371 Sugar and Ice Personality (1/2)
Ling Ran began to perform surgeries at three o'clock in the morning. After he operated until noon, he drank an Energy Serum to reenergize himself, and continued to perform surgeries until ten o'clock at night. Only then did he consider himself to have finished the day's surgery.
As he watched the patient being pushed away, Ling Ran could not help but smile.
”Did you enjoy yourself?” Zuo Cidian could not even open his eyes. He had to drink two cans of Red Bull to stay awake.
Ling Ran nodded.
”Are you satisfied, content, and delighted?” Zuo Cidian asked again.
Ling Ran nodded.
”Are you feeling good?” Zuo Cidian asked one more time.
Ling Ran nodded.
Zuo Cidian was swaying, but even so, he did not forget to give Ling Ran a thumbs up. ”Doctor Ling, your stamina is great. I didn't even perform all the surgeries with you. If I had followed you through all of them, I would most likely be exhausted to death.”
”I'm dead tired, even though I've just helped him with half of them.” Lu Wenbin had long since sprawled himself on the ground.
”Snore...”
Su Jiafu, who performed all the surgeries with Ling Ran that day, said nothing. He sat silently on a small stool and fell asleep on the table. He started snoring.
Ling Ran was still energetic, handsome, and elegant as if he was the epitome of elegance itself. He was extremely graceful.
Zuo Cidian, who was over forty years old, spoke in an envious tone, even though he would never be able to gain Ling Ran's stamina. ”They say that youth is gold. My experiences as a young doctor were different from yours, but being young certainly has its advantages.”
”It's absolutely useless.” Lu Wenbin moaned while he felt the soreness in his body. He said, ”I'm still young, but look at me, I'm tired as heck.”
Zuo Cidian glanced at Lu Wenbin as if he was looking at a village farm dog.
”Schedule tomorrow's surgery.” Ling Ran interrupted both of them and said, ”Make special remarks on the patients who bring their own hospital beds.”
”There haven't been many patients who have brought their own beds over the past few days, but I'm guessing that in the coming days, there'll be more patients.” Zuo Cidian chuckled and said, ”Treating the cadres is like digging out a rat's lair. They come one after another. If you can handle them, they will come in groups.”
The circulating nurse who was drinking water spat out her water. ”You sure know how to phrase your words.”
”Why wouldn't I dare? I didn't name anyone in particular. I'm just speaking in general,” Zuo Cidian said and smiled humbly toward Ling Ran. ”Doctor Ling, you have exhausted yourself after working for the entire day, go back first. It's fine to leave the rest to us.”
”Okay.” Ling Ran had no interest in cleaning up the mess. He turned around and said, ”Tomorrow morning we can start working a little later than usual. Let's start at eight o'clock and do some ward rounds before we perform surgery.”
Zuo Cidian forced himself to smile.
When Ling Ran left, Zuo Cidian looked at his watch. He whispered, ”It's less than twelve hours before I have to work again.”
”This is Doctor Ling's normal schedule,” Lu Wenbin spoke in the tone of the eldest senior brother of a sect. There was even a hint of pride in his voice.
Zuo Cidian frowned slightly and said in a skilled manner, ”We are only assistants, we can still distribute our tasks among ourselves. Doctor Ling is the chief surgeon. Can he work continuously like this?”
”As long as there are enough beds, he can.” Lu Wenbin glanced at Zuo Cidian and said, ”You've opened Pandora's box. If these old cadres can each bring their own bed, Doctor Ling will go crazy performing surgeries. ”
”Cadres, not old cadres,” Zuo Cidian corrected Lu Wenbin.
”Fine, cadres, then. But when you phrase it that way, does that mean that there were even more patients available?”
Zuo Cidian nodded solemnly.
”Even if there are a group of cadres, there wouldn't be too many who have injured their meniscus.”
”Then you must be underestimating our cadres' ability in spreading the word.”
”No way.” Lu Wenbin forced himself to chuckle.
Zuo Cidian nodded solemnly once again.
”Don't be like Doctor Ling.” The young nurse next to him refused to work anymore.
Before Zuo Cidian could react, Lu Wenbin flung the door open and rushed out. ”I'll have to trouble all of you today, I have to go back and put away the stew.”
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The next day, at eight o'clock in the morning, Ling Ran began to do ward rounds with the members of his treatment group.