatment, patients would still seek treatment locally for financial reasons.

For example, under normal circumstances, Doctor Ji Tianlu would not think about how a doctor's skills ranked in the world.

However, as the center prepared for the International Sports Orthopedic Research Conference, Ji Tianlu suddenly became more sensitive to the word ”international”.

Without being aware of it, he started judging Ling Ran's skills based on the videos of surgeries performed by a few international aces he watched some time ago.

As a result...

As a result, Ji Tianlu lost his confidence.

He shook his head and could not help but think. 'It's really hard to gauge the standards of a surgeon's skills nowadays. Ling Ran seems pretty excellent.'

”I'm done. Time to move on.” Ling Ran tossed the pair of scissors aside and said to Ji Tianlu, ”I'll continue with the next surgery in the operating theater next door.”

Ji Tianlu panicked for a moment and quickly said, ”I'll go with you.”

This was something that did not align with his plans. According to Ji Tianlu's original plan, he would only be assisting in one surgery to make sure that Ling Ran was in good condition before moving on to other tasks.

Ji Tianlu was also the one to decide whether the recording would be broadcasted during the conference.

As he pondered about it, Ji Tianlu suddenly lost his confidence. At that moment, he was not in the mood to do anything else.

He wanted to take another good look at Ling Ran's skills.

Ling Ran naturally agreed. He let Yu Yuan carry out the remaining tasks before he headed to the operating theater next door with Ji Tianlu.

Ling Ran walked in front of Ji Tianlu. His gait was majestic, and he was in high spirits.

Ji Tianlu walked behind Ling Ran. His eyebrows were tightly furrowed, and he lacked confidence.

It was as if both of their identities had been switched.