GDLR - Great Doctor Ling Ran

Chapter 54 - Praise

The newly-opened ward still seemed to carry the bleakness of the storeroom it once was. Even the light that shone inside through the glass window seemed to carry around the air of a weak patient after it was reflected off the window.

But the arrival of more and more doctors unexpectedly chased away the chill shrouding the patient's family members.

The skinny old doctor whom they crowded around especially gave them a long-awaited feeling of relaxation.

"Department Director Huo, please print the hand function assessment form. Let us do it on-site. You can find the form on the intranet in the Hand Surgery Department's folder." Wang Haiyang did that out of curiosity more than anything.

He had worked in the Hand Surgery Department for a very long time. Barely ten years ago, the M-Tang technique sent tidal waves through the field of hand surgery when it first emerged, especially among the hand surgeons in China.

After all, it was a Chinese person's world-class achievement. He even won the 'National Science and Technology Progress Award' for it.

Nowadays, the M-Tang technique would definitely be mentioned whenever the PowerPoint slides in hand surgery lectures talked about the development of hand surgery in the nineties.

However, understanding and mastery were two different things.

Wang Haiyang did not choose to learn the M-Tang technique at that time, and had even lesser motivation to do so after that.

Of course, even if he wanted to learn the M-Tang technique at that time, he might not even had been capable of it. You would know it just by looking at Department Associate Director Pan who prospered in the Hand Surgery Department. At least twenty or thirty percent of the fact that he became associate department director at such a young age could be credited to his mastery of the M-Tang technique.

When he thought about this, Wang Haiyang became even more interested in Ling Ran and his skills.

A resident doctor was sent out to print the hand function assessment forms.

Not long after that, he came back with a stack of assessment forms and gave everyone a copy.

"We'll just take this as a test." Wang Haiyang chuckled. He gave each of the patient's family members a copy of the assessment form too and said, "Just do it according to the form, and I'll give you a score. The patient has already done the first item just now—pushing his fingers together. Let's start from the easiest one, press the tips of your forefinger and thumb together... Try to draw away your fingers, then bring your fingers together... Next, rotate your wrist..."

Wang Haiyang scored everyone item by item. It could be seen from the form that the patient did not score highly for any of the items.

For example, the patient could not even reach the fifty-degree benchmark when it came to wrist rotation, and only got one mark as consolation.

But even so, Wang Haiyang was already extremely shocked.

Tendons needed time to heal. Usually, a patient could only be discharged sixteen weeks after the surgery. The first postoperative stage itself took between three to four weeks.

This was the best result a patient who just finished his surgery three weeks ago could achieve in this test.

"It's very rare that patients get to retain their hand function after such a serious injury." Wang Haiyang had made countless ward rounds and talked many times to the patients' families in his life. He comforted the patient's family members again and gave them a few words of advise. "The next few days will be very important. The tasks can be allocated among the family members. Please make sure that not all of you are here constantly; arrange the time among yourselves, only one person needs to be here at one time."