Chapter 355 - A Tough Pill To Swallow (1/2)
“Professor Rudolf Wagner?” Professor Tian straightened his back subconsciously and lowered his stance like he was still studying at Heidelberg University back then and asked softly.
“Uhm, who the h.e.l.l are you? Where’d you come from?” Professor Rudolf turned aside and asked with a mixture of a Bavarian accent when he heard someone called out his name.
“…” That was none other than Professor Rudolf Wagner!
Professor Tian was stunned. Who was he? Even if he answered, Professor Rudolf might not even know who he is.
He was a renowned professor in Imperial Capital now, but he was just an ordinary postgraduate researcher at Heidelberg University a few years ago.
He was not the top student that the entire school would be aware of.
Would Professor Rudolf Wagner recognize him? The obvious answer was impossible.
However…
What was Professor Rudolf Wagner, the world’s top interventional doctor doing in Sea City? Most importantly, why was he speaking in a Northeastern accent?
Was this a sign of cosmopolitanism?
Professor Tian stood rigidly at the office door in utter silence like he used to do when he was a postgraduate.
“BrotherZhou, what happened?”
Zheng Ren greeted Dr. Zhou smilingly when he saw Dr. Zhou standing at the door in a panic.
“I… I brought Professor Tian… to look around,” Dr. Zhou stuttered. He could sense the strange atmosphere.
Especially when Professor Tian asked about Professor Rudolf Wagner after they arrived. He recalled Professor Tian telling him yesterday that Professor Rudolf from Heidelberg university was the pioneer in interventional surgery.
He stole a glance at Professor Tian and saw him standing in an upright posture that was straighter than him back when he was still studying and doing ward rounds in Imperial Capital.
Stern and meticulous, with the stoic stance of Germans.
“Come in, Brother Zhou,” Zheng Ren greeted enthusiastically.
Dr. Zhou moved forward a little, but Professor Tian was blocking the entrance. He could not just push him aside and walk-in, could he?
Zheng Ren was too focused on the patient’s condition and just noticed that something was not right. He then looked around in confusion.
What was going on?
“Professor Rudolf Wagner, I didn’t expect to see you here.” Professor Tian regained his senses and took two steps forward carefully and extended his hand.
Professor Rudolf was not keen to have this stranger interrupt his discussion with Zheng Ren on the patient’s condition.
Zheng Ren mentioned something rather interesting. No one in the field had thought of using liver DW-MRI as a preoperative a.s.sessment for TIPS surgery.
This was brilliant.
Zheng Ren had just started on this and Professor Rudolf Wagner’s mind was already filled with the idea of a novel surgical and differential diagnostic method.
The person who dared to interrupt him must be a devil!
Professor Rudolf Wagner totally ignored the enthusiastic yet cautious handshake that Professor Tian offered.
The idea of whether this person would be embarra.s.sed was not within the professor’s consideration.
The arrogance of the professor could be clearly seen.
His att.i.tude towards Zheng Ren was purely incidental, a beautiful accident.
His compliance was largely due to Zheng Ren’s extraordinary surgical skills, not because of his good temperament.