Great Doctor Ling Ran

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“The Emergency Department seems pretty empty today, huh, Nurse Wang?” The young resident doctor went to the young nurse and offered her a bottle of iced black tea.

“I don’t drink sweet things.” Wang Jia did not take the drink.

The resident doctor slapped his head and said with a smile, “Oh gosh, my memory is bad. It’s already so late, everyone is probably exhausted. We should take over.”

Resident doctors and nurses were colleagues, and unlike medical interns, they at least show each other some form of care. It was not very respectful for her to have him wait for half a day without giving him any opportunities to hone his skills.

Wang Jia’s tone softened a little. “There’s no work to do right now, though.”

“The Emergency Department actually gets to stay idle?” The resident doctor laughed.

The Emergency Department was practically a hospital’s screening department. Emergency Departments of bigger hospitals transferred a large number of patients to other departments every single day, especially when they were in critical condition. More often than not, the Emergency Department would be stabilizing vitals and giving the patients basic treatment before they were hastily sent off to the operating theater.

If there was one thing the Emergency Department lacked, it was free time. This was why the resident doctors came to the Emergency Department for a chance to perform surgery.

Wang Jia hesitated for a moment, but she did not tell him of the situation in the treatment room. She only said, “The condition of the patients today are a bit more special…”

Another resident doctor came over. He spoke while putting his arm on the resident doctor’s shoulder, “We’re not afraid of special ones. We can do anything. Right, Old Wu?”

Old Wu nodded earnestly.

“I’ve seen a ping pong ball stuck up there; I’ve seen a ping pong ball stuck down there; and I’ve seen balls in the front and back. Whatever it is, we’ve taken them all out.”

Wang Jia had been a nurse for a few years and would not be defeated by the dirty jokes of two resident doctors. She kept a straight face. “The benchmark of the Emergency Department here is to take out a golf ball.”

“How can a golf ball be…” The two new young men who had just entered the trade were immediately rendered speechless.

“Alright, Doctor Wu and Doctor Li, come with me.”

Nurses always meant well, even if their words were sometimes harsh. Although Wang Jia had a rather cynical nature, she still gave the resident doctors an opportunity. However, the final say would be up to the attending physicians of the department and the directors.

In the office a few meters away, the medical interns looked outside with eager eyes. They could not even find the chance to get insulted for their work.

Doctor Wu and Doctor Li followed Wang Jia excitedly and walked into the treatment room with quick steps. When they strode past the doorsill, they felt a familiar heat.

Doctors, nurses, patients, and family members of patients walked to and fro in the tiny treatment room. One only had to take a deep breath and the irritation would set in.

However, Doctor Wu and Doctor Li remained unperturbed. Their enthusiasm forced all the negative current away. They treasured every single opportunity to perform treatment, be it to remove ping pong balls, golf balls, or volleyballs. They were duty-bound to treat all of them.

“Doctor Zhou, these patients are waiting to be sutured, right? Do you need our help?”

Doctor Wu first looked for a familiar face before he turned to a few men with full-sleeve tattoos and were sitting on the isolation beds. His eyes sparkled with eagerness. He was a puppy, and these men were crunchy, juicy bones.

Having asked this question over the past couple of months while performing treatment in the Emergency Department, Doctor Wu knew how the minds of these doctors worked. There was a rift between the director and the associate director, and neither of them were willing to mend that rift.

Among the senior attending physicians, Doctor Zhou was the most generous at giving opportunities. Of course, this could also mean that while he had an ugly face, he was a friendly and laid-back person.

Doctor Zhou was leisurely debriding one of the tattooed men’s wounds. He said, “Suturing needs to be carried out, but I have no authority over them.”

“Huh? Has your role been changed?” Resident Doctor Wu looked around curiously.

The Emergency Department had been divided into different areas of authority according to the beds. An attending physician or experienced resident doctor would be responsible for anywhere between a few to dozens of beds. To ensure that the appropriate amount of care is given, patients would be assigned by the beds within said doctors’ jurisdictions.

The associate director and director only handled ailments. The attending physicians and experienced resident doctors were the ones who routinely gave attention to less important matters.

Based on what Resident Doctor Wu and the others could remember, the first few beds belonged to Doctor Zhou.

Doctor Zhou said nonchalantly, “Those people requested for Doctor Ling.”

“Which one is Doctor Ling?”

It was an unfamiliar name, and Doctor Wu could not help but look around.

“Over there.” Doctor Zhou pointed. As a local powerhouse, he was unwilling to advertise for an external force of power.

Resident Doctor Wu looked towards the direction Doctor Zhou pointed and saw Ling Ran sitting in the cubicle.

“Isn’t he an intern?” Resident Doctor Wu was so shocked that his mouth flopped wide open.

Doctor Zhou was momentarily startled. He asked, “You know him?”

“He came here together with the other interns this morning.”

“Then, you’re probably mistaken.” Doctor Zhou could not help but laugh.

You could forge documents, you could talk your way out of things, but medical skills spoke for themselves.

Ling Ran’s skills were so epic that if Doctor Zhou put all the skin that Ling Ran had sutured into one line, he could probably circle around the globe and invade Taiwan again on behalf of the Dutch. How could he be an intern?

Resident Doctor Wu was just as baffled, but he was still mainly concerned with practicing his skills. He brushed over the matter with a chuckle and said, “I see that quite a few patients are waiting. Why don’t we go and help them first?”

Beside him, Doctor Li quickly nodded.

Doctor Zhou chuckled and said, “Before that, you should be asking patients for permission.”

“There are actually patients choosing their doctors in the Emergency Department?” Doctor Wu blinked in surprise.

Doctor Zhou raised his eyebrows at him helplessly and said, “They want to choose. What can you do about it?”

Resident Doctor Wu was rendered speechless. Resident Doctor Li, who came along with him, did not buy this madness for one minute. He went to a kind-looking tattooed man with a unicorn on his arm and asked with a smile, “Does your injury hurt? Come and sit here, I’ll stitch it up for you.”

‘Boys who like unicorns shouldn’t be too violent, right?’

However, the kind-looking tattooed man glanced at Resident Doctor Li disdainfully and said, “I’m waiting for Doctor Ling.”

“Your wound only requires a simple suture. It’ll be the same no matter who does it.” Doctor Li was being even more attentive towards the unicorn man than to his own girlfriend, since it meant that he would be able to get a chance to perform a suture.

The unicorn guy snorted and said, “Don’t take me for a fledgling. I’ve had to visit Yun Hua’s Emergency Department many times over. ‘It’ll be the same no matter who does it’? Do you see the stag on my arm?”

“This is a stag?” Doctor Li widened his eyes and went into deep contemplation as he gazed at the one-horned stag’s head. ‘So the tattooists nowadays don’t watch National Geography anymore?’

The unicorn guy growled resentfully, “The other horn of this stag became slanted to one side because some idiot doctor sewed it up wrong. I had no choice but to get it modified into a unicorn. What am I going to do if you twist it up again?”

“Have it modified to a horse’s head, then.” The tattooed man beside him laughed out loud. “Hahahaha!”

“It would easily be mistaken for a donkey’s head.”

“Better a donkey than anything, ya know? Donkeys have big c*cks. We won’t want a mule there.”

Clearly, this was a familiar topic among them. The moment it was mentioned, everyone started laughing so hard that they were all clutching their sides.

“Broken-tailed Tiger, Slanted Dragon Legs, and Wooden Arhat, why are all of you so pleased with yourselves?”

The unicorn guy raised his arms. The bloody unicorn even looked cute