573 Mischievous (1/2)

Lu Wenbin looked at Ling Ran with a baffled expression. ”Doctor Ling, is this question directed at us?”

Zhang Anmin took the opportunity to butter up to Ling Ran. ”Of course it's directed at both of us. Doctor Ling is giving us a reminder. Recognition is one thing, but in my opinion, it's more practical to submit to fate.”

”As the saying goes, the tailor makes the man. Just buy a few clothes with your salary as a doctor, and you'll be able to make heads turn.”

”That's not called gaining recognition. It's called showing off.”

As Lu Wenbin and Zhang Anmin made unproductive small talk, they continued assisting Ling Ran in the surgery.

By the time surgeons were familiar with a certain surgical method, the way they did things was not much different compared to factory workers who operated machinery. Of course, due to how complicated the human body was as well as the low fault tolerance when it came to surgery, surgeons needed to put more things into consideration and were under more pressure. But at the end of the day, it was still something that would become muscle memory once you were used to it.

Patients would not be willing to let surgeons who were not familiar with a certain surgical method operate on them, anyway.

This was why surgeons chatted in the operating theater as they carried out surgeries all the time.

Being able to chat for an entire day could be said to be the exquisite daily life of a surgeon. If a surgeon was not allowed to chat while he performed surgery, he would just lead the sad life of an industrial worker.

”It's extremely easy for doctors to gain recognition. A doctor just had to carry out a few demonstrative surgeries like Doctor Ling, and everyone in Changxi Province would know him.” Zhang Anmin continued buttering up to Ling Ran.

”Demonstrative surgeries are carried out with the purpose to demonstrate a surgical method with other doctors. There should be other ways to gain recognition.” That was not the first time Ling Ran had carried out a demonstrative surgery. Truth be told, he had carried out demonstrations of Achilles tendon repair surgery before this, and this was why many foreign patients traveled to Yun Hua Hospital to seek treatment from him. However, it would be too arrogant for him to say that everyone in the province knew him. After all, as there were still people who did not know some of the extremely renowned celebrities. A demonstrative surgery or two was not an indication of recognition.

At this moment, Wang Jia, who was acting as the circulating nurse of this surgery, said, ”Doctor Ling could appear on television. From what I can see, many doctors only become famous after appearing on television.”

The female doctor who was watching the surgery, too, quickly nodded. ”It would do Doctor Ling good to appear on television. With his large white coat on, he looks even more handsome than celebrities. He just needs to show his skills…”

”How do you expect him to show his skills on television? Break the fingers of the host on the spot?” Lu Wenbin started laughing as he spoke.

The women in the room looked coldly at Lu Wenbin.

A few minutes later, they continued with the topic at hand.

”Doctor Ling, you'll look handsome no matter what you wear.”

”Wow, what if he wears black?”

”Doctor Ling, why don't you contact a few television channels? One of them would definitely be willing to give you some airtime.”

The more Ling Ran listened to their conversation, the more he felt that those people were not making sense. What was the point of being on television? He had appeared in various shows ever since he was in kindergarten, and he appeared in even more television shows when he was in primary school. However, he got no rebate at all when it came to school fees.

Lu Wenbin cracked a smile when he saw that Ling Ran shake his head slowly. ”Doctor Ling, you don't need any more recognition. Just by staying in the emergency room, you'll be nursing plenty of patients back to health.

Even though Lu Wenbin was not trying to offer any suggestion, Ling Ran suddenly realized something.

Even though hepatectomy was an extremely difficult surgery which was also very cool to pull off and was very helpful to patients at the same time, it did not mean that minor surgeries in the emergency room were not helpful to patients.

Finger replantations were as helpful to patients as dual liver transplantation.

Patients would feel happy when they were cured, whether they suffered from a major ailment or a minor one. Those who were cured of major ailments may be more grateful than those who recovered from minor diseases, but their gratitude was often directed at the gods instead of the doctors.

Besides, for most patients, a fractured arm was already considered a major ailment. Patients may also be more worried about a cut on their faces in comparison to cholecystitis. A patient's view on the severity of diseases was not the same as that of a doctor's.

Ling Ran had an idea. He did not speak much about it, and merely quietly completed the surgery. He then looked for Zuo Cidian and said, ”For the next few days, I plan to work in the emergency room. You can schedule major surgeries like hepatectomy for later.”

Zuo Cidian was extremely surprised as he muttered, ”The emergency room…”