Chapter 2593: with translation of chapter title

2599.2500 sycophant

Director Wei is performing a colon cancer Shou Bing.

Originally the Shou Bing wasn't difficult; just open the abdomen, remove the tumor, then anastomose the intestine, and that would be enough. But today Director Wei had no state at all, his technique was slightly slower than usual, looking preoccupied.

"Director, your skill isn't that bad, is there something at home?" the anesthesiologist teased from the side.

"Sigh." Director Wei sighed, "I wasn't just pondering Zheng Lao Ban's surgery; if I had known Zheng Lao Ban was going to do a livestream, I wouldn't have scheduled surgery this morning."

"Yeah, I just saw Zheng Lao Ban go to the Hybrid Operating Room." the anesthesiologist said, "Originally when scheduling yesterday, Orthopedics' Lao Chen also submitted a request, wanting to use the biggest Hybrid Operating Room for the first case, but Director Xu directly gave the slot to Zheng Lao Ban."

Speaking, he lowered his voice and cautiously glanced around a few times.

"Director Wei, Zheng Lao Ban doesn't usually come to the Big External Operating Room at this time; what's up today?"

"Speak up. With such a little movement, sneaking around, you always feel guilty like a thief." Director Wei said.

"Sigh, this isn't like a few years ago when we were chatting about a surgery in the Zhibanshi, everyone was happy, nobody noticed when Director Xu slipped in. Just as we were talking… it's like when we were young at our girlfriend's place, doing that, and got caught by her parents." the anesthesiologist said.

"What's that?" Director Wei said disdainfully, "Never mind the relationship between Zheng Lao Ban and Director Xu; just saying Director Xu looked at the surgical plan Zheng Lao Ban proposed, and the Hybrid Operating Room is also Zheng Lao Ban's."

"Surgical plan?" the anesthesiologist froze.

"Yeah, I ran into Zheng Lao Ban while changing clothes just now; he said he's going to do surgery on a late-stage cancer patient today." Director Wei said.

"Late-stage cancer… surgery… does it even make sense?"

"What level is Zheng Lao Ban at; do you need me to say whether it's meaningful?" Director Wei said, "I asked, and it should be neck dissection plus external carotid artery replacement plus vertebral body transplantation."

"..."

The anesthesiologist was speechless; one surgery, spanning the contents of three major departments, covering the procedures of breast surgery, vascular surgery, and orthopedics.

Knowing Zheng Lao Ban is awesome, but I didn't expect it to be this awesome.

No wonder Director Wei was distracted; the anesthesiologist now found the reason, because he started to develop a crush.

He didn't continue speaking, but instead whispered a couple of sentences to his assistant and then slipped out of the Operating Room.

Arriving outside the innermost, largest Hybrid Operating Room, he saw the sealed lead door closed; he didn't go into the control room, but stood outside the lead door and took a look through the lead glass.

A dense array of machines appeared in his view inside the Operating Room.

Holy shit!

How could there be so many machines! The anesthesiologist was stunned.

He had seen Da Vinci robot surgeries before, but the amount of equipment used was nowhere near as much as the machines now in the Hybrid Operating Room.

Two screens glowed brightly, one facing him, showing the interventional imaging. The other faced sideways; the anesthesiologist couldn't see what was displayed, but it felt very high-end!

Zheng Lao Ban is after all a Nobel Prize laureate; whether it's Interventional surgery or regular surgery, his skill is obvious to all.

No wonder they dare to attempt late-stage cancer surgery; no explanation needed, just seeing the dense array of machines standing tall in the Operating Room gives a feeling of certain victory.

The anesthesiologist stared blankly a few times, seeing Lao He intently focusing on the various machines, and a strange feeling welled up in his heart.

He slightly shook his head, thoughtful, and walked back to the Shujian.

"Director Wei, you really shouldn't say that, Zheng Lao Ban is truly awesome!" the anesthesiologist exclaimed.

"Huh? You went to look? How far along is the surgery?" Director Wei asked.

"I don't know." the anesthesiologist said somewhat embarrassedly in a low voice.

Director Wei was amused to the point of laughter; praising Zheng Lao Ban as awesome without even knowing how far the surgery had progressed—being a sycophant wouldn't even be this thorough, would it?

But before Director Wei could speak, the circulating nurse sitting on the small stool nearby said, "Yu Ge, you're going too far. Even if you keep sucking up now, with Lao He on Zheng Lao Ban's side, you still won't get into his Medical Team."

"Sucking up, whatever! Even if I wanted to lick, I couldn't reach." the anesthesiologist said, "Go take a look; with that setup, I just knelt down directly. It's not licking, it's a fact!"

The circulating nurse, curious, stood up and glanced at the instrument nurse, saying, "I'll go take a look; I'll be back in two or three minutes. If there's anything urgent in the hallway, shout and I'll return right away."

"Go on, go on." the instrument nurse dissatisfiedly watched Director Wei's slightly slow surgery speed on the Operating table, full of complaints but didn't voice them.

"Xiao Yu, what did you see?" Director Wei asked.

The anesthesiologist, somewhat absent-minded, recalled the scene he had just seen, and actually didn't hear Director Wei's question.

Now Director Wei was about to lose his temper; what's going on over there?

He struggled to focus, seizing the time to finish the surgery quickly and well—that's the proper thing to do. Wasting time on the Operating table would delay watching the livestream, which wouldn't be nice.

Thinking of this, Director Wei began to concentrate and speed up.

Just as he picked up the speed, he heard the circulating nurse behind him say, "Lao Yu, what's the meaning of Zheng Lao Ban setting up two screens?"

"I didn't understand..." the anesthesiologist said somewhat dejectedly.

"Take a look at Zheng Lao Ban's Shujian—that's what high-tech is." the circulating nurse said, "When I first encountered endoscopic equipment, I thought it was amazing! Now watching Zheng Lao Ban perform surgery feels just the same as back then."

She had said half a sentence, then paused, and exclaimed, "No, it's even more shocking than back then. You say if technology advances further in the future, shouldn't the Operating table be filled with screens?"

Director Wei's recently increased speed slowed down again; he helplessly asked, "What did you see?"

"A room full of machines, two screens, a camera under the Shadowless Lamp, Yun Ge'er wearing a microscope facing the sealed lead door—really handsome!" the circulating nurse said, and then went on to talk about Su Yun.

Director Wei let out a deep sigh, "What the hell is this? It's definitely not what I wanted to know."

Although both the anesthesiologist and the circulating nurse are seasoned veterans, they can't perform surgery but can still spout off the earthly branches; nevertheless, nothing beats seeing the surgery oneself for real.

Breast surgery originally belonged to the General Surgery Department, but as departments have become more specialized over the past twenty years, procedures like breast and thyroid surgery were split off.

Director Wei thought of the neck debridement Shou Bing he hadn't done for many years, his hands started to itch. He hurriedly refocused, not listening to the anesthetist and circulating nurse chatting, seizing the time to finish the Shou Bing.