814 Chief Surgeon Ling Ran (1/2)
After Old Xu was placed in the Emergency Medical Center's ward, the entire department started moving into action.
It was partly due to surprise and curiosity, but it was mostly for the sake of efficiency. The Emergency Department had never performed stomach cancer surgery before. The assistants in Ling Ran's treatment group had never done it. The nurses in the department had never nursed such patients before. So at the moment, it was obvious if those who needed to learn would try to learn what they could, and those who needed assistants will immediately go and ask for one.
No one would say that it was unreasonable for Ling Ran to perform a stomach cancer surgery. Most people were not qualified to say this. Furthermore, everyone had seen how Ling Ran performed various surgeries from appendectomy to hepatectomy in a little over two years. They all knew that he was someone who would delve into a new field soon, but never did they expect it to be related to cancer.
Moreover, for other people in the department, it was also surgery on the stomach. Operating on stomach cancer had higher benefits than on a stomach ulcer, just like how operating on liver cancer will have higher bonuses than just operating on the liver alone. At present, more than one-third of the bonuses in Yun Hua Emergency Medical Center depended on Ling Ran's treatment group. When Ling Ran wanted to start operating on a surgery that provided higher benefits, everyone would naturally be more inclined to cooperate.
Huo Congjun was attending a meeting and only managed to scold half of the people there when he received the news. He hurried back to Yun Hua Hospital. After he found Ling Ran, his first thing was to ask, ”You're going to perform a stomach cancer surgery?”
”Yes, Department Director Ouyang also promised to be my assistant,” Ling Ran answered very comprehensively.
”Is it Ouyang Kan?”
”Yes.”
”Oh, Ouyang Kan is that easy to talk to?” Huo Congjun's nervousness was relieved instantly. For senior surgeons, learning a new surgical method was not as complicated as it would be to a young doctor. This was like how a senior repairman who focused on repairing cars would encounter countless problems when he was sent to repair a tank, but the speed at which he entered Novice Level and Specialist Level will be much shorter than a young newcomer.
If an analogy was needed, a doctor who could do hepatectomy was at least equivalent to a senior engineer who could repair a ship. Forget about changing to another type of ship, even if he was to change to a completely different vehicle and needed to repair an aircraft, as long as someone was guiding him, his learning progress would also be blazing.
The most important thing was that if Ouyang Kan was present, even if Ling Ran did not do it well, at least there would be someone else to cover for him, and Huo Congjun would not panic.
”What are you thinking of? Why did you suddenly want to perform stomach cancer surgery?” Huo Congjun asked again, ”You can't even finish all the surgeries as it is now.”
”We don't have enough hospital beds now.” Ling Ran's expression was calm, and he had so many remaining Energy Serums that they were becoming moldy, but the Emergency Medical Center hospital beds were becoming more scarce.
Huo Congjun froze, he chuckled after a moment, changed the topic quickly, and said, ”What's the situation with the patient?”
He has been the department director for many years, and knew for a fact that the management of a department needed to place a high importance on surgeries, but the operation was ultimately the patient's business.
Ling Ran naturally would not hide the facts, and he described the situation thoroughly as it was and said, ”It was the patient's request. I am also willing to perform a gastrectomy on him...”
”You haven't performed a stomach cancer operation before, does the patient know?”
”He knows.”
”Let Ouyang Kan perform the surgery and you can become his assistant. Will the effect be better if that's the way?” When Huo Congjun heard that Officer Xu was the only son of someone who died for the country, his words and his perception changed slightly. He was originally a military doctor and still had a lot of affection for the disciplined services.
Ling Ran shook his head without hesitation. ”I can do it better.”
The chief surgeon was the doctor who would decide the overall idea of the surgery and would also have absolute authority over a surgery. Ling Ran would not have bothered if he had not mastered gastrectomy, but now that he had the relevant skills, then, when it came to the surgical approach, the operation, the choice of the resection range, the control of the surgical process, and lymphadenectomy, Ling Ran's skills surpassed Ouyang Kan's in all these areas.
In terms of surgical experience, Ling Ran, who had performed nearly a thousand cases of hepatectomy, can look down on Ouyang Kan, who had done nearly a thousand cases of gastrectomy, no matter what situation they were in.