505 A Relationship Worth Remembering (1/2)

Ling Ran operated the ultrasonic knife with one hand. He made a few cuts, lifted his wrist up, and made way.

It was common to find a bile duct or blood vessels below the knife.

Without waiting for Ling Ran to give any instructions, Guo Mingcheng held the needle holder to ligate the bile duct or blood vessel. Then, Ling Ran severed it.

Both of them did not interact with each other throughout the surgery.

The doctors around them looked on, almost casually. They whispered among each other, and their voices increased as if the surgery progressed.

This was basically how a regular operating theater operated.

Few discussions took place between doctors during the surgery, and the atmosphere was fairly light. It was not as if tension was absent altogether, but when the doctors competed against the patient's disease earnestly, it would mean that the doctor had already reached his limits. If the level of difficulty in the surgery increased again or a mistake was made, the surgery may just reel out of control, just like what had happened to Guo Mingcheng.

Portal hypertension and cirrhosis were his limits. If the patient had angiomas and blood coagulation dysfunction, a single mistake would lead to hemorrhage.

If Feng Zhixiang had performed the surgery in his prime or the current Ling Ran performed the surgery, the patient would not have suffered from hemorrhage. They could still perform the surgery while chatting and laughing at each other.

But doctors who had zero communication with the other members of the surgery like the current Ling Ran were still very rare.

Doctors also liked to chat aimlessly, just like how salespeople in the shop would gather around and chat when there were no customers in the shop. The best thing about being a doctor was that their patients were unconscious most of the time, and the few who remained conscious did not have a strong resistance toward anesthesia either.

So, it was very weird for there to be no conversation in the operating theater. Meanwhile, it was very normal for other doctors to drop by and watch.

If the doctors had reached the operating theater earlier, but the patient was not here yet, what should they do? After the surgeons finished their surgeries, were they supposed to wait blindly in the operating theater as they waited for the next surgery to start?

Of course not. They would naturally go and visit other operating theaters. If they happened to meet other department directors, they could even flatter them a little.

For doctors who were familiar with each other, they could even converse up a storm. It was the norm for surgeons to work while chatting very excitedly. From this perspective, surgeons might be as busy as bees, but they were basically constantly in a state of teenagers who stayed up late to play games and chat on QQ.

Doctors who did not know each other needed to chat with each other all the more.

If they did not talk to each other, how would they know more about each other? Moreover, there should be more interactions taking place during the surgery when the doctors were not familiar with each other. Of course, those were things that only normal, unremarkable doctors did.

For doctors who were above average and were familiar with the surgical method, they had the liberty of choosing not to interact with others during the entire surgery.

Take, for example, Ling Ran. He could identify Guo Mingcheng's surgical method even if he closed his eyes. If he just followed the procedure, there was no need for him to even remind Guo Mingcheng what the next step was. It would be embarrassing for Guo Mingcheng if he forgot the primary surgical method that he had been performing for more than one year. He would not even complain if someone shot him right then.

In fact, Guo Mingcheng was currently in a state where his mind was a mess.

When the hemorrhage occurred at the start, his epinephrine had secreted madly in his body. When the bleeding was controlled and Ling Ran started to perform the hepatectomy, Guo Mingcheng became absent-minded, and he only followed Ling Ran to perform the surgery mechanically.

As he performed the surgery up until this moment, Guo Mingcheng finally snapped out of his stress response, and he began to recall what had happened just now.

'What happened just now?'

While Guo Mingcheng carried out the work of the first assistant, he listed out the things that had happened in his mind.

'First, the patient had massive bleeding! And Ling Ran stopped the bleeding?'

Guo Mingcheng could only list out the first step, and he could no longer list it.

This was not a joke. Massive bleeding during liver surgery was a worldwide problem. The difficulty level in performing bleeding control could be turned into a discussion that lasted for three days and nights. The solution… Before human medicine was able to progress any further to tackle this problem, the complexity of the solution was a discussion that could last for three years.

Even if a specialist in hepatobiliary surgery who had learned bleeding control for twenty or thirty years were to encounter the hemorrhage today, he or she may be out of their depth.

However, Ling Ran actually managed to stop the bleeding.

In Guo Mingcheng's mind, he immediately remembered the scenario where Ling Ran pinched the liver with his right hand while he sutured quickly with his left hand.