Chapter 2963: with translation of chapter title

After everyone had taken turns trying the new machine, feeling the difficulty and the oddness of operating while sitting outside the operating room, it was already evening.

Just as Lin Yuan had expected, Zheng Lao Ban didn't leave any food; instead, everyone went home.

They would surely come back to continue training after finishing their meal, Lin Yuan guessed. He felt a little envy—of course the longer the training time the better—but Lin Yuan also knew his basics weren't up to par.

Although he could barely complete the TIPS Surgery smoothly, many small shortcomings remained. Hypothesis oneself is a piece of raw jade, under Zheng Lao Ban's careful carving he had already finished the basic outline.

As for the rest, it still depends on one's effort and Zheng Lao Ban's further polishing. Opportunities still need to be seized, but Zheng Lao Ban doesn't go for that meowing nonsense—what should one do?

While thinking, Lin Yuan drove his little POLO to send Gu Xiao Ran back to the rental house; afterward she wandered in the vehicle river of Di Du, dawdling until nearly seven before getting home.

"Dad, Mom, I'm back." After returning home, kicked off shoes, put on slippers, and Lin Yuan walked into the house.

"Eat, eat, I'm hungry!" Lin Yuanzhang rose excitedly and said.

"You haven't eaten?" Lin Yuan asked in surprise.

"Your mom said today you have no Shou Bing, so you must wait for me to come back." Lin Yuanzhang complained, "If you don't come back, your dad and I will almost starve to death, suffering from hunger and cold—even in the new society people can starve, can you believe it?"

"Eat, eat, eat, that's all you know." Lin Yuanzhang's lover, wearing an apron, brought the vegetables and rice from the pot, "The child hasn't eaten yet—can you eat it?"

"If you don't eat, you'll get low blood sugar; little girl, when you come back you still have to rescue me." Lin Yuanzhang picked up his rice bowl and started eating, asking while eating, "Today isn't there no Shou Bing, so why are you back so late?"

"Dad, guess what we went to do."

"Team building? Zheng Lao Ban hates that stuff the most." Lin Yuanzhang asked.

"Definitely not team building; using Zheng Lao Ban's words, having that time would be less practical than doing a Shou Bing. Doing Shou Bing together is the best team building." Lin Yuan said with a smile, she had no appetite at all, her mind full of that futuristic operating cabin.

"Not team building, not doing Shou Bing, haven't eaten yet, definitely not a department meal." Lin Yuanzhang eliminated them one by one, "You must have given a Lesson."

"Pretty much, today Zheng Lao Ban gave a demonstration of the new machine."

"Machine?" Lin Yuanzhang didn't really believe it; with technological progress, every department needs new equipment and new techniques, as the vice president in charge of clinical affairs he has to screen them before they can be brought up for discussion. Every day he's annoyed to death; just mentioning new equipment makes him weary.

"Da Vinci robot."

"That thing is useless, just a gimmick. Massachusetts Institute of Technology came up with this over ten years ago, and the thoracic department has mentioned it several times but I never approved." Lin Yuanzhang said, "Taking off your pants to fart—spending so much money to buy this equipment isn't for them to use a bit of professional jargon for publicity."

"Hey!" Lin Yuan chuckled, "Dad, you definitely can't guess how Zheng Lao Ban did it."

"Orthopedics Department Shou Bing? He's started getting into this field? Indeed, during earthquake relief Zheng Lao Ban was involved a lot. It's said his Amputation Shou Bing was done well; no matter what Shou Bing he does, I wouldn't be surprised."

"No, using the Da Vinci robot to do Interventional surgery." Lin Yuan said with a smile.

Lin Yuanzhang's lover couldn't understand what the two old men were talking about; she kept watching what the little girl was willing to eat, constantly giving Lin Yuan vegetables.

"Interventional surgery? Impossible." Lin Yuanzhang said firmly.

"The latest equipment, Zheng Lao Ban has already performed Interventional embolization Shou Bing for liver cancer on a 3D simulated human." Lin Yuan said, "I watched for an Afternoon, tried a bit, the operating technique is still different from normal; it's equivalent to starting from scratch."

Lin Yuanzhang put down his Chopsticks, frowned and looked at Lin Yuan. The little girl smiled brightly and met his gaze; given Lin Yuanzhang's understanding of her, this shouldn't be just idle talk to cheer himself up.

"Really?" Lin Yuanzhang still wouldn't believe it.

"Of course it's true." Lin Yuan said, "Lately I might have to come back a bit later after work, going to Yimei…"

"The machine is in Yimei? If it really existed, probably even selling all of Yimei couldn't afford one."

"It has nothing to do with value; you also know how huge the surgery volume of 912 is, it's absolutely impossible to set up a separate operating room just for Zheng Lao Ban to train in Shou Bing." Lin Yuan said.

"You can tell Zheng Lao Ban, come to my side, build him a separate Operating Room; playing badminton in there is fine. It would be solely his, a custom-made one." Lin Yuanzhang said, half-joking, half-serious.

"Impossible, stop thinking about poaching people." Lin Yuan laughed heartily, knowing his old man's thoughts, "Zheng Lao Ban could go to Miami beach to play volleyball anytime, but he's not interested. The robot for Interventional surgery can be obtained; all that's missing is an Operating Room for you."

Lin Yuanzhang was also speechless about this; with these conditions, who wouldn't come running? But Zheng Lao Ban… really can't be poached.

By the time he got started, it was already late; East Tumor gave him a ward, at that time Zheng Lao Ban was just a newly arrived junior doctor in Di Du.

But the matter of East Tumor poaching people quietly disappeared, as if it had never existed. Competition? Since 912 sent four Inpatient Chief-level doctors to Haicheng Shi Yiyuan under the pretense of support to replace Zheng Lao Ban, there has never been any competition.

Not to mention myself, what about Johns Hopkins? Even if a tenured professor never teaches a class, is he still a tenured professor?

"Little girl, what's the machine like? Do you think it's really feasible?" Lin Yuanzhang, who originally had no thought of poaching Zheng Lao Ban, began asking about technical details.

The more he asked, the more interested he became; Lin Yuanzhang held a high position and knew a lot. Upon hearing that a Director of Cardiology from Nanshan Shi had visited the machine, he vaguely guessed Zheng Lao Ban's thoughts.

Using a mechanical arm to perform Interventional surgery is surely the future direction; all constraints are gone.

"Little girl, tomorrow contact Zheng Lao Ban and ask if I can go for a visit." Lin Yuanzhang finally said, "If we can buy this machine, I'll submit an application to the hospital."

"Machine… what would you buy it for? It seems not yet mature." Lin Yuan said, "From what I heard Yun Ge'er mean, it seems only he and Zheng Lao Ban can exert 80% of the capacity, while others' capacity drops by half."

Lin Yuanzhang chuckled, "Silly little girl, just ask. If we can visit, I'll bring the heads of Tumor Interventional and Orthopedics Departments along."

"If you buy it, could I use Evening time to practice?" Lin Yuan finally revealed his true intent.