Surgery Godfather-Chapter 550 - 500: The Ultimate Skill in Supporting a Family

Chapter 550: Chapter 500: The Ultimate Skill in Supporting a Family

Upon hearing that Yang Ping, was going to perform surgery on Sisi, Director Duan from the Gamma Knife Department rescheduled all other patients for the day.

For Director Duan, all his current top skills "in the martial arts world" were from Yang Ping.

At that time, the department was struggling. Director Duan was living hand-to-mouth; despite being a deputy chief physician in a first-tier city, he could barely make the mortgage payments. He saw no hope in life and spent his days obsessing over the stock market. Dreaming of making a fortune from stocks, he found that what he bought fell in price, what he sold rose in price, and eventually he lost all his original investment.

This Gamma Knife, a multi-million-dollar machine, laid covered with dust, barely serving a few patients with uterine fibroids each month. Due to complications such as skin burns, few uterine fibroid patients came.

Director Duan several times applied to be transferred back to the ultrasound department. However, the Hospital would always reply, "We need to evaluate before making a decision."

Just like this, a few years passed.

Director Duan knew that since so much investment had been made in the equipment, the Hospital was not willing to let it idle. It would be difficult to explain to their superiors if it were idle, so they dragged things on.

With this dragging on, Director Duan’s Mediterranean hair style gradually turned into complete baldness.

At that time, when Yang Ping heard about his plight, he patiently guided Director Duan through several Gamma Knife surgeries for uterine fibroids removal.

These surgeries unexpectedly achieved great results. Not only were they completely removed, but there were also no messy complications such as skin burns or excessive bleeding after the surgery. The patients were highly satisfied.

Some young patients even fell pregnant shortly after recovery. Banners of appreciation were continuously propelled into Director Duan’s hands.

Director Duan quickly realized that the opportunity for him to rise in life had come. He immediately, unabashedly, asked Yang Ping to guide him through a few more surgeries. He recorded all the experiences and techniques taught by Yang Ping, especially certain parameter settings, in a notebook. He memorized them from morning till night, deeply embedding them into his mind.

On the strength of this experience, he was remarkably able to successfully perform all subsequent uterine fibroids surgeries without any complications.

So, Director Duan decided to concentrate his limited energy on the "Gamma Knife uterine fibroids removal". Surprisingly, the more he did it, the smoother it went. His reputation spread far and wide, and his life was improving as if his energy channels were opened up ─ things were looking up.

Director Duan locked his document bag in the office cabinet, adjusted his clothes and straightened his tie, looking very complacent.

Little Five was pushing Sisi in a wheelchair. Yang Ping, Song Zimo, and Liang Fatty were trailing behind.

Director Duan was waiting at the main door early on. He was beaming, full of spirit, a stark contrast to his previous state of decline.

His Golden Benefit shirt and floral tie looked rather flashy, even his bald head seemed shinier.

"Dr. Yang, please! Everything is ready."

In the corridor of the Gamma Knife Department, seven or eight women were sitting on chairs. From their appearance, the oldest seemed to be in their fifties or sixties, the youngest in their twenties. These were all uterine fibroids patients. Some were scheduled for surgery, some were here to find out more about the situation.

It seemed that Director Duan was indeed relying on the removal of uterine fibroids to uphold the entire department’s operations.

Yang Ping’s first visit to this department was when Director Duan was studying stocks on his phone. The corridor was eerily quiet then.

The only companion, a nurse, was busy browsing through TikTok.

Now it was completely different. The corridor was bustling, with two nurses busy communicating with patients and rearranging surgery times.

"Brother Ming! I heard that you are planning to recruit and expand the team?" Song Zimo chatted amiably.

Director Duan rubbed his bald head: "I have submitted several reports to the Human Resources Office asking for more staff, but they only granted one additional nurse. Now, with two nurses and a rotational doctor, we can hardly cope."

A young man appeared out of nowhere at the door, nodding and bowing to everyone.

This man was a sales representative from the Gamma Knife company. When he heard that the business at Sanbo was thriving, his company immediately sent him to understand the situation, and then invited Director Duan to give lectures at other hospitals’ Gamma Knife departments and assist with surgeries.

Especially some small hospitals, which adopted an equipment rental model with the company, couldn’t sustain long-term business operations and ended up incurring losses for both the hospital and the company.

The sales representative pulled out a few bottles of Wong Lo Kat from his backpack and put them on the table: "Hard work, teachers, hard work, quench your thirst!"

"What are you doing? Trying to bribe us? Pack it up and get out." Director Duan didn’t notice how this lad had slipped in.

At the entrance of the office, a sign that read "Medical Representatives Not Allowed" was prominently displayed. Director Duan was afraid that Yang Ping would misunderstand and think this guy was a medical representative, so he immediately got angry.

The young man quickly understood what was happening, repeatedly apologized, and slinked away quietly.

Liang Fatty began to anesthetize Sisi, with two nurses assisting him.

"Director Duan, how are your stocks doing recently? Have you made a lot of money?" Little Five chatted with him casually.

Director Duan was in a whole new state of mind: "I quit that long ago, it’s boring, like playing cards, you win some, you lose some. When you count it up at the end of the year, you end up at a loss."

Song Zimo took over the conversation: "Little Five, you don’t know, Director Duan is now a big shot. For Gamma Knife treatment of uterine fibroids, everyone in the city knows about Director Duan. Now any Gamma Knife operations in the city cost three thousand, and cross-city operations within the province would amount to five thousand per procedure. I heard he can do several operations over a weekend. What is a stock, what is a stock?"

Director Duan chuckled. This conversation precisely described his current situation. Now, his entire focus was on surgeries. Truly, what were stocks?

"That young guy just now is a sales representative for the Gamma Knife company, who was coordinating for me to provide technical support to their partner hospitals." Director Duan took the opportunity to clarify the identity of the young man.

Little Five nodded: "No wonder, did you upgrade from a Corolla to a Cadillac?"

Director Duan said Embarrassingly: "Ah, it’s been discounted, just over 200,000, and it comes with an installment plan. The technical support certainly has to be paid for, but for some impoverished units, I waive the fee if it should be free."

For the safety of the surgery, Liang Fatty chose general anesthesia. After the anesthesia had taken effect, Director Duan personally assisted and helped Sisi position herself correctly.

Yang Ping began the operation, with everyone gathered around him.

The colored ultrasound image on the screen showed the rhythmic beating of the heart, and the red and blue large blood vessels made a whooshing sound.

The thoracic cavity was enclosed by twenty-four ribs, creating a cage-like structure with extremely narrow gaps between each rib.

Even if the body is arched forward or backward, opening up a little gap between the ribs, no satisfactory gap can be obtained. The focused ultrasounds are blocked by the ribs and cannot fully exert their power.

"The human body is truly amazing! The most important organs---the brain and heart, are protected by sturdy bones, such as the skull protecting brain tissue, and the rib cage protecting the heart and lungs. When it comes to layout, the human body bestows the strongest protection to the most important organs," Song Zimo marveled at the image.

Little Five asked, "Why not protect all the airways, like the spleen, so that the spleen wouldn’t rupture so easily?"

Song Zimo shook his head: "If everything were protected by sturdy bones, the body’s range of motion would drop. Between soft and hard, the human body must maintain a balance."

Liang Fatty added, "In primitive societies, human beings lived in low energy scenes where this kind of skeletal protection was enough. However, with the development of technology, especially the advent of cars, humans find themselves in high-energy scenarios where the hard bone protection also appears extremely fragile."

Following on, Director Duan said, "It’s the same principle as wearing helmets while riding motorcycles: it’s better to have protection than none."

"Yang Bo, are you going to make a precise strike through the gap between the ribs?"

Having seen Yang Ping begin to set the parameters while chatting, Director Duan immediately halted the conversation, feeling secretly thrilled that he was about to learn a new technique. So, he could not wait to jot down these parameters, afraid that he might miss or mess up the numbers, he even took photos and made records.

Indeed, using the gaps between ribs as a breakthrough point, Yang Ping began to precisely bombard the tumor of the mediastinum.

Due to the limitation of angle, one target had to be hit multiple times from different points and angles. freewёbnoνel.com

And each time required a change in body position.

This was something others couldn’t help with, only Song Zimo could take the field.

At each tumor lesion, Yang Ping bombarded from different angles and points, with each point covering a portion of the lesions. Adding up several bombardment points, they could perfectly cover the lesions.

The operation was completed in less than half an hour.

"How’s Sisi’s vital signs?" Yang Ping asked Liang Fatty.

Fatty nodded with satisfaction: "Stable!"

After all, the target of the bombardment was near the heart, one had to be cautious about the cardiac side effects.

Yang Ping re-examined the mediastinum, heart, lungs, and large blood vessels with the ultrasound probe, and under the colored ultrasound image, the target lesion had been perfectly eradicated.

This time they were lucky that they could use this crisscrossed approach to complete the bombardment of the tumor. If the range was wider, and some lesions were in a blind spot, no matter how the angle was adjusted, it would be hard to bombard.

"Dr. Yang, can I ask a couple of questions? Would it take up a bit of your time?"

Director Duan asked tentatively.

"Go ahead."

Having used their place for surgeries a few times, they always responded politely, in kind.

"Is there any rule to follow for the determination of these emission points and angles, like calculation by a formula?" Director Duan pointed at the dense numbers in his notebook, many of which have decimals. He did not know how Yang Ping could determine the numbers behind these decimals.

When Director Duan performed uterine myoma, different heights and weights, measured the size of the uterus under colored ultrasound, then measured the size of the myoma, obtained a series of numbers, according to the experience taught by Yang Ping, determined the accurate bombardment parameters based on these data. He tried to modify the numbers behind the decimal point or round them up or down, after the modification, the surgical effect plummeted; complications such as skin burns, vaginal bleeding, and incomplete excisions began to emerge.

That is, he could only have good results if he honestly followed the data given by Yang Ping.

"It’s purely the accumulation of experience, just like many data of medicine, requiring a large amount of trial and error to slowly obtain accurate data, there’s no one-time formula." Yang Ping told him the truth.

These data were precious information obtained by Yang Ping through constant trial and error in system space. As Yang Ping was not interested in uterine myoma, he did not have the time to study all diseases, so he taught the data to Director Duan, allowing him to bring these clinical data into play.

Director Duan sort of understood, clinical medicine relied heavily on the accumulation of experience, a lot of things were accumulated data through constant trial and error.

These data might mean nothing to Yang Ping.

But to Duan Xiaoming, they were innate skills that could support his family!

They were treasures for life’s counterattack!

"My turn, my turn!"

Little Five was calling for someone to push the wheelchair in.

Director Duan immediately stood up, the keys in his pocket jingling.