Chapter 948: Chapter 948: Classical Conditioning

In the afternoon, Lu Wenbin returned with Ling Ran after their ward round in the ICU, and he saw several engineers in uniform making measurements at the nurse’s desk.

“What’s going on?” Lu Wenbin curiously cast a glance before he took the opportunity to lean on the nurse’s desk to look around.

“We’re getting a bigger ward, or so they say.” The young nurse who stayed at the nurse’s desk today was a junior nurse who had just joined recently. Her voice was soft and sweet as she talked calmly.

Lu Wenbin’s heart raced.

‘Her voice is so good! It’s really good!’

Lu Wenbin felt a tug on the tendon in his heart, which had not been tugged for a long time.

Lu Wenbin looked at the young nurse’s face again. Her skin was fair and clean. There was a beauty mole on her right cheek. Where exactly should a beauty mole be, you ask? Lu Wenbin did not know, and he did not care. In other words, to him, a beauty mole was just a mole on a beauty.

“I haven’t seen you around before,” Lu Wenbin greeted her with a smile.

The twenty-four-year-old senior nurse at the nurse station chuckled when she heard Lu Wenbin’s words. “Doctor Lu, I think I’ve heard that conversation starter before.”

“Conversation starter, huh? Conversation starters are just like surgical drapes, it doesn’t matter if it’s a little off the center.” Lu Wenbin was quite the glib speaker. He could already go up against an ordinary senior nurse in a verbal match.

An old, ordinary, senior nurse who sat in a small room sorting medicine snorted before saying, “Young Ma, be careful of Lu Wenbin. Money makes a man bad.”

Young Nurse Ma chuckled. “You’re a rich man’s son, Doctor Lu?”

“A rich man’s son? Why? Do I look like one?” Lu Wenbin looked up proudly.

“It’s because you look rather young.” Young Nurse Ma smiled. Her voice sounded as sweet as always.

“Well, being young and rich is my fault.” Lu Wenbin felt his heart flutter as he listened to the nurse’s voice.

However, he never concealed the fact that he made pork trotters.

There was no need to hide this fact during the early stage of his business, and even now, there was still no need for him to hide it.

He was Ling Ran’s team member. As long as Department Director Huo did not say anything, no one could do anything about him.

Lu Wenbin was not afraid of anyone bullying him in private either. He was now the second-best doctor in Ling Ran’s treatment group when it came to the M-Tang technique. With this skill, as long as he was not working for money, it would be easy for him to just be a doctor.

Present hospitals might not care about money, but they had to care about their doctors. Of course, doctors who could complete difficult surgeries independently were the apple of the hospital’s eyes. Meanwhile, doctors who could not work independently were nothing more than a person.

According to Lu Wenbin’s current resume, he had plenty of reasons to be hired by other tertiary Grade A hospitals. It may be difficult for him to change to a hospital that was also considered a top dog in another region, but he could easily go to another normal tertiary Grade A hospital.

Young Nurse Ma cast Lu Wenbin a profound glance and smiled again. “Let me guess, is the pork trotter business in the hospital yours?”

No matter how large a department in a hospital was, it would only have around one hundred people, and most of them were nurses. For example, Yun Hua Emergency Medical Center was already very huge, but there were only five treatment groups with about thirty doctors, including those housemen who were authorized but were still wandering around from department to department. The new, young nurses could learn about the doctors easily without even go around asking for information.

Lu Wenbin coughed a couple of times before he modestly said, “It was just pure, plain coincidence for me, but it’s mainly because I mastered this skill, and now, everyone is taking care of my business.”

“Then, you must remember to get a business license.”

“Yes, I did it a long time ago. I even have a sanitary certificate. I take this business seriously.”

“But aren’t you a civil servant? Wouldn’t it affect you?”

Lu Wenbin shook his head. “I put this business under my mother’s name.”

“Oh, that’s convenient,” the young nurse said. She lowered her head and began to sort out the hospital forms and other things, which she had just received.

Lu Wenbin was instantly a little dumbfounded. ‘Is this the end of the conversation? Did I say the wrong thing? Does she like me more or less?’

Lu Wenbin did not have the ability to restart the conversation. It was because others had said that about him before: Lu Wenbin had actually practiced his really weak conversation starter and became familiar with it before he could blurt it out with ease.

Unfortunately, he became too familiar with that conversation starter, causing him to use it too frequently…n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

“I’ll be heading off for surgeries now.” Lu Wenbin hesitated for a few seconds. He did not know what to do, so he had to say his goodbye and head to the operating theater gloomily.

After all, the nurse with the good voice was already there, and she could not go anywhere else. The operating theater was actually more exciting as well.

Lu Wenbin walked faster and faster. He let out a sigh of relief when he reached the dressing room with the green tiles.

Operating theaters were still better. The colors used to decorate the place were pleasant to the eye, and it was not blinding. The temperature was also suitable, and it would not make people sweat. The interpersonal relationship among people was even more perfect. There were plenty of times where even if you poked a hole in someone with a scalpel and blood spilled everywhere, people would not say a word.

“Doctor Lu, you’re here.” Zhang Anmin also reached the operating theater after finishing his ward round.

After he was promoted to an associate chief physician, the number of beds he managed increased significantly. Even so, he could not cut down on the number of surgeries he performed. Moreover, since Ling Ran delegated power to his team members and the doctors under him such as Zhang Anmin and Lu Wenbin improved their skills, they gained a lot of chances to become chief surgeons.

Zhang Anmin was the chief surgeon for today’s surgery, and Lu Wenbin was the first assistant.

Zhang Anmin was in a good mood when he saw Lu Wenbin arrive early. “Doctor Lu, today’s cholecystitis patient is the principal of an elementary school. After the surgery, you may be acquainted with him. If there comes a day where you have to send your kid to school, you can go to him.”

“I’m afraid that by the time my son is born, the principal would have retired.” Lu Wenbin was not in a good mood. He spoke a little aggressively.

Zhang Anmin smiled in an unbothered fashion. “Even if he retires, there will be someone to take over his position. Anyway, as long as he doesn’t die of illness, we can say that we have done our duty.”

Lu Wenbin smiled. “Cholecystitis is not fatal.”

“Don’t jinx others.” Zhang Anmin put on airs. “Listen to me, if you’re unskilled, any patient will end up dying because of complications.”

Lu Wenbin was amused by Zhang Anmin. “Can’t the patient die on the operating table?”

“If you seriously suck, you wouldn’t be able to kill a man cleanly even after half a day is gone. Come on, let’s stop with the nonsense. It’s time to disinfect his belly. Let’s start.”

Lu Wenbin grunted gloomily.

Zhang Anmin quirked an eyebrow. “Bad mood?”

Lu Wenbin shrugged. “I don’t even have a chance to be in a bad mood. Sigh, my EQ is too low, and I can’t do anything about it.”

“So something did happen.” No matter what, Zhang Anmin was an experienced man. After observing Lu Wenbin closely, he nodded and asked, “Are you lovesick? Want to learn some tricks from this old man?”

“What tricks do you have?” Lu Wenbin looked at Zhang Anmin contemptuously and said, “Your EQ isn’t much higher than mine…”

“But when I got married, I was poorer than you. I had a bleak future, and I was not as fit as you.” Zhang Anmin stopped talking for a moment before he said, “Even so, I have a wife.”

Lu Wenbin was stunned. After a few seconds, he obediently asked, “What tricks?”

Zhang Anmin took a deep breath before he exhaled and solemnly said, “Have you heard of Pavlov’s Dating Method before?”

“Pavlov?”

Zhang Anmin nodded slowly. “Every day, he rang the bell at a fixed time before he fed his dog. Then, he managed to make the dog form a conditioned reflex. Even if there is no food in front of it, as long as it hears the bell ring, it will salivate.”

“But I don’t want to see women salivate.”

Zhang Anmin laughed out loud. “You do, trust me.”