589 Serious Injury (1/2)

After the district mayor's visit, the atmosphere of the Bazhaixiang hospital branch calmed significantly. It was meaningless to fight for work, and the hospital, naturally, became quiet.

The doctors from the hospital branch huddled in the corner in groups of twos and threes as they chatted quietly and looked at their phones boldly. They were like stray dogs and cats on the street; they would only be active when looking for food.

Chief Physician Wang Haiyang and other doctors who came to for the volunteer medical consultation were envious as they continued providing consultations.

The more widely spread the news of volunteer medical consultations, the more people would come. It was impossible to fulfill the wish of treating everyone. Bazhaixiang hospital branch's small hall was already full of people. Before this, the doctors in the district hospital filled up the vacancies in the spots, and even when there were a lot of patients, they did not feel that there were a lot of people involved. Now that they were not doing their work, the doctors of the volunteer medical consultation felt great pressure. Doctors who have worked in volunteer medical consultations before knew that they could not let the tables remain empty, otherwise, patients who were waiting to see a doctor would make a fuss.

Lu Wenbin, Yu Yuan, and other junior doctors also took turns replacing the doctors at the frontline.

The doctors providing consultation being forced to sit for a long time without eating, drinking or going to the washroom was something normal. However, no one could persist in providing eleven hours of consultation from eight in the morning to seven in the evening. They had to change shifts with each other during the break in the middle.

Ling Ran had been providing consultation for three hours and got up to take a break.

Energy Serums could restore his energy and replenish his energy, but it could do nothing about their daily metabolism.

Ling Ran let Lu Wenbin take his place. When he went to the bathroom, he saw that it was full of smoke. The air in the room was full of carcinogens. The fingers of a patient who went through a finger replantation surgery would not be able to survive for even a short while in this place.

Department Director Hong was smoking. There was a relaxed expression on his face. He held a cigarette with his yellowish hand while he greeted cordially, ”Doctor Ling, you're also taking a toilet break?”

”Yes,” Ling Ran revealed a socially-appropriate smile that met the society's expectations. ”Department Director Hong, please open up the window.”

”Oh, yes. I forgot to open the window. It's a little cold if we do.” Department Director Hong was a little embarrassed as he opened the window, and he hunched his shoulders. He felt that a big part of his happiness in smoking was gone. He could not help but miss Yun Hua Hospital. At Yun Hua Hospital, when he smoked, the junior doctors never dared to complain. He would only restrain himself a little when he attended hospital administration meetings.

Ling Ran did not have so much thought. He peed and nodded at Department Director Hong before heading out.

Department Director Hong did not feel like smoking anymore, he went after Ling Ran, and they got out together. He smiled as he said, ”Doctor Ling, the wife of Cangping District's district mayor was originally referred to Academician Zhu. Why was she referred to you now? Is there something wrong?”

Ling Ran did not expect the department director to be capable of so much gossip despite his age. He only said, ”It's synovitis that requires arthroscopy. Academician Zhu does not do this kind of surgery anymore, so he handed it to me.”

Department Director Hong was stunned when he heard this. He turned around and said, ”I see. Young people are more skilled in doing various endoscopes nowadays.”

He was just stating his opinion.

The development of new skills could improve the effect of surgeries immediately. It was just like cholecystectomy. Using laparoscopy or laparotomy for cholecystectomy were practically two completely different concepts. No matter how good a doctor was in performing laparotomy for cholecystectomy, as long as a cholecystectomy was performed when the indices were suitable for laparoscopy, the doctor who performed laparotomy will find it hard to reach the average surgical outcome of the cholecystectomies performed using laparoscopes.

If the laparotomy were to be compared with a laparoscopy performed by another doctor at the same level, the gap would be even greater.

Hence, it was not surprising that Hippocrates' medical abilities were not as good as that of the resident doctors in Peking Union Medical College Hospital.

However, the new skills were not user-friendly to the elderly.

When a doctor was in his or her twenties or thirties, they would be in their crucial growth period. After the age of forty, it was very difficult for them to learn new skills, but they still had an advantage in the accumulation of experience. However, after fifty years of age, making doctors learning new skills could be said to be a violation of the human physiology.

In fact, this was prevalent in all aspects of every profession. However, since the medical industry involved its members to learn all their lives, this problem was even more prominent.

In terms of endoscopy, laparoscopes and hysteroscopes were moderately difficult to learn, and arthroscope was the simplest. This was mainly due to the simple structure inside the joint and the high fault tolerance of the surgery.

Therefore, orthopedists generally did not refuse to use arthroscopes. The Gynaecology Department, General Surgery Department, and other departments actively used it.

Departments such as the Cardiothoracic Department had no choice but to fear it.

Thoracoscopes were far more difficult to use than other endoscopes. The cost of learning was extremely high. Moreover, surgeries performed by the Cardiothoracic Department or Cardiology Department were prone to errors. It was not so easy to carry out thoracoscopic surgeries.

Although Department Director Hong was the department director of Internal Medicine, the Respiratory Medicine Department was closely related to the Cardiothoracic Department. He had long noticed the difficulty in the progress of generalizing the use of thoracoscopes in Yun Hua Hospital.

”Ling Ran, you can be a freelance surgeon for arthroscopy, and you do your laparoscopies quite well. Have you ever thought of doing thoracoscopy?” Department Director Hong tentatively suggested. The level of the Cardiothoracic Department in the hospital directly affected the development of the Respiratory Medicine Department.

Needless to say, patients with lung cancer would definitely go to hospitals with great Cardiothoracic Departments. It was more common for them to go to the Respiratory Medicine Department after their surgery.

A good Cardiothoracic Department can get rid of some difficult sicknesses when they worked together with the Respiratory Medicine Department and used a treatment method where they combined surgery and internal medicine.

As one of the influential directors of a strong department in Yun Hua Hospital, Department Director Hong could not say that he was dissatisfied with the Cardiothoracic Department of Yun Hua Hospital, but he was not totally satisfied with it. When he knew how skilled Ling Ran was at arthroscopy, he wanted to transfer him into his department.