Chapter 363: Natural and Seamless

"I didn't understand the surgery; I was just watching the spectacle, and I thought it was awesome that there was no bleeding," Bai Chuzhang said directly, without embarrassment. "Let's wait for Deng Chaohong to come down and ask him how he felt about it."

"It was definitely super awesome!" Liu Zhuren was becoming increasingly protective, and in his heart, he already viewed Ji Xiang as his own child. "We are all surgeons; although the surgical procedures are different, the key points of the surgery are all the same."

A kind smile appeared on Liu Zhuren's face, and Bai Chuzhang was slightly surprised.

He felt that his old friend's state was becoming more and more unusual. If Liu Zhuren had a daughter, Bai Chuzhang would have suspected he was preparing to recruit Ji Xiang as a son-in-law.

"The anatomical structure was clear; that is the most important point. Look at the surgery Xiao Ji just performed—let alone doctors, even an ordinary person could see it clearly. Being able to achieve this makes one a top-tier surgeon!"

He gave an extremely high evaluation, but Bai Chuzhang did not refute it. Recalling Ji Xiang's surgery just now, it was indeed, as Liu Zhuren said, clear to an astonishing degree regarding the anatomical structure.

Bai Chuzhang always felt there was more to the surgery, but after all, "different professions are like mountains apart," and he hadn't fully understood it.

Ten-plus minutes later, Deng Chaohong came to change his clothes. Liu Zhuren waved the cigarette in his hand, and Deng Chaohong waved his hand, signaling he didn't smoke.

"Professor Deng, tell us about the surgery just now," Bai Chuzhang asked straight away.

Deng Chaohong's expression was extremely vivid, and he calmed down immediately, but the change in his expression just now had been taken in by Bai Chuzhang.

"Bai Chuzhang, let's put it this way," Deng Chaohong organized his thoughts and said cautiously, "I had heard of Doctor Xiao Ji before, and I was looking forward to his performance in Orthopedics. But since he came to our Orthopedics Department, there hasn't been anything special; he is an extremely excellent Standardized Training Doctor, but it is worlds apart from his performance in Urology."

"Later, I pondered it, and theoretically, it should be that Doctor Xiao Ji encountered a master's guidance during his internship in Urology, plus his innate talent, so..."

Speaking to this point, Deng Chaohong gave a bitter smile.

Bai Chuzhang and Liu Zhuren didn't speak, not interrupting Deng Chaohong's account.

"Today, Doctor Xiao Ji's surgery can be called domestic... no, it can be said to be world-class surgery."

"!!!"

"!!!"

Bai Chuzhang and Liu Zhuren were slightly stunned.

They had originally felt that their own evaluation of Ji Xiang was already super high, but they never expected Deng Chaohong to give a world-class evaluation.

Bai Chuzhang frowned, "Professor Deng, is this evaluation sincere?"

"Bai Chuzhang, it is true," Deng Chaohong said cautiously. "In fact, I have an illusion that even 'world-class' isn't enough."

"..."

The two were speechless.

"Professor Deng, tell us in detail," Bai Chuzhang retracted his expression of having everything under control and asked in a deep voice.

"I didn't see the full steps of the bursa detachment. When I came back after going out to talk to the Family Member and saw the surgery on the television screen, my first reaction was wanting to kick Ji Xiang from behind."

"Oh? What's the reasoning?"

"Expanding the bursa debridement is indeed more beneficial than harmful to the patient, but there is great controversy in the academic world, and the vast majority of people believe one should not perform expanded debridement," Deng Chaohong explained. "Freeing the bursa is extremely difficult; I can't do it well, so I only free the most critical bursa, otherwise the loss outweighs the gain."

"But Xiao Ji's technique was too good; he expanded the scope of the detachment, yet the surgical duration was actually shorter than mine."

Bai Chuzhang nodded, and Liu Zhuren was slightly smug, as if they were talking about him.

"Of course, that was just the preparatory step; the most important thing was Doctor Xiao Ji using the shaver to perform Shaving."

"One bit more and it would be too thin, one bit less and the effect wouldn't be good; Shaving is the hardest part. But what Xiao Ji did was just right, natural and seamless, neither too much nor too little."

"Is that so?" Bai Chuzhang asked, resting his chin on his hand.

"Yes!" Deng Chaohong said. "The bone quality of the Acromion after Shaving was exactly the same as normal bone. If I didn't know the patient's condition, I would have thought the patient's rotator cuff had never been damaged and there was no Impingement Syndrome."

Deng Chaohong got excited as he spoke, took a cigarette from Liu Zhuren's hand, lit one for himself, and then began to talk incessantly.

About ten minutes later, seeing that Deng Chaohong had basically finished, Bai Chuzhang asked, "Professor Deng, then can you tell us if there were any shortcomings in Xiao Ji's surgery?"

"If there is any problem with the whole surgery..." Deng Chaohong hesitated for a moment.

"Speak directly."

"Doctor Xiao Ji is too cautious."

"Hmm?" Bai Chuzhang was puzzled.

"Finally, using the Endoscope to confirm the completion of the surgery, Doctor Xiao Ji used two methods. He first retracted the tip of the lens to the middle of the Acromion, kept the lens axis parallel to the lower edge of the posterior Acromion, and faced the slope of the 30° lens toward the lower rotator cuff, unable to see the anterior edge of the Acromion, proving the surgery was a success."

"I thought he was going to flush and end the surgery, but it turned out Doctor Xiao Ji started a second set of checks."

"He inserted the Arthroscopy into the subacromial space from the lateral approach again, and the shaver entered from the posterior subacromial approach. The significance of doing this is that if the acromioplasty is sufficient, the long axis of the shaver can be flush with the entire length of the lower edge of the Acromion, up to the anterior lower edge of the Acromion."

"This step was somewhat redundant and too cautious, giving me the illusion that Doctor Xiao Ji had experienced Medical Malpractice in similar surgeries before."

"..."

"..."

Bai Chuzhang and Liu Zhuren were dumbfounded.

Not to mention whether Deng Chaohong's praise was correct, just the fact that Ji Xiang performed two checks at the end—they had witnessed the entire process of the surgery, yet they hadn't noticed the details at all.

The two were stunned for a moment; they also knew that they were not professional orthopedic doctors after all, and it was good enough to see the general picture; some details were definitely not as detailed as what Deng Chaohong understood.

But such a thing couldn't possibly happen!

It was still Doctor Xiao Ji's surgery—fast where it should be fast, slow where it should be slow; while being as steady as an old dog, he was also cutting through the Gordian knot with a fast blade.

Two completely different approaches were blended together by Ji Xiang, eerily contradictory yet harmonious.

If a weathered old doctor had made similar moves, everyone would understand.

How old is Ji Xiang? How could he be as steady as an old dog that has lost its teeth?

"However, that can't be called a mistake, it's just being more cautious. Overall, Doctor Xiao Ji's surgery is indeed world-class; I'm not exaggerating, not even a little bit!" Deng Chaohong insisted.

"I know, I know." Liu Zhuren took a deep look at Deng Chaohong, calculating in his heart the thought of urging Ji Xiang to show him the paper later.

Writing a paper is like writing an eight-legged essay; there are all kinds of requirements. Doctor Xiao Ji does surgery well, but he surely can't write a paper.

He must bring out his greatest Spirit to help him revise it, Liu Zhuren secretly made up his mind.

A paper, a provincial natural science project—take it one step at a time.

However, just as Bai Chuzhang said, it seems very difficult for him to keep Ji Xiang in the Urology Department.

(End of chapter)