Surgery Godfather
Chapter 1124 - 903: The Strongest Turns Out to Be Oneself

Chapter 1124: Chapter 903: The Strongest Turns Out to Be Oneself

Yang Ping received the daily inspection reports from Song Zimo and Xu Zhiliang. The reports mentioned Manstein’s ambitious plan for head transplantation surgery. Unlike many other doctors who have claimed to conduct head transplants, Manstein was serious. He wasn’t seeking sensationalism or trying to grab people’s attention. He had a detailed plan and was tackling every technical challenge in the plan.

Every afternoon after work, Yang Ping would gather everyone in the demonstration classroom to study the inspection reports sent back by Song Zimo and Xu Zhiliang, indirectly broadening their horizons and increasing their knowledge.

By studying in advance, they would not feel unfamiliar when Song Zimo and Xu Zhiliang returned to teach at home, resulting in a better learning effect.

Yu Shuilian’s husband brought boxed meals for everyone’s dinner, and they listened to the report while eating. Zhang Lin and Little Five took turns reading the report aloud.

The boxed meals specially provided by the Surgical Research Institute were not only generous in portion but also delicious, much better than those available outside. Everyone enjoyed their meals thoroughly.

In the Surgical Research Institute, such scenes were common. Everyone was keen to learn. The competition was intense; no one dared lag behind. Whenever there was a chance, they would gather to study, discuss, and train. In such an environment, it was hard not to make progress.

Xia Shu, Dr. Jin, and Dr. Wen, as "laggards," gathered together while Zhang Lin and Little Five often paired up for studying and training. The three of them emulated Zhang Lin and Little Five by forming a team, which made the learning process very engaging.

Having eaten work meals from the Waterlily Bread Store for a long time, Xia Shu had not once ordered through WeChat. Ever since he arrived, Head Nurse Cai had helped him with meal orders, and until now, he had not ordered on his own, including breakfast. Everything was clearly arranged by the Head Nurse. If one day she did not arrange it, Xia Shu would probably be very unaccustomed. In life, he was, after all, a person who disliked inconvenience.

These inspection reports were all written by Xu Zhiliang. He included detailed introductions for every place visited, including texts, photos, and videos. The information was very rich.

When they visited Manstein’s laboratory, everyone suddenly realized how luxurious their own team’s learning conditions were. To be able to visit such a world-class laboratory seemed like a privilege.

However, when they saw videos of Song Zimo and Xu Zhiliang, they did not seem to be there to learn but to direct the work. Then everyone quickly recognized that their own Surgical Research Institute and its supporting laboratories were also world-class.

Spinal external fixation frames, precise epiphysial arrest techniques, skin expansion technology, 13 CNS articles, the top-ranked journal Medical, the world’s shocking spatial orientation gene, muscle cultured ex vivo from non-embryonic sources—weren’t all of these world-class academic achievements?

The powerhouse was themselves?

The more they counted in their minds, the stronger they felt. In the end, they realized they themselves were the strongest.

Little Five took over from Zhang Lin and continued to introduce the inspection report. When the topic of Manstein’s head transplantation surgery plan came up, everyone was very curious.

In China, head transplantation surgery was prohibited. It violated basic ethical standards.

As for head transplantation surgery, Yang Ping briefly introduced its history and current state to help everyone understand it better.

In fact, the origins of head transplantation surgery were about the same as those of liver and kidney transplants. As early as the 1950s, Soviet scientists had attempted head transplantation surgery.

They transplanted the head of one dog onto the back of another dog, creating a bizarre two-headed dog that only survived for three days. Even though the head was connected to the recipient dog’s blood supply, the nerves of the dog’s head could never connect with the recipient dog. Considering that spinal nerves were impossible to repair and connect, the Soviet Union eventually abandoned the surgery.

During the 1970s, Americans, not to be outdone, also experimented with head transplantation on dogs. However, the American head-transplant dogs did not live longer than 24 hours. Subsequent trials ended similarly. Through these surgeries, Americans also accumulated some experience and learned that central nerves in the spinal cord could not regenerate. They concluded that as long as the regeneration of spinal nerves remained unconquered, head transplantation was an impossible feat.

There were also isolated attempts by doctors at head transplantation surgery, especially an Italian doctor who was very keen on it. But all those attempts ended in failure. Just as Manstein said, without a breakthrough in spinal repair, head transplantation surgery was just a meaningless farce.

The sensational head transplantation surgery in China was performed by that Italian doctor. However, what kind of head transplantation was that? It was merely swapping the heads of two cadavers. At most, it was a simple anatomical experiment on cadavers.

With the current state of medical technology, the success of head transplantation surgery was impossible. All head transplantations were farces. Some doctors even used special glue to attempt to bind spinal nerves, which was simply ridiculous.

Aside from the issue of spinal nerve regeneration and repair, there was the problem of resisting rejection responses. If you take the head as the main body, how many organs does the body contain? With current medical conditions, to combat rejection, just the anti-rejection medication alone would be enough to kill a person. The same would be true in reverse.

In recent years, Manstein had invested most of his energy into research on spinal cord injury repair, initially hoping that it could lead to head transplantation procedures. It was unclear which nerve in his brain had misfired, making him so intensely interested in head transplantation experiments.

"Head transplantation surgery is currently zero in terms of technology and prohibited on ethical grounds in most countries. Our country explicitly bans it," Yang Ping concluded after introducing the history of head transplantation surgery.

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