Chapter 594: Montage

On screen, the camera cuts, and Li Zhuren receives a phone call.

A hospital-wide consultation.

Just as Bai Chuzhang had speculated, the preceding animation had provided enough clues, hinting that the climax of this episode did not lie in the earlier emergency rescue, but in that patient who appeared to have nothing wrong with them.

It was just that the hint was too subtle; even a veteran Doctor of Liu Zhuren's caliber hadn't noticed it.

Liu Zhuren, half-doubting, turns back and sits down.

He still held a sliver of hope that Ji Xiang would turn the tide.

"Right?" Bai Chuzhang stares at the screen without averting his eyes; he does not mock Liu Zhi. "The tone of the earlier part of the program clearly involved Ji Xiang. You, at your age, still can't stand the loneliness."

"Sigh." The more Liu Zhi thinks about it, the more he agrees. He has basically confirmed that what Bai Chuzhang said is correct, and he chuckles. "Short videos are so popular now, who has the patience to wait? They want the explosive point right away, hit it fast and get it over with. People are restless; who has the patience to watch something so sluggish?"

"Childish."

The camera pans, and Lin Jiuze and Li Zhuren go to attend the hospital-wide consultation.

Sure enough, that patient had developed a problem. The Vice President in charge of clinical affairs at the Affiliated Hospital presided over the meeting, and the small conference room was deathly silent.

An image from a slice CT appears on the screen; even a layman like Ding Xiang can see that the patient's right lower limb blood vessels are blocked, with no blood flow.

"That's not right." Bai Chuzhang is slightly taken aback as he watches the camera footage of the hospital-wide consultation.

"What's not right?" Liu Zhi asks.

"Emergency rescue, can the program's camera crew be allowed into a hospital-wide consultation?"

"Uh..." Liu Zhi also realizes this point.

"Added in post-production," Ding Xiang says.

"Added in post-production?"

Bai Chuzhang and Liu Zhuren are both in a cognitive blind spot, asking back almost simultaneously.

"They weren't allowed to film at the time, but since the rescue was successful, they would definitely go back and film footage later. Isn't that a normal thing?" says Peiyang boss Ding Xiang.

He looks at Bai Chuzhang with some confusion. Based on Ding Xiang's understanding of Bai Chuzhang, Bai would certainly not have failed to think of such a simple matter. Could there be something he himself hadn't noticed?

Bai Chuzhang pauses for a moment, then raises a hand and slaps his own face.

"Hahaha, we were both stumped," Liu Zhuren laughs.

"Mm, the Camera Crew definitely wasn't allowed to record the hospital-wide consultation at the time, but afterwards, especially after the surgery was successful, it's no problem to film some supplementary footage," Bai Chuzhang says, focusing his mind and returning his attention to the program.

How exactly will Lin Jiuze show off?

How will Ji Xiang reverse the situation?

These questions linger in his mind. Bai Chuzhang refuses to even blink, trying to distinguish in his mind which shots were added later and capturing which ones were the original footage.

A workplace variety show is being watched by Bai Chuzhang with the tone of a crime drama.

The camera enters the small conference room, and the imaging data is projected onto the opposite wall; this further proves Ding Xiang's speculation.

During an emergency rescue, everything is in a rush; there is no time to make things this polished.

Being able to look at the scans on a computer is already good enough; that usually requires countless phone calls to urge the CT room to upload the imaging data immediately.

Bai Chuzhang also notices a detail—after entering the small conference room, Lin Jiuze is nowhere to be seen in the camera's frame.

Truly, having spent a lifetime hunting geese, he has been pecked in the eye by a goose, Bai Chuzhang smiles bitterly.

This segment really was added in post-production; Lin Jiuze was likely in a bad mood or too busy to show up and just went through the motions.

The department head who admitted the patient begins to introduce the patient's condition—the patient's vital signs were stable after admission, but a few hours later, it was discovered that the right lower limb had turned cold.

When the patient told the Nurse at the time, the Nurse was busy and only came over to touch it half an hour later.

The affected limb was ice-cold, which gave the Nurse a fright, and they hurriedly looked for a Doctor.

The Doctor was in the operating room performing a rescue...

That's just how it is when you run into an emergency rescue; there aren't enough hands.

However, the patient was very lucky; just as they were on the phone, the surgery upstairs finished and they returned. After a flurry of activity, it was finally determined that a lower limb Thrombosis had formed after the trauma and compression.

During the hospital-wide consultation, the consulting Doctors from various departments speak one after another.

The condition is very simple, no need to even mention it; the program team edited out the key plot points and very clearly told the audience that the difficulty here lies in how to treat it.

Various methods of Thrombolysis can be used, but oral, intravenous, or continuous micro-pump medication is like trying to put out a fire with water from afar.

The best method is for the Vascular Surgery Department to step in and perform a Surgical Embolectomy with the cooperation of Interventional Surgery.

But the patient has diabetes, and the emergency blood glucose level upon admission was 16.3 millimoles. The consulting Doctor from the Vascular Surgery Department directly states their concern—the surgery can be done, but because the patient has diabetes and local crush injuries, there is a high probability of major problems during post-operative recovery, accompanied by severe infection, which could even endanger the patient's life.

This is a hospital-wide consultation, not explaining the condition to the Family Member; saying there is a life-threatening risk is not an exaggeration.

Moreover, the patient's blood vessels have numerous plaques, making the surgery extremely difficult; whether the vessels will heal after anastomosis is also a question.

The many Doctors on camera show expressions of difficulty.

Yet, to Bai Chuzhang and Liu Zhuren, this expression of difficulty is a joke.

Someone is already stifling a laugh, holding it in until tears are almost streaming down. If you didn't know better, you'd think the injured person was their relative.

"Boston Scientific has a new Thrombectomy Catheter."

Suddenly, a Doctor mentions Bo Ke and the Thrombectomy Catheter.

"There are indications for Thrombectomy, too; severe arteriosclerosis is itself one of the contraindications."

Someone refutes this.

Then the camera cuts to this Doctor.

He is in his forties, looking clean and fair, with the appearance of a refined scoundrel.

He counts off more than a dozen complications on his fingers.

"Shi Zhuren, then what do you suggest we do for the patient?" the Vice President presiding over the consultation asks very seriously.

The Doctor with the refined scoundrel appearance spreads his hands, indicating he doesn't know either.

"What about Lin?" the Vice President asks. "What would they do over at Massachusetts General Hospital?"

The issue was successfully shifted onto Lin Jiuze; the camera flashed, the office door opened, and Lin Jiuze walked out on tiptoe.

Catching a glimpse, Bai Chuzhang saw that the scene inside the office had absolutely nothing to do with the consultation just now, confirming Ding Xiang's guess—this footage must have been recorded accidentally by the Camera Crew while they were waiting outside the office during the consultation that day.

This segment was the live broadcast.

The camera bumped along the way, following behind Lin Jiuze.

It is estimated that the Camera Crew had just been blocked outside and had no idea what had happened. After seeing Lin Jiuze come out alone, they followed behind to see if they could find some material.

Lin Jiuze was not as resistant to the Camera Crew as the doctors at the Affiliated Hospital; he seemed not to care about the presence of the Camera Crew, but the lens would always shift slightly, moving from Lin Jiuze to the passing Family Member.

Bai Chuzhang was very puzzled by this.

This footage was just like a movie shot with a handheld camera; the chaotic footsteps were full of tension, and one could even vaguely hear the sound of a thumping heartbeat.

(End of this chapter)