Surgery Godfather
Chapter 702 - 626: We Want to Build a World-Class Laboratory

Chapter 702: Chapter 626: We Want to Build a World-Class Laboratory

Old Sir Wu’s knee preservation surgery has inspired extensive imaginative ideas from Robert and Director Gao.

In the future, it may be possible to use cultivation techniques or 3D printing technology to manufacture qualified knee joint cartilage, and then carry out cartilage replacement, similar to a joint replacement surgery, replacing all worn-out and scrapped joint cartilages.

Like replacing the tires on a car, the elderly can have youthful joints.

After all, artificial joints solve the problem of pain, but can’t compare with normal human knee joints in terms of functionality.

Currently, many teams are conducting research in this area, but they are all in the initial stages. Both cultivated and 3D printed cartilage are far from real cartilage, and therefore are basically ineffective.

Strictly speaking, real cartilage has not yet been cultivated or printed.

Robert and Director Gao, these two international brothers, are around the computer, still watching the surgical video.

This cylindrical cartilage transplantation surgery is one they often perform. However, in Professor Yang’s surgery, the transplanted cartilage not only reconstructs the shape of the medial condyle, but also predicts the new stress point after the osteotomy.

The stress point will move with the force line, which relates to some kind of geometry knowledge.

The key is to transplant the limited cartilage to the new stress point of the medial condyle. Director Gao learned a new trick.

He pulls out the USB stick, then hangs it around his neck, which is convenient. He can download surgical materials at any time, then go home to study in detail, and if he doesn’t understand something, he can ask Yang Ping for advice.

In this way, he can master Yang Ping’s techniques one by one.

With the USB drive around Director Gao’s neck, he and Robert together, knocked on Yang Ping’s office door, peeked in, and then thickly said: "Professor Yang, we still have some misunderstandings about this knee preservation surgery. Can we take a few minutes of your time to talk about it---I’ll treat you to dinner tonight, we can find a place nearby."

Yang Ping has always had a good impression of Director Gao’s enthusiasm. He also wants to spread his techniques, so he always patiently explains Director Gao’s questions.

Come over!

Yang Ping beckons, then turns the computer screen around so everyone can clearly see it.

The computer screen displays an X-ray of the knee joint. It shows some lines and triangles. Director Gao shares his doubts: "After cutting the fibula, the inner and outer sides of the tibial plateau obtain uniform subsidence, which is a common operation in knee preservation surgery. You added cartilage transplantation to this surgery. According to our video analysis, your cartilage transplantation is very precise. It almost reshaped the new stress point of the medial condyle. We don’t understand how you determine this stress point. Because under this condition, the medial condyle has been deformed and lost its previous curvature, so finding a new stress point is not easy?"

Yang Ping pointed to the lines and triangles on the computer picture: "Look, this is the line connecting the centers of the medial and lateral condyles, this is the force line, this is the perpendicular line of the force line and connecting line, and this is the stress point. I’m very familiar with these anatomical structures, so I don’t need to rely on auxiliary instruments. If you are going to perform this surgery, you can use the guides for knee joint replacement to help with positioning."

A word from the master solves the mystery!

Because Yang Ping is proficient at this surgery, he doesn’t need auxiliary equipment, and he can quickly find those points and lines.

If others don’t understand the trick and try to follow the video to perform the operation, they won’t find the stress point. They will haphazardly place the grafts, which will be ineffective. Not to mention, as a result of uneven forces, the transplanted cartilage would quickly wear out, and they would eventually conclude that the surgery was ineffective.

If the various guides used in knee joint replacements are flexibly applied to this surgery, to guide the search for the force line and the various points and lines, the problem will be much easier to solve.

Director Gao and Robert finally understood, and the two brothers nodded at the same time.

If it wasn’t for their thick skins, asking Professor Yang non-stop, they might not know when they would figure out the answer on their own.

While Yang Ping was discussing knee preservation surgery with Director Gao and Robert, Song Zimo came over and said: "Professor! Tang Shun will be back in China in a few days, he will come to Sanbo Hospital to see you."

"That’s good, help me set up a meeting. I will talk to him." Yang Ping is very concerned about the team.

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Dean Xia, accompanied by Director Han, Dean Sun, and others, took a big tour around the hospital, then threw a stick onto the ground: "This spot is the best, how about building a lab here?"

When the hospital was established, this place was not in the city center, so the government was generous and gave such a large piece of land.

If it were now, the government would not agree.

Dean Sun was visibly surprised: "Use this land to build a lab?"

A hospital alone needs such a large lab? Even university labs are not so generous, right?

All the current buildings of Sanbo Hospital were left when the hospital was established. There has not been any infrastructure built since then. Dean Xia said the hospital had enough buildings, and the money should be used to train doctors and improve their benefits and treatment.

Now the proposal to build infrastructure, to construct a laboratory, clearly contradicts Old Xia’s consistent philosophy.

First Vice Dean, Dean Sun, doesn’t know why Dean Xia has this plan, dragging everyone around the hospital on a tour, just to discuss this matter?

Among the colleagues present, only Director Han strongly agreed with this. The rest, even if they agreed on the surface, seemed extremely reluctant.

This was what Dean Xia expected, he nodded his head with great ambition:

"We can’t be without a good laboratory! You all only see the present, without looking ten years, twenty years, fifty years ahead. We need not only to build a laboratory, but to build a world-class one, to plant a phoenix tree to attract the phoenix. We currently have a golden phoenix in our hospital, but no phoenix tree. Sooner or later, it will not stay. I won’t conceal from you that I’m building this laboratory for Yang Ping. Initially, I thought that the eight-story building was sufficient. Later, I found out that the laboratory must be newly built. For example, a cryo-electron microscope needs a separate building, and the foundations need to meet specific standards. So no matter how the building is renovated, it cannot meet the standard. Let’s earmark this land first, and we can discuss the matter slowly. Plant the phoenix tree well, keep the golden phoenix, and I tell you, in the future, many phoenix will nest in our Sanbo Hospital."

But where will the money come from?

Dean Sun is worried about this too. This is not a problem that can be solved with a little money.

World-class laboratories are always calculated in billions. This might be too ambitious.

Dean Xia stared at the distant sky, then gathered his thoughts: "I have figured out the money issue. There are many ways. We can ask for it from the Overseas Chinese Foundation; I’ll do the lobbying. We can also negotiate with the hospital’s pharmaceutical equipment suppliers to delay the payment of goods for several years. Finally, if all else fails, we can use the hospital’s savings."

"Delay the payment of goods for several years? Is this appropriate?"

Dean Sun is very worried, and the other associate deans also look worried.

"There’s nothing inappropriate, if they’re unwilling, they can opt out of being our suppliers. If they want to continue, they need to cooperate with our strategy. Old Sun, we’ve worked together for so long, and we often argue about many things, but for this one, you have to support me. Think about it, our Professor Yang did not go to Xiehe, he did not go to 301, he only stayed with us. If we don’t create a good platform for him, it will ruin his future. He’s a talent that is hard to come by in five hundred years, he cannot be wasted. Since he has ended up at Sanbo, this is our great fortune. Think about it, isn’t that the case? I, Old Xia, may not have other skills, but I can see people and situations farther than any of you. Listen to me, you won’t be wrong, let’s get this laboratory up and running--"

A talent that appears only once every five hundred years, Dean Xia believes this is a conservative estimate, and the number could be even bigger.

Dean Xia is taking great strides, and Dean Sun feels out of sync, feeling an intense pain.

"We are all medical professionals, and a great talent like Yang Ping will be able to attract many talents in the future. Not long ago, Yang Ping came to me for a chat and recommended a Japanese doctoral student who had studied abroad. This student graduated from Tokyo University and is currently a leading figure in the field of stem cell research. If such a talent truly comes to join Sanbo, we cannot let them conduct just any experiment, running all over the place, today to Nandu Medical University, tomorrow to Nandu University of Technology, the day after tomorrow to Nandu Institute of Technology, right? If you guys trust in me, Xia Changjiang, I will lead you to achieve a remarkable feat!" Dean Xia’s voice carried a sense of determination.

When Dean Xia first assumed the position of dean, he also made such a statement, but he only said he wanted Sanbo Hospital to become a model hospital in Nandu Province, without mentioning achieving a remarkable feat.

Dean Sun broke out in a cold sweat. Old Xia was being too forward-thinking. Spending hundreds of millions to build a laboratory, it’s estimated that employees would not agree.

Since the upper management will not agree, then Old Xia can only raise funds by himself, which is certainly not an easy task.

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Below the comprehensive surgery building of Sanbo Hospital.

Tang Shun stood with his Japanese girlfriend, looking up at this building.

This Japanese student at Tokyo University had the wish to return home after graduation, yet she was not very satisfied with the several places she had seen.

Tang Shun was not familiar with Sanbo Hospital, but he was familiar with Yang Ping. During his few days acting as a translator at Tokyo University Affiliated Hospital, Tang Shun had seen the arrogant professors of Tokyo University humbled by Yang Ping, an experience still fresh in his memory.

Tang Shun could also never forget his student Takahashi, who wanted to study in China so badly that she would stay up late and work tirelessly to learn Chinese.

All of this was because of this enigmatic man--Yang Ping.

Recently, Tang Shun had also paid attention to Yang Ping’s work. He learned from Takahashi that in just a few months, Yang Ping had developed the new technology of a spinal external fixation frame. Tang Shun was not an orthopedic doctor, but it did not prevent him from looking up a large amount of literature to understand the content of this technology.

Under the leadership of Fujiwara Masao, the people of Tokyo University Affiliated Hospital prepared well to compete for the qualification for the third-phase clinical experiment.

These people were leading figures in the orthopedics field in Japan, and even the world, and there was no question about their intelligence.

Although he found Japan somewhat annoying emotionally, he could not question that as a developed country, many of Japan’s technologies were leading the world.

Piecing together all these aspects, it can be simply deduced that Yang Ping’s spinal external fixation frame technology is a world-class new technology.

Tang Shun straightened his clothes, walked into the entrance with his girlfriend, and explained his purpose to the receptionist nurse.

In less than ten minutes, the elevator door opened, and a few young people walked out. Leading them was Yang Ping, who had an innate commanding presence.