Surgery Godfather
Chapter 712 - 634: Comprehensive Surgery Department?

Chapter 712: Chapter 634: Comprehensive Surgery Department?

Everyone was watching closely as the professors from Beijing and Shanghai made their speeches.

There were two professors both from Beijing and Shanghai, evenly matched in number.

"Actually, I think this surgery should be performed, it’s worth the risk. As long as postoperative infections are avoided and rejection reactions are well controlled, I think it’s not large issue. We doctors are supposed to solve the patients’ problems. What’s the point of sitting here discussing it if we can’t solve the problem? After all the discussion, do we just say: ’Send them home’ in the end?" One of the Shanghai professors spoke calmly, as if a teacher was gently chastising a student.

This upset the Beijing professors. They believed that a doctor needs to know when to act or when not to act, sending the patient home sounded like an admission of incapability.

Another Beijing professor couldn’t hold it anymore, he immediately retorted: "Doctors should know when to act or when not to act. Medicine is not omnipotent; many things we cannot accomplish should be faced objectively and scientifically. You can’t force things. Just like some late-stage cancer patients. Not bothering them, treating the symptoms may allow them to live for a few more years. Some doctors just won’t let it go, and bother patients with chemotherapy and radiotherapy, then surgery to remove the tumor. In the end, the patient has spent all their money and they still couldn’t be saved. We need to stay clear-headed and not overly mythologize medical skills."

Did you just imply that we are unethical and just playing around with patients?

"We can perform all these kinds of surgeries too. Are there any new techniques here? You take messing around as competence? Everybody can mess around." The Beijing professor retorted with a sneer.

The conservatives and the advocates for surgery began to argue again. Director Zhao sipped his mineral water with a smile, letting them express their views freely, making the discussion looked like it should in a genuine case discussion with dozens of experts.

"Take notes, take notes!"

Director Zhao immediately urged the doctor in charge of taking notes to step up his efforts. All the discussion content, especially the speech of the big-name experts from Beijing and Shanghai, had to be recorded down. Such wonderful points!

"The opinions of the professors are all valid; one side is more concerned about the immediate safety of the patients and is more conservative; the other side pays more attention to the long-term benefits for the patients and is more proactive. So, by integrating the opinions of both sides, we can take advantage of both, ensuring the patient’s immediate safety while successfully completing the surgery?" The professor from Nandu Affiliated Hospital One stepped in once more to play the peacemaker.

Director Zhao was quite dissatisfied. Just as the fire was starting to rage, you came and extinguished it.

"Qin Xiaowei can rely on an artificial liver for the surgery, and Li Jun can simply reconnect to ECMO after the surgery. As long as postoperative infections can be avoided and there are not intense rejection reactions, I’d say the surgery is successful. I think it’s worthwhile to take this risk for their lifelong benefits," said the Shanghai professor once more, calmly.

Everyone here has studied the field extensively, and the Beijing professors did not feel it was right to belittle them: "Explain the situation clearly to the patients. At present, both of them are on the verge of collapse at any time. If the surgery is to be performed now, both of them must be prepared to rely on ECMO to save their lives."

As the debate was winding down, the professor from Huaxi thought it was time to speak up: "The main problem with Qin Xiaowei is his liver. If a timely liver transplant is performed to solve the liver problem and prevent the triggering of multiple organ failure, the overall condition will improve. Every organ transplant patient has to face the risks of postoperative infection and rejection reaction, so these are not issues. For Li Jun, the main issue is that if a timely kidney transplant is not performed, suitable sites for fistulas will no longer be found, and his coagulation function is also disordered, which can easily lead to bleeding or thrombosis. A timely kidney transplant can solve these problems. So, I still support the surgery."

It seemed that the surgery advocates were gaining the upper hand, which naturally displeased the Beijing professors.

The directors from Sanbo, Director Liu and Director Li, naturally liked the professors who advocated surgery. They both advocated proactive surgery, and originally had everything planned. However, the plans were disrupted by the interference of Earth Warriors Company, who brought in so many experts. If the experts all agreed to give up on surgery, it wouldn’t be good for them to insist on it. If anything went wrong, they would attract a lot of criticism.

Now that the surgery advocates were gaining the upper hand, the two directors naturally felt relieved.

"Professor Yang, are you here?"

Director Zhao called for Yang Ping.

"Here!"

Yang Ping raised his hand and answered.

"Why are you sitting so far away? Come over here and say a few words," Director Zhao waved him over.

This was the backbone of Sanbo Hospital. With so many external experts present, this talent must be brought to the forefront to show the strength of Sanbo Hospital.

An assistant brought a chair over, placing it by Director Zhao for Yang Ping to sit on.

Yang Ping reluctantly took a seat. All these experts were specialized in organ transplant, and didn’t recognize the Bone Surgery’s Golden Knife Award champion. They were astonished by such a young professor.

Director Zhao introduced him, "This is our Professor Yang from the Comprehensive Surgery Department. He recently developed a spinal external fixator technology for scoliosis treatment. Phase three of the clinical trials are being conducted in the United States, Germany, and Japan. Tokyo University Hospital has been eagerly trying to take over these clinical trials. They’ve sent people and written letters, it’s been a bit annoying. Sorry, I digressed. Professor Yang, why don’t you say a few words?"

Comprehensive Surgery Department?

The professors couldn’t quite grasp it. What does this Comprehensive Surgery Department do? What kind of surgeries do they perform?

A professor from Beijing couldn’t help but ask, "Director Zhao, we’ve never heard of this Comprehensive Surgery Department before. What kind of surgeries do they perform?"

A professor from Shanghai had the same question. Considering the status of their own hospitals, they assumed they were on top nationwide. He had never heard of a Comprehensive Surgery Department.

For once, the professors from both sides agreed and asked together.

"Ah. Well, this is our hospital’s specialty. The Comprehensive Surgery Department has surgical rights for all aspects of surgery. Their patients are not categorized by specialization, they can perform any kind of surgery. Of course, they currently do not have the authority to perform high-threshold procedures such as organ transplants, but we intend to help them gain that authority in the future."

"Haha---"

A professor from Beijing laughed. It was the first time he had heard of such a department, it sounded like something you would only find in a town hospital. They only needed one surgeon, to perform craniotomies or hematoma removals, orthopedic suture repairs, appendectomies, or closed drainage if they could manage it. It was laughable to him that Sanbo Hospital, a prominent provincial hospital, had such a comedic department.

"What kind of surgeries can they perform currently?" the curious professor from Beijing asked.

That was the reaction Director Zhao was looking for. He puffed himself up, cleared his throat, and responded in his capacity as Sanbo Hospital’s Director of Medical Services, "Due to limited conditions, we do not have a wide variety of surgeries available. We have performed some brainstem tumor excisions, scoliosis correction surgeries, and occasionally cardiac malformation surgeries where the heart is cut out, brought to the operating table for the removal of tumors and correction of deformities, and then placed back. Since I don’t fully understand it, my explanation may not be accurate."

The professors from Beijing and Shanghai were just at each other’s throats, and now they exchanged glances like long-lost brothers.

The casually mentioned surgeries, weren’t they all top-tier procedures within their respective specialties?

Brainstem tumors?

That was the apex surgery in neurosurgery!

Scoliosis corrections?

The most difficult and risky surgery in spinal surgery, nothing else compares.

And that heart surgery mentioned earlier, it included several top-tier cardiac surgeries.

What kind of place was this Sanbo Hospital?

Not just the professors from Beijing and Shanghai, but all the professors who initially found it amusing, now felt not the slightest trace of humor. These surgeries were all top-tier procedures, all performed by this young man? Cross-specialty surgeries, and they are all top-tier surgeries?

"Professor Yang, could you please share your thoughts?"

Director Zhao promptly stopped everyone from changing the subject, making them swallow all their curiosity.