Chapter 584: Cool to the extreme Chapter 584: Cool to the extreme “I’m saying you–” Ren Chongda wanted to beg his old classmate for mercy, not to slap his face right there, at least now in front of his students.
“To be honest,” said Cao Yong with a cold and ruthless tone that swept through like a fierce wind, slap, continuing to slap his face over.
The camaraderie between classmates was utterly nonexistent at this moment.
Ren Chongda’s heart felt bitterly cold: So, when his student Xie Wanying said that Cao Yong was very approachable, it was complete nonsense.
No doubt, during surgery, what is most needed is the surgeon’s composure. Calm, regardless of anything, must be calm; the thinking must be calm, the judgment must be calm, and even more so the hand holding the scalpel.
Having just experienced her first time as the Chief Surgeon, Xie Wanying personally realized this critical point. Senior Cao was right; Teacher Ren could not be too tense.
“Teacher Ren, let me help you feel first, to probe the way for you,” Xie Wanying decided after hearing what Senior Cao said and volunteered to take the initiative, to ease the pressure for her teacher.
This little junior sister… Hearing this from across the room, the usually very serious Cao Yong almost let his dimples show again.
Who wouldn’t want an assistant who is both intelligent and empathetic?
“Alright, after you feel it, I’ll double-check it,” Ren Chongda conceded and didn’t try to act strong. He had to admit, Cao Yong’s criticism was right; he urgently needed to adjust his mood to make the cut.
With Teacher Ren’s agreement, Xie Wanying immediately adjusted her position, relying on her eyes and fingertips to touch, adding the calculation of her brain, she made a preliminary judgment and marked a point on the scalp to report to the counselor: “Teacher Ren, here we can make an incision for drilling.”
“What did you say?” Ren Chongda turned around, completely not expecting her to be that quick. He had only taken two breaths and she had already made a judgment? It surprised him so much that he almost bit his tongue.
“It’s right here,” Xie Wanying affirmed to her teacher once again.
After glaring at her for a moment, Ren Chongda moved his finger to the spot she had indicated and asked, “What is your basis for determining it’s here?”
The question was out of fear that she was speaking hastily, trying to save time–such a mistake would be more terrifying than his own nervous indecision.
Xie Wanying laid out her thought process for her teacher: “Senior Cao said to make the cut where the hematoma is the thickest. I was the one who carried the child out of the car. I clearly remember the position he was in when I first saw him lying in the car, his head leaning down between the seats. It’s like when a child falls from a bed and hits the ground, the right parietal region would’ve been impacted by ‘Accelerated’ force; a fracture of the right frontal and temporal bones was inevitable. I estimate that the patient likely has an extradural hematoma at the top of the right temporal region, not excluding the possibility of a subdural hematoma secondary to a contrecoup injury to the right temporal lobe.”
Watching her speak these words calmly, Ren Chongda suddenly understood why Cao Yong had said they should look into her eyes. Because this student’s eyes were truly the epitome of calm!
Such a gaze from a surgeon was like a sedative, infectious. Ren Chongda found himself no longer feeling as panicked. With a steady heart, his thoughts were no longer impulsive. Observing again the hematoma on the child’s scalp and the bulge he felt with his hand, he believed she must be correct. Thus, his confidence grew: “Give me the scalpel.”
The cooperative old nurse immediately handed him the scalpel.
After all, he was a Boss in the field of anatomy. What was there to fear in making an incision?