Surgery Godfather
Chapter 1106 - 894 Can’t Go Back Anymore

Chapter 1106: Chapter 894 Can’t Go Back Anymore

Doctors from the department started coming in to work one after another; by this time, Zhang Lin and Little Five had already finished their rounds, having conducted a one-hour surgery summary.

At the eight o’clock shift change.

Yang Ping noticed that Zhang Lin and Little Five were completely different from their usual selves, especially radiating the presence of team leaders. The two of them, just like Song Zimo and Xu Zhiliang, would occasionally give educational or directive remarks to their junior doctors.

Moreover, when Little Five spoke, he actually bore a striking resemblance to Song Zimo, while Zhang Lin had a bit of Xu Zhiliang’s flavor, usually articulate, but mysteriously stuttering a few times during his speech, without even realizing it himself.

During the weekly department director’s rounds, Yang Ping would bring two medical teams for rounds, but if it wasn’t the department director’s rounds, Song Zimo and Xu Zhiliang’s medical teams would do rounds separately. And Yang Ping would go for rounds alone every day to keep up with the patients’ conditions in his department promptly.

In the absence of Song Zimo and Xu Zhiliang, to let Little Five and Zhang Lin fully experience autonomy, Yang Ping allowed them to lead their respective medical teams during rounds.

Of course, Yang Ping himself would quietly find time to do rounds alone and stay informed about the patients’ conditions, to prevent any medical risks from arising.

In treating patients, every case is like walking on thin ice, and Yang Ping dare not slack off; he had to keep a tight ship internally while appearing relaxed externally.

After rounds, it was another day of surgeries. Zhang Lin and Little Five were as energetic as if they were on adrenaline, feeling no fatigue at all, thinking that this was indeed the life of a department’s backbone.

Little Five and Zhang Lin had already made a phone call early in the morning and were still not reassured; they racked their brains to collect some attractive posts about European travel on their phones and then sent them to Song Zimo and Xu Zhiliang through WeChat, hoping they would stay in Europe for a few more days.

In the operating room’s changing room, in front of Yang Ping, Zhang Lin and Little Five mentioned how Song Zimo and Xu Zhiliang really worked hard usually, and that it was rare for them to go out, hoping they could relax a bit more.

They also said that from the conversations with Song Zimo and Xu Zhiliang, they could tell that both of them wanted to stay a few more days, but were worried about the department.

"Those two clowns," Yang Ping said, "if you don’t find it hard, let Song Zimo and Xu Zhiliang rest a few more days then."

"Don’t worry, no problem at all, not hard in the slightest---"

Zhang Lin and Little Five said in unison.

You guys aren’t tired, but I, the professor, am exhausted, staying with you all for surgeries until midnight every day.

After changing clothes in the changing room, Zhang Lin took the opportunity to go to the washroom while drinking water and adjusted a few photos of surgeries on his phone—the pre-operative, intra-operative, and post-operative X-ray images of a patient with scoliosis, with the names and other information mosaic-blurred. Then, he posted them on his moments.

"Grateful for the director and senior doctors’ guidance, my first main surgery, barely passable, I guess---"

Of course, Zhang Lin had blocked Song Zimo, Xu Zhiliang, and others from seeing it.

"The main surgery for spinal deformity correction?"

"Is it true?" Seeing Zhang Lin’s post, his university and master’s classmates were all astonished.

"This guy can perform main surgery for spinal deformity? Even our department heads can’t perform such surgery."

Classmates from undergraduate studies who went into different specialties didn’t react as strongly, but the master’s classmates, all from orthopedics, were wide-eyed.

"He must be bluffing." After an analysis following their astonishment, considering Zhang Lin’s history of showing off during his studies, the classmates quickly came to a conclusion.

The consensus was: This was just another instance of him showing off, but this time it was a bit over the top.

Posting something like a pedicle screw fixation surgery for a lumbar fracture would be more believable, but posting pictures of spinal deformity correction is a clear sign of excess boasting.

While Little Five clearly disliked showing off, he just waited for the right moment when his classmates’ group chat was active to post a C-Arm image of postoperative vertebral tumor and added the text: "Director, hello, this is the intraoperative C-Arm image from the surgery I was the chief surgeon for yesterday. Thank you for your guidance, and next time I’ll make sure to position the prosthetic vertebra more accurately---"

About two minutes later, Little Five swiftly withdrew the image and text from the group chat without uttering a word.

The group chat exploded immediately—what’s the situation, Little Five is now performing such surgeries?

"This is a vertebral tumor, a solidly level four surgery, which many hospital directors can’t conduct."

Immediately, the classmates in the group began to inquire about what was really happening, asking about Little Five’s current situation and how he could be performing such a high-level surgery.

Unable to endure the relentless questioning from his classmates, Little Five could only send out an embarrassed emoji, followed by a respectful gesture: "Sorry, my hand slipped, sent the wrong thing. Didn’t mean to bother you all, brothers. It’s just that—any of you could perform the chief surgery like I did under the director’s guidance."

"So low-key, hiding it so deep, if it weren’t for the slip, none of us would have known that Little Five is a hidden big-shot."

The classmates couldn’t help but admire Little Five’s humility and low profile!

At the Surgical Research Institute, surgeries are rarely simple, so Little Five and Zhang Lin could only perform three to four surgeries a day. Of course, if the difficulty was extremely high, they were still a bit green, and Yang Ping would have to step in.

In reality, at the Surgical Research Institute, Yang Ping tried to leave as many surgical opportunities as possible for other doctors because for Yang Ping the surgeries in the System Space were far more numerous than in reality, and he didn’t need to rely on real surgeries to accumulate experience.