803 Laugh (1/2)
Wang Zhong's family was waiting outside the operating theater quietly and helplessly.
His eldest son had cried for some time. At the moment, he was letting his mind wander while he was a little exhausted, and he watched a few relatives walk around like ants.
*Bang*
The door to the Operating Area was pushed open, and all of the patients' family members sitting in the waiting hall stood up.
”Liu Mingyuan's family?” the nurse shouted loudly before she looked around.
The family members at the side immediately rushed forward and asked, ”Doctor, is our Old Liu alright?”
”The surgery is successful. Later, we will send him to the ward, and someone will talk to you about the standard precautions for the patient…”
”Okay, okay.” The family members quickly agreed.
Wang Zhong's eldest son watched them in envy while secretly hoping that he could get a similar answer.
After a long time, the door to the Operating Area was opened again, and it was yet another patient who came out.
The Wang family became quieter, and even the talkative relatives slowly lost their interest.
*Bang*
Another surgery was completed, and another group of patient's family members left.
Wang Zhong's eldest son could not help but stand up, stopped the doctor who wanted to leave, and shouted, ”Doctor... Doctor, my father's been inside for a very long time, can you help us take a look?”
”He'll come out once the surgery ends.” The doctor frowned, and he was obviously not willing to help out.
Wang Zhong's eldest son did not want to let him go. He said, ”Please, show us some kindness. You just have to let us know what's happening inside. My father's surgery is being performed by Doctor Ling Ran…”
”Ling Ran's surgery?” Zhao Leyi was the one who stopped this time. He sized up the patient's family members and asked, ”What surgery is it? And what illness does he have?”
”Liver cancer.”
”Liver cancer?” Zhao Leyi quirked his eyebrows.
He had many reasons to be surprised, and the main reason would probably be… because he could not even hope to perform liver cancer surgery.
At a fundamental level, the Emergency Department was not a specialist department. Regardless of whether it was critical illness, minor or severe wounds, the Emergency Department only needed to learn the basics of how to treat them. When they encountered more complicated injuries or diseases, they could just refer the patient to specialist departments.
Therefore, forget about the attending physicians, even the chief physicians of the Emergency Department like Chief Physician Tao would not touch liver cancer. However, from another perspective, doctors of the Emergency Department were also surgeons, and they would not be able to avoid the desire to approach such high-end surgery.
”I'll go and take a look, just wait here.” Zhao Leyi agreed before he turned around to enter the Operating Area, but he did not directly enter the operating theater. Instead, he went to the visitation room and pushed the door to enter.
In the visitation room, there were two rows of doctors. They were surgeons and internists, and most of them were interns, housemen, and resident doctors.
Even when they heard the sound, most of them did not bother to turn to look at who entered.
Since the Emergency Medical Center built this visitation room, many doctors liked to visit and take a look whenever they were free. Compared to watching in the operating theater, they felt more relaxed and had more freedom in the visitation room. Some doctors even brought along their lunches like burgers to eat in the visitation room. They learned and chatted while eating, and it was very comfortable.
”Seeing something before” was a very precious experience for surgeons.
”Seeing something before” was the foundation for participating in certain types of surgery. For simpler surgery, watching one case and moving on to perform one case could already propel him to the status of a chief surgeon for that surgery. It would be more complicated to learn a complex surgery, but basically, they were the same.
Despite the fact that many doctors needed to watch many surgeries and participate in many surgeries in order to get a chance to be the chief surgeon for a surgical method, for the most part, watching multiple surgeries and participating in multiple surgeries was just to make them ”feel” safe.
For most doctors, the modes of learning a complex surgical method and a simple surgical method were totally the same.
Naturally, before performing a complex surgical method, they needed to accumulate experience in performing simple surgical methods to complete the pre-requirements to perform complex surgical methods.