Chapter 1592: Chapter 1592
Chapter 1592: Chapter 1173: What Kind of Person Is This?
“Dr. John, I am Dr. John from the Mayo Clinic in the United States.” John Ansen prompted.
Yu Shuilian remembered now. He had indeed been here a few times, but not frequently, unlike Robert and the others who visited often and were quite familiar.
“Dr. John, is it you?” Yu Shuilian finally recognized him.
The surnames of these foreigners are quite long, so the people at Sanbo Hospital like to use the first syllable of their surname’s transliteration to address them, thus forcefully adapting them to the Chinese habit of calling them Dr. Someone.
For instance, Robert is Dr. Luo, August is Dr. Ao, and this John Ansen is simply shortened to Dr. John, which sounds strange and unpleasant at first, but over time, one naturally becomes accustomed to it.
“Yes, you’ve remembered, haven’t you?”
Yu Shuilian immediately shook hands with John Ansen.
“This is my friend, Dr. Morris.” John Ansen introduced.
“Is he also here for training?” Yu Shuilian asked enthusiastically.
John Ansen shook his head: “No, his daughter is here for surgery with Professor Yang.”
Upon hearing about the surgery, Yu Shuilian became interested and immediately said: “You’ve come to the right place, Professor Yang is the world’s best doctor.”
John Ansen translated for Morris.
The two ordered bread and milk tea, chatting while eating and sitting in the shop for a while.
After leaving the shop, John Ansen led Morris to the teaching room of the research institute’s ward, where there were many surgical videos. With the administrator’s permission, they watched the video of the surgery Yang Ping performed on Yu Shuilian at the time, giving him a glimpse of how a genius surgeon operates.
After watching it, Morris once doubted if the video was fast-forwarded, but upon confirming that the video was played normally, he was shocked again, even more than during the laboratory visit. That was basic medicine; now it was the surgical field Morris was most familiar with.
The chief surgeon in the video demonstrated surgical skills so transcendent that Morris admitted he could never reach such a high level of surgical excellence.
After careful consideration, Morris finally signed the informed consent for the surgery, formally scheduling his daughter’s procedure.
Ruixing began producing custom spine internal fixation devices and “growable” titanium plates, which were necessary implants for the surgery. The skin and muscle cultures from the Stem Cell Laboratory also met the surgical requirements, and everything was ready for the surgery to be scheduled.
Somehow, this news leaked to a certain U.S. media outlet, causing an uproar.
The fact that the daughter of a renowned American doctor needed surgery in China suggested that Chinese doctors were more skilled than American ones, which hurt the pride of many American doctors. They believed there must be an ulterior motive behind the matter.
Many of Morris’s friends, especially those involved in the discussion of his daughter’s treatment plan, called Morris for verification. Morris confirmed this and even explained the specific surgical plan to them.
They exclaimed: “How is this possible? This must be an experimental surgery without any certainty, a crazy surgical showcase.”
“Morris, this is impossible. Please use your common sense to judge; the probability of successfully separating the head is minuscule, which makes the surgery impractical.”
“Your daughter will become a sacrificial lamb in an experiment, and they are exaggerating.”
“In the United States, this surgery can’t even be done, and yet China can do it?”
“This is truly ridiculous. We currently cannot separate the intertwined brainstem; how can he manage to do it?”
“You should be cautious; surely there’s something wrong here.”
This was the reaction of most people, even though Yang Ping had won the Nobel Prize, they still believed his achievements were in the basic medical field, and it was preposterous for a basic medical scholar to perform surgery, especially such an impossible operation.
However, when they searched for Yang Ping’s papers, they found that he had not only published basic medicine papers but also orthopedic clinical medicine papers, indicating he truly was a surgeon capable of operating. But being an orthopedic surgeon, how could he perform such a surgery? Even if he could, he could only separate the spine, right?
But there were also a few doctors familiar with Yang Ping who were excited, believing Professor Yang was about to create another miracle, especially those doctors involved in the NASA emergency space rescue, who knew well of Yang Ping’s genius surgical abilities.
For example, Massimo, the interventional master from Johns Hopkins Hospital, still frequently recalls the scene of Yang Ping using remote surgical equipment to operate on NASA’s astronauts.
Johns Hopkins Hospital was holding a hospital-wide consultation meeting.
Not everyone had arrived yet, and someone started discussing current hot topics in the medical world.
“It’s a joke that this Chinese doctor dares to perform such surgery; is he capable? I’ve heard this doctor also won a Nobel Prize for genetic research achievements.”
”Is he a surgeon or a geneticist? Or perhaps a stem cell scientist? I haven’t figured it out yet.”
“They always like to engage in such super projects to flaunt their prowess; does it make sense? I participated in the surgical evaluation of these sisters; objectively speaking, the surgery is impossible as current surgical technology does not reach this level. For instance, how can the intertwined brainstem and spinal cord be separated? Current anatomical knowledge cannot discern the allocation of these mixed nerve nuclei; even a single mistake would cause both to cease breathing and heartbeat during the surgery. I find this affair ridiculous, more like an academic showcase.”
“Is it a New York doctor’s daughter? He himself is a neurosurgeon, how could he naively trust others and use his daughter for experiments.”
“But the chief surgeon is Professor Yang, a Nobel Prize winner; he must have his approach.”
“He won the Nobel Prize in genetics or stem cell fields, not clinical medicine; surgery isn’t his specialty, which has nothing to do with winning any award.”
“Hard to say, Germany’s Manstein excelled across multiple disciplines, reaching the pinnacle of each.”
“Manstein? How many such people are there? There’s only been one in the whole world so far.”
“Heard many doctors have called the New York doctor, requesting a live broadcast of the surgery; we can watch the show then.”
The meeting room was buzzing with discussion, unable to help but talk due to the significant impact of this matter.
”Everyone! Seems like there are numerous opinions regarding the surgery on the conjoined twins?” Massimo tapped the desktop.
Massimo was a master in interventional medicine, holding a high position in the hospital. So upon hearing him speak, everyone paused their discussions and shifted their focus, eager to hear his views.
“If the surgery will be broadcasted live, I suggest you find time to watch it; it will benefit you for life.” Massimo didn’t want to comment further. This bunch was merely expressing ignorant opinions within their narrow circles.
“Excuse me, Dr. Massimo, what do you mean?” Someone didn’t understand Massimo’s meaning.
Massimo said indifferently: “The chief surgeon is Professor Yang Ping from China. I am more familiar with him than anyone else here. He is a clinical doctor, and as far as I know, his main profession is orthopedic surgery. The Nobel Prize-winning achievements are only incidental results from his spare time efforts, not his primary occupation.”
Everyone exclaimed immediately: “Do you mean—that his Nobel-winning results were achieved in his spare time?”
“Yes, that’s correct. He is an even more versatile player than Manstein, covering basic and clinical medicine across various disciplines. He just doesn’t like publishing papers in English. Of course, regardless of his preferences, he still reluctantly published over ten papers in English in the journals Nature, Science, and Cell.” Massimo spoke plainly, but his words were clear. ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs, ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ᴠɪsɪᴛ N0velFire.ɴet
“Over ten papers?” Everyone exclaimed again.
“He occasionally performs interventional surgeries, just occasionally, but his interventional surgery skills surpass mine. I have personally witnessed him operate.” Massimo finally stated.
Surpassing Massimo’s level? What level is that? Isn’t Massimo’s level world-class?
Moreover, he only occasionally performs interventional surgeries yet exceeds Massimo’s level, and his part-time achievements won a Nobel Prize; what kind of person is this?
“Time’s up, let’s begin our hospital-wide consultation.”
Massimo checked the time and ended the discussion.