Surgery Godfather
Chapter 1241 - 954: Eradicating Illiteracy

Chapter 1241: Chapter 954: Eradicating Illiteracy

Thinking required knowledge as content, and without relevant knowledge in the brain, it was naturally impossible to deliberate.

Zhang Lin and Little Five felt much more at ease now that nobody could identify the disease despite their earlier recklessness that had almost cost them their reputation. At least their image among the students wasn’t too severely damaged.

"Could this be a special type of tumor that has eroded all the bone tissue?" speculated Li Guodong.

The reason Li Guodong prefixed the word ’special’ was that in his mind, no such bone tumor existed that presented in this way, whether primary or metastatic.

The learning and research atmosphere at the Surgical Research Institute was very positive. In discussions like these, everyone would speak freely regardless of right or wrong, and even somewhat ridiculous ideas wouldn’t be met with ridicule or criticism.

Generally, the order of speaking in case discussions progressed from doctors with less seniority to those with more, because more experienced doctors had richer knowledge and experience. If the senior doctors spoke first, they might preclude the juniors from contributing.

As a leader in his department, Yang Ping would naturally be the last to speak and summarize, which allowed for free discussion; otherwise, answering straightaway would immediately end the conversation.

"Hmm, I also think this could be a special tumor, but none of the bone tumors we know of have such manifestations," Doctor Zhao Wenbo agreed somewhat with Li Guodong.

Li Guodong and Zhao Wenbo were archenemies; it was rare for them to agree, as they usually debated heatedly, making the younger doctors doubt life itself.

Especially when it came to traditional Chinese medicine, Li Guodong and Zhao Wenbo would start bickering immediately upon speaking because their views were completely opposed, with Zhao Wenbo passionately defending traditional Chinese medicine and Li Guodong consistently dousing cold water on his arguments, leading to frequent arguments over the topic.

Regarding this case, they couldn’t bicker as they both lacked knowledge of the disease, which left them without a foundation for debate, and thus they stood on the same side.

"It might also be a special infection, maybe a bacterial or viral one, or some other microorganism causing osteomyelitis, leading to extensive bone absorption," a graduate student boldly proposed.

"What kind of virus or bacteria behaves like this? I haven’t read about it in any papers," another graduate student expressed skepticism.

"Could it be an extreme manifestation of bone necrosis following occlusion of stress or disruption of bone blood supply? Is that possible?"

This idea was quite novel.

"Impossible. Occlusion of stress causes only bone porosity, and disruption of the blood supply, even if it leads to extensive bone necrosis, wouldn’t cause such massive absorption, especially not within a year,"

"Is there something wrong with the X-rays? Could it be a distortion in the image caused by the projection?"

A graduate student stood up, moving closer to the projected X-rays, trying to get a clearer view.

Although the question might seem naive, it was still a valid concern. The essence of scientific spirit is doubt and exploration; without the spirit of questioning, achieving success in science is impossible.

"The X-rays we rechecked several times were the same," Song Zimo brought up another X-ray, similar to the previous one.

Experienced doctors like Zhang Lin and Little Five were puzzled, not to mention the graduate students, standardized training students, and interns. The graduate students were somewhat better off, as their specialty was orthopedics, but the others were rotating through various specialties and lacked the depth and breadth of knowledge in any specific field.

Any specialized knowledge required a long accumulation of experience. Without it, merely relying on the basic information from textbooks achieved nothing; textbooks only served as a professional introduction.

"This is strange. Could it possibly be related to a metallic substance? Could the patient have a unique reaction to the metal, leading to bone absorption?" Xia Shu offered his view; he was a doctoral student specializing in cardiac surgery, and his knowledge of orthopedics was minimal, hence he was just an observer.

Sitting beside Xia Shu, Dr. Jin, who had been studying the patient’s medical records, now raised his head and said,

"Let me add something. I consider the patient’s femoral shaft absorption could be idiopathic bone resorption, a rare disease with not more than two hundred reported cases worldwide. From all the literature I’ve reviewed, aside from bone resorption, I can’t think of any other disease that would cause the femur to vanish in such large sections."

Idiopathic bone resorption?

The diagnosis was simple, just a few words, but nobody had heard of the disease or seen it in literature; they knew nothing about it.

Both Song Zimo and Xu Zhiliang had already considered bone resorption, as they had studied rare diseases. However, Zhang Lin and Little Five had not yet reached this stage of learning and had not encountered this knowledge, so they naturally hadn’t thought of it.

The two had planned to speak later, but Old Jin had unraveled the mystery earlier, marking him as well-read; Old Jin, already in his forties and still a primary care doctor, contrasted with Director Ouyang of the Major Orthopedic Department, who led his own team.

All along, Old Jin was perceived as calm and diligent, consistently focused on clinical practice. Aside from reading and studying, his only other activity was performing surgeries, without indulgences such as drinking or social entertainment.

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