458 Staying Awake for the Whole Nigh (1/2)

”Doctor Ling, do you want to rest for a while?” The department director of the General Surgery Department of the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City, Lu Yongmian tried his best to stay awake as he walked behind Ling Ran like a ghoul. He was even supporting himself by rubbing his shoulder against the wall.

Even though Ling Ran had already consumed three bottles of Energy Serum, he was also slightly tired. He took the stack of medical records from Lu Wenbin, who just woke up for his shift, and said as he flipped through the medical records, ”I'll operate on one more patient before I drink some tea and get some rest. Why don't you go and sleep first?”

”Doctor Ling.” Lu Yongmian seemed to be using up every remaining ounce of energy in his body as he grabbed Ling Ran's arm. ”You can't be carrying out any more surgeries. Get some rest first. You've been at it for… forty hours, I think.”

”Thirty-eight hours. It's still far from forty hours.” Ling Ran did not even need to look at the clock to know the time. He drank a bottle of Energy Serum every ten hours as he felt that the effect of the Energy Serum could be maximized this way. This also enabled him to carry out surgeries at top-notch condition. Since he would need to operate on one more patient before it was time to drink another bottle of Energy Serum, it meant that he had been carrying out surgeries for thirty-eight hours.

However, Lu Yongmian could no longer take it. Ordinary people would start feeling dizzy after staying awake for the whole night to work for twenty continuous hours, and they would practically become zombified after doing so for thirty continuous hours. Most doctors were able to work continuously for thirty or even thirty-six hours because they secretly took naps in between. Even if they only got to catch fragments of sleep that only lasted for a few hours, they would feel a lot more refreshed.

Of course, there were times when the hospitals were so flooded with patients that the doctors did not get the chance to sleep at all. That was when they would have to bite the bullet and stay awake for thirty or even thirty-six hours. However, this was already the upper limit, especially for a department director of the General Surgery Department like Lu Yongmian. It had been a few years since he stayed awake for the entire night to work for thirty-six continuous hours, and even then, he secretly caught brief naps in between.

He could not believe his eyes when he saw that Ling Ran carried out surgery after surgery for almost forty continuous hours.

Of course, the media had reported about surgery maniacs who could perform surgeries for more than thirty continuous hours. However, the fact that they made the news meant that they were in the minority.

Lu Yongmian did not know how many doctors had been forced to carry out surgeries for more than thirty, or even forty continuous hours.

But was the situation right now so dire that Ling Ran needed to operate for such a long time?

Besides, Ling Ran obviously looked like he was having a lot of fun.

”Doctor Ling, you… did you take some kind of pill?” Lu Yongmian was already in a daze. If he had been in a proper state of mind, which meant that he had only stayed awake for less than twenty hours, he would not have asked such a question.

It was not a strange occurrence for doctors to consume strange drugs.

Anesthetists were always the ones who frequently got into trouble for eating forbidden drugs. There were many surgeons who could not resist trying to outsmart drugs in order to enhance their performance when carrying out surgeries, writing research papers, studying for exams, attending dinners, and participating in meetings with the leaders.

As Lu Yongmian gazed at Ling Ran, he truly suspected that Ling Ran had taken some sort of smart drug.

Lu Wenbin who just woke up and was full of energy was in a clear state of mind. He immediately stood between them and said, ”Department Director Lu, is your brain functioning properly? The fact that Doctor Ling carried out surgeries for so many continuous hours doesn't mean that there's something wrong with him. Is this how a department director should be acting?”

”I'm not really considered a leader.” Lu Yongmian regained some of his senses when he heard that and chuckled a few times. He then supported himself by resting his palm against the wall, and slowly plopped onto the floor. ”Sigh, I really can't take it anymore. Doctor Ling, we're not in a rush, anyway. Why don't we take the night off and continue tomorrow?”

He was tasked to accompany Ling Ran as Ling Ran carried out surgeries while making arrangements and coordinating with other parties on Ling Ran's behalf. Aside from this, he was also supposed to keep a watch on Ling Ran to prevent anything unexpected from happening.

Those from the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City meant well. They just did not expect that Ling Ran to be able to work for so many continuous hours.

When Ling Ran saw what a sorry figure Lu Yongmian cut as he sat on the floor, he hesitated for a moment and said, ”Then, I'll just operate on one last patient before taking a rest. You can go ahead and rest first. Do ask the hospital to send someone else to accompany me tomorrow.

Lu Yongmian was extremely satisfied with this arrangement. He nodded furiously and said, ”I'll do that right now. I'll notify you when I find someone to replace me.”

”Alright, I'll enter the operating theater first, then,” Ling Ran said politely and headed to the sink to wash his hands. After he took a few steps, he stopped in his tracks and said to Lu Yongmian, ”Do make the arrangement right now, as it would be the best if you can get someone to accompany me by tomorrow. We should try to avoid all delays.”

Surgeries that are not branches of main surgeries were known internally in the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City as ”important surgeries”, and Lu Yongmian did not dare to cause any delay. He stared after Ling Ran as Ling Ran entered the operating theater before whipping out his phone and sending a few text messages.

Ling Ran happily performed another hepatectomy before sending the patient to the ICU of the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City. He then said to the ordinary-looking associate chief physician, who was newly appointed by the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City to accompany Ling Ran, ”I'll sleep for four hours. Do get ready for tomorrow's surgeries.”

”Four hours? Alright.” The associate chief physician chuckled a few times. After he walked Ling Ran to the on-call room, he said to the resident doctors standing outside the room, ”All of you can go ahead and rest. Ling Ran has not slept for forty hours, and I'm pretty sure he will need at least twenty hours of sleep.”

After he said that, the associate chief physician who was ordinary in terms of looks, work performance, intelligence quotient, and emotional intelligence went into another on-call room to sleep.

It was almost dawn, and everyone wanted a good night's sleep.

Early in the morning.

The ordinary associate chief physician was roused from a deep sleep when someone knocked loudly on the door.

”Did you know that Ling Ran is carrying out surgeries already?” The hospital director's gaze was so oppressive that it could kill four associate chief physicians and two hundred resident doctors.

The associate chief physician laughed. ”It's impossible. He just operated on patients for forty continuous hours.”Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click visiting.