Chapter 180 - The Benefits of A Senior Professor (1/2)

“About twenty days ago, the girl suddenly experienced excruciating pain during a meal and was admitted to a hospital in my hometown,” Fang Lin said, “She has undergone various tests, but the results have been disappointing.”

“Fortunately, Boss Zheng was here,” said another man with a smile.

“No, Brother Fang’s boss also wanted to perform a tissue biopsy, right?” replied Zheng Ren.

“Had I been the one to handle this case, I would certainly not perform a tissue biopsy due to its high risk.” Fang Lin recalled the patient’s imaging films and said truthfully, “First of all, the PET-CT result confirmed the diagnosis. Secondly, we might not be able to stop the hemorrhaging as the tumor has a rich vascular supply. Boss Zheng, how confident would you be that intraoperative accidents would not happen if you were the one performing the surgery?”

“I can’t,” Zheng Ren said frankly, “I’m just a general surgeon working as chief resident in the emergency department.”

‘And I don’t have the extra skill points to learn cardiothoracic surgery, either,’ he thought.

“…” Everyone except Su Yun looked at him, surprised.

Chief resident in the emergency department of a third-tier city? How low-level was that? Out of the millions of doctors in the county, he was merely at the first step of his career and many times inferior to the doctoral students in the top hospitals of Imperial and Sorcery Capital.

Those were not even the main problem. Most importantly, he was simply a general surgeon.

What the f*ck…

The huge difference in skill made the atmosphere gloomy again.

Zheng Ren had steamrolled everyone with his powerful abilities.

“Let’s not talk about this any further.” Su Yun helped himself to a gla.s.s of Laphroaig and savored the unique taste of iodine before asking with a smile, “Do any of you know the progression of the scientific research?”

Fang Lin and the rest were caught in a trance. After a while, a young doctoral student sitting near the door answered, “My boss was asked to formulate subsequent plans a few days ago, but there hasn’t been a breakthrough. The current difficulties lie with the lack of major blood supplies, and the capillary network is too dense for complete embolization. Also, the materials used have to be strictly monitored due to the small diameters of the vessels, and the surgeon has to be skilled in this domain.”

“The big bosses’ imaginations have gone wild. I’m not optimistic about this research project.” Fang Lin clinked gla.s.ses with Su Yun.

It was a bold and generous move, but Fang Lin merely took a sip instead of chugging it down.

“I heard that Biosensors International is developing thinner guidewires and catheters, and that they’re doing research in Sorcery Capital now.”

“Huh? Why?” Zheng Ren was puzzled.

Prostate artery embolization was bound to be unpopular, especially with the usage of newly developed micro-guidewires and microcatheters, as they also meant sky-high medical charges. Ordinary citizens were unable to bear such costs and it was thus difficult for developers to earn profit as well.

“There are too many reasons.” Fang Lin smiled. “We normally remove the hyperplastic prostate instead of performing interventional radiology. The only patients who require such a tedious treatment are geriatrics with blood clotting disorders or heart disease. If they have cardiac arrest intraoperatively due to pain, we would be in serious trouble.”

Zheng Ren understood immediately.

Even though Fang Lin did not provide a detailed explanation, Zheng Ren was still able to make sense of what he was trying to say.

“I heard that the inst.i.tute has gathered many medical experts. It was originally unintentional, but it’s too late for the big bosses to go back now.”

Zheng Ren suddenly noticed that everyone had their eyes fixed on him.

Their gazes contained various complex emotions such as pity…

Did they think he was a scapegoat?

Zheng Ren did not think so. He was simply too inferior to take such ma.s.sive blame.

Everyone chatted leisurely afterward—they went over every piece of gossip in the hospital, from which doctors had performed what operations, to a deputy chief consultant of a department who had resigned after being unable to obtain a promotion and gone on to work as a chief consultant in a competing hospital.

Zheng Ren continued devouring the cherry-shaped foie gras in silence with Xie Yiren fully occupying his mind. Would she try to move on after savoring such delicious food?

That foodie.