Great Doctor Ling Ran

Chapter 66: Return Your ‘Pearl’ to Thee

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The Emergency Department was somewhat dirty and messy at night.

There were discarded clothes and rubbish on the floor. The positions of the IV stands, chairs, and even hospital beds also became haphazard. In the corner of the room near the rubbish bin, there was even something that looked like vomit, covered with a rag that was soaked in antiseptic fluids.

Ling Ran walked quickly. When he reached the treatment room, the patient had already been pushed into a curtained cubicle. From outside, Ling Ran could see the reclined upper-half of the patient’s body, and that the patient was staring at the ceiling with glazed eyes.

“Come in, Doctor Ling.” Nurse Liu drew the curtains after letting Ling Ran in.

The patient did not move at all even after hearing the commotion.

“Does he have a concussion?” Ling Ran chose a more logical assumption. If it were anything more serious than that, it would not even matter if the scrotum was sutured.

“He’s in shock.” Zheng Pei, the experienced resident doctor kneeling at the foot of the bed to look at the wound, raised his head.

“Oh.” Ling Ran glanced at the messy condition of the patient’s crotch. He could kind of understand how the patient was feeling.

Zheng Pei was bespectacled and had a small goatee growing under his chin. His hair was around the length of his beard. He would become the chief resident after this year, and if he managed to get through it alive, he would be promoted to attending physician. He was also the most experienced doctor among the first-string doctors on shift tonight. He had been a houseman for three years, a resident doctor for another three years, and had sutured a few thousand patients.

Since Zheng Pei knew that Nurse Liu had sent someone to call Ling Ran, he questioned Ling Ran with the intention to test him. “What information can you derive based on your observations right now?”

Senior doctors tested junior doctors when they were in a good mood… and a bad mood. There was the possibility that both medical interns and resident doctors would get thrown a lot of questions anytime and anywhere.

Of course, since this was the kind of life medical students led in universities, Ling Ran was not surprised. He thought about it as he observed the patient under the sufficient lighting.

Because he obtained only the Specialist Level Interrupted Vertical Mattress Suturing Technique, which was suitable for the suturing of stomachs and scrotums, he still had to depend on himself when it came to aspects such as the observation and diagnosis.

Fortunately, Ling Ran had obtained knowledge related to this by himself early on. He earnestly studied the patient’s bloody and messy wound and answered, “Laceration on the right side of the scrotum, exposing the testicle. Obvious dust and fine debris can be seen on the surface of the scrotum and in the soft tissue. The wounded area reaches the tunica vaginalis, but the tunica vaginalis should be intact.”

The patient on the hospital bed trembled with every word Ling Ran said. It was not so easy for a patient to put up with this with grace.

Zheng Pei glanced at Ling Ran, a little surprised. He hummed in acknowledgement and said, “Very detailed observations, and your knowledge is quite vast.”

Ling Ran flashed a slight smile.

Zheng Pei did not receive a humble reply even after waiting a few seconds. He slapped his forehead and said to Nurse Liu with a smile, “Look at who I’m talking to.”

Immediately after that, Zheng Pei made room and said, “Come and inspect the patient, and tell me your judgements one by one.”

Ling Ran put on a pair of gloves. He went forward and fiddled with the wound for a bit. The patient, whose eyes were glazed, trembled even more violently.

“I don’t see any associated injuries. It’s a nonlinear wound and is definitely contaminated. Was it sustained on the road? It doesn’t really look like it…” Even though Ling Ran had studied about it before in books, it was very hard for him to come out with an accurate analysis when it came to actual practice.

Zheng Pei chuckled and said, “I asked when I was outside. He sustained the injury while skateboarding in a park. Isn’t there a move in skateboarding where you jump onto the metal handrails and slide down? Guess what happened.”

“He jumped onto it, but his skateboard did not follow?” Ling Ran felt as if he got an answer for a riddle.