692 Fierce Dragon Crossing the Canal (2/2)
”Oh… I see…” Lin Honghou nodded with a smile. He naturally did not believe in what Zuo Cidian just said.
Zuo Cidian was the oldest doctor in the operating theater right then. Even if one were to disregard his position, Lin Honghou reckoned that he had to be very skillful. After all, doctors developed their skills with time.
Hence, Lin Honghou started imagining how skillful Zuo Cidian must be in comparison to Lu Wenbin.
”Yun Hua Hospital is indeed a place with plenty of hidden talents.” Lin Honghou could not help but feel emotional.
Zuo Cidian smiled. ”It's just that our workload's high.”
”You guys operate on patients a lot?”
”Doctor Ling is a surgery maniac. On average, he operates on more than five patients a day.” Zuo Cidian smiled and continued. ”Doctor Ling has carried out a few hundred cases of hepatectomy alone. He headed to Beijing a while back and carried out freelance surgery there for more than a month…”
”Doctor Ling has even carried out freelance surgery in Beijing before?” Lin Honghou was greatly astonished, and the look of admiration on his face intensified.
As a doctor who worked on the ship, what he envied the most about doctors working in local hospitals was that those doctors got to work on a lot of cases, which gave them more learning opportunities. He was also envious of the fact that they got to carry out freelance surgery.
Lin Honghou had always imagined doctors who were capable of carrying out freelance surgery as extremely excellent surgeons who were able to outwit the medical system of a city. Truth be told, this was how the concept of freelance surgery started. If there were doctors who were better than the freelance surgeons in a city, there would be no point for the hospitals there to hire freelance surgeons from another city.
Of course, surgeons nowadays did not have to be as excellent to qualify for freelance surgery. This was especially true after hospitals started hiring surgeons from hospitals in the same city for freelance surgery, which totally lowered the threshold of the skills a surgeon needed to possess to become a freelance surgeon. Even so, Lin Honghou could not even begin to imagine how excellent a surgeon must be to be able to carry out freelance surgery in Beijing.
”No wonder…” Lin Honghou nodded slowly.
Zuo Cidian asked, ”What's the matter?”
”It's no wonder why Doctor Ling was sent to help us out.”
”Yes, this is the best decision. Even if you disregard Doctor Ling's other good qualities, his surgical skills, especially when it comes to operating on one patient after another for a long period of time, is out of this world,” Zuo Cidian said with great sentiment.
Whenever Ling Ran operated on one patient after another for a long period of time, his assistants would end up feeling extremely fatigued. They could rarely join Ling Ran in every single surgery without taking a break, and Ling Ran would usually end up making three of his assistants worn out by the end.
As he thought of this, Zuo Cidian was suddenly a little worried about the situation at the site of the storm.
Lin Honghou lowered his head, and he became even more obedient.
As the saying went, ”Only fierce dragons are capable of crossing the canal”. Lin Honghou was starting to believe in this saying. And with so many fierce dragons in the same operating theater as him, Lin Honghou suddenly lost the interest to fight for dominance. He became just like a tiny snake who had given up on its dreams, with neither the interest to capture mice nor the intention to cultivate itself into a human being. All he wanted to do now was to live his life quietly and peacefully.
Meanwhile, Ling Ran stayed silent throughout the surgery.
”Forceps…
”Bandage…
”Bandage!
”Bandage!”
Ling Ran quickly performed abdominal closure and said, ”Evacuate the patient.”
After working on the ship for a few hours, Ling Ran had understood something. It was not efficient for him to finish up the surgery all by himself due to the shabby facilities on the ship and the unfavorable conditions. It was better to evacuate patients to places with better facilities so that they could receive better treatment.
Zuo Cidian followed Ling Ran's commands as he accustomized himself to working on the ship.
After operating on batch after batch of patients, Zuo Cidian was starting to get used to things.
”A critically ill patient is being sent over,” the circulating nurse said after picking up the phone. Soon after she put down the receiver, the sound of helicopter blades rang out from the sky again.
Zuo Cidian immediately ran out of the operating theater to receive the patient. He helped retrieve the patient from the helicopter and hurriedly pushed the patient toward the operating theater.
This was when the sea breeze lifted up the fabric of the patient's trousers, exposing his thigh.
The fabric of the patient's trousers had been cut open, and a thick, long, as well as branch-like scar, was visible.
Zuo Cidian immediately felt a pang in his heart.