Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
âYouâre getting married?â
Ling Ran had not expected such big changes upon his return to Yun Hua Hospital.
Ma Yanlin smiled and said, âWhen you meet the right person, youâll want to settle down.â
Ling Ran nodded before he asked, âWould you like to continue learning the Achilles tendon repair technique?â
Ma Yanlin was stunned before he immediately smiled. âYou have been on the business trip for so long that Iâm no longer familiar with your way of speakingâ¦â
Ling Ran stared at Ma Yanlin. It was very apparent that Ling Ran was waiting for his answer.
Ma Yanlin chuckled. Soon, his laughter gradually became softer, âIâm definitely going to continue learning, but I may need a little more time outside the hospital. You know that married doctors and unmarried doctors distribute their time differently.â
âOkay.â Ling Ran agreed without hesitation.
âYouâre not angry?â Ma Yanlin asked hesitantly.
âWhy would I be angry?â Ling Ran looked at Ma Yanlin incredulously.
âUm, I just started following you to learn the Achilles tendon repair technique. I have been learning for some time now, and now, suddenly, Iâm going to get married. Itâs not that I wanted to⦠No, I mean, Iâve met the right person, and have no other way⦠â
Ling Ran interrupted Ma Yanlin. âI can understand. No problem.â
âItâs really not a problem?â
âItâs not a problem.â Ling Ran gave an affirmative answer again.
âThen let me think⦠whether I can work just like other doctors in the futureâ¦â Ma Yanlin said again to test waters.
Ling Ran thought about it and said, âYes, you can.â
âHuh? Can I? Really?â Ma Yanlin said incredulously, âWouldnât it disrupt your arrangementâ¦â
âIt doesnât matter. I can ask Department Director Huo to get me another assistant,â Ling Ran said casually.
For other doctors, it would be very difficult to add another person into their treatment group, but that would depend on the number of surgeries they perform per week. With Ling Ranâs surgery volume, his assistants had always been overworked, so adding another person to his group was only logical.
In fact, even if he could not get a permanent assistant, Ling Ran could still use the resident doctors in the department. Surgeries still needed to be done, unless they decided to not assign any surgeries to Ling Ran, of courseâ¦
When Ma Yanlin thought of Ling Ran getting another assistant, he could not help but feel threatened.
âIâm just taking a few daysâ break for a short time, it wonât be long,â Ma Yanlin whispered another sentence.
Ling Ran looked at him and said, âOf course. We can arrange your working hours as we please.â
Ma Yanlin then let out a breath and laughed. âActually, I want to invite you to have a meal and also introduce my fiancée to you. She requested it. She said she has never seen the most handsome doctor in Yun Hua Hospitalâ¦â
Ling Ran was about to nod when Huo Congjun came striding in.
âLing Ran, I found you an emergency case. Come and take a look.â Huo Congjun was all smiles.
âWhat patient?â
âFour fingers are severed, isnât that amazing?â Huo Congjun said very proudly, âI asked my old friends from the high-tech industrial development zone to a few drinks before we agreed to this. If they have any emergency patients in the future, they would prioritize giving us the patientâ¦â
Ling Ran felt the desire burning in him as he listened to Huo Congjun. He asked for confirmation, âIs it really four severed fingers?â
âAlso, listenâ¦â Huo Congjun intentionally allowed the words to hang in the air before continuing, âThe patient has a dorsal oblique amputation, the little finger was cut at the fingertip.â
Ordinary people would suck in a sharp breath upon listening to the situation. Ling Ranâs eyes also widened.
Little finger replantations were always difficult, and replantations at the fingertip were obviously even harder.
âIs the patient a male or female?â Ling Ran asked.
âA female. Itâs really amazing.â Huo Congjun wiped his newly bought Rolex, like he was treating a treasure, and said, âAnd she had her fingers severed at this moment, isnât it a coincidenceâ¦?â
A womanâs blood vessels were a little thinner than a manâs, which meant that the difficulty was also slightly harder. Such cases were naturally rare to come by.
Ma Yanlin looked at the excited Huo Congjun, and he criticized in his heart, âIf it were not a coincidence, what else could it be?â
âIâm going to take a look at the patient,â Ling Ran said to Ma Yanlin, âIâm afraid weâll have to postpone the meal to a later date.â
âItâs alright, go and do what you have to do.â Ma Yanlin acted very obediently.
After two sentences, Ling Ran was seen quickly following Huo Congjun to see the patient.
Today was only the first day of Ling Ranâs return. Some doctors who had not received the news before had specifically come to greet Ling Ran once they learned of it. Other young nurses and female doctors who had known about his return earlier pretended to have only just received the message and said hello again.
Ling Ran responded to their greetings casually.
Ling Ran could never be very skilled in terms of greeting many people at once. The main reason was that the number was always difficult to control. Even if he were successful in greeting groups of three to five people, that greeting would be ineffective for groups of eight or ten people.
Ma Yanlin followed along, since he was curious. Although it felt like Huo Congjun had the potential to be up to no good, but it was undeniably that a woman with four dorsal oblique amputated fingers was indeed rare and worth seeing.
They were most definitely not the only doctors with such thoughts. So, when they came to the resuscitation room, there was already a group of doctors who were gathered there.
The patient was a young girl in her twenties. Her fingers were covered in gauze and fresh blood was seeping out. It was serious no matter how one saw it.
Her mother sat next to her and kept on wiping her tears, but she was comforted by the girl, âMom, donât cry. Itâs now very easy to reconnect fingers. There are many people in our factory who have reconnected their fingers. Itâs nothing.â
âWhen the fingers are reconnected, will it still be the same? Our house TV was repaired once, but it isnât as easy to use anymore.â The girlâs mother wiped her tears with a handkerchief, but the more she wiped her tears, the more tears flowed out of her eyes.
The girl was in some degree of pain, but she forced herself to smile and said, âBut I can use it the same way as before. Iâve seen people who have their fingers reconnected, itâs just that it doesnât look as good.â
âYou canât have it not look good as well.â
âWhy is it impossible? Iâm even about to marry someone.â
âWho allowed you to marry?â The mother suddenly stopped crying and said, âYou listen to me, the person youâre with now is no good!â
Huo Congjun coughed loudly and said, âExcuse me, can the patient sit up a little. I would like to see your injured hand.â
The patientâs mother quickly stood up and gave up her position.
Huo Congjun gestured to Ling Ran and asked him to come over to take a look.
âHow was it severed?â Ling Ran asked while looking at the hand.
âI am in charge of quality inspection. When I checked the machine, the worker started it by mistake, and my hand was crushed.â The injured female worker was very straightforward. She still had a mobile phone in her hand, but she had not switched it on.
Ling Ran looked around and ask, âDo you have the fingers? Whatâs the situation?â
The resident doctor who received the patient stood out from the crowd and said, âThe fingers are good, but the severed part of the little finger is a little smaller.â
Ling Ran had to look at the medical file before relaxing.
âHow is it?â Huo Congjun asked, even though he knew the answer.
âNo problem.â Ling Ran nodded.
âAs Iâve said, this can only be found at Yun Hua Hospital,â Huo Congjun said with a myriad of emotions in his heart, âYun Hua is surrounded by industrial clusters, it is easy to find hand injuries like this, whereas you wonât find so many in Shanghai. They donât really have a lot of factories left. Most of their industries operate by automation, thereâs no way they would have such patients.â
After that, Huo Congjun comforted the patientâs family and arranged them to sign the documents so that they could enter the operating theater.
Ling Ran took a deep breath. He mostly did Achilles tendon repairs in Shanghai, but even Plan A took less than three hours to be completed. Occasionally, he would meet a patient with two severed fingers, and that was already considered the most complicated case.
Running into a patient with four severed fingers right after his return to Yun Hua Hospital really made his mood become⦠somewhat normal again.
A normal doctorâs normal request for a normal hospital was for that hospital to have the number of patients he normally saw.