Chapter 545: Viewers with underlying conditions such as heart disease or high blood pressure should watch with caution

"Lao Bai, you tell me, what kind of nonsense is this?"

Three days later, in a private room at Peiyang Barbecue, Liu Zhi said to Bai Chuzhang with great dissatisfaction.

"A shitty show, it can't even update on time. Can they do it or not? If not, send Xiao Ji back."

"It's alright. I reckon the production team is striving for perfection, preparing to create a national-level show," Bai Chuzhang said calmly. "This is a good thing."

"Back when we were young, those Xianggang movies were all filmed in a few months or even a few dozen days, and there were so many classic works."

"There were many classics back then, but there was even more garbage in the department; you just didn't see it," Bai Chuzhang said.

"Lao Bai, what do you think they're filming this episode? There was a preview before, but this episode is really going too far, just giving a warning—'Viewers with underlying conditions such as heart disease or high blood pressure should watch with caution.'"

"A gimmick," Bai Chuzhang curled his lip and said with disdain. "Do they dare film a major resuscitation? Remember that one time I asked you for a consultation? You came into our Neurosurgery Department's intensive care unit, and a female patient was lying on a stretcher bed, covered in blood; she was basically lying in a pool of blood."

"I remember, one look and you knew she was done for," Liu Zhuren sighed. "That day you admitted so many car accidents in one go, you were busy enough to spark a fire."

This was over twenty years ago, back when young people had just started celebrating "foreign holidays" like Christmas Eve and Christmas.

Everyone was hot-blooded and having fun. But after drinking, there was a lot of drunk driving and drunken brawls.

On his busiest night, Liu Zhuren received 6 kidney stab wounds and had to remove 6 kidneys.

To them, those were all unbearable memories of the past. Now that drunk driving is being cracked down on very strictly, plus the "advertising slogan" of everyone calculating the costs, it's much quieter now.

"They definitely wouldn't dare broadcast that kind of footage," Bai Chuzhang said with certainty. "Is passing censorship that easy? When we first started playing World of Warcraft and went into MC, there were bones everywhere, but later it all turned into little grave mounds, damn it."

"Now they say that even blood can't be red, it has to be green. Isn't this fucking ridiculous? Then again, with that, a major resuscitation can't be filmed at all. A bed full of green liquid, what is this, Avatar?" Liu Zhuren added a complaint.

"So, they couldn't possibly produce footage that would cause a myocardial infarction in people."

"But I'm still very curious. Although rationally I know it's impossible, I'm still rooting for Xiao Ji," Liu Zhuren said.

"Just watch," Bai Chuzhang smiled slightly. "However, I think this is just a gimmick; they are very likely using some minor procedures to fill the time."

"Like the lumbar puncture in your Neurosurgery Department?" Liu Zhuren asked.

A lumbar puncture is a routine procedure in the Neurosurgery Department, using an 11-centimeter-long thin needle to pierce through the skin and subcutaneous fat, pass through the intervertebral space to break through the ligamentum flavum and the dura mater, and reach the subarachnoid space, with the goal of collecting a bit of cerebrospinal fluid.

The cerebrospinal fluid is sent for testing to perform various examinations, or a bit of cerebrospinal fluid is released to lower intracranial pressure, and so on.

This operation belongs to the most basic procedures in the Neurosurgery Department, and the risk is almost zero.

But!

The needle is a bit long, and the operation is slightly complicated; you have to position the patient, locate the site, disinfect, and administer anesthesia. Once this setup is laid out, both the family members and the patient themselves feel a bit scared. Sometimes, doctors or medical students who have just started working are also a bit scared.

There have been many examples in the past where, after the family members saw the long needle pierce into the patient's spinal area, the patient was fine, but the family member fainted dead away.

"I guess so. The production team is truly at their wit's end and found a gimmick for themselves. But..." Liu Zhuren said, shaking his head. "After the audience sees it, there will be many who feel they've been cheated. Don't they want the show's reputation anymore?"

"If they can find a suitable patient and really record the whole process of a lumbar puncture with a camera, that's also a good thing," Bai Chuzhang smiled. "If the Interventional Department can be on camera, why can't our Neurosurgery Department be on camera!"

"Pfft, don't even talk about your Neurosurgery Department," Liu Zhuren curled his lip. "Remember one time when I was on duty, I heard someone crying, a woman's crying, but when I opened the window to listen carefully, I couldn't hear it. I asked a nurse to come and listen with me, and it was misunderstood as me hitting on her."

"You had so many wandering thoughts when you were young, how could the nurse be at ease," Bai Chuzhang laughed.

"In the end, it turned out to be a postoperative patient in your Neurosurgery Department who had been in delirium for about a month, damn it!" Liu Zhuren cursed. "In your department, every shot is unsuitable for children; it can't be on a variety show at all."

"Watching microscopic surgery in the operating room is fine, but you can't look at the camera."

"I can't even understand it, what is there for the audience to watch."

"Watching the excitement, it's very normal."

"Remember that one documentary?" Liu Zhuren asked.

"What documentary?" Bai Chuzhang pondered for a moment, then immediately remembered. "The one where the Circulatory Internal Medicine Department inserts a stent?"

"Yes."

One part of the documentary told the story of a male patient with a myocardial infarction receiving surgical treatment in the Circulation Catheter room.

As soon as the patient got on the table, atrial fibrillation occurred, the doctor performed resuscitation, and the patient let out a loud scream. It was a dying scream, but for the doctor, it was fine as long as they could scream; the fear was the patient losing all movement.

Because they could see the surgical process inside, the patient's family members were scared out of their wits.

Afterward, the atrial fibrillation was handled, and the surgery went very smoothly, but the patient's family kept cursing the doctor.

This is a real case of the surgical process appearing in front of the patient's family.

Since then, no film crew has wanted to film a "real" documentary, and no doctor has dared to take on this job.

Although Fan Dao's show has been leaning in that direction, it still has a sense of proportion, and I reckon the doctors and directors at the Affiliated Hospital are all on guard.

"They wouldn't dare do a serious surgery either; once something goes wrong, it's a big deal. If it's a minor operation like a lumbar puncture, nothing would go wrong, but then it wouldn't be interesting," Liu Zhuren said.

Thinking won't help; they couldn't figure out what the film crew was going to do even if they racked their brains.

While the long-winded commercials killed time, they also raised the expectations of Liu Zhuren and Bai Chuzhang, but they believed that "operations" like lumbar punctures that look scary but actually carry no risk were the most likely.

Finally, they made it to the end of the commercials, and in the Review Room, the guests started chatting.

Neither of them liked watching this part either; if they could fast-forward, they definitely would have.

Next was the daily life of the interns, as plain as water.

Half an hour later, as Ji Xiang's figure appeared on camera, Bai Chuzhang and Liu Zhuren finally perked up.

"Xiao Ji looks like he's working quite happily."

"Working is working, no matter where," Bai Chuzhang commented nonchalantly.

Immediately, the camera panned, watching Ji Xiang and Yang Zhuren enter the Outpatient Department.

This segment was added footage; Bai Chuzhang and Liu Zhuren didn't know, and even if they did, it wouldn't matter.

Because they immediately saw the camera being turned on in a panic, and a woman standing in a high place, swaying and about to fall.

(End of chapter)