Great Doctor Ling Ran

Chapter 458: Staying Awake for the Whole Night

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Doctor Ling, do you want to rest for a while?” The department director of the General Surgery Department of the First People’s Hospital of Wuxin City, Lu Yongmian tried his best to stay awake as he walked behind Ling Ran like a ghoul. He was even supporting himself by rubbing his shoulder against the wall.

Even though Ling Ran had already consumed three bottles of Energy Serum, he was also slightly tired. He took the stack of medical records from Lu Wenbin, who just woke up for his shift, and said as he flipped through the medical records, “I’ll operate on one more patient before I drink some tea and get some rest. Why don’t you go and sleep first?”

“Doctor Ling.” Lu Yongmian seemed to be using up every remaining ounce of energy in his body as he grabbed Ling Ran’s arm. “You can’t be carrying out any more surgeries. Get some rest first. You’ve been at it for… forty hours, I think.”

“Thirty-eight hours. It’s still far from forty hours.” Ling Ran did not even need to look at the clock to know the time. He drank a bottle of Energy Serum every ten hours as he felt that the effect of the Energy Serum could be maximized this way. This also enabled him to carry out surgeries at top-notch condition. Since he would need to operate on one more patient before it was time to drink another bottle of Energy Serum, it meant that he had been carrying out surgeries for thirty-eight hours.

However, Lu Yongmian could no longer take it. Ordinary people would start feeling dizzy after staying awake for the whole night to work for twenty continuous hours, and they would practically become zombified after doing so for thirty continuous hours. Most doctors were able to work continuously for thirty or even thirty-six hours because they secretly took naps in between. Even if they only got to catch fragments of sleep that only lasted for a few hours, they would feel a lot more refreshed.

Of course, there were times when the hospitals were so flooded with patients that the doctors did not get the chance to sleep at all. That was when they would have to bite the bullet and stay awake for thirty or even thirty-six hours. However, this was already the upper limit, especially for a department director of the General Surgery Department like Lu Yongmian. It had been a few years since he stayed awake for the entire night to work for thirty-six continuous hours, and even then, he secretly caught brief naps in between.

He could not believe his eyes when he saw that Ling Ran carried out surgery after surgery for almost forty continuous hours.

Of course, the media had reported about surgery maniacs who could perform surgeries for more than thirty continuous hours. However, the fact that they made the news meant that they were in the minority.

Lu Yongmian did not know how many doctors had been forced to carry out surgeries for more than thirty, or even forty continuous hours.

But was the situation right now so dire that Ling Ran needed to operate for such a long time?

Besides, Ling Ran obviously looked like he was having a lot of fun.

“Doctor Ling, you… did you take some kind of pill?” Lu Yongmian was already in a daze. If he had been in a proper state of mind, which meant that he had only stayed awake for less than twenty hours, he would not have asked such a question.

It was not a strange occurrence for doctors to consume strange drugs.

Anesthetists were always the ones who frequently got into trouble for eating forbidden drugs. There were many surgeons who could not resist trying to outsmart drugs in order to enhance their performance when carrying out surgeries, writing research papers, studying for exams, attending dinners, and participating in meetings with the leaders.

As Lu Yongmian gazed at Ling Ran, he truly suspected that Ling Ran had taken some sort of smart drug.

Lu Wenbin who just woke up and was full of energy was in a clear state of mind. He immediately stood between them and said, “Department Director Lu, is your brain functioning properly? The fact that Doctor Ling carried out surgeries for so many continuous hours doesn’t mean that there’s something wrong with him. Is this how a department director should be acting?”