Chapter 112: Chapter 113: Taboo

Chapter 112: Practice Run

Mr. Wang was furious and intended to use the incident with the substandard sutures to launch a major overhaul of the Plastic Surgery Center. All Yan Feifan could do was dryly wish him success.

When it came to things like power struggles and political maneuvering, Yan Feifan was utterly clueless—a true amateur.

Wang Chuan hadn’t expected him to contribute at all and even warned him not to get involved.

Before today’s formal rhinoplasty lesson, Wang Chuan and Yan Feifan went to the sixth-floor ward to check on Yo Jiayong’s recovery.

The past few days had been quite miserable for the guy.

He was in pain all over his body, but it wasn’t severe enough to warrant a painkiller injection.

Yo Jiayong could only rely on a few painkillers to get through it, enduring.

His face was gaunt.

Compared to him, Wang Chuan, who also hadn’t been resting well lately, looked much better.

In Wang Chuan’s words, one reason was that he had a higher pain tolerance.

The other was that the nerve pain in his left leg muscle had subsided much faster than he’d expected, allowing him to get at least a few hours of sleep at night.

Wang Chuan examined Yo Jiayong and told him that they would need to cut open the skin on his mandible again tonight to remove the muscle bundles that hadn’t successfully grafted.

If too many muscle bundles were removed, another graft would be necessary.

Seeing Yo Jiayong’s face instantly turn ashen, Wang Chuan left the ward with a faint smile.

Next, Wang Chuan and Yan Feifan went to the fifth floor to check on the recovery of Lele and Huanhuan, ten days after their cleft lip repair surgeries.

The two children could now eat warm, semi-liquid foods and were in much better spirits than a few days ago.

For the past two days, they had been undergoing speech correction exercises.

After their cleft palate and lip repairs, the two little ones’ pronunciation was much clearer than before.

However, their old speech habits needed to be corrected by the hospital’s speech therapist, and they had to learn new pronunciation techniques.

Yan Feifan carefully examined the incision recovery for both Lele and Huanhuan.

It had to be said that with such meticulous care, their postoperative recoveries were both quite good, and they had met the criteria for discharge.

But considering the conditions at the orphanage weren’t as suitable for recuperation, Wang Chuan decided to have them discharged this Friday instead.

Walking out of Lele and Huanhuan’s ward, Wang Chuan couldn’t help but sigh, “Comparisons really make things clear.”

“Tang Zheng and Ge Xianghui are both skilled surgeons, but compared to your overall surgical approach and technique, the difference in the postoperative results is still plain to see.”

Compared to the little girl, Huanhuan, Lele—whom Yan Feifan had operated on—had a noticeably faster incision recovery, even though his surgery had included additional nasopharyngeal and maxillary dental repairs.

To be precise, you could say his recovery was a full day faster.

But the biggest difference in their postoperative recovery was their appearance.

If you ignored the still-healing sutures on Lele’s upper lip, the shape of his mouth and nose was already almost indistinguishable from that of a normal child.

Huanhuan’s mouth and nose, on the other hand, had a very obvious irregularity and strangeness to them.

Around the age of twelve, it would be very necessary for her to undergo another plastic surgery.

The comparison of the postoperative results was so stark, and with his department head right there, Yan Feifan didn’t bother to hide his smug grin.

Wang Chuan glanced at him and chuckled. “That Dr. Ge Xianghui borrowed the video of your surgery to study it. A couple of days ago, he even asked me several questions about cleft lip surgery.”

“From the looks of it, he’s determined to make a name for himself in cleft lip repair.”

Yan Feifan let out a soft “oh” and said, somewhat puzzled, “Cleft lip repair isn’t a major surgery. How much of a name can you really make with it?”

Wang Chuan scoffed lightly. “Only you would have the confidence to say something like that.”

He sighed again. “Cleft lip repair may not be a major surgery, but every child’s cleft condition is different.”

“Moreover, the surgery involves several departments, such as oral surgery, plastic surgery, and pediatrics.”

“For a single doctor to complete the repair and reconstruction of several areas in one operation, like you did, is extremely difficult.”

“Even if they could, it would be very hard to achieve postoperative results on your level.”

Wang Chuan emphasized, “If Ge Xianghui can complete all the work by himself in this one type of surgery and achieve even eighty percent of your skill level, it would be enough for him to tower over the other doctors in this field.”

Yan Feifan couldn’t help but grin. “Mr. Wang, by that logic, doesn’t that mean I can be considered an expert in this single procedure of cleft lip repair?”

Wang Chuan was taken aback for a moment, then said with some frustration, “You could say that. Feifan, based on Lele’s surgery alone, you’re more than qualified to be called an expert in cleft lip repair.”

“I’ll admit it—even if I were the lead surgeon, I couldn’t achieve your level of results.”

Trying to save face, Wang Chuan quickly added, “What I mean is, if I were to focus all my energy and put in a great deal of effort into cleft lip repair, I could definitely do an excellent job.”

“It’s just that now…”

Yan Feifan smiled and said, “Mr. Wang, I know what you mean. A somewhat complex but minor surgery like cleft lip repair is something that doctors with lofty ambitions wouldn’t even deign to look at.”

“And the average doctor who wants to do it well doesn’t have the skill.”

Wang Chuan smiled faintly and nodded. “You understand perfectly.”

“That guy Ge Xianghui has probably figured this out and wants to use this single procedure to make a name for himself.”

Wang Chuan said quietly, “There are too many skilled doctors at our Affiliated Hospital. If you want to get a firm foothold and stand out, you need a signature skill that puts you above the rest.”

“It’s like how when you mention gastroduodenal anastomosis surgery, you think of Dr. Peng Ling from General Surgery, and when you mention atrioventricular septal defect repair, you think of Dr. Zhou Xian from Cardiac Surgery.”

“Perfecting a single type of surgery is a shortcut to fame.”

“Of course…”

Wang Chuan added, his voice tinged with pride, “A truly ambitious doctor with drive won’t limit themselves to a single field.”

“If I had to do rhinoplasties every single day, I’d definitely get sick of it.”

“We must always challenge ourselves…”

Hearing this, Yan Feifan couldn’t help but mutter to himself.

’My goal is to be an all-around surgeon. I’m probably the doctor at the Affiliated Hospital who’s most willing to challenge himself…’

「At nine in the morning.」

Yan Feifan first reported the results of his research on the injuries of the national badminton player, Guo Fan, to Professor Qin Ying.

“Professor, I can treat his injuries.”

Qin Ying wasn’t the least bit surprised by this response. She said calmly, “I’ll inform him and have him clear his schedule to come to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible.”

She then asked, “Have you set a specific date for that nasal deformity plastic surgery?”

Yan Feifan admitted, “Mr. Wang said that the child’s rhinoplasty is a bit complex for me, since it would be my first time performing such a surgery.”

“To ensure there are no problems, he needs to find me a simpler rhinoplasty case to practice on first.”

Qin Ying let out a soft “oh” and said thoughtfully, “In that case, I have just the person for you to practice on.”

She explained, “He’s a former patient of mine from an accident. His injuries were severe at the time, so we didn’t have the luxury of dealing with his nose.”

“I was originally thinking of having you repair his nose after you finished the nasal deformity surgery.”

“Since you need a simple surgery for practice, I’m confident that with your skills, there won’t be any issues…”

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