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He said it, and if Sasaki finds it unacceptable later, he will feel regretful to some extent.

If Sasaki Ichiru agrees, it would be a pleasant surprise.

Even if they didn't agree, since they had no expectations, they naturally wouldn't have any other thoughts.

When it was time to leave work, Sasaki Ichiro didn't rush to leave. He waited until he and Aki Tomoya were the only two people left in the department before he went up to them.

"An Yi-kun, do you want to go into the operating room?"

Sasaki Ichiru asked with a serious expression.

It was only at noon that he heard from Sagara about the suggestion to allow trainee doctors to enter the operating room.

When he finished get off work in the afternoon, and most of the other doctors had left and the people on duty had gone to have dinner, he found Aki Tomoya and wanted to see what he was thinking.

When Aki Tomoya heard Sasaki Ichiru's question, he was clearly taken aback.

"...It's natural that I want to be a cardiac surgeon."

How could he not want to? He aspires to be a surgeon, and the operating room is naturally the place he longs for.

He used to go into the autopsy room often and came into contact with a lot of corpses, but none of that matters. What matters is that now he is in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Kanto General Hospital!

For surgeons, the scalpel is their glory.

“That’s a good idea.”

Sasaki Ichijin nodded, his expression calm, making it impossible for Aki Rin to know what he was really thinking.

"I'm leaving now. There's a preoperative seminar tomorrow afternoon, and I also have a lot of things to do. If you're not on duty tonight, get some rest. You resident doctors work very hard, so you need to be careful to rest. Dr. Yoshida said you're quite resilient, which is good for young people, but don't overexert yourself."

As if teasing or showing concern and reminder, Sasaki went back to pack his things, then changed out of his uniform and prepared to leave.

"Walk slowly."

Aki Tomoya stayed in the ward like the last one left behind. After Sasaki left, he didn't start packing his things until the on-duty doctor returned after finishing his meal, preparing to leave.

……

"Aki-kun, Dr. Sagara seems to like you quite a bit. How do you win people's hearts?"

After Aki Tomoya entered the room, Yoshida Aoba, who was leaning against the bed reading a book, looked up and teased him.

Aki Tomoya was puzzled for a moment, not understanding what Yoshida Aoba was talking about, so he replied somewhat impatiently, "Dr. Yoshida, do you take me for some kind of sycophant?"

Aki Tomoya, bewildered, smiled wryly.

However, Yoshida Aoba looked bored and said, "Wait, weren't you specifically chosen by Dr. Sagara?"

"Specified name? Is Aki-kun a top courtesan in Ginza or Kabukicho?"

Meanwhile, on the other side, Majima also started joking, seemingly very interested in what Yoshida Aoba was saying.

Aki Tomoya sat on the bed and looked at the two people from left and right. At this point, he already knew what Yoshida Aoba was talking about.

This is just talking about surgical assistants.

At the time, Dr. Sagara was discussing the matter with Sasaki Ichiro in the department, so it was quite normal for Yoshida Aoba to have heard some rumors.

I just didn't expect him to have the leisure to bring it up at this time.

"No, no, no, Anki-kun will go into the operating room before you two. Even if he's just an assistant at the back, it's still pretty good."

Yoshida Aoba corrected him.

She wasn't exactly the top courtesan in Ginza; rather, she seized an opportunity.

Joining the surgical team at this stage is indeed a good opportunity.

Compared to observing in the observation room, being an assistant in the operating room allows for a more direct experience of the entire surgical process and procedure.

"No way, Aki-kun, you ran away again?"

Majima looked surprised, then walked over and put her arm around his shoulder, her eyes filled with a hint of envy.

"Do you think Dr. Sasaki would agree? Dr. Sagara was just saying it casually."

Dr. Sagara did try to help him, but whether Sasaki Ichijin would agree was another matter.

"There's still a chance. Sasaki probably likes you quite a bit too."

"Dr. Yoshida, does that mean everyone likes me?"

Aki Tomoya looked at Yoshida Aoba with a mixture of amusement and exasperation.

"I think it's very likely!"

"..."

Chapter 444 Everything is difficult at the beginning

Everyone likes money, and Aki Tomo didn't find the two's teasing particularly amusing. He was more concerned about whether Sasaki Ichiru would make him one of his assistants.

"Dr. Yoshida, do you think Dr. Sasaki will agree?"

"I'm not Dr. Sasaki, how would I know what he's thinking? But if I were the surgeon, I would still agree to help you if you came to me."

"But, we still need Dr. Sasaki's approval, right?"

"You just need to know that I have this intention, that's enough."

tsk...

The preoperative seminar the following day will determine whether he can enter the operating room as an assistant.

There's no point in thinking about it now; the key is what Sasaki Ichiru thinks.

The following afternoon, during the pre-operative seminar, Sasaki Ichiro intentionally arranged for the child patient whom Dr. Sagara had entrusted to him for surgery to be treated ahead of schedule.

After explaining the patient's condition in detail, the discussion about surgery was almost without surprise, and Sasaki Ichiru received the approval of the head of the department.

"I will be the lead surgeon, with Dr. Sagara as the first assistant, Dr. Nakagawa as the second assistant, Dr. Moriyama as the third assistant, and Mr. Aki as the fourth assistant."

Sasaki Ichiru explained the arrangements in the operating room in a calm, as if he had already made up his mind.

When it was announced that a trainee doctor who had only been at the hospital for three months would be taken into the operating room, everyone was somewhat surprised.

If Aki Tomoya is someone who has already completed his initial training, which involves two years of hospitalization, and is currently undergoing his later training, which is specialized training, then this decision is not surprising.

Ultimately, however, he had only been in the hospital for a very short time after obtaining his medical license.

Not counting his clinical internship during university, Aki Tomoya spent less than four months at Kanto General Hospital after obtaining his medical license, when he was officially a resident trainee.

Isn't this a bit too fast?

Everyone knows that the three resident doctors in the department are only nominally rotating throughout the hospital, but in fact, they have been in their department for three months.

This was the arrangement made by the head of the materials department. They had no objection, nor could they have one. Everyone knew the background of the head of the materials department and his position in this hospital.

Not to mention, most of the people were brought from the university hospital by the former head of the materials department. With absolute authority, no one dared to have any objections.

When Aki Tomoya first heard about it, he was somewhat surprised, because he had already begun to think that it was probably not his turn to help out.

However, the result was still a pleasant surprise.

At the pre-operative consultation meeting, Sasaki Ichirin decided to appoint him as the fourth assistant, and the head of the procedure department had no objections and readily nodded in agreement.

This makes one marvel that, under the head of the Monobuchi department, Sasaki now wields the second-largest influence, and his decisions are unsurprisingly passed in their entirety.

As for Aki Tomoya, he got his wish and entered the operating room first as a surgical assistant.

"Aki-kun, you're really amazing. You were assigned to the surgical team so quickly."

When they returned to the department, Nishikino, who was completely unaware of the incident beforehand, looked at Aki Tomoya in surprise and said...

Compared to the other two, Aki Tomoya has already moved ahead.

"It's just a fluke."

"Excessive modesty is hypocrisy."

"I agree with that statement, but I wouldn't have had the opportunity to get in if it weren't for Dr. Sagara, Dr. Nakagawa, and Dr. Moriyama as my assistants."

"You mean you have a pretty good relationship with them? But it can't be just because of that relationship, right?"

Nishikino assumed that Aki Tomoya was saying that he had a good relationship with three of these people, which was why he had this opportunity.

This is not entirely unfounded, but it shouldn't be the main reason.

"With them around, the surgery is already well-insured, so it doesn't matter whether there's an extra trainee doctor like me."

At this moment, Aki Tomoya explained.

His words made a lot of sense to Nishikino, and she couldn't find any way to refute them.

Dr. Nakagawa was their previous mentor, Dr. Sagara is their current mentor in pediatrics, they are not familiar with Moriyama but he is certainly not bad, and Sasaki Ichiru is the best in cardiac surgery.

From this perspective, there seems to be a lot of insurance coverage for the surgery.

Aki Tomoya said it this way, and there's really no way to refute it.

With them around, Aki Tomoya, as the fourth assistant, wouldn't bear much responsibility.

"But this is also a good opportunity."

Even so, it's still a pretty good opportunity.