Surgery Godfather-Chapter 594 - 541: Two Peaches Kill Three Warriors

There’s no doubt that surgical robots will lead the development of future surgery.

With the help of surgical robots, operations of high difficulty and high risk will become simple and safe.

Take the placement of cervical spine screws as an example, it’s a procedure with extremely high risk requiring the skills of experienced spine surgeons. But even the most experienced surgeons cannot avoid the disparity of screw placement, which could damage the vertebral arteries or spinal cord causing serious consequences.

Because human eyes cannot see through, the operation, which relies on flat C-arm X-rays and is performed depending on experience and touch, is highly unreliable.

But with the help of computer-guided navigation or robots, the operation becomes extraordinarily easy, it could be said that the surgery is like playing a computer game.

The three-dimensional image of the patient’s cervical spine is displayed on the screen, and the point and direction of the screw has been marked with colored lines. The chief surgeon only needs to face the screen and operate the machine as if playing a game.

The screw just needs to follow the guide lines, aim at the needle insertion point, follow along the direction of the insertion, and then drill into the bone until reaching the marked depth.

Whether the screw is in the ideal position, whether it has drilled through the bone, it’s all clearly visible.

Even if your hand shakes or you make a misstep in a moment of brain lag, the machine will automatically correct for you.

For example, once the screw has reached the predetermined depth, it will automatically stop and not advance further.

So, under this technology, it’s impossible to misplace the screw.

In this way, surgery becomes easier and safer.

A young orthopedic resident only needs an hour of training to master operations that would require ten years of expert experience.

Digital human technology, if combined with surgical robots, will exert a huge power.

Digital human can allow surgery to be digitally simulated, from the change in the patient’s condition before surgery, during surgery and after surgery, it can be simulated on a computer and the plans can be optimized for the optimal surgical plan to be used.

For the future development of external braces, Yang Ping is preparing to embrace digital human and surgical robot technology.

While pediatric orthopedics doesn’t require cutting bones, adult orthopedics still does, and this type of bone cutting is different from traditional surgery.

In traditional surgery, deformities are corrected directly by cutting bone, then fusion is carried out at the cutting site, causing the spine to lose some of its mobility.

The bone cutting needed for the external brace, however, doesn’t require any of this. It relies on the bone regrowth from the cut to correct the deformity, in other words, the cut slowly expands and the expanded part is replaced by new bone tissue. It does not require fusion or any sacrifice to the mobility of the spine, thus achieving a natural spine.

Of course, the biggest limitation of this method is that the correction process is gradual and takes a certain amount of time. Moreover, during the correction period, the external brace is exposed on the back, affecting daily life.

Fang Faquan’s operation is finished, and he is being prepared for transfer.

The external brace on his leg will need to be worn for one year. Compared to being able to walk normally for the rest of his life, it’s worth it. freēwēbηovel.c૦m

For a manual laborer, this would be unacceptable.

Because it means no manual labor and no income for a year.

Fortunately, Fang Faquan is fully prepared. As a single man, he has no family to feed and has savings from many years.

He has prepared for today’s operation for many years.

Also before the operation, he made an agreement with the restaurant owner to continue buying his medical and social insurance with his own money, and he will return to work at the restaurant after recovery.

The boss naturally agrees and says that as long as he is willing to sign a ten-year contract, he can be paid the minimum wage for a year.

Fang Faquan said, he is a skilled person.

In that case, he really is skilled.

Being able to prepare a few dishes well is a skill.

It seems that the restaurant where he works would be heavily impacted without him.

"Professor Yang, I’ve arranged with the head nurse for meals to be ordered for all the doctors and nurses in the department. The restaurant will deliver them to your rest room at noon."

Fang Faquan is quite good at socializing, Little Five thought that if he could recover his leg, it wouldn’t be a problem for him to find a good wife.

"You’re skilled, you could open your own restaurant in the future, how great would it be to be your own boss!" Zhang Lin said to Fang Faquan.

Department Head Fang Faquan said, "Not everyone is destined to be a boss. I have a thin foundation, I can’t withstand the ups and downs. If I fail, it will take me many more years to get back on my feet. It’s not that I don’t want to be a boss, but my current situation doesn’t allow it. People must bow to reality, even if it’s just opening a restaurant, it requires capital to do so."

As Fang Faquan transferred to the gurney, Zhang Lin continued to chat with him:

"A soldier who doesn’t want to be a general is not a good soldier."

Fang Faquan had his own philosophy: "Small wealth depends on hard work, great wealth depends on fate. Generals are few, besides ability, you need to have the right opportunity, I know my own weight."

Professor Yang did not plan to participate in the subsequent surgery, he had to return to his office to review the clinical trial report prepared by Ruixing Company, so he returned to the ward with the gurney.

The inventor of the spinal external fixator is Professor Yang, but the ownership belongs to Ruixing Company.

Therefore, the application of the clinical trial was initiated by Ruixing, which also had a specific cooperative company to operate these things.

When Fang Faquan was sent back to the ward, the owner of their restaurant, along with several employees, was waiting for him at the entrance of the ward, bringing a basket of fruit.

"Brother Fang,"

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At the headquarters of Ruixing Company, Huang Jiacai sat in his office.

The company was in the process of gradually replacing its products, moving from imitation products to those with independent intellectual property rights.

The company was ready to replace all its trauma and sports medicine products.

The next step was to improve spine and joint products, which would complete the full orthopedic product line.

These products with independent intellectual property rights were not restricted by patents, but they didn’t represent any significant innovation.

For example, the meniscal suture gun, Ruixing’s new product can perform continuous suturing, but it still sutures the meniscus, and the treatment method is the same as its peers.

However, the spine external fixator was different. Once it was on the market, it would revolutionize the entire treatment philosophy. This was the first product of Ruixing that overturned the treatment philosophy.

This product was in the process of applying for clinical trials. After the clinical trials were completed, it could very quickly enter the market.

In fact, entering clinical trials means it has already entered the market.

This would cause a strong shock in the orthopedic device market. The strategy Huang Jiacai implemented since he took over Ruixing, the "Two Peaches Kill Three Warriors", would come to an end. The company was getting ready to confront giants like Johnson & Johnson and Jiemai directly.

The timing was a bit early, but if delayed further, perhaps there would be no opportunity to grow.

So, the timing would never be as mature as imagined.

"President Huang! Our negotiations with Johnson & Johnson have entered the eighth round, and with Jiemai the seventh round? Shall we continue?"

Huang Jiahui asked.

Huang Jiacai laughed, "Of course, as long as they still want to defeat their competitors, they will never give up the idea of acquiring or controlling us."

Huang Jiahui has always wondered why her brother is so good at handling these two companies:

"Are they really that foolish? Don’t they know our negotiations are just a facade, a delaying tactic?"

Huang Jiacai shook his head: "Of course they know, everything is just a pretense. They are also using the negotiations to maintain the collection of patent fees and to find our fatal weakness and then strike all of a sudden. Ultimately, they would force us to comply and accept their controlling or acquisition. At the same time, they are also looking for weaknesses in their competitors to launch attacks."

"Then why are they complicating things? With their power, they can easily undermine us, just like they did before, with patent litigation?" Huang Jiahui still did not understand.

So, Huang Jiacai had to patiently explain to his sister, "Because there’s not just two companies playing this game, there are three. Both Johnson & Johnson and Jiemai have their swords out, neither of them willing to let go. Nobody wants to see the other company swallow us up since that would increase their strength significantly altering the market balance and putting the other at a disadvantage. Their continued negotiations with us is not because they want to, they are forced to maintain this delicate balance."

"I still don’t understand!" Huang Jiahui felt it was too complicated.

Huang Jiacai had to take a book from the shelf and hand it to his sister: "Go through the story of ’Two Peaches Kill Three Warriors’, it’s worth the read."

"Brother, I only know that you are very smart and successful in whatever you do!" Huang Jiahui admired her brother greatly.

Huang Jiacai said: "I am not extraordinarily clever, but I am capitalizing on the situation. However, before long, we will confront Johnson & Johnson and Jiemai face-to-face. We are prepared, are they?"