"I'll go." Liang Xue woke up from his dream again. He raised his head and saw that the sky was still dark, but he no longer felt sleepy.
It had been a while since he had such a bad sleep.
Liang Xue sat on the bed and thought about it. He could not help but shake his head. "I don't know the bitterness of fame and fortune … If you want something, you will not get it …"
Liang Xue muttered to himself before he got up and used the landline in the waiting room to call the Emergency Department.
"If there are any suitable patients tonight, try to transfer them to our department." Liang Xue was not familiar with the doctor from the Emergency Department on the other side of the phone, so he requested politely.
This was what he thought of when he was dreaming.
There were only so many patients in the General Surgery Department, and most of them were not willing to undergo the da Vinci robot surgery. Their consumption today was equivalent to two or three days of surgery on a normal day. Even if they could receive a few more surgeries tomorrow morning, if Ling Ran did not leave, they would not be able to receive the follow-up surgeries. They could not just give the surgeries prepared by their own people to Ling Ran, right? If that happened, the doctors under him would be in a frenzy.
It was important to know that the surgery of the da Vinci robot was different from other conventional surgeries. It only needed the chief surgeon to have a clear mind and operate smoothly. The requirements for the assistant were infinitely low, and the need for the second assistant was even lower. This led to a decrease in the number of doctors needed in the department. In the past, young doctors could still familiarize themselves with the surgery step by step through being an assistant, and then get promoted. But after the da Vinci robot was used, this method was not as clear.
This was not a problem in the United States. The medical system in the United States made independent surgeons the absolute mainstream, and most of these surgeons did not have a fixed assistant. Therefore, reducing the number of assistants was the best thing for American doctors.
The reduced labor cost was also a huge motivation for doctors to buy the da Vinci robot.
But in China, the situation faced by high-ranking doctors was much more complicated.
For chief physicians and associate chief physicians like Liang Xue, while they enjoyed the flattery and service from junior doctors, they had to teach them skills and find jobs for them. They could treat junior doctors differently, but it was very difficult for them to escape this hidden responsibility when it came to the group of young doctors.
It could be said that when Liang Xue began to devote himself to the surgery of the da Vinci robot, he began to face more and more pressure.
In the beginning, everyone thought it was pretty good. After all, it was a high-investment A-grade equipment. It was not easy to get the approval from the Ministry of Health. After it landed, everyone seemed to feel the charm of the world's medical cutting-edge.
But then, it became a fatal problem.
After so many years of development, the General Surgery Department's operating theater was no longer a problem. As long as a young doctor could get a bed, it would not be a problem for him to perform minor surgeries. But when it came to the Da Vinci robot, it was impossible for it to be so easygoing.
Before Ling Ran came, the da Vinci Surgical Robot in Taiwu Central Hospital was basically operating at full capacity during the day, and it was basically idle at night. However, this was because of the lack of patients, and it was also because the senior doctors who mastered the "core technology" could not stay in the hospital all night long. Since they were not in the hospital, the number of surgeries that the junior doctors could carry out was very limited. Otherwise, if they were to call a third-string doctor over when they encountered a patient who was in the middle of a laparotomy, the doctors on duty would definitely be unhappy.
In a situation where surgery opportunities were so scarce, the best way to satisfy Ling Ran's surgical requirements was to increase the number of surgeries.
Emergency treatment was the best way to increase the number of patients at the last minute.
Liang Xue looked at his phone again. He planned to wait until morning to give a call to the department director of the Emergency Department.
"Let's sleep for a while more." He turned over and got on the bed, forcing himself to fall asleep.
* Ring, ring. *
The moment the alarm rang, Liang Xue sat up.
His head felt heavy.
But there was no time to rest.
Liang Xue covered his head and called his phone first. He asked straight away, "How's the situation?"
The middle-aged doctor on the other end of the phone was also tired. He mumbled in a half-asleep state, "It's pretty good. The surgeries are quite smooth …"
"Tell me something useful."
"Um … I've seen super genius doctors, but I've never seen such a genius. The speed at which he learns surgery is ten times faster than us, especially splenectomy. Removing the spleen is like poking a ball … No wonder … You can't blame him …"
Liang Xue felt numb when he heard this. Perhaps it was because his mind was not clear, but when he heard the truth when he was not sober, he was exceptionally envious and jealous.
"How many patients are there in the queue?" Liang Xue interrupted the middle-aged doctor.
The department director's voice also woke the latter up. The middle-aged doctor was stunned and said in a low voice, "I'll go and take a look."
The voice on the other end of the phone stopped for a while. There were sounds of doors opening and closing, and people running.
After a while, the middle-aged doctor picked up his phone again and said, "Hello, hello." His tone became solemn. "Department director, there are still two patients, and they're doing preoperative preparations."
"Only two left?"
"Yes."
"Didn't the Emergency Department send anyone over?"
"Out of the two, one was sent over by the Emergency Department. It's acute cholecystitis, and I'm willing to use the da Vinci robot to treat it. There's also a thirteen-year-old patient, but I didn't take him. " The middle-aged doctor said hesitantly, "Because it's an appendicitis patient, I assigned him to another doctor."
Appendicitis was a basic surgery in the General Surgery Department, and it was usually given to new doctors. This was not only because it was a simple surgery for beginners, but also because senior doctors were not very willing to perform appendicitis surgeries. All the challenges in appendicitis surgeries lay in the position of the appendix. Therefore, in the eyes of most doctors, this was a surgery that relied on luck instead of skill. There were also cases where chief physicians operated on patients with strange positions of the appendix for three hours.
"Give it to him." Liang Xue did not care so much. He had promised Zuo Cidian that he would guarantee the number of surgeries he performed. No matter what his considerations were, he just had to make sure that his surgery schedule was full.
When the middle-aged doctor received the order, he did not dare to ask anything and immediately agreed to it.
Therefore, when Liang Xue washed up a little and went out, the patient with appendicitis was ready to be sent to the operating theater.
"Doctor Ling saw that it's a minor surgery, so he asked him to make the arrangements first," the middle-aged doctor explained.
Liang Xue nodded slightly and could only apologize to Ling Ran. "I didn't expect to trouble you for such a small surgery. If you mind …"
If he did not meet Ling Ran, he might have fooled him. Now that he met Ling Ran, he naturally could only explain.
Ling Ran shook his head in surprise. He still said happily, "Appendicitis surgery is not bad. I haven't done it for a while. It might be an interesting surgery."
Liang Xue chuckled. It was just an appendicitis surgery. What could be interesting about it?
The progress of the surgery was not out of his expectations. An inflamed appendix was successfully removed by Ling Ran.
"Young man, you're quite lucky." Liang Xue smiled and chimed in. He mainly wanted to praise Ling Ran indirectly.
Ling Ran nodded and shook his head. He turned around and said, "Show me all the scans of his previous examination. I want to take another look."
Liang Xue was stunned and quickly looked at the screen.
If there was really an accident, he would not feel comfortable either.
"Is there a problem?" the middle-aged doctor beside him asked on his behalf.
Ling Ran hummed and said, "I suspect that there are two appendices."
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