Surgery Godfather
Chapter 677 - 607: Eighty Percent Confidence

Chapter 677: Chapter 607: Eighty Percent Confidence

The Harald orthopedic hospital in Munich, with its red roof and white walls, stands simply yet elegantly.

The green of the pointed rooftops and bell tower spires contrasts the red, eliminating the feeling of restlessness that red can evoke, and giving an ambivalent implication of both energy and tranquility.

The windows in the doctors’ office are open, with sunlight filtering in obliquely, but not inhibiting the clarity of the screens.

At this moment, several top professors in the field of spinal surgery in Germany are engrossed in the hand-drawn diagrams, which can express more effectively than any language and whose anatomical accuracy surpasses any anatomical atlas they have seen before.

Once the dozens of images are presented, the playback begins again slowly, making the details of the entire surgery extremely clear.

Some professors also ask Markus to replay the images for them to scrutinize closely, and take photos of any missed images.

Resembling works of art, these exquisite diagrams leave a deep impression.

Explaining everything with images has become Professor Yang’s usual method.

Professor Yang is a man of few words. He sits by the conference table in silence, lightly tapping the table with his fingers, producing no sound and of course no hint of opera music, only some popular songs.

"Professor Yang, how confident are you about this surgery?" Professor Rambo couldn’t help but ask.

Upon hearing August’s translation, Yang Ping seriously replied, "Eighty percent!"

Eighty percent, that is, an 80% success rate. For such a highly difficult and risky surgery, these odds are extraordinarily high, or as the Chinese would say, it’s a sure thing.

An 80% success rate?

Again, everyone is taken aback, exchanging glances. Just a moment ago, they believed that emergency orthopedic surgery was a desperate measure, a gamble in a crisis, but now it appears the odds are quite favorable.

Actually, whenever asked about his confidence in a surgery, Yang Ping finds it to be a little tricky. Saying it’s too high is inappropriate, as it might come off as reckless boasting; saying it’s too low might scare people, making it seem as if he doesn’t take life seriously.

Thus, stating 80% is the most appropriate. It puts patients at ease and avoids coming across as overconfident.

Most German bigwigs thought they had misheard and that Yang Ping must, in fact, be 8% confident.

Therefore, Professor William asked on behalf of everyone, "August, what did Professor Yang just say his likelihood of success was?"

"Eighty percent!" August reiterated, deliberately articulating clearly.

"Eighty percent?"

"Yes, eighty percent!"

Professor William gasped in surprise. The German spinal surgery sector seemed to have been collectively plunged into an ice age.

Even if Professor Yang had stated 50% confidence, taken a gamble on luck, these bigwigs wouldn’t be put to shame so much.

All the big shots had been striving tirelessly for more than ten years, some even for over twenty. They have also received strong support from peers in other European countries and North America, and yet they are still helpless with this case, let alone having any confidence.

Now this seemingly young Chinese doctor claims he is 80% sure. These words are like an avalanche from the Alps, leaving everyone icy cold, speechless for a long time.

"Looking at the surgical diagrams, the spine undergoes a large three-dimensional correction. It changes from curved to straight on the X and Y axes, and there is a considerable rotation on the Z-axis. This could put a lot of tension and compression on the spine, not only damaging the fragile spinal cord, but also causing blood vessels to twist and cause thrombosis, leading to ischemic spinal cord injury." Professor Lloyd, the first one to thaw out, voiced his concern.

August’s interpretation was very timely. Yang Ping answered, "Don’t worry about that. I’ve done extensive research in this area. The correlation rule between spinal cord deformation and blood circulation during spinal correction is already clear to me. My methods of loosening and osteotomy abide by these rules, reducing the negative impact to a minimum. The spinal cord injury you’re worried about won’t happen."

The Chinese professor really has remained calm and didn’t say much. The mere mention of ’80%’ casually had already been a blow to the top doctors.

Now, he speaks with such confidence and indifference that there wouldn’t be any spinal cord injury.

Despite a decade or more of research in the field of spinal surgery in the United States and Europe, no method has been found to predict spinal cord injury except for relying on somatosensory evoked potential monitoring.

But somatosensory evoked potential monitoring is often a case of hindsight. By the time abnormal signals are detected, sometimes the spinal cord has already been damaged.

Professor Lloyd has this illusion, feeling as if he’s not conversing with a colleague from the same world.

There’s one more person with whom Professor Lloyd feels this way, and that’s Manstein from Charité Medical School.

This godlike guy is a renowned surgeon in trauma, tumor, neurology, cardiac, hepatobiliary, and plastic surgery fields, and more importantly, a Nobel laureate in medicine.

When talking with him, his eyes always give a sense of looking down on everything, as if no matter how difficult the problem others think it is, he always says, "Oh, this is easy."

Now Lloyd feels that this Chinese man’s eyes do not belittle everything but instead seem to disregard it all.

If these two were to converse, what a peculiar scene it would be—Lloyd suddenly had this whimsical thought.

"I assume Professor Yang has spent quite a bit of time researching this artificial thorax to have designed it so ingeniously?" Constantin was most interested in several diagrams of the heart and chest.

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