832 A Cheery Atmosphere (1/2)

\”Show two sets of MRI scans.\” Ling Ran clasped his hands beside his back as he stood in the operating theater and ordered his assistants to show the MRI scans.

Qu Xiaolian the houseman froze for a moment, but he did not say anything. He merely glanced at Ren Qi before walking to the computer and showing the MRI scans.

Ren Qi had just entered the operating theater, and he felt extremely diffident when he saw that the houseman was looking at him. He wanted to explain things, but he did not know a single person in the operating theater.

Ren Qi hesitated for a moment before saying with a shy smile, \”There's no need to switch on a computer just for me.\”

\”The assistants should understand the situation too,\” Ling Ran turned and said, denying Ren Qi the opportunity to showcase his humility.

Qu Xiaolian continued switching on the computers to show the MRI scans.

Ren Qi's smile became even more anguished. He wanted to help out, but he had already washed his hands, so he should not contaminate them. His face slowly turned stoic as he watched the junior doctors from Yun Hua Hospital work.

\”The operating theater is pretty big.\” Ren Qi tried to liven up the atmosphere.

No one in the operating theater smiled to play along with him.

Su Jiafu the anesthetist said, \”Department Director Huo likes big ones.\”

Ren Qi said with gratitude, \”No wonder…\”

\”I'm talking about breasts,\” Su Jiafu joked expressionlessly.

\”My breasts are pretty big.\” Ren Qi was the best at telling dirty jokes. In the operating theater of the provincial hospital he worked at, the atmosphere was the most cheery whenever someone told dirty jokes. Everyone would be smiling like one big happy family.

And the chief physicians often started scolding people the moment the dirty jokes ended.

Ren Qi would rather talk about his breasts and carry on with the dirty jokes than to let them stop.

Su Jiafu, though, froze. He had been working with members of the Ling Treatment Group for a long time, and he was used to how quiet they were. For a moment, he was not very used to having someone tell dirty jokes together with him.

\”Is it a problem if they're too big?\” Ren Qi continued with a grin on his face.

Su Jiafu continued looking at Ren Qi in a daze. 'The atmosphere in the operating theater had changed instead.'

\”The scans are ready.\” Qu Xiaolian did not take long. Everyone knew that Ling Ran would read the patient's MRI scan the moment he entered the operating theater. This was especially true for major surgeries like hepatectomy, and it would not do for a surgeon to skip the step.

To junior doctors who were working under Ling Ran, persuading patients to get an MRI scan was an important task. This was because of how expensive it was to get an MRI scan, and there was a general consensus that it was not needed for many of the organs and body parts of the human body. Hence, the junior doctors had to spend a lot of energy to persuade patients to get this expensive scan done.

Aside from this, many doctors did not know how to read MRI scans. This was why certain patients were aversive to getting an MRI scan.

Truth be told, most surgeons did not know how to read MRI scans.

For example, Ren Qi the attending physician.

\”I'll scroll the page for you. Is this speed okay? This is the index page…\” Qu Xiaolian earnestly explained things to Ren Qi.

As long as a doctor knew how to read MRI scans, no matter which Grade A hospital he came from, he was considered an excellent doctor.

Ren Qi the attending physician had no choice but to stand before the computer. He glanced at Qu Xiaolian who was scrolling the page, then at the monitor.

Several dozen MRI scans flashed past his eyes, and all of them were raw scans.

Ren Qi's brain slowly stopped functioning.

A gradual change was happening to his thought process.

'What on earth is this?

'What on earth?

'I'm afraid that I'm actually an idiot…'

After Ling Ran was done reading the MRI scans, he turned to glance at Ren Qi and asked, \”Are you done? Or should we get started first?\”

\”I…\” Ren Qi's lips quivered a few times, and he did not know where to begin.

He was even feeling a little aggrieved.

'If I knew how to read raw MRI scans, why would I come for in-service training in the field of surgery in Yun Hua Hospital? Wouldn't it be better for me to head to the Medical Imaging Department? The environment there is cleaner, with very few cases of doctor-patient disputes. I'll have quite a good income too. Most importantly, I won't need to dig shit…\”