Surgery Godfather
Chapter 1125 - 903: The Strongest Turns Out to Be Oneself_2

Chapter 1125: Chapter 903: The Strongest Turns Out to Be Oneself_2

Actually, whether a surgery can be performed is a technical issue, and whether it should be performed is an ethical issue.

Currently, head transplant surgery has not even started; there is zero accumulation, and the so-called head transplant surgery that the world loudly debates completely lacks technical basis.

"If head transplant surgery could succeed, how wonderful that would be. It would truly benefit humanity. In the future, as long as the head is intact, there would still be hope of being saved. In the end, one could simply swap out the body. Why is it still ethically prohibited?" a standardized training student curiously asked.

Yang Ping said, "We humans have lived on Earth for so long, already establishing a set of profound basic ethical and moral rules. Relying on these ethical and moral guidelines, we manage relationships among people. This also reflects, in some ways, why we are human, and why we are different from animals. As for the head transplant surgery, do you say the body is the main part or the head is the main part?"

"Although the body makes up a larger proportion, the head controls the body, so naturally the head is the main part," another graduate student answered from a medical common-sense perspective.

"Then if someone undergoes a head transplant, would the children he bears be considered the head’s or the body’s?" Yang Ping asked everyone.

This question indeed was troublesome; the idea came from the head, but the actions were done by the body, whose child is it then?

There was a heated debate among everyone, and for a moment, it was truly impossible to determine whose child it would be.

Yang Ping continued using some historic ethical medical cases to explain the ethical issues.

"In our country during the 1970s, there was a case of a testicle transplant where a father’s testicle was transplanted to his son, and the surgery was successful. Later, the son got married and had children. Ethically speaking, whose children are those? This sparked intense discussion at the time, and later our country prohibited testicle transplants."

This case made everyone think hard; yes, sperm is secreted by the testicles, and this testicle was his father’s, so whose child is it, his or his father’s? It really was controversial.

"Returning to the person who underwent the head transplant, let us assume the head transplants are to be conducted only between the same gender. If he is male, having completed the surgery, whose wife does he continue to live with, considering both the head and body had wives prior to the surgery?"

"Live with the head’s wife? His wife would be facing a stranger’s body; live with the body’s wife? His wife would be facing a stranger’s head and consciousness."

No sooner had Yang Ping paused than everyone immediately began discussing it. With whom does one continue life?

Indeed, it involves complex ethical issues, and just feels less prominent than the ethical issues in kidney or liver transplants, which is why people are not very focused on this aspect.

Everyone spent a bit too much time on the topic of head transplant surgery, but gradually gained a comprehensive understanding of it.

Everyone worked hard, studied for about two hours, and finally, Song Zimo and Xu Zhiliang video-called everyone, saying they had to continue their inspections and that their return time was to be determined.

Zhang Lin and Little Five, hearing that Song Zimo and Xu Zhiliang wouldn’t be returning from Europe for the time being, were really thrilled.

When Song Zimo and Xu Zhiliang had just left, Zhang Lin and Little Five were still a bit worried, fearing they might not cope well. But after adapting over a few days, they felt completely capable of handling things, and their courage had grown considerably.

The study session ended, and everyone went on with their tasks; surprisingly, many people didn’t leave work. Instead, they immediately rushed into the training room to practice the basics, including Zhang Lin, Little Five, Dr. Jin, Dr. Wen, and Xia Shu.

Yang Ping returned to his own office to rest, also looking at private messages from Song Zimo, containing sensitive matters which were not appropriate to discuss in the report, such as Manstein agreeing to be Yang Ping’s Nobel Prize recommender.

As for the Nobel Prize, Yang Ping was very interested, especially because the third phase of the System Space’s long-term task was to win the Nobel Prize. If completed, System Space would provide a supercomputing computer, which was very important for Yang Ping.

Yang Ping was a "profit-seeking" person; given such a lucrative reward, why not strive for the Nobel Prize?

When this long-term task was issued by the system, Yang Ping had felt that the task was too difficult and somewhat absurd, considering the low feasibility of achievement within just three years.

The Nobel Prize, after all, doesn’t just depend on whether your scientific achievements meet the criteria for the award; it is also influenced by many other factors, and human interference is certainly among them.

Yang Ping was now completely confident in his accomplishments. If he let Manstein be the recommender for the Nobel Prize, considering Manstein’s status in the medical academic community, there was an 80 percent chance of success. If his academic achievements combined with Manstein’s influence couldn’t win the Nobel Prize, then the Nobel Prize wasn’t worth pursuing.

Yang Ping believed in pursuing advantageous opportunities, both long-term and short-term. He had no interest in things without benefits; if it weren’t for the rewards from System Space, he wouldn’t care at all about the Nobel Prize. "You love playing with it, go ahead, but I’m not interested," he would say.

As for Manstein’s request to repeat the experiment on spatial orientation genes, Yang Ping readily agreed.

Yang Ping’s purpose in doing research was, loftily speaking, to benefit humanity and advance medical science. He originally had no intention of using these to make money.

But even if he didn’t make money himself, others would use his scientific results to earn profits,

So Yang Ping didn’t want his scientific results to become tools in the hands of these capital moguls, nor did he want his achievements to sit idle. That’s why he started a company to serve his own research.

Any scientific experiment must be repeatable to gain global recognition; experiments that can’t be replicated are considered invalid or fraudulent.

Technology should be disseminated to benefit humanity without being strangled or exploited by big capital, so a balance between keeping technology confidential and spreading it must be found.

Fortunately, for these matters, Yang Ping didn’t need to worry too much; the laboratory director, Tang Shun, was a veteran in this field. He was not only a top researcher in his specialty but also adept at managing these complex relationships, maneuvering effortlessly among these entities—perhaps it was a talent he possessed.

Regarding these two matters, Yang Ping immediately replied to Song Zimo, "Agreed! What are you waiting for to come back and discuss? Get everything done in Germany."

Yang Ping was always direct. Why beat around the bush and waste time? If it’s a go, it’s a go; if not, it’s not. Everyone is still in Europe, so why wait to come back and discuss? It’d be like taking off your pants to fart.

Having dealt with this matter, Yang Ping saw that he had new emails in his inbox, sent by Ivan.

Since Yang Ping had declined the surgery invitation from Langnaife in Canada, Ivan had no choice but to conduct the surgery on the Sicilian tycoon’s daughter on his own.

The email included Ivan’s surgical plan, which he sent to Yang Ping for his opinion. Ivan planned to first correct the bones, then either perform an allogeneic facial transplant or reconstruct the face, and finally conduct skin grafting on scars across the body.

Of course, many other soft tissues also required complex correction, such as muscles, tendons, and ligaments, among others.

Facial surgery was the most difficult and meticulous; thus, Ivan prepared two plans: allogeneic facial transplantation and facial reconstruction, with facial reconstruction as the preferred method. Allogeneic facial transplantation, requiring lifelong immunosuppressive medication, could not be the first choice.

Ivan was extremely meticulous in his preoperative planning. To achieve the best possible outcome, his surgical plan was very detailed, meticulously scanning and labeling the facial blood vessels and nerves before surgery, later to be potentially used as recipient vessels.

Because facial transplantation aimed not only to restore the facial contours but also to recover facial sensation and movement, this was crucial to restore normal expressions.

To achieve the perfect surgical results, Ivan had drawn over three thousand surgical sketches, which he now sent over.

"Who has time to look at all this stuff? Over three thousand drawings, it’d take so much time to look at them one by one."

"I’ll look at them slowly when I have time; it’s not a lifesaving surgery, just cosmetic surgery. No rush."

It was now time to go home. Xiao Su’s belly was growing bigger as the due date approached, and Yang Ping wanted to spend more time with his wife.

Their son wasn’t even born yet, but everything from diapers and clothes to the baby stroller had been prepared by friends.

Even the future interest classes were preemptively secured by Robert, and that wasn’t even the most outrageous part; the most outrageous was that Ning Qi had already booked the role of the child’s godmother, even though she was not yet married and eagerly wanting to be the child’s godmother.

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