The staff cafeteria at the Affiliated Hospital was exceptionally lively at noon.
Busy with work and under a lot of stress, lunchti was a rare mont for them to relax and unwind.
Especially a group of young nurses huddled around a table, chattering and laughing non-stop.
At this mont, a round-faced, slightly chubby nurse joined them with her lunch tray.
"Yezi, why are you so late? We're almost done eating. Were you drafted by soone?"
The round-faced nurse, called Yezi, let out a long sigh and said, "I got caught up in an ergency surgery that was arranged at the last minute. Fortunately, the surgery was done swiftly, and it didn't take too much ti."
"Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to have lunch until two or three o'clock."
"What kind of surgery? Which doctor was the surgeon?" the nurse with the almond-shaped face sitting next to Yezi asked.
"An abdominal bowel necrosis resection!"
Yezi pretended to be mysterious and said, "As for the surgeon, why don't you all take a guess?"
"Bowel necrosis resection? Although this surgery isn't small, it's fairly routine. We have twenty or thirty doctors in general surgery who can perform it, so how can we guess?"
"Yezi, stop keeping us in suspense. Tell us, which doctor was it?"
Yezi giggled and said proudly, "It's a doctor you would never guess..."
Seeing a few of them glaring at her, she shrank back and quickly said, "It was our hospital's most handso and super-invincible Expert Lin Jie!"
As soon as she said this, the entire table of nurses erupted, exclaiming, "No way!"
"Yezi, you're just trying to fool us, right?"
"Don't think you can trick us. Expert Lin wouldn't deign to handle such a minor surgery."
Seeing her colleagues' disbelief, Yezi beca a bit anxious and quickly said, "How could I make up such a thing? If you don't believe , you can check the surgical records when you go back."
"I tell you, Expert Lin's patient was Wang Ruixiang in bed forty-six!"
Upon hearing this, a nurse urgently asked, "Wang Ruixiang in bed forty-six? Yezi, are you sure?"
"I rember his diagnosis was purulent intestinal inflammation, how did it beco bowel necrosis?"
"I was the one who took his temperature and blood pressure this morning!"
Yezi took a bite of her food and sipped so soup before slowly continuing, "Let tell you all in detail..."
"At eleven in the morning, Expert Lin was invited by a friend of the patient to the ward to review the file of bed forty-six."
"Guess what happened then?"
"What happened?" the young nurses asked eagerly.
Yezi tapped her chopsticks against the tray and said, "Expert Lin took less than a minute to look at it, truly less than a minute."
"Then, with a serious expression, Expert Lin instructed that the patient's attending doctor, Yang Mingzhe, be called over, saying the patient's condition was serious and that surgery needed to be arranged imdiately."
"When Dr. Yang arrived, faced with Expert Lin's diagnosis, he naturally listened without a word of objection."
"At that ti, we in general surgery didn't have any vacant operating rooms, so Expert Lin had to use his na to have Dr. Yang arrange for an operating room."
"Expert Lin surely lives up to his reputation, having such privileges."
"In less than five minutes, the operating room was ready, using one from oncology surgery."
Yezi said with pride, "I was also temporarily assigned as the scrub nurse for this surgery."
"Facing the famous Expert Lin, you have no idea how nervous I was."
"Let tell you, Expert Lin is not at all as intimidating as rumored. Like stepping into an operating room and his aura can crush people."
"On the contrary, Expert Lin was very amiable, even smiled at ..."
A pretty nurse nearby couldn't listen further and cut in, "With Expert Lin's status, there's no need for him to be strict with you, right?"
"Expert Lin's high standards and demands are probably for the doctors qualified to be his assistant, right?"
"Wasn't this surgery assisted by Dr. Yang Mingzhe? Did he behave unusually in any way?"
Prompted by this, Yezi suddenly rembered, "Oh, Lan, now that you ntion it, Dr. Yang truly did seem a bit abnormal. We all know Dr. Yang is quite the chatterbox."
"When Expert Lin was there, Dr. Yang barely said a word besides answering questions."
At this point, another nurse chid in, "Yezi, forget about Dr. Yang, quickly tell us about this surgery. Is it true that Expert Lin's surgical speed was so fast that our eyes couldn't keep up?"
Yezi nodded emphatically and said, "Indeed, his reputation is well-deserved."
"I've seen quite a few doctors perform surgery, and in terms of speed alone, no one cos close to Expert Lin, not even half."
"I'll tell you, after Dr. Yang made the incision on the patient, Expert Lin took over the surgery."
"He deftly ran his fingers along the patient's small intestine and, without any hesitation, removed a section about ten centiters long."
"When that section of the small intestine was cut open, guess what I saw?"
This ti, Yezi didn't wait for the colleagues to press further and hurriedly said, "Besides so pus, there were black spots, several black and gray spots."
"The wall of this section of the small intestine was already necrotic."
"At that mont, I noticed Dr. Yang's forehead was sweating, probably from being scared."
"Think about it, if the necrosis on the intestinal wall spread, maybe half of the patient's intestines would have to be removed, and it could even be life-threatening."
"After cutting out that section of necrotic small intestine, Expert Lin started draining pus, cleaning, and suturing..."
Yezi demonstrated with her hands, "The speed was so fast, it dazzled my eyes."
"Let's put it this way, from Expert Lin tracing the intestine to find the onset point, cutting out the necrotic bowel, to finally suturing the small intestine, it was all done in about ten minutes."
"After finishing all this, Expert Lin coolly said to Dr. Yang, the remaining work is yours to handle."
"With that one instruction, Expert Lin turned and left the operating room gracefully, that posture, that deanor, sigh, my heart..."
At this mont, several hands waved in front of Yezi's dreamy eyes, interrupting her reverie.
"Yezi, stop daydreaming, the distance between you and Expert Lin is miles apart."
A petite nurse, resting her chin on her hands with eyes sparkling, said, "I must say, Expert Lin is truly handso, truly dashing. Not only that, his dical skills are really top-notch."
"Have you all heard?"
"The day before yesterday, the diagnostics departnt had an ergency patient, and all the doctors, including Director Luan, were at their wit's end. In the end, it was Expert Lin who was called in."
"It's said that Expert Lin diagnosed the condition in less than five minutes, turning the critical situation around for that patient..."
Not far from these nurses, at a dining table, sat Fang Huanru, Guo Peng, He Yimin, Wei Hongyang, and Ma Hongmin.
Unsurprisingly, they all heard the nurses' undisguised words.
"Senior Sister He, did the teacher really diagnose the condition in less than five minutes?" Ma Hongmin couldn't help but ask.
He Yimin nodded and said, "Strictly speaking, it was only two or three minutes."
She mused, "This diagnosis has really shaken everyone in the diagnostics departnt, including Director Luan."
"A problem they couldn't solve despite racking their brains was easily handled by the teacher, highlighting a despairing gap."
Fang Huanru sighed and nodded, saying, "You could say, the teacher seems to have been made intentionally to demoralize others."
"My dad, after completing the surgery with the teacher on Yao Henan, was equally demoralized."
"He often sighs heavily, claiming he's wasted those years living, even with the knowledge gained and experience accumulated over decades, comparing himself to the teacher, he feels like a pile of dung."
"Isn't that a bit too much?" Wei Hongyang was sowhat puzzled.
"How could it not be too much!"
Fang Huanru gently analyzed, "Having worked hard all life, thinking one has reached so pinnacle, becoming highly looked up to."
"But then seeing that the level you've struggled to reach, others achieve effortlessly, and stand even higher, so high you must admire them."
"Not everyone can accept this disparity."
Fang Huanru continued, "The teacher's presence, you could say, has lowered many doctors' status and sense of honor to so extent."
"Like my father, who used to comfortably claim to be Binhai City's top orthopedic expert."
"And now?"
Fang Huanru gave a wry smile, "Forget the label 'top,' even 'expert' makes my dad feel a bit bashful, as if only our teacher deserves the title 'expert.'"
Guo Peng nodded in agreent and said, "Indeed, the teacher's brilliant presence has beco a benchmark."
"In this situation, those previously lofty experts in many people's minds have directly been downgraded from first-class to second-class, or even third-class..."
anwhile, the subject of their discussion, Lin Jie, was in his office receiving a guest.
He examined the slightly bluish-looking injection in his hand and asked, "Water Buffalo, just how much can this injection enhance a person's sensitivity?"
Lin Jie didn't expect Water Buffalo to co in person and even bring the five injection doses he needed.
Feeling guilty, he didn't bring up other topics, pretending to be very interested in this injection, and asked the question.
"Three to five tis, maybe. The effect varies due to individual differences. I'm not an expert in pharmaceuticals, not too knowledgeable about this. You'll have to investigate it yourself."
Water Buffalo replied nonchalantly, staring into Lin Jie's eyes, seriously said, "Expert Lin, I ca over not just to deliver the dicine, but for a more important matter I need to ask you about."
Lin Jie, feeling a little flustered inside, tried to maintain his composure and said, "Oh, what do you want to ask?"
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