Chapter 511: The Production Team Really Dares to Play with Anything

The image quality was not that of a familiar variety show, but rather cinematic.

The figure seen from behind was studying; symbols like sin and cos gave one a sense of familiar strangeness.

If they hadn't been waiting for so long, everyone would have thought this was a "random intrusion" from some movie.

"Something's not right!" Liu Zhi said, hesitating as he watched the figure studying from behind.

"It looks like there's a chest bottle hanging there, too; it's definitely not right," Bai Chuzhang added, squinting his eyes.

Liu Zhuren knew his old friend had a sharp eye and a photographic memory; Bai Chuzhang's words filled in the gaps in his own memory.

"Right! It's a chest bottle, this is..."

"A patient, likely a patient who just finished surgery!"

Bai Chuzhang said in a deep voice; his gaze was sharp, and he saw the essence of the problem at a glance.

Liu Zhuren was stunned by Bai Chuzhang's assessment.

The production team really dares to play with anything, and can play with anything; treating a patient like an actor and dragging them out to film a movie—isn't this a bit unprofessional?!

And that is a patient, a patient! A patient still hanging a chest bottle!

The two didn't continue speaking, because it was a program on a web platform, not a downloaded file, so they couldn't rewind the footage to check again; they could only silently continue following the footage as it went on.

The girl was studying hard, the sound of the pen tip scratching against the draft paper rustling, and in the pad beside her, a teacher famous across the entire internet was giving a lecture.

The image gradually faded from color, as if time were passing.

A few seconds later, the girl stapled the draft paper together. After finishing all this, she picked up a staple and habitually held it in her mouth.

This action struck a chord with Liu Zhuren and Bai Chuzhang, and both were stunned at the same time.

"It's a foreign body in the respiratory tract!"

The two of them said in unison.

Yes, it's a foreign body in the respiratory tract!

In the next frame, the staple disappeared into the girl's mouth; it must have been swallowed inadvertently.

"Cough, cough, cough~" The slight coughing sound signaled to the audience in front of the screen what had happened.

This entry point... seems to have deviated from the original purpose of a variety show, but it is undeniable that—it is better to watch.

The climax of the previous episode was surpassed, and the production team directly found a patient to film a short clip!

A foreign body in the respiratory tract can be light or heavy; light cases can be coughed out, while heavy ones require a thoracotomy, and it is even possible to induce respiratory distress leading to sudden death.

Bai Chuzhang looked at the screen with furrowed brows, as if he had encountered a serious medical dispute.

Liu Zhuren, who usually drank alone, also put down his wine glass and stared fixedly at the television screen.

Soon, the patient's symptoms became increasingly severe; although only a few clips were used to describe it, the cinematic texture of the black-and-white-leaning image quality pulled the audience into the program all at once.

This even included the many doctors watching the program; countless treatment plans appeared in their minds, only to be immediately rejected.

It still depended on where the staple landed.

The patient's parents took her to the hospital for an X-ray; off-screen, a heavy voice explained the imaging in front of the film viewer, the tip of a ballpoint pen landing on a deep position of the Right Main Bronchus.

"Here, this is a foreign body in the respiratory tract, and it has now triggered an infection; if it is not treated in time..."

That voice was narrating.

Various complications were listed, from unilateral lung collapse, severe pneumonia complicated by lung abscess, and sepsis, all the way to the patient's sudden death.

The child who was just studying hard suddenly had to face death, and coupled with the heavy, gloomy image quality, the foreign body in the respiratory tract was portrayed vividly and thoroughly by the director's lens language.

"Lao Bai, what should we do?" Liu Zhuren asked.

"It's very difficult to remove with a bronchoscope, and thoracoscopy won't work either; I reckon we'll have to perform a thoracotomy and feel for it by hand," Bai Chuzhang said. "However, if the production team arranged a special episode, I think it should be that Ji Xiang finally took the staple out with a grasper."

Liu Zhuren looked back at his old friend. "Lao Bai, are you guessing this based on medical common sense, or just having faith in Ji Xiang?"

"If it were at our Second Affiliated Hospital, I reckon we'd end up doing a thoracotomy," Bai Chuzhang smiled slightly. "After all, it's a show, so the possibility of a thoracotomy is small. Besides, the patient is already able to appear on camera, so does that need to be said?"

Liu Zhuren nodded; Lao Bai's analysis was reasonable and logical.

As they spoke, a highly realistic animation appeared.

The bronchoscope was inserted into the airway, getting closer and closer to the staple "stapled" onto the Right Main Bronchus.

The staple was very thin, and the movement of the bronchoscope's grasper was clumsy; after several operations, not only did it fail to solve the problem, but it actually caused a secondary pneumothorax.

Lao Bai's guess was right! Liu Zhuren was not surprised; he just felt that everything was as it should be.

The patient was indeed filming the show while hanging a chest bottle.

An Emergency Vehicle roared past, and the Thoracic Surgery Department of Hang Yi Da Yi Fu Yuan began a consultation.

The experts stated their opinions, and Bai Chuzhang was noncommittal; he just listened quietly.

"Lao Bai, that 'wise-to-the-point-of-being-monstrous' way of thinking of yours is too boring; if you put professionalism aside and look at it from the perspective of an ordinary person, you'll feel very nervous," Liu Zhuren said.

"I am also very nervous myself," Bai Chuzhang said in a deep voice. "The secondary pneumothorax caused by the bronchoscope operation, although we would certainly explain this to the patient and the Family Member before the surgery, once they refuse to accept it, it becomes a medical dispute."

"You are really a boring person," Liu Zhuren said with disdain.

"This is a fact; I face similar disputes in the Medical Affairs Department every day."

"I'm wondering, how exactly will the surgery be done."

"Wait and see, Ji Xiang is about to appear," Bai Chuzhang said.

There were not many scenes of the consultation, and the expression of every Expert and director was very serious; coupled with the pale, black-and-white-leaning style of the footage, a thick sense of oppression had already overflowed from the screen.

"The last time I watched a black-and-white movie was Schindler's List," Liu Zhuren said. "I didn't expect a variety show director to really know how to play."

"It fits the situation at the time," Bai Chuzhang said. "Li Zhuren from the Interventional Department said he could go up and try; heh, I guessed it would be a job for the Interventional Department. It's a pity that the Four Great Vajras of our hospital who could perform surgery all went to the Nan Fang; the Nan Fang poaches people too ruthlessly."

"They have more money from selling land; the more expensive the housing prices in a city, the more money they have, and the more money they have, the more they can poach doctors with good skills. This is something you can't change, Lao Bai; no matter how hard you try, this is the big trend."

"With me here, I can delay it by about 3 years."

Liu Zhuren was stunned as he heard his old friend's bold words.

This was Lao Bai's heartfelt wish; although he was powerless to reverse the big trend, he could delay it by three years.

These three years, it could be said that countless lives were saved. But no one knows what kind of efforts Lao Bai made behind the scenes, nor will anyone remember him.

"Let's go! The surgery is very difficult; I estimate that the director over there won't be able to complete it." Bai Chuzhang watched as the flatbed cart pushed the Patient into the operating room and stated his conclusion directly.

(End of this chapter)