984 Coming? (1/2)

”Two hours,” Ling Ran said. He then added, ”I need an assistant too.”

Ling Ran could be said to trust the skills given by the system wholeheartedly. After all, he had tried and tested them many times. But he felt that it was a good idea for him to have an assistant watching his back.

This was especially true as it was an interventional cardiac surgery, and he should try his best to minimize errors so that this minor surgery did not become a major surgery. As long as the thoracic cavity was opened, the patient would suffer a lot of damage. And this was what interventional surgery served to prevent in the first place.

”Oh, yeah. Assistant… I'll get a skilled doctor to help you out. You, go and call Doctor Lai over.” Department Director Yuan earnestly made arrangements. He did not seem annoyed at all.

He was already more than fifty years old, and he was able to separate what he felt like doing and what he should be doing in reality.

Of course, he felt like kicking Ling Ran out of the Cardiology Department. He was willing to do that even if his daughter would curse him and his wife would beat him up for doing so after going home. However, in reality, not only could he not do that, but he also had to treat Ling Ran well.

Compared to cardiovascular and liver surgeries, it took a lot less skill to start carrying out interventional heart surgeries. Department Director Yuan had watched Ling Ran carry out liver surgeries before too, and he knew that Ling Ran had started eating into the territory of the Cardiovascular Department…

With Ling Ran's skills, Department Director Yuan did not expect Ling Ran to face any difficulty when he started carrying out interventional cardiac surgeries.

There were only two obstacles for a doctor who wanted to start carrying out interventional cardiac surgeries. The first one was the approval of the hospital administration, and the second one was the cost of the equipment and facilities needed.

Huo Congjun and Ling Ran had stopped being worried about the hospital administration a long time ago. Because of how Huo Congjun had been planning to expand the Emergency Department for twenty years, he was well-prepared to refute any kind of accusations and arguments. Even though ordinary departments in Yun Hua Hospital were capable of putting up a fight against Huo Congjun, it was impossible for them to shun Huo Congjun and disallow his men from carrying out surgeries that were under the domain of their departments altogether.

This was why the cost of the equipment and facilities needed to carry out interventional cardiac surgery was Department Director Yuan's most important weapon against the Emergency Department.

Take the equipment required for coronary angiography as an example. The expensive ones would be tens of millions of RMB, and even the cheaper ones that were good enough to be used in Yun Hua Hospital would be more than four or five million RMB.

If a department were to fork out this money, no matter what, they would be dealt a huge blow.

Correspondingly, if a department spent five hundred million RMB on a piece of new equipment, the doctors in the department would definitely use it nonstop to make the piece of equipment worth the money.

What Department Director Yuan did not want to see the most was the Emergency Medical Center performing interventional cardiac surgeries nonstop.

Department Director Yuan closed his eyes for a short while and said to Ling Ran, ”If there's anything else you need, Doctor Ling, you can tell me everything at once as it would be easier for me to make arrangements for you.”

”Huh, really?” Ling Ran did not expect Department Director Yuan to be so amiable. In reality, quite a lot of people were looking at Department Director Yuan with a baffled expression, including doctors and nurses from the Cardiology Department.

Department Director Yuan closed his eyes again. He opened it again and flashed another smile. ”Of course, it's not a problem at all. Since you're interested in interventional heart surgery, everyone in the Cardiology Department is very willing to work together with you. We have no complaints at all.”

”No complaints at all?” Behind him, Doctor Lai who had just rushed over repeated.

”No complaints at all!” Department Director Yuan repeated. He then turned to look at Doctor Lai with a solemn expression.

Doctor Lai was Department Director Yuan's direct disciple, and if they were in a Wuxia novel, the former would have been the latter's successor. If they were in a Xianxia novel, Doctor Lai would have been an inner sect member. If they were in a palace, Doctor Yuan would have been Department Director Yuan's godson.

Department Director Yuan felt the most at ease to have Doctor Lai deal with Ling Ran.

Doctor Lai did not disappoint Department Director Yuan. It merely took him a look at his godfather's eyes to understand what was going on. He turned, smiled at Ling Ran, and said obediently, ”Department Director Yuan's opinions represent the opinions of everyone in the Cardiology Department.”