Great Doctor Ling Ran Chapter 65

Published at 6th of April 2019 05:30:06 PM Chapter 65

Two patients laboriously exercised their injured hands in the Emergency Department's observation room .

Lu Wenbin put his hands inside the pockets of his unbuttoned, large, white coat and walked back and forth three times along the corridor . When he was about to walk along the corridor a fourth time, Wang Jia called him .

Even though Wang Jia had light makeup on and had cut her fringe, she still moved quickly, as if she was running away from fire . She yelled out Lu Wenbin's entire name and said, "Lu Wenbin, go to the gym in the medical technology building if you want to exercise . "

"No one has the free time to exercise . " Lu Wenbin mumbled, then asked, "How's the patient's recovery going?"

"Which patient?"

"You know which patient I mean . "

Wang Jia chuckled and said, "How can the recovery of a patient go badly with Doctor Ling as the chief surgeon?"

"You have to pay special attention to the second patient today, Mister Tang . We'll have to consider switching his medication if his edema doesn't subside," Lu Wenbin advised based on his meager knowledge . What he said could not even be considered medical advice .

Wang Jia still acknowledged what Lu Wenbin said . There were unreliable resident doctors ever year . Lu Wenbin was not the first one, and would not be the last one either .

The nurses' opinions were more reliable when it came to the efficacy of medical advice . After all, they were the ones who approached and observed the patients on a daily basis . Therefore, they more or less had a clear idea on the current condition of the patients in their departments, and whether their conditions were normal .

Lu Wenbin felt guilty for saying these words, because it made him sound as if he was looking down on Wang Jia's medical expertise . He took a few more steps and asked, "Is Doctor Ling on shift today?"

"Yeah . " Wang Jia could not hide the smile on her face .

"I'll be on shift today too, then . The burden can be shared a little if there are two of us," Lu Wenbin answered .

When he returned to the office, he also used the same excuse to apply for a change in shifts .

In front of the office table not far away, a resident doctor who looked so ordinary that it was hard for other people to remember his name, flashed a meaningful smile upon hearing what Lu Wenbin said . He was then instantly haunted by a vivid recollection .

Nighttime .

After he ate in the canteen with Wang Zhuangyong and Chen Wanhao, Ling Ran went for a walk and went back to the treatment room to await orders .

In a hospital of Yun Hua Hospital's scale, there were still a lot of things that could be learned even in the Emergency Department's treatment room . Ling Ran had debrided and sutured the wounds of a few hundred patients, and had more or less sutured wounds that were located on every part of the body from head to toe . If anything, he found it very interesting to encounter patients who suffered from tongue lacerations every now and then .

The huge difference in the patients' nature of illnesses in larger or smaller hospitals led to the growing difference in quality between doctors from hospitals of different tiers .

If a thirty-something-year-old attending physician of an Emergency Department had stayed all along in a smaller hospital, his first reaction upon seeing a patient with a complicated condition would be to transfer that patient to another department . However, in a larger hospital's Emergency Department, an ordinary person would need a lot of creativity and luck to sustain an injury that even attending physicians had not seen before .

After all, one should never overestimate one's ability in bringing trouble to themselves, because there were a lot of people who were can create even greater troubles on themselves . It was just that there were very few such people celebrating their deeds because they rarely leave behind descendants .

Doctors from Emergency Departments were the witnesses of these historical moments .

Lu Wenbin went back and forth between the observation room and the treatment room .

Resident doctors were the actual leaders among the doctors present during night shifts . The attending physicians did not need to show up if there were no seriously injured patients . Of course, the appearance or non-appearance of seriously injured patients was completely dependant on the attending physicians' luck . Sometimes, it was possible that inexperienced and ignorant resident doctors would find even a patient who accidentally swallowed a golf ball difficult to deal with .

After Lu Wenbin spent twenty minutes suturing a leg wound which had resulted from a broken beer bottle, he looked around out of habit . When he still did not see Ling Ran, he could not help but frown and asked a nurse who passed by, "Where did Doctor Ling go? I have not seen him since just now . "

The nurse tilted her head and thought for a moment before she gave a clear and definite answer, "Doctor Ling is probably reading a book in the on-call room . "

"He's in the on-call room?" Lu Wenbin instinctively felt that something was not right . "How did you know that he's reading a book in the on-call room?"

The young nurse flashed a cute smile, revealing her canines, and said, "A patient gave us some fruits earlier, and I gave some to Doctor Ling . He was earnestly reading a book . "

"Oh…" Lu Wenbin still found the atmosphere a little strange, but when he wanted to ask more about it, another patient came in with one of his hands wrapped around the other .

The young nurse quickly slid away . It would not be good for Lu Wenbin to leave, so he asked, "What happened?"

The patient opened the T-shirt the patient used to wrap his palm, and said with a grimace, "I picked up a broken beer bottle by the roadside and cut my palm while throwing it away . "

Lu Wenbin thought with a resident doctor's basic, logical thinking, and asked, "Why are you twenty minutes late?"

"I couldn't get a taxi… Huh? How did you know that I spent twenty minutes getting a taxi?" The patient thought . 'Could it be that he's a forensic doctor?'

Lu Wenbin took a debriding and suturing pack and put it beside his hand . He thought for a while and said, "We've had lots of patients who have the same injuries, so we discovered a trend to them . "

Twenty minutes passed, then another twenty . Lu Wenbin felt like a Whack-Mole player .

Every time he thought he was about to finish up at the treatment room, new patients would come in .

The peak period for the Emergency Department was at eleven o'clock . All five resident doctors from the five treatment groups had to work to clear all the patients that crowded the treatment room .

Lu Wenbin finally breathed a sigh of relief . He took the opportunity to go to the observation area to have a look at the two patients who received surgery performed using the M-Tang technique . He then returned to the on-call room .

The first thing he smelled upon opening the door was the scent of lavender .

Lu Wenbin sniffed the air with suspicion . He was quite sure that it was the scent of lavender . There was also no smell of sweat .

Before Lu Wenbin could give much thought to it, he saw Ling Ran, who leaned against the head of a bed, reading a book .

Ling Ran's gaze was bright, and there was a ghost of a smile on the corners of his lips . His facial features were so distinct that they looked like they were carved out of marble .

"You're back," said Ling Ran, raising his chin politely and spoke as if he was talking to his roommates . "There are fruits over there . "

For some reason, he often received small gifts such as fruits and yogurt . He would share with his roommates the ones that were difficult for him to refuse or return .

Lu Wenbin's gaze followed Ling Ran's and fell on the bed stand . There were no signs of things like clothes, phone chargers, and toiletries that were often placed on them . Instead, there were plates and bowls of various sizes . Lu Wenbin counted, there was a grapefruit, four small slices of watermelon, a pomelo, a bunch of seedless and thin-skinned green grapes, eight lychees, four mangosteens, three jujubes, a glass with blueberries, a small bottle of hawthorn juice, three slices of papaya, a small bowl of cherries, a small packet of thin, stewed beef slices, a small box of green bean cakes, and an assorted platter consisting of slices of apples, strawberries and dragon fruits .

"Damn, our family doesn't even prepare so much food when visiting graves . " Lu Wenbin got rather emotional .

"I bought a box of Milk Deluxe[1] and put it on the nurses' station . You can eat them with ease since I've returned the favor . " Ever since he was young, Ling Ran understood that gifts must be reciprocated . However, he had always presented his gifts in return to an entire group, never to an individual alone, because it would cause him too much trouble . It would also be inconvenient because there were so many of them .

Lu Wenbin cursed again . He reached out his hand to grab a few lychees and said, "Why would I be shy? I was busy throughout the night . "

"Were there a lot of patients?"

"Of course . Didn't the nurses call you when they sent the fruits over?" Lu Wenbin suddenly understood something . He spat and said, "What was I thinking? Of course the nurses wouldn't call you to do work . "

Lu Wenbin was full of complaints . "They thought of you when they had fruits, but called me when there were patients . I would drop it if we were talking about another medical intern who doesn't know how to do anything . But they didn't call you even though you can suture so quickly…"

The moment he finished speaking, someone knocked on the door to the on-call room .

A young nurse yelled excitedly, "Doctor Ling, are you asleep yet? There's a patient with a lacerated scrotum, just like what you asked for . "

Ling Ran had never been able to utilize the interrupted vertical mattress suturing technique he obtained before this . Now that he was finally encountering a patient he desired, he quickly said, "Alright, I'll be there at once . "

Ling Ran rose, then put on his shoes and his large, white coat . As if remembering something, he then said to Lu Wenbin, "Look, they call me when there's work to do, too . "

Lu Wenbin said in a trance, "I just wanted to say that for fun… Was I wrong?"

The young nurse looked sternly at Lu Wenbin, especially since he held those lychees in his hand, and said, "Why are you standing there? Go and help Doctor Ling . "

Translator's note:

A popular milk beverage from Mengniu Dairy, a manufacturing and distribution company of dairy products in China . (Source: Wikipedia)

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