1037 Arrangemen (2/2)

”I tried to… borrow some from my colleagues, leaders, and my boss, and they said they do not have money to lend me. I did try to ask my other family members too.” As the patient's daughter spoke, her eyes were filled with tears. ”My d-dad's surgery…”

Zuo Cidian was a bit alarmed as he saw her crying. He immediately said, ”No worries. If you can't make it, just owe it to the hospital first. The surgery still needs to be performed first.”

”Thank you, thank you…”

”This has nothing to do with me. It's the policy of the hospital.” Zuo Cidian dared not shoulder this responsibility.

The patient's daughter just kept thanking him, and as she continued mumbling under her breath, she started choking up, ”I tried to lend from all places I could think of. All my relatives refused to pick up my phone. Some even blocked my WeChat…”

Zuo Cidian could only show sympathy as he listened to her story. After staying at the hospital for so long, he heard far too many similar stories. Forget about failing to borrow money from relatives, there were even cases where the husband ran away with the money that they borrowed.

”After my father goes through the surgery, if the tumor is a malignant tumor, does that mean he still needs chemotherapy?” The patient's daughter asked the same question she had asked many times.

And Zuo Cidian could only answer by providing both possibilities. ”The chance for gastrointestinal stromal tumors being benign are high. You don't have to worry too much. Even if it was malignant, that depends on the situation. Some require chemotherapy but some don't. If chemotherapy is really needed, then go through with it, and your father's survival rate will be higher too.”

”How… much is needed?” The patient's daughter lowered her head once she finished asking.

Zuo Cidian did not immediately tell her the amount needed.

He looked at her and their surroundings before she whispered. Then, he whispered, ”If you trust me, you should go for treatment first. Just pay a part of the fees whenever you have money. If you don't have money, just tell them honestly.”

”They told me… that they'd stop giving us the medicine if we don't pay.” The patient's daughter looked at Zuo Cidian.

”It won't happen so soon. Furthermore, your father's surgery is performed by Ling Ran. It should be fine to delay payment for a while.” After Zuo Cidian said this, he immediately left while there was no one around to see him telling the patient all these things.

If what he said just now was heard by the Medical Affairs Department, he might be criticized.

The patient's daughter did not understand that. She only assumed that Zuo Cidian was trying to comfort her, and she slowly calmed down.

..…

At the operating theater, Ling Ran performed the surgery slowly. He wanted Ren Qi and Ye Sigong to be able to observe clearly and understand what he was doing.

Both of them could be considered as surgeons who had good basic skills. They had performed gastrectomy and laparoscopy before coming to Yun Hua Hospital, but the number of cases they performed were lower, and the quality was also subpar.

Performing a surgery was just like understanding and solving a question within a short period of time.

The theoretical basis of a doctor was basically fixed in their twenties and thirties. This was just like how it would be difficult to improve the theoretical basis of a senior year student who was preparing for his national college entrance examination.

The doctors who were bright and had high academic qualifications would have great advantages when they started their career. Those doctors who had lower IQ and bad academic qualifications would have a disadvantage when they started their career. But the number of times they completed mock test papers or the number of surgeries they performed would still decide whether they could do well during their national college entrance examination or whether they could possess great skills in surgery.

Doctors who could perform ten to twenty surgeries in a week were considered as average level students in terms of completing mock test papers. They were around 10% better than other students who did not solve any mock test papers. However, if they could perform more than twenty surgeries in a week, their lives would change.

This kind of doctor who could perform at above average when it came to finishing mock test papers might only perform five more surgeries than the average doctor in a week, but if he persisted for three years, that meant that he could perform five hundred more surgeries than the average doctor, and if he persisted for five years, he would have performed more than one thousand surgeries than the average doctor. By then, they would, at the very least, be among the top 5% in a certain medical field.

And Ren Qi and Ye Sigong who worked at county hospitals were the type of students who did not attempt to solve mock test papers.

They could not even complete ten surgeries within a week. They usually only performed five surgery cases. After some time, they could only become normal attending physicians. They might have more experience in serving as the chief surgeons than the resident doctors of a large hospital, or they might even have performed more surgeries than these resident doctors from large hospitals because of their age, but they were considered as weak and were completely inferior when compared to the attending physicians of tertiary Grade A hospitals.

But, Ling Ran did not bother about these matters.

Now, regardless of which skill he used, his skill would be at least at Master Level. If this were a national college entrance examination, he would be the teacher who set the examination questions.

If he focused on a single aspect, he still had many ways to train Ren Qi and Ye Sigong.