Chapter 360: Man and Machine as One

Xu Leyu was quite annoyed by Professor Xue's arrogant and bossy attitude. He said coldly, "Professor Xue, the patient went to the Imperial Capital for surgery and has sequelae; it's about the same as the surgery we perform—both are acromion osteolysis."

Hearing Xu Leyu say this, Professor Xue immediately perked up, as if he were a lion king who had been provoked.

"Deng Chaohong was a failure in the past. I knew he wouldn't be convinced, and sure enough! The surgery done in the Imperial Capital—that's because they didn't find me. Not everyone in the Imperial Capital performs surgery well."

"Today, I'll teach him how to behave!"

Xu Leyu clearly felt the aura around Professor Xue suddenly change.

This man really does have a competitive heart, Xu Leyu thought silently.

"Has that surgery started?" Professor Xue asked.

"Just started."

"Heh!" Professor Xue sneered. "Not wanting to see me, trying to compete with me in another way—I know exactly what Deng Chaohong is up to the moment he sticks his butt out. Him? He's not worthy!"

One shouldn't overthink these words; Xu Leyu turned his mind slightly, and his brain was instantly covered in countless mosaics, with 404 errors flying everywhere.

"A second arthroscopy? A hospital at the level of your Second Affiliated Hospital is just fooling people; it is absolutely impossible to make the patient fully recover."

"As for athletic function, not losing 50% would be a miracle, let alone thinking about competitions. Whose athlete is this? How did they end up in your hands? They really aren't afraid of death."

Facing Professor Xue, who had already turned on his mockery mode, Xu Leyu just listened quietly without even looking at him.

Actually, what Professor Xue said made sense.

A second surgery is difficult in itself, and the Second Affiliated Hospital is not skilled in this type of surgery; they certainly cannot compare to a specialist doctor from the National Team like Professor Xue.

It was just that his way of speaking was unpleasant, which Xu Leyu found unacceptable, yet he couldn't refute it.

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The adjacent Operating Room.

Ji Xiang had already laid out the surgical drapes, and Deng Chaohong began the surgery.

Liu Zhuren did not leave; he stood behind Ji Xiang, his eyes fixed on the Instrument Nurse, Tang Yan.

Tang Yan was assisting with the Urological Surgery, and Tang Yan was also assisting with the Orthopedics Department surgery!

This was definitely not a coincidence; there must be some mysterious force at work. Liu Zhuren watched Tang Yan out of the corner of his eye, lost in thought.

He didn't dare stare straight at Tang Yan. It was normal to crack a joke occasionally, but if he were to stare at her, rumors of him being an old lecher would spread by tomorrow at the latest.

Deng Chaohong began the skin incision, preparing to insert the arthroscope.

The Circulating Nurse finally had a moment of leisure. She sat in the corner and looked at Liu Zhuren, "Liu Zhuren, you really are idle. You don't go back after your surgery, but stay here watching an Orthopedics Department surgery."

"It's because Xiao Ji is acting as First Assistant, so I'm seeing how he performs the Orthopedics Department surgery," Liu Zhuren said without the slightest hesitation.

"Heh, you weren't even this attentive to your own son," the Circulating Nurse said with disdain. "I remember over a decade ago, during a rare emergency Urological Surgery, your son was burning up and talking nonsense, and your wife called you over eight hundred times to urge you, but you didn't care. Eight hundred!"

"That was an emergency surgery; I wasn't at ease letting the junior doctors handle it."

"There was a Zhuren there at the time, too; would it have killed you to ask for leave? By the way, has your son graduated from university? Has he found a partner?"

Liu Zhuren's heart stirred, and he immediately diverted the topic.

"It's hard for young men to find partners nowadays."

"Why?"

"I talked to my son, and he said that 'age-gap relationships' are popular now. Young men find older women and achieve financial freedom directly."

"With your worldview, does doing too much Urological Surgery affect your pineal gland?" the Circulating Nurse said with disdain.

"Heh." Liu Zhuren smiled.

"Yan'er, let me ask you," the Circulating Nurse looked up at Tang Yan, "If a deputy division-level official in their thirties, divorced and childless, wanted to marry you, would you?"

"Sister, you two can chat about your own business, don't drag me into it. I'm doing just fine on my own, why would I want to get married?"

"What if they are rich?"

"They play around too much; I'm not used to that," Tang Yan replied calmly, her eyes fixed on Ji Xiang's hands.

However, Ji Xiang was acting as an assistant and didn't have much to do. Tang Yan switched to 'slacking off' mode, giving Deng Chaohong whatever he asked for without putting any extra thought into it.

"Look at you," the Circulating Nurse said resentfully.

"Our hospital's motor pool used to have a diesel vehicle," Liu Zhuren said leisurely.

"Many people drove it, and since it was public property, nobody cherished it; they drove it quite fiercely. Later, I had to go on a long-distance trip for work, and the head of the small motor pool's father was having surgery. We were close, so he gave me that car."

"I originally thought a car like that would have been driven into the ground, but once I got behind the wheel, heh, guess what? The car drove beautifully!"

The Circulating Nurse looked at Liu Zhuren with a look of disdain.

This old guy from the Urology Department was definitely using driving as a double entendre; nothing good ever comes out of his mouth.

"Liu Zhuren, you really can turn anything into a double entendre. The Muniu Waike Zhuren really is the biggest old pervert."

"Look, I'm talking seriously and you say I'm making double entendres. I really don't know who has a dirty mind," Liu Zhuren laughed. He didn't want to keep the topic on Tang Yan.

"Cars of the same batch used by individuals will develop issues like stiffness, resonance, and unstable idling. But this car from our hospital's motor pool had none of that! It went as soon as you hit the gas, the steering was precise, and it was invincible in any road condition."

"Anyway, it was so smooth when I drove it, like flowing water, much handier than my own sedan. Man and machine as one—do you know what 'man and machine as one' means?"

"Liu Zhuren, I see the shadow of 'man and machine as one' in you."

"This is called 'breaking in.' A little wear and tear isn't a problem; the more you break it in, the handier it is to drive."

"!!!"

Ji Xiang turned a deaf ear to Liu Zhuren's banter and watched Deng Chaohong's surgery intently.

Intraoperative exploration revealed that the initial supraspinatus footprint repair had healed, the subacromial space and sutures were rough, the surrounding synovium showed moderate hyperplasia, and there was bone osteolysis on the subacromial surface.

Flexing and rotating the patient's upper arm showed impingement between the subacromial surface and the suture knots.

Similar to what he had seen in the System Operating Room, Ji Xiang constructed the surgical process in his mind.

The H-Z Surgical Technique was like a grand formula; Ji Xiang calculated it in his heart as if he were solving a problem.

However, he did not snatch the surgery from Deng Chaohong, nor did he use 【Superior Doctor's Gaze】.

A moronic skill; it's better to use it less.

Deng Chaohong cut the suture knot that had been constantly colliding with the undersurface of the Acromion and was just preparing for the next step of the surgery when the operating room door suddenly opened.

Bai Chuzhang walked in.

"Professor Deng."

Deng Chaohong was taken aback.

"Your Patient's Family Member has filed a complaint with the Medical Affairs Department; what have you done?" Bai Chuzhang said directly after entering the room, but his gaze landed on Ji Xiang.

"..." Deng Chaohong sighed, "Bai Chuzhang, it's like this, please let me explain."

(End of chapter)