Ling Ran cut open the patient's abdomen, layer by layer. His movements were nimble — he was neither fast nor slow.
After carrying out hepatectomy for so many patients, Ling Ran was so familiar with the surgery that his hands were on autopilot. This was especially true when it came to the beginning of the surgery. As long as there were no obvious abnormalities to the patient's anatomical structure, he could go all the way with his eyes closed.
Regardless of which hospital a doctor worked in, if he had carried out hepatectomy for more than five hundred patients, it was considered a tremendously large number. Only top-class specialists working in the Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery could achieve this, and it was usually hard for chief physicians working in the General Surgery Department to hit this number.
The advantage that this amount of experience brought about was self-evident.
Translator's notes:
[1] Lord Chunshen, born Huang Xie, was a nobleman, general, and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Chu during the late Warring States period of ancient China. (Source: Wikipedia)