Chapter 413: Steady now Chapter 413: Steady now “`
It’s not easy being a school teacher; when students run into trouble, they have to get up in the middle of the night to deal with a pile of problems.
“Fortunately, Cao Yong had called Director Yang before, and Director Yang had given me a heads-up, so I was somewhat prepared,” said Director Jiang.
“Right, he insisted that I must come. When I arrived, I initially thought he might be making a mountain out of a molehill. But now that I think about it, ever since he was known as a ‘Scholar God’ in our class, he has always been , hardly ever failing, with a strong control over patients’ conditions,” recalled Ren Chongda, thinking back on his old classmate’s impressive talent and ability to never disappoint anyone.
Cao Yong has strong control over patients’ conditions? Xie Wanying was surprised to hear this because in her mind, Senior Cao was always mild and smiling, never giving off a fierce and dominating aura.
“Cao Yong, you’re a legend in the history of your eight-year program,” Director Jiang stated with certainty. “I remember, as a medical student, when I went to him for a minor ailment, I already knew he would be outstanding in the future just by his stern demeanor.”
“Was he tough on you as well, Director Jiang?”
“Yes, as a doctor, he is tough on everyone, leaders included.”
Senior Cao is tough on everyone? Listening to Teacher Ren and Director Jiang, Xie Wanying thought they were speaking about a different Senior Cao. Among the seniors she had met, Senior Cao always seemed the easiest to talk to, sometimes even more so than Senior Kang. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have spent much of tonight thinking before deciding to call only him.
Seeing the way the junior sister looked, Lau Jingyun could tell without using her toes: Senior Cao was just particularly tender to the young junior sister.
“Do not fear; Cao Yong is here,” said Director Jiang, touching his knees.
Ren Chongda hummed in agreement, finally calm inside. Reflecting on the situation, from the moment when the patient’s condition took a sudden turn, Cao Yong remained composed and probably confident.
In the operating room, Zhou Junpeng served as the second assistant and was sweating from head to toe throughout the procedure. At that moment, he truly reached a new understanding of both a deputy senior rank and what it meant to be a technical expert.
Think about it, a doctor who wasn’t from cardiothoracic surgery, a neurosurgeon suddenly taking on the role of chief surgeon in an emergency cardiothoracic operation–though everyone understood it was a necessity under the current circumstances, they were all sweating bullets. Everyone in the OR was on edge, their heartbeats racing as fast as the patient’s.
It wasn’t until the surgery began, the moment everyone witnessed the chief surgeon making the first incision: Steady!
Without any hesitation, the first cut was professionally precise. Zhou Junpeng thought he was seeing things; could it be that the surgeon operating was one from his own cardiothoracic specialty?
Stretching their necks in the operating room were the anesthetist, Qin Ruoyu who followed from the CT room, and the extracorporeal circulation doctor from the cardiothoracic surgery department called by Fu Xinheng to stand by. Each one of them wore extreme surprise in their eyes.
With a non-specialist who seemed just as skilled as a specialist for a chief surgeon, and a deputy senior as the first assistant, the surgery went from making everyone doubt to steadily proceeding. No one was fearful anymore.
Huang Zhilei thought: Only in an operating room with Cao Yong could things always be this steady.
Senior Cao’s control in the operating room was completely different from other doctors; he was entirely calm, with his expertise embodied purely in his technique. In Huang Zhilei’s eyes, Senior Cao belonged to those rare masters in the martial arts world, possessing unique skills that they kept hidden within and never showed off.