Academician Du looked at the operating theater downstairs with a complicated expression. He looked normal.
Academician Zhu Tongyi looked at Academician Du worriedly more than once, but he did not say anything.
To be honest, the scene in the operating theater was exciting, but it was not scary at all.
First of all, the doctors and nurses in the operating theater looked calm, and their gazes were solemn. It gave people the feeling that they were doing important work, and not dissecting a human being.
Second, the patients on the operating table had lost their "human form", which reduced the possible visual impact. Looking down from the visitation room, a few green drapes covered the patient from head to toe. There were also many machines and operating tables in the middle. If one did not think about it carefully, one would not be able to see the state of a human being.
Even the exposed small cubes were clearly illuminated by the shadowless lamp. In addition, doctors always pursued bloodless surgery, so the various human tissues not only did not make people feel disgusted, but they also felt that it was normal.
The hospital exuded a sense of normalcy that ordinary people could not understand.
"Old Du, do you want to finish watching?" When Zhu Tongyi saw that Ling Ran cut off the hepatic blood flow, he did not want to watch anymore.
This was the part where failure was the easiest, and also the most boring part. He did not want Academician Du to be worried about it.
Academician Du smiled and said faintly, "Don't worry about me. I've actually seen surgeries more than once."
"Oh?"
"Did you forget that I worked in the geology team for almost ten years?" Academician Du recalled and said, "At that time, it was normal for scientific research to climb mountains and wade through rivers. If they were not careful, they would break their arms or legs. I've even met a patient who got appendicitis after drinking raw water. His life was hanging by a thread until he was sent to a small county. The county was as small as a town. It was too late to send him to the city. He had to travel for a few hours. He could only perform surgery on the spot … "
When Academician Du said this, he laughed and said, "The hospital is understaffed, so I went in to help."
Zhu Tongyi was speechless. "You were in the geology team forty years ago, right? At that time, the level of the hospital in the small county town was not good enough. It might not even be as good as some factories, mines, and hospitals. "
"There was only one place in the area, a county town with a few thousand people. We couldn't count on anything else." Academician Du paused for a moment and said, "The number of surgeries performed by the doctors in that hospital can be counted on one hand. I spent the whole afternoon looking for the appendix … "
Zhu Tongyi's heart trembled.
Finding the appendix was indeed the most difficult and important part of appendectomy. If medical schools took this as a test, 70% of the freshly graduated students would not be able to graduate.
Inexperienced doctors could easily find the appendix when everything went well, but when they could not find it, they would not be able to find it. Needless to say, young doctors in county towns and young doctors in big hospitals could not find their appendices after searching for an hour. If they still could not find their appendices after searching for another hour, they could only seek help from their senior doctors. Many of them deserved to be scolded.
There might not be much difference between a young doctor in a small county town and a young doctor in a big hospital at the initial stage. Because of the environment, a young doctor in a small county town might have more experience in various aspects. However, the biggest difference between the two was that when a young doctor in a big hospital performed surgery, there would be someone backing him up. Hence, he would be more daring, and he would have a higher tolerance for mistakes.
In a big hospital, a young doctor who could not find the appendix could go to his senior doctors for help, but in a small county town, he could only look for it with his head down. One hour, two hours, three hours …
Academician Du looked at the operating theater below and continued, "At that time, the operating theater's condition was not like what it is now. I remember that the floor was full of gauze. Later on, when the gauze was not enough, we even went to get some bandages and so on. In the end, the incision was as long as an arm, and we turned over the intestines before we managed to cut out the appendix. "
"The situation now is different from before." Zhu Tongyi was speechless. He did not want to think about the feeling of having an ordinary person turn over the intestines of a doctor, and it was even his colleague's intestines.
Academician Du was lost in his memories, and he immediately smiled. "I hope it's different. Our young friend did not wake up in the end."
Zhu Tongyi swallowed a mouthful of saliva and sighed.
If he wanted to explain, he actually had a lot of things to say. Doctors' skills and experience were different, the patient's condition was different, and the level of anesthetists was definitely different. Even the drugs and skills used now were completely different from the past.
However, after practicing medicine for forty or fifty years, Zhu Tongyi would not give such a frivolous answer. The imperfections in medicine were not just limited to this. The problem that Academician Du encountered that day might be solvable, but there were still many patients who died of diseases and diseases that did not cause them to die …
"Ling Ran is different." Zhu Tongyi could not solve the systemic problem, so he only targeted Academician Du and said, "Old Du, you're an academic, and I can't guarantee a hundred percent, but I can tell you that letting Ling Ran operate on you is the plan with the highest survival rate."
"After getting off the operating table, lie on the hospital bed and suffer for a while before dying. This kind of survival rate is not considered survival." Old Du's tone was indifferent.
"I agree."
"You can't guarantee that it won't happen."
"When you were working on geology, could you guarantee that there would be a mine and that it would be ready for production?"
"Is it the same?"
"Is it the same?" Zhu Tongyi asked.
Old Du sighed and stared at the operating table without saying anything.
Zhu Tongyi did not force him anymore. Old Du was the one who got sick, and Old Du was the one who had to bear the risk. Old Du naturally had to make the decision himself.
Downstairs.
The atmosphere in the operating theater was good.
Everyone could see whether the chief surgeon was doing well or not.
If it were another chief surgeon, they would probably be bragging or talking dirty. Of course, because there were onlookers, it was normal for them to remain silent.
Although Ling Ran remained silent, in the eyes of the doctors and nurses who were familiar with him, Ling Ran's silence was also divided into different types. This was especially so for Xu Wen and Zhang Anmin. They did not even need to look at Ling Ran. They could already guess some clues from his movements.
It was a kind of feeling, just like how flatterers could sense the goddess' mood from the frequency at which she replied to WeChat messages. Xu Wen and Zhang Anmin were already familiar with Ling Ran's operation.
Ling Ran was indeed in a good mood.
In today's surgery, he spent less time on the Virtual Human, but he made more preparations, which meant that the usable time of the Virtual Human was actually extended.
Now, about fifteen minutes of the Virtual Human could help Ling Ran perform a near-perfect primary liver cancer surgery for an elderly patient, which meant that fifteen minutes could be exchanged for more than ten years of life.
The exchange rate of 15: 5256000 made Ling Ran feel good just by looking at it.
"Okay, you guys can suture." Ling Ran took off his gloves, which meant that the main part of the surgery was done.
At this time, Academician Du, who had not spoken for a long time, pressed the intercom button and said from the visitation room on the second floor, "Doctor Ling, was the surgery successful?"
"The surgery was successful," Ling Ran answered.
"How long do you think this patient can live?"
"This patient should be more than ten years."
"Isn't there a possibility of cancer recurrence?"
"With the patient's age, we need to pay more attention to other cancers and other diseases, not liver cancer recurrence."
Their conversation was so fast that Associate Hospital Director Wang from Beijing University Sixth Hospital only had time to stop them. He smiled and said, "Academician Du, the intercom system is not used like this."
Academician Du snorted and took two steps away.
The doctors in the room looked at each other.
Usually, when they observed surgeries, there was no such scene. Those with normal thinking would not ask surgeons similar questions. Of course, doctors with normal thinking would not answer such questions either.
As the saying went, "When an old crow meets a black pig, everyone's face darkened."
However, everyone's attention could not help but be diverted by a more important answer.
"Ten years of survival? Impossible. "
"The five-year survival rate is unknown. You can't say something like this, right?"
"If it is really primary liver cancer, there is also data showing that …"
"Too arbitrary."
"Young people are really confident."
Academician Du did not listen to the doctors' whispers anymore. He turned to look at Zhu Tongyi, sighed, and said, "Old Zhu, introduce me to Ling Ran?"
"Okay." Zhu Tongyi agreed immediately.
The doctors in the visitation room looked at each other, and their voices subconsciously became softer.
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