Famous Among Top Surgeons in the 90s-Chapter 249 - She the rookie pretends to be ignorant

Chapter 249: [249] She, the rookie, pretends to be ignorant.

Chapter 249: [249] She, the rookie, pretends to be ignorant.

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The purpose of the retractor is to spread the muscles apart to expose the surgical field, and doing so inevitably affects the activity of other tissues within the abdominal cavity. Tighten the muscles a bit here, relax them there to press down to low positions, press to stop the bleeding, and see if the blood can be directed towards the suction tip.

This idea came to her naturally the moment she stepped up to the operating table and grasped the retractor. She had never handled a retractor before, and indeed, no one had ever taught her to do so.

Xie Wanying wasn’t sure why her brain reacted so quickly. All she knew was that she had to do a good job with the retractor. As for how Teacher Tan was looking at her, she didn’t have time to care.

This “greenhorn” was pretending to know nothing? Tan Kelin took another glance from the corner of his eye, beneath his surgical magnifying glasses.

Doctor Liu and Dr. Xiao Sun, across the operating table, noticed whom Tan Kelin was looking at and simultaneously turned their gaze towards the newbie, Xie Wanying.

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Covered mostly by a mask, the only thing Xie Wanying could show to others were her eyes.

In her eyes, there was no ripple of emotion, as still as a pond of ice water.

The hands that held the two retractor handles didn’t move at all.

Had she done anything? Liu Chengran and Dr. Xiao Sun doubted it, knowing that her position stood next to the Chief Surgeon.

The third assistant’s role often meant twisting their body into all kinds of awkward positions to make room for the Chief Surgeon. Because of this, some medical students would pass out from the strain.

Without surgical loupes and standing aside, blocked by the Chief Surgeon, she was like a blind puppet who just needed to follow the Chief Surgeon’s instructions. Xie Wanying couldn’t see what was happening in the surgery.

To make a helpful movement for the surgery without the Chief Surgeon’s instruction? That would be truly unbelievable.

Only those experienced hands at retracting could utilize their line of sight to find the surgical field and adjust as necessary for the operation. A newbie just stepping up couldn’t possibly do that—Liu Chengran and Sun Yubo both shook their heads thinking so.

The blood was cleared, and as the deputy director had expected, a little suction was sufficient; it wasn’t a major hemorrhage.

The others sighed in relief.

The surgery continued, with each second ticking by in the operating room.

The patient’s vital signs were stable; the anesthesiologist had nothing to do and began looking down at their phone and reading.

Lau Jingyun, worried about her junior sister, also found herself getting bored and her eyelids started to droop after half an hour passed without her junior sister getting scolded. Mainly because, so far, more than half an hour had passed and her junior sister still hadn’t been scolded.

Lau Jingyun tilted her head, thinking: Could her junior sister be about to break the record in the operating room? To be the first female medical student to step up to the operating table without getting scolded?

“Change the hook.”

“Yes, Teacher.” After receiving another hook from the teacher, Xie Wanying didn’t need an explanation this time; she grasped the new retractor handle and adjusted the angle of the hook with both hands.

At that moment, to avoid disturbing the Teacher’s work with her retractor hand, she bent her knees and leaned over to reach down, her posture nearly on par with that of a contortionist, and she had to maintain it longer than any performer would.

This couldn’t go on; she wouldn’t be able to withstand it. Xie Wanying’s mind raced, searching for an alternative. Before long, she changed her stance; holding with one hand, she reached across the patient’s body with the other, allowing her legs and back to adopt a natural and relaxed standing position, while all her strength supported the arm holding the retractor.

Lau Jingyun, seeing her junior sister changing positions, almost laughed out loud after a blink and quickly turned away to avoid Teacher Tan noticing and starting to scold her junior sister.