Famous Among Top Surgeons in the 90s
Chapter 441 - Chapter 441 Field Shock

Chapter 441: Field Shock Chapter 441: Field Shock Normal human tissues look a bit like the various internal organs of a pig, but they are actually more pleasant to the eye. This is because healthy things, no matter how they grow, are definitely more pleasing to look at.

Malignant tumors are different. You know they’re bad. As they grow larger, revealing their true nature, the visual differences from normal tissues become even more evident, especially when they cause extensive destruction of the body’s ordinary structures, resulting in a quite disgusting scene.

For instance, the old lady’s normal intestines had long been massively invaded by malignant tumors, with normal tissues turning into tumor tissues, significantly distorting their appearance. They were ulcerative tumors, and the tumors themselves would erode and necrotize, leaving the surgeon to face a pile of rotting flesh. And it was even worse with a surgical magnifying glass, forcing a closer inspection of the decayed flesh. With this in mind, not all surgeons could feel that sense of disgust as they worked.

All one could say was that doctors, having seen it often, became numb to it.

Beyond the visual impact, the occasional odor wafting from the operating table was truly nauseating. Intestinal tumors could block feces, which, once cut open and exposed by the surgeon, you can imagine the sensory experience and smell.

No wonder some say that surgeons do the dirty work, getting their hands bloody and also having to excavate a bunch of filth from inside the body. Some gastroenterological surgeons even describe themselves as ‘manure workers’, as the intestines are indeed blocked by feces.

After cutting off the blood supply and fully excising the huge tumor and the surrounding necrotic tissue, meticulous cleaning of the elderly lady’s intestines was necessary. During this, the operating individual needed to remove all notions of disgust from their mind, leaving only the professional medical thought process. Otherwise, how could they continue?

Speaking of which, last time Xie Wanying’s two classmates fainted, afterward Zhao Zhaowei and Li Qi’an both denied fainting due to losing their grip, privately claiming it was the sight of something too revolting inside someone’s body that shocked them into unconsciousness. That seemed right, as the two had fainted too quickly to have been from simply lacking the stamina to hold on any longer, not to mention that they were both male.

The pathology specimens in the anatomy lab are soaked in formalin, processed, and thus relatively neater in appearance, as well as being inanimate. Unlike the living, a pile of moving decay inside an active human body is something else. Rotten things in motion, akin to monsters wriggling about in a horror movie. Therefore, medical students used to the dissecting room aren’t necessarily able to immediately adapt to the sights encountered on the operating table.

Even for a surgeon, sometimes encountering particularly disgusting things they haven’t seen before could still cause a sense of physical discomfort.

Now, as Li Wenhao watched, he suddenly felt something churning in his stomach. To handle the physical demands of gripping the retractor, he had eaten a larger breakfast than usual today.

The acidic stench seemed to seep out from his mask. Right there and then, Shi Xu said, “You should go down, we’ll switch someone else in.”

The surgeon wasn’t worried about smelling his breath; it was the fear that if he couldn’t control his stomach’s reaction, he might contaminate the surgical area.

Struggling unsuccessfully to cope, Li Wenhao handed over the retractor to Zhang Zhongqiang. At this point, the operation had just passed an hour and a half and was less than halfway done. When Zhang Zhongqiang took over, he glanced at the other two behind him, “Don’t leave, if I can’t manage it, you need to step in.”

Luo Yanfen and Li Wenhao, leaning against the wall catching their breath, nodded at him, “We’re not going anywhere, we won’t leave.”