Chapter 568: The More You

The surgery went very smoothly.

First, it was due to the high level of skill of Zou Zhuren, and second, the level of assistance provided by Ji Xiang was also extremely high.

But the problem did not lie in the location of the large polyp that Bai Chuzhang had imagined; instead, a small artery beneath a titanium clip on a small polyp of less than 0.5cm had been bleeding the entire time.

Actually, this was normal; although the larger the polyp, the easier it is for it to bleed upon removal, it is ultimately a matter of probability.

The difficulty of the surgery lay in finding the bleeding point; stopping the bleeding was quite simple.

The titanium clip was applied, the residual blood and food residue in the intestinal tract were suctioned clean, and with no active bleeding confirmed, the surgery was declared over.

The animation only simply demonstrated the surgical process, but it still made the palms of countless people watching the variety show in front of their screens sweat.

Everyone projected themselves into the situation, and that overwhelming sense of tension spilled out from the screen.

It was just a "tiny" polyp removal, an outpatient surgery, yet it could cause such a huge incident; the people in front of the screens had not expected this.

No wonder this episode was arranged so hastily; it wasn't just because of the advertisements, but also because it was packed with substantial content.

Up to this point, there had already been two segments of beautifully produced animation, which the audience found incredibly satisfying to watch.

However, Bai Chuzhang and Liu Zhuren did not speak; they were both filled with suspicion, yet they could not find an answer.

The animation ended, and the scene returned to the variety show.

The editing here was once again unexpected; it did not cut to the Review Room to let the guests and professionals chat for a few minutes to explain why there is a risk of bleeding during endoscopic polyp removal.

On camera, Zou Zhuren and Ji Xiang walked out of the changing room.

"Doctor Ji Xiang, you didn't go back to rest?" Zou Zhuren asked very casually.

"No, I felt the patient would have problems. At the time, I left my phone number with the Family Member, but who knew they didn't write it down at all," Ji Xiang said.

"You felt there would be problems?" Zou Zhuren tilted his head in confusion, looking up slightly at Ji Xiang.

"It was just a feeling, I suppose? A sixth sense?"

Ji Xiang gave a vague, perfunctory answer.

"What if nothing happened?"

"Then I would have just gone back to rest," Ji Xiang said, stating the obvious in a matter-of-fact tone.

"You... do you have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? If you have persecution mania after every surgery, imagining that the details of the operation are going to go wrong, what are you going to do in the future?" Zou Zhuren asked seriously.

Although he was drooling and the corners of his surgical mask were damp, he was full of authority at this moment.

If one had to worry about low-probability complications after every surgery, it would be impossible to be a doctor.

"That's not it," Ji Xiang smiled. "When you were cutting the large polyp, I glanced at other locations. I can't put my finger on it, but looking at the titanium clip, it should have been fine, yet I just felt uncomfortable somewhere. Plus, the Patient and the Family Member refused to stay for observation, so I said a few more words to them."

"You, this is completely unnecessary," Zou Zhuren waved his hand. "If a doctor practiced the way you do, they would be exhausted to death sooner or later."

"I only have that feeling occasionally," Ji Xiang said. "Not often; my daily routine is usually very regular."

"Has it been like this since you were young?"

"No," Ji Xiang smiled. "At the Second Affiliated Hospital, I sometimes go to the Emergency Department to learn from Meng Laoshi. Once, a patient fell asleep while waiting to be seen. I didn't see that there was a problem, but Meng Laoshi realized immediately that something was wrong."

As he spoke, Ji Xiang recounted to Zou Zhuren what Meng Qingfei had done at the time.

It was just slight drowsiness, and it was an Old Man, but Zou Zhuren put himself in that position and realized that if it were him, he certainly wouldn't have realized the patient had a problem.

It was very likely he would have let the patient leave, and until the patient had an incident, neither the Family Member nor he himself would have considered it a misdiagnosis.

Zou Zhuren looked Ji Xiang up and down, earnest and serious.

However, the serious aura vanished completely with a "slurp" sound.

……

……

In the Review Room.

Seeing this, the Guangtou Zhuchiren turned his head and asked, "Shen Laoshi, I have colleagues and friends around me who have had polyp removal surgery, and they were all fine. Do you think similar problems rarely occur? If it is possible to avoid them, what should we do?"

Professor Shen nodded slightly and replied, "The vast majority of polyp removals do not have problems. Actually, the endoscopy surgery at the Affiliated Hospital is done quite well, and they use graded surgery; for polyps over 1.5cm, they seek consultation and treatment from Gastrointestinal Surgery. This way of collaborating is excellent!"

"As for prevention, I don't think it can be done. Let's think about it this way: if it could be done, neither Zou Zhuren nor the Chief Resident of the Digestive Medicine Department would want the patient to bleed in the middle of the night and have to rush over for emergency rescue, right?"

The host's mouth twisted to one side, his smile a bit crafty.

He was just introducing a topic; the real thing he wanted to ask was coming up.

"Professor Shen, I roughly understand what you mean." The Guangtou Zhuchiren's mouth twisted more and more, almost reaching his ear.

"But there is one thing I didn't understand: why would Doctor Ji Xiang display a kind of precognitive ability?"

Professor Shen pondered for a few seconds, his expression solemn.

"I'll give an example, it might not be very appropriate, but I don't know what else to say for the moment."

"Please go ahead."

"It's not idealism," Professor Shen said. "The ancient Greek geometer Apollonius summarized the theory of conic sections, and 1,800 years later, the German astronomer Kepler applied it to the theory of planetary orbits."

"The mathematician Galois founded group theory in 1831 AD, and it gained physical application over a hundred years later."

"Matrix theory, founded in 1860 AD, was applied to quantum mechanics sixty years later."

"Gauss spent his whole life exploring the practical applications of non-Euclidean geometry, but he died with regrets. 170 years after the birth of non-Euclidean geometry, this theory, which was useless at the time, and the tensor analysis theory developed from it, became the core foundation of Einstein's general theory of relativity."

"It's the same in our clinical practice; many things are not idealistic superstitions, it's just that some internal connections do not yet have clear theoretical support."

"After working for a long time, doctors will believe in fate to a greater or lesser extent," Professor Shen said. "The more 'troublesome' a patient is, the more likely something will go wrong."

"Uh..." The Guangtou Zhuchiren looked at Professor Shen with black lines on his face, completely unable to understand what he was talking about.

"Taking this patient as an example, an average patient, even if they go home to rest because the conditions for observation in the hospital are not good, would follow the doctor's orders and at most drink some porridge. I think the animation content faithfully reflects the surgical scene. If that's the case, then everything is easy to explain."

In fact, the clinical description is very direct—this person's time was up, and it was simply not something doctors or nurses could save.

Otherwise, why would they be so "troublesome"?

This kind of deeply idealistic talk couldn't be said, and the program wouldn't pass censorship. Even so, Professor Shen still had to say a bunch of scientific "nonsense" as a setup.

(End of chapter)