Chapter 560: High Skill, Bold Heart

Inside the operating room, Director Zou is showing Ji Xiang the Da Vinci Surgical System.

Outside the operating room, Fan Dao is gossiping with his Xiao Zhu Li.

"Director, what's a pity?"

"The startup, shutdown, and all the disposable supplies for this thing are controlled by foreign companies. Just turning it on costs a fortune. It's a pity we can't manufacture it ourselves."

"We'll be able to manufacture it soon," Fan Dao's assistant said confidently.

Fan Dao shook his head and said nothing.

He did not continue the discussion on this topic, but instead went back to gossiping.

It was a full forty minutes later before Director Zou and Ji Xiang walked out of the operating room.

"That's about it; the surgery is actually quite simple. The tactile feel that only old Experts who had performed hundreds of surgeries used to have can now be seen directly, so this is a good thing.

If you have the chance after you go back, you must get in touch with the Da Vinci Surgical System. Although it is very expensive, it is worth the price. Besides, you are still young; you will definitely use this thing in the future."

"Understood, Teacher Zou." Ji Xiang nodded thoughtfully.

"I heard you have a provincial-level natural science project in hand involving the Urology Department and the Interventional Department. Actually, the Urology Department was one of the earliest to adopt the Da Vinci Surgical System. Dean Sun of Changhai Hospital has used the robot to perform a large number of Kidney Resection, adrenalectomy, ureterotomy, Bladder Tumor Resection, and prostate tumor resection surgeries."

"If you are interested, study it more."

"Okay!"

Ji Xiang nodded deeply; even Fan Dao, standing not far away, could see that Ji Xiang was very interested in this.

Director Zou took out his phone to check the time and said regretfully, "I have other things to do today, so I can only take you this far for now. When I turn it on to perform surgery another day, I'll bring you up to experience it!"

"Thank you, Teacher Zou. What are you doing today?" Ji Xiang asked.

Director Zou did not answer directly; he looked up at Ji Xiang, and Fan Dao highly suspected that Director Zou could only see Ji Xiang's chin.

The height difference between the two was truly too great, so great that even Fan Dao found it unbearable.

"Does your Gastrointestinal Surgery department perform gastrointestinal endoscopies?"

"The Gastrointestinal department at the Second Affiliated Hospital doesn't seem to do them; the Digestive Medicine Department handles that. However, I've seen some hospitals where the Gastrointestinal Surgery department keeps gastrointestinal endoscopes on hand, and they can do them for both inpatients and outpatients."

Ji Xiang recalled an instance of Empathy where the Resident Chief of the Gastrointestinal Surgery department used cola to dissolve a stone in a patient's stomach.

"I have to perform an Intestinal Endoscope today to remove polyps. Damn it, a surgery as small as a fart and they insist on having the Chief Resident do it, yet they still make me go," Director Zou said with disdain. "One day a week, I have to do five."

"So few?!" Ji Xiang's focus immediately fell on the quantity.

"Heh, they all save the most difficult ones for me." Director Zou touched the damp mask on his face, his eyes squinting into slits.

Fan Dao felt a bit disgusted; he was such a grown man and still drooling. No matter how he looked at it, Director Zou was not likable. However, Ji Xiang didn't seem to mind; he was more curious about the removal of intestinal polyps.

As for Director Zou, he was just "Versailles-ing"—complaining for the sake of showing off.

"Teacher Zou, how large are the polyps you remove?"

"Anything over 1cm," Director Zou laughed. "I save up similar patients every week and do them all together on my surgery day."

Normally, polyps over 2cm are not recommended for removal via gastrointestinal endoscopy and require surgical intervention. Removing polyps over 1cm carries a risk of bleeding, so the Endoscopy Room leaves the high-risk patients for Director Zou.

This also greatly increased Ji Xiang's favorable impression of Director Zou.

"Let's go, let's go, I'll learn from your surgery!" Ji Xiang said excitedly.

Gastrointestinal endoscopy?!

Fan Dao's head suddenly heated up by 2℃, his brain spinning at high speed.

The content of the next episode had been troubling Fan Dao, and when he heard "gastrointestinal endoscopy," he suddenly perked up.

It seemed like a minor surgery!

It seemed like a surgery of this type could be filmed!

Fan Dao, as if he had been injected with 5mg of Epinephrine, walked toward Ji Xiang with glowing eyes.

He didn't speak immediately, but first made his face familiar to establish his presence.

But Director Zou completely ignored Fan Dao. He spoke to Ji Xiang on his own, "It's just intestinal polyps, a minor surgery, nothing worth seeing. I have a Da Vinci Surgical System surgery in three days; you can go watch that then. For the first one, stand below and watch, then I'll bring you up later.

You haven't had contact with it before, so don't move around randomly when you get on the console; you must listen to my commands. After you're familiar with a few, we'll see how it goes. I think you can do it."

"Director Zou, are you performing a gastrointestinal endoscopy surgery?" Fan Dao asked.

"Hmm? What about it?" Director Zou glanced at Fan Dao, showing more whites of his eyes than pupils, almost looking at Fan Dao out of the corner of his eye.

"Can I follow along and take a look?"

"No!"

Director Zou rejected Fan Dao's request without hesitation.

"..."

Fan Dao had expected him to refuse, but he had already refused him entry to the operating room, and now he was even refusing him for a gastrointestinal endoscopy—was there anyone like him!

Is he sick?!

"Sorry, Fan Dao." Ji Xiang looked at Fan Dao with a warm smile and said softly, "A surgical operation might be possible, but a gastrointestinal endoscopy is truly inconvenient. Unrelated medical staff are not allowed inside. You know, doing an intestinal endoscope requires exposing the anus."

"Uh..."

"I'm going to learn from Director Zou's surgery, I'm truly sorry," Ji Xiang said, sounding very apologetic.

But Fan Dao had been walking the "rivers and lakes" for many years; he knew clearly that Director Zou was rejecting him bluntly, and if he begged, there might still be a glimmer of possibility.

Yet, while Ji Xiang looked gentle, his heart was actually cold as ice, cutting off any possibility for him to see the gastrointestinal endoscopy and turn that part of the content into a program.

Damn it!

Fan Dao cursed in his heart, but kept a smile on his face, giving Ji Xiang a perfunctory response.

Ji Xiang didn't care what Fan Dao thought; after explaining, he and Director Zou arrived at the Endoscopy Room of the Gastrointestinal Surgery department.

"Director Zou, you're here so late!" the Head Nurse said, very displeased.

"Didn't we say the session starts at ten?"

"You should come earlier to prepare. If we start at ten, we won't finish until after twelve, which will delay lunch."

"Very soon," Director Zou said to the Head Nurse while slurping up drool.

Ji Xiang greeted the Head Nurse and the Nurse first; everyone knew this was the "male lead" currently filming a variety show at the Affiliated Hospital, so their spirits were high.

After chatting for a few moments, Ji Xiang hurriedly went to check the Medical Record.

The Outpatient Department medical record was very simple and had almost no reference value, so Ji Xiang mainly looked at the previous Intestinal Endoscope report.

Just as Director Zou had said, the intestinal polyps of the five Patients were all over 1cm in diameter, belonging to the category of large polyps.

If it were a smaller hospital, they wouldn't dare use an Intestinal Endoscope to excise them at all, for fear of post-operative bleeding.

It was only because Director Zou was highly skilled that he was so bold.

Ji Xiang recalled what Director Zou had said to him when they first left the operating room and chuckled; Director Zou was being a "Versailles," and one could tell at a glance that he was an old "Versailles."

Perhaps many people at the Affiliated Hospital could perform surgery with the Da Vinci Surgical System, but there shouldn't be many who could perform an excision of an intestinal polyp over 2cm, and one could even say that only Director Zou could do it.

This also involved judging whether the polyps were benign or malignant, which was very complicated.

(End of this chapter)