Chapter 456 - The Disappointment and Excitement After The Dimensional Reduction Blow (1/2)

At Sea City General Hospital, the TIPS surgery had been successfully completed.

Zheng Ren was preparing the foreign patient who had came into Asia for surgery to undergo prostate interventional embolization.

On the other side of the world in the Mayo Clinic, Mu Tao was holding hiscell phone in a daze.

He had been maintaining this posture for several hours, with no signs that he would move.

Like a postmodernist statue, Mu Tao stared at his phone in a daze.

The live broadcast of the surgery had long finished. Many doctors went offline one after another.

Those who could understand the surgery…were none.

Those who knew how TIPS surgery was performed expressed their confusion and admiration for the surgeons in the live broadcast room.

Those who did not know about TIPS surgery would be completely lost. From the late stage of cirrhosis to the gradual disappearance of the portal azygos devascularization operation. From the beginning when the endoscope first appeared, it took eight hours to perform a tumor operation. Until now, this was how almost all endoscope surgeries had been performed.

The development of technology and techniques had changed the environment for surgeons.

Especially with the construction of high-speed trains and the increase in the number of airports, it had shortened the distance between small and medium-sized cities in the country, provincial cities, the Capital, and Shanghai.

Now, it was difficult to be a doctor in a minor hospital, especially as a surgeon.

Twenty years ago, there were countless patients in every city who could be used as practice and allow a surgeon to hone their skills as a primary surgeon.

Now however…

Those who could receive minimally invasive treatment with a chance of survival would usually opt for that. The old chief physicians who had poor eyesight gradually lost their surgeries.

The doctors in the surgical broadcast room recalled their poast. Back then, when they performed portal vein devascularization surgery, it was considered a major surgery. They thought about how much blood one would lose and how difficult it was to recover after the surgery. All of this was vivid in everyone’s mind.

But now, a single TIPS surgery could actually be done so quickly?

In the past, all kinds of complications after TIPS surgery were difficult to resolve, especially hepatic encephalopathy. The mortality rate after surgery was even higher than portal-azygos vein devascularization surgery. Many people thought that there was no need for TIPS surgery at all.

But now, it took less than half an hour to conduct one TIPS surgery!

Even if it was appendicitis, one TIPS surgery in half an hour could be considered to be at the level of an attending physician.

What the f*ck!

It was like an unending banquet.

The live broadcast room was bustling with discussions. The doctors who knew or did not know about the TIPS surgery chatted idly, sighed emotionally before they finally dispersed.

Only Mu Tao, who knew the most about TIPS surgery and had fought hard for it, was left alone in a room in a foreign land. He felt cold and alone.

He felt a chill all over his body. It was an indescribable fear.

Mu Tao had been a top student since he was young. He was also considered the cream of the crop. He had always been the one who looked down on the other students, the common folk.

However, this TIPS surgery had made Mu Tao lose all sense of superiority.

Even in the Imperial City, he had never been so afraid and fearful before. This was also the case when he had been defeated by a young doctor from Sea City and lost the qualification to perform a prostate interventional embolization.

Initially, after seeing the medical standards of Mayo Clinic, Mu Tao felt that this was the best anyone could get. After five years of hard work, he should be able to get close to or even surpa.s.s the standards of Mayo Clinic.

Of course, he could only reach the current standard upheld by Mayo Clinic now.

After all, there were countless smart people who were researching new technologies here. Every new technique did not lack patients needed to receive treatment.

In a few years, Mu Tao was not sure how Mayo Clinic would be able to perfect the TIPS surgery.

However, in less than a few years…

The surgeons in the live broadcast room had long condensed the complexities of TIPS surgery into looking like a common surgical method. This kind of dimensional reduction was absolutely revolutionary!

In less than half an hour, the punctures were casually completed without any difficulties.

It was the casualness of it all that made Mu Tao shudder.

It was not the advancement in equipment and technology, but rather an advancement of concept and methods.