Chapter 22 (2/2)
He gritted his teeth. There was nothing he could say to Old Chief Physician Pan in the face of such utter defeat.
Patience. He had to wait for Zheng Ren to make a mistake.
All he needed was one mistake. Just one!
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There were people still chatting in the Xinglin Garden livestream.
Around ten minutes had pa.s.sed when there was sudden movement in the livestream. Preparations were being made for another patient.
[I’m game for a second round!]
[Luckily I haven’t left. I’ll get to watch from start to end.]
[My, my, there’s still another live surgery? My coffee-making was clearly not a wasted effort, haha. Thank you, my lucky Nestle instant coffee. Love you.]
The livestream chatroom started to become lively again.
An opportunity to observe a live surgery was few and far between.
While preoperative preparations carried on in the background, doctors shared the livestream through WeChat to lure in colleagues, friends and cla.s.smates who were still awake at this hour.
[What am I seeing? Why are my eyes straining?]
[Is that a stent? Such an overweight patient will have a high risk of myocardial infarction.]
[The case is out. This is a quality livestream that even provides live case studies. Man, it’s another appendectomy. Is he doing an appendectomy challenge with different difficulty levels?]
When a mountain of flesh was lifted onto the operating table, the live chatroom went crazy.
Appendectomy on a bariatric patient was not as uncommon as an appendectomy during pregnancy. Even if the doctor was not a general surgeon, they would have encountered such a case during their interns.h.i.+p rotations.
This type of surgery was not as difficult as the previous one. However, every doctor knew the pain of dealing with the postoperative care of an overweight patient. The fat liquefaction and multiple dressing changes required daily was enough to make one crave death.
At least it was not their case, though, and they were just enjoying the show. Comments came in in torrents—everyone was rooting for Zheng Ren.
Xinglin Garden did not have a ‘like’ feature, so there were no rocket or racecar emojis floating onscreen.
More and more people entered the stream, breaking Xinglin Garden’s viewer record.
Everyone’s attention was on the case details: 168 centimeters and 112.5 kilograms. The mountain-like abdomen, no doubt covered with layers of adipose tissue, was like a pretty lady tugging at the heartstrings of the doctors staying up for the surgery livestream.
Old Chief Physician Pan read through the patient’s file on the computer and said, “Chief Surgeon Liu, aren’t you crafty.”
The patient had arrived not long ago. After his preliminary medical history a.s.sessment, he was immediately pushed into the operating room. Old Chief Physician Pan noted that this patient, like the pregnant one before him, was from a district bordering Sea City.
Old Chief Physician Pan was a ‘do no harm’ kind of man, but after years in medical practice, he had witnessed countless underhanded tactics.
From this small detail, he could tell that something was afoot.
They were both from bordering districts and the surgeries they required were complex and taxing.
No way this was a coincidence.
“This is Zheng Ren’s lucky day. It’s none of my business.” Having crawled out of his pit of despair and regained his composure, Chief Surgeon Liu shut down Old Chief Physician Pan’s accusation.
Such things had to be denied unless one was caught red-handed.
“Huh.” Old Chief Physician Pan dropped the subject and focused on the live screen, his right hand tapping on the old and tattered copy of Limited Views.
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