Chapter 125 - Amazing! (1/2)

Zhang Fan's scheduled prostatectomy was the first scheduled surgery of the day. The urology department had a special endoscopic surgery room of its own where the department nurses took turns being the operating room nurses. Prostatectomy involved electrosurgical excision, which required a large amount of rinsing solution. The floor would be completely wet by the end of an electrosurgical excision surgery. Also, the doctor would need to wear a special waterproof plastic surgical outfit.

Vice Director Wang Zongkui and all three attending physicians in the urology department came over to watch Zhang Fan's first urological surgery. Wang Zongkui was here because he was worried that Zhang Fan wouldn't be able to accomplish the surgery, while the attending physicians were here to watch Zhang Fan make a joke of himself. If Zhang Fan didn't even know how to use the endoscopes properly, he wouldn't even need to start on the urological surgery! The attending physicians would laugh at Zhang Fan until he died!

The surgery began. Some nurses helped support the old man as he walked into the endoscopic surgery operating room. The old man saw that there were quite a lot of doctors in the room, so he commented, ”What, none of you have ever seen an old man's penis before?”

”Oh! Sir, they're all my higher-ranking doctors. They're here to observe as part of the surgery's rules.” Zhang Fan couldn't really explain, so he made something up to fool the old patient.

”Ah! You need to work much harder! Why are all of them ranked higher than you!” the old man responded. His attitude and tone were just like an old policeman's. He definitely still had the same attitude as when he had been the head prison warden. Those who didn't know what was going on would probably think that Zhang Fan had once been a prisoner in his prison!

The anesthesiologist began the anesthesia. Zhang Fan washed his hands and disinfected, then installed the endoscopes, and started operating the electrotome (an electric cutting instrument used in electrosurgery). The other doctors all watched Zhang Fan's every movement closely.

Actually, Zhang Fan had never used endoscopes in real life before. However, he had practiced more urological surgeries in his System than any of the attending physicians in the department already. This was because back when Zhang Fan was rotated into the internal medicine departments, he would always mentally enter his System and practice surgeries to help wake himself up whenever he got tired from studying medical textbooks.

Zhang Fan proceeded with the surgery slowly and steadily. Although his surgical assistant Lu Shuyan was a master's degree student, she had her master's degree in gynecology, not urology. She wasn't very familiar with some of the equipment used for urological surgery. Zhang Fan was in no hurry, so he explained each and every piece of urological equipment that she didn't understand how to use to her. Although he was nominally explaining things for Lu Shuyan, he also intentionally spoke in a loud voice so that the other doctors could all hear that he knew what every piece of urological surgery equipment was.

Zhang Fan guided the endoscope into the urethra to provide himself with excellent vision. Rinsing and electroexcision began. The prostate seemed just like a piece of tofu under the endoscopic mirror, though this piece of ”tofu” would have some toughness to it. Zhang Fan started cutting off the prostate in a really gentle manner together with the rinsing!

Zhang Fan's movements were quite precise. He gently removed the prostate layer by layer. It all seemed quite simple as all he needed to do was cut with the electrotome. However, it would be impossible to control the strength required for this precisely without several years of experience.

The other three urology attending physicians had all been in urology for several years before performing their first prostatectomies. When they watched Zhang Fan's movements, whoa! Was this Zhang Fan really just a resident doctor? To be quite honest, none of the three attending physicians were as skilled as Zhang Fan in controlling the proper strength so precisely.

Zhang Fan's movements were far too well practiced. There were no problems whatsoever. Every single cut he made was almost the exact same thickness. This was the best evidence of his skill. As Vice Director Wang Zongkui watched the surgery, he commented, ”This is what surgery truly is!”

It would have been fine if he hadn't said anything, but his comment made the three attending physicians rather embarrassed.

Two of the attending physicians slowly started leaving the operating room. ”How ridiculous. He's too amazing. Did you guys notice that his cuts are made with almost identical strength every time? Even our Director Li isn't that amazing, right?” remarked attending physician Chen Xinyuan. He was a veteran attending physician who found Zhang Fan's skills to be inconceivable.

”Sigh! What time warp in the future did he arrive from? If he joins our urology department in the future, he'll instantly have a medical team of his own, sigh! It took so many years for us before we could have our own teams! Yet, he can already lead a team as a rotation doctor. Truly, that old phrase was so correct—comparing yourself to others can anger you to death!” These comments were from the youngest attending physician in the department, whose name was Heimduller. He had only gotten married recently, so he wanted to make more money. That was why he was worried about Zhang Fan being new competition!

”With Zhang Fan's skills, there's nothing we can do if he decides to join our department. Did you see how Director Li was acting around Zhang Fan? Director Li was so polite and smiling so much! When have you ever seen our director being so polite to us before? So, young man! Don't even think about causing any trouble, as Zhang Fan won't be afraid!”

”Sigh! I hope that he decides to join a different surgical department, then! There's not much to be had in our department to begin with, so if a wolf joins us... Sigh! There's so much competition out there, and life is hard!” Heimduller said rather depressedly.

The two doctors were no longer in a mood to chat. Both of them went to prepare for their own surgeries which were scheduled after Zhang Fan's. Since Zhang Fan's movements were so precise and swift, it seemed likely that he would be finished soon.