Ling Ran could not wait for the elevator, so he ran down the stairs quickly through the fire exit.
Although he had been performing surgeries for almost a year, the temptation provided by appendectomies was still present to him.
In fact, for surgeons, appendectomies were practically a sign and a good omen.
If surgeries were a sign of modern medicine, the appearance of fully-developed appendectomies represented the establishment of modern scientific surgery. Meanwhile, the development of appendectomy was the result of the advancements made by researches in the field of modern scientific surgery.
Many of the interns' first surgery were appendectomies on acute appendicitis.
Ling Ran had not performed any appendectomies before. Instead, he started off with orthopedic surgeries. In truth, this development threw him slightly off-course on the road to become a surgeon.
Translator's Note:
[1] Rebound tenderness: a nonspecific clinical sign that a doctor may detect when examining the abdomen. It refers to pain or tenderness that occurs upon sudden release of pressure on the abdomen.
[2] McBurney point: a point that lies one-third of the distance laterally on a line drawn from the umbilicus to the right anterior superior iliac spine. Classically, it corresponds to the location of the base of the appendix.