Great Doctor Ling Ran

Panda Novel

In the morning at Yun Hua Emergency Medical Center, a few cute looking young nurses stood in front of the squeaky clean glass that was newly wiped and was reflecting the light while showing a clean and clear smile.

“Are you guys shooting a TV drama series?” A patient who came for emergency treatment walked over while groaning. When he saw the scenario before him, he suddenly stopped, and his nasal quality in his voice also disappeared.

“It’s okay. You can go in straight away.” A young nurse’s smile faded away, and there was an imperative tone in her voice.

“Oh,” the patient replied. The patient finally felt that this was slightly more normal and started to groan again and entered the Emergency Department.

*Honk honk*

A small vehicle blared its horn and stopped at the entrance.

The female driver craned her head and happily said, “It’s coming!”

“It’s coming. It’s coming.”

“Quickly, get into formation.”

The young nurses were all smiles again, and they hooked their hands around each other. The image they formed made them look as beautiful as posters.

An ambulance slowly stopped at the entrance.

Before it even stopped properly, the nurses already fixed their gazes on the front passenger seat.

When Ling Ran opened the door and came down, he immediately heard shouts that sounded like chirps.

“Doctor Ling, you’re back.”

“Welcome back, Doctor Ling.”

“Doctor Ling, you must be tired.”

A faint cough could be heard. “Do it neatly now. One, two, three…”

Then, clear and melodious voices could be heard in an organized manner.

“We welcome Doctor Ling back from your victory.”

Ling Ran smiled faintly and nodded. He said happily, “Thank you. It’s good to be back again. All of you must be busier now, right?”

His greeting was immediately followed by bashful cries.

“It’s good as long as you’re back.”

“We are not tired at all.”

“If you’re not around, the Emergency Department is usually not that busy.”

Ling Ran went to the Emergency Medical Center with a smile that was socially accepted.

The spacious main hall was a few times bigger than the Bazhaixiang branch hospital, and it made Ling Ran comfortable. Although the smell of drugs could be detected in the air, these smells were very familiar to the doctors.

Zuo Cidian walked quickly out of the lift. When he saw Ling Ran, he whispered, “I’ve checked the office and operating theater. They look the same as the time before we left. They can be used anytime. Mister Xue Guixiao’s surgery has been successfully completed. It was performed personally by the department director of the General Surgery Department, and it only took two hours.”

“It’s done?” Ling Ran stopped for a while because he did not receive a reminder that his mission ended.

Zuo Cidian replied and said, “It was the first surgery in the morning, and it was live-streamed by Yunli’s system. It was streamed on eighty different computers.”

Zuo Cidian kept repeating the number of connected computers. Usually, when Ling Ran performed his surgery, the number of connected computers was only half as many. It would not even be strange if there were only around ten connected computers to the live stream.

At that moment, the value of the General Surgery Department’s department director as an established doctor showed. As the department director rarely performed surgery, many people would watch his surgery through a live stream.

Even if the disciples of the department director did not want to flatter him, when they performed their own surgery, they would feel relieved after referring to their teacher’s surgery.

“Is there any video recording? Was it well handled?” Ling Ran walked to the office while asking about it.

“There is a video recording. I’ll send it to you later. The surgery was done cleanly and perfectly. Zhang Anmin and I have discussed it, and we think that the surgery was well performed.” Zuo Cidian’s description was now given in a bit more detail. He knew that he was not skilled enough to give advice on surgery, so he purposely asked Zhang Anmin to watch the video in order for him to give Ling Ran a better explanation.

Ling Ran indeed wore a smile that was brighter than his average one, and it greatly encouraged Zuo Cidian.

Then, Ling Ran thought about it and said, “Go to the ward and check on the patient.”

“Oh… Okay. If you’re looking for Mister Xue Guixiao, he is now at the ward at the General Surgery Department.”

“Okay,” Ling Ran replied and went to the elevator.

…..

The wards at the General Surgery Department were more crowded than the wards at the Emergency Medical Center.

The ward was in the old building. The size of the wards and the corridors in the old building had always been smaller than the newly built small building of the Emergency Medical Center. It seemed more compact as there were many people, and there were more four-person rooms than three-person rooms in the ward.

Of course, during peak hours, the Emergency Medical Center was not any better. Sometimes, it was common to add two more beds at a three-person room.

As Xue Guixiao’s surgery was performed by the department director, he received special treatment to stay at a special care three-person room which was bigger, equipped with more facilities, and had specialized nurses… But the fees for special care was more costly as well.

Before Ling Ran and Zuo Cidian entered, they could hear weak murmurs from Xue Guixiao. “It’s too costly. I don’t want to stay in a special care unit. Just a normal room will do. Argh, I already said not to receive my surgery at Yun Hua Hospital…”

“Stay for two days first. You still need to let the hospital earn some money…” His son did not purposely lower his voice. He stopped for a few seconds, sighed, and said, “Since it’s a special care unit, it’s also good for us that we have someone taking care of you. After all, we don’t understand how to do so as well.”

“This is my body. I’m still good.” Xue Guixiao snorted unhappily, but he just made himself hurt.

Zuo Cidian looked at Ling Ran and said worriedly, “It seems like it’ll be difficult to communicate with this family.”

The doctors from the General Surgery Department who followed beside them nodded and said, “They squabble with us over the smallest matters. The surgery is carried out by the department director, and he specially assigned the patient a special care unit… Others might not be able to get this treatment even if they wanted it.”

He actually wanted to say that the patient did not kind will when he saw it, but he held back because he was not familiar with Ling Ran.

He did not know whether Ling Ran heard what he said because he already squeezed some alcohol-based sanitizer in his hand and entered.

Zuo Cidian and the doctor from the General Surgery Department stared at each other before they entered the room.

“How do you feel?” Ling Ran entered the room like he was performing for a ward round.

The nurse who was bored and was looking at her phone stood up abruptly, and her face turned red.

“Doctor Ling?” Xue Guixiao greeted him weakly, and he said, “How else would I feet? Part of my intestines was removed.”

Xue Guixiao’s son and daughter-in-law stood up from the chairs beside the bed. They looked at Ling Ran like lost sheep.

“I’m a doctor from Yun Hua Hospital Emergency Medical Center, Ling Ran. I previously helped at Cangping District Hospital’s Bazhaixiang branch hospital. I’m the doctor who performed the first diagnosis for your father.” Ling Ran made a complete self-introduction.

To be exact, the doctor in charge of Xue Guixiao should have been Yu Yuan. However, Yun Hua Hospital treated treatment groups as a single unit. Since Ling Ran was Yu Yuan’s superior, he could be counted as the doctor who performed the first diagnosis for Xue Guixian was well.

“Our family is made up of laid-off workers. We’re not good with words.” Xue Guixiao groaned from the bed.

His son and daughter-in-law chuckled bashfully and said nothing.

Zuo Cidian asked, “Did all of you previously work at Bazhaixiang?”

The son nodded and said, “My father used to work in a can company. Since the fall of the industry during the nineties, he was laid off. The company was sold to a private owner. He did not want old people. My wife and I worked for others, and business was not good last year. So, they fired us.”

“So, what are you guys doing now?” Zuo Cidian went straight ahead and asked.

“I found a job as a guard, and my wife became a janitor for a nearby mall,” the son said listlessly.

As Ling Ran heard what he said, he had called out the system. He saw the mission notification he previously received: Cure Xue Guixiao, retain his self-care skills, and let him live with dignity.

At this moment, Ling Ran realized that the reduction of medical costs could not meet the expectations demanded by the system…

Forget everything else, the loss of their work time rate that Xue Guixiao’s son and his daughter-in-law suffered was already enough to make their family fall into crisis.

However, helping them out of their predicament was a knowledge blind spot for Ling Ran.

When Ling Ran thought about that, he remembered Tian Qi.

Tian Qi should have a solution for it.