Chapter 699: Gilded Layer!

"Senior Brother, haven't you rested yet?"

Lan Tianluo sent a WeChat voice message; Fang Ziye played it on speaker, set down the teacup in his hand, propped up the phone holder, and connected the video call.

After Lan Tianluo answered, the phone screen spun for a moment before steadying, but it only captured a corner of the hotel room, the view cramped—

Fang Ziye lifted the pot and poured tea, tilting his head to scrutinize for three seconds, then smiled: "Inconvenient to take a video call?"

Lan Tianluo straightened his collar and the creases on his arms: "Senior Brother, I only just got back a little while ago."

"The computer hasn't even been unpacked from the bag yet!"

Fang Ziye said meaningfully: "If it's inconvenient for you, I can wait a bit and find you later."

Lan Tianluo now also had a girlfriend, not the previous one; whenever he wanted to video call that Junior Brother before, the latter was always available at any time.

"No need, Senior Brother; we're only going out for hot pot in a bit!" Lan Tianluo, confirming Fang Ziye had already guessed, generously didn't hide it.

Immediately after, Assimilate also appeared in the video frame; she wore a wool sweater and jeans, hair pulled up high: "Hello Professor Fang, I was just about to go downstairs to buy a few things, not eavesdrop on your research group's secrets."

"No need to avoid it like that." Fang Ziye hurriedly explained.

"It's fine; we're all industry insiders, I can distinguish private from official business; Professor Fang, you chat first." As an associate researcher in the pharmacy department, Assimilate also held a deputy chief physician title and voluntarily chose to step away.

Half a minute later, the sound of a door closing rang out, and Lan Tianluo's expression gradually shifted from restrained to calm, grinning foolishly in the video.

Only then did Fang Ziye say: "I originally thought Tianluo you wouldn't get used to going to Sha City; didn't expect it was me over-worrying."

Lan Tianluo got to the point: "Senior Brother, my dad agreed; he'll come to the Enshi Yangyuan Traditional Chinese Medicine department around the 20th of this month to try his luck."

"Dean Chen and Doctor Chen Guangbai both agreed; at that time Dean Chen Song will personally handle my dad's treatment."

"Actually it's a bit embarrassing; Dean Chen after all…"

Fang Ziye interrupted: "This is serious business; pull strings where strings need pulling, beg where begging's needed, even if there's only a sliver of hope."

"Once the specific time is set, give me a call."

Today's Eastern Han, whether economic strength, military level, or public security level, is far beyond what it was twenty-odd years ago.

Therefore Luo Pan and the others walking domestically needn't worry too much about public security issues.

After returning from Henan Province, Fang Ziye even specially called to indirectly probe his hometown relatives, saying that in the late nineties and early twenty-first century when they went out to work, many orders were exceptionally chaotic…

"Of course I'll call Senior Brother you."

"This is one of the purposes of my messaging you, Senior Brother; a friend of mine monitored our hospital's registration system and discovered your registration system still has some fluctuations." Lan Tianluo then shifted the topic elsewhere.

"But the fluctuation amplitude isn't large; only three to five slots per week are somewhat abnormal."

"Don't know what the hospital is thinking; the system still hasn't been updated."

Hearing this, Fang Ziye shook his head lightly: "Only three to five; just ignore it then."

"Water too clear has no fish. Humans have the human way, rats have the rat way."

"As long as they don't openly treat people as fools and dolls, many things we can only turn a blind eye to."

"Moreover, the hospital changing systems is a major matter; the data migration involved is no small thing."

"With my current weight, I'm not yet important enough for the hospital to value so highly."

"Tianluo, how did the matter I asked you to inquire about go?"

"Are Professor Xie and Professor Qiao about to run to Zhongnan Hospital to beat me?"

Lan Tianluo frowned deeply and raised his brows, right hand directly pinching and lifting his ear: "Senior Brother, if we don't bring up this topic, we can still chat properly."

"Really." Lan Tianluo's expression was exceptionally serious; seriously he twisted open the mineral water bottle and glug-glug drank half of it in one go.

"People who've reached Professor Xie Youwen's age and position are all a bunch of old foxes; not a single one is easy to get along with."

"Can only trouble you then, Tianluo." Fang Ziye said solemnly.

"Had a fight; Professor Qiao said you're a bit high-profile." Lan Tianluo pushed the water bottle beyond the screen; the bottle bottom scraped the tabletop, emitting a slightly harsh creak.

Fang Ziye then said directly: "If next time they speak still excessively or extremely unpleasantly, you tell them to come beat me directly."

"You say it's my exact original words."

"This matter is essentially a question of peer capability trust; I admit this point."

"So, regardless of whether they say my profile is high or whatever, I'll take it!"

Fang Ziye did not let Lan Tianluo maneuver with the other side, but actively shouldered the responsibility on his own shoulders.

The implicit meaning being: if they truly have the ability, come hit me to my face; don't make things difficult for our hospital's Junior Brother working over there.

If Professor Xie and them really had that kind of ability, they would have called Fang Ziye back when Liu Gaobo transferred hospitals!

Nor would they have stayed silent up to now.

Professor Xie Youwen as department director might not know Fang Ziye, but Qiao Yongjian who worked at Enshi Yangyuan has witnessed Fang Ziye's personal ability.

Lan Tianluo laughed: "Senior Brother, things haven't stiffened to that extent; actually Professor Qiao Yongjian privately told me, Liu Gaobo not staying at Xiangya Third Hospital isn't necessarily a bad thing."

"At least Professor Xie and them have much less pressure; otherwise during the operation, if there's truly some unsatisfactory spot, they wouldn't know how to face Senior Brother you."

"Senior Brother, although you haven't attended the Orthopedics Annual Conference yet, actually within orthopedics, at least at the professor level, you already have a certain reputation."

Lan Tianluo spoke with some envy and anticipation.

Being a doctor to Fang Ziye's current level is when it becomes slightly interesting; it counts as preliminarily shedding the stage of being the most basic medical knowledge tool person.

"Speaking of COA, this year's Orthopedics Annual Conference is about to start again." (In reality the Orthopedics Annual Conference is mostly mid-year; this text has adjusted the timeline, please don't take it too seriously.)

"It's in mid-November; are you going?" Fang Ziye asked Lan Tianluo.

The Orthopedics COA Annual Conference; PhD and Master's students can also submit; as long as the topic selection is good enough, they can also be selected as speakers to share content.

"Master had me and Jie Han register at the start of this month; we also submitted two papers; whether they pass is another matter…"

"Senior Brother, on my end, I've currently run into some small trouble." Lan Tianluo said.

"Speak." Fang Ziye sat up straight.

If the Spine Surgery matter at Xiangya Third Hospital isn't trouble, then the small trouble in Lan Tianluo's mouth won't be particularly simple.

"The Bone Tumor Department at the Second Hospital is a bit strange!" Lan Tianluo pointed directly.

Lan Tianluo's Xiangya Second Hospital is the Xiangya Second Hospital in Sha City.

"What's strange? Is the clinical trial process strange, or something else?" Fang Ziye's brow instantly tightened upon hearing this.

"Not the trial process, it's other aspects."

"There are always some weird things in the medical order list..." Lan Tianluo said, shaking his head.

Fang Ziye continued asking: "Have you gone to the department to check? Are there any other drugs being used in combination?"

The microcirculation instrument's clinical trial is the microcirculation instrument's clinical trial; during the trial process, other 'new' drugs absolutely cannot be mixed in.

Otherwise, it would very likely constitute data "contamination"!

The so-called data 'contamination' does not refer to the microcirculation instrument's effects being masked by other 'new drugs', but rather other 'new drugs' borrowing the microcirculation instrument's data results to fabricate proof of their own efficacy.

It is not that 'new drug' clinical trials cannot be combined with the microcirculation instrument, but the 'new drug's' drug effects should all be supported under the same unrelated conditions.

For example, all using the 'microcirculation instrument' or all not using it, to analogize the two therapeutic effects, and it should not be that one group of data uses it while another group does not.

Fang Ziye did not know if other pharmaceutical companies would want to take this shortcut; for pharmaceutical companies, what they need is just 'statistical significance'; whether it is useful for patients, they do not care too much.

If a 'new drug' company wants to ride the microcirculation instrument's popularity, once such a thing appears, Fang Ziye would immediately report it and stop the clinical pilot.

"No 'new drugs' have been discovered for the time being."

"But there are just some very strange extra things, not very clearly visible, some things are related to Traditional Chinese Medicine elements." Lan Tianluo said.

"Traditional Chinese Medicine elements? What do you mean?" Fang Ziye continued pressing.

"It's that the patients here, post-operation, get some extra acupuncture and moxibustion treatments and such, but I didn't discover similar operations in the department."

"This is very strange! ~" Lan Tianluo said.

"Senior Brother, aren't you familiar with Professor Liu Tang here? Why don't you just ask him directly?"

"Okay, this matter is very important." Fang Ziye immediately agreed.

"Wait until tomorrow's working hours to call; don't disturb people during working hours on a flimsy pretext."

Lan Tianluo also agreed: "That's true; if it's an acquaintance, a call during non-working hours is nothing, but if not very familiar, and there's no particularly urgent matter, it's better not to disturb others."

After noting this down, Fang Ziye asked: "How are things progressing between you and that fairy tale doctor currently?"

"When did you two get together?"

Lan Tianluo smiled upon hearing this: "It's been a while; at first I actually went to hit on her out of a curious mindset, and then..."

Lan Tianluo did not conceal his "scumbag" tendencies at this moment.

The plot is extremely melodramatic!

At the start, Lan Tianluo really just held a curious mindset to flirt a bit; having barely gotten out of Zhongnan Hospital, full of youthful vigor, he pretended to be cute on one hand while wanting to prove his 'charm' on the other!

Lan, at the start the fairy tale was also in 'fish-keeping' mode toward him, just feeling a little puppy was quite fun...

"Your taste is truly unique and precise; among so many people, you just had to pick the one with relatively the most 'wicked' charm." Fang Ziye laughed in spite of himself.

The fairy tale, as a Ben Yuan staff member at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, counts as well-informed, but Lan Tianluo's resume is indeed beyond ordinary people.

At first, out of a fun, curious mindset, she was flirted with and tried it out; trying it out, she couldn't stop herself.

And Lan Tianluo also, originally felt this fairy tale was cheerful and uninhibited; even if he flirted and ran, he could run very smoothly.

Result: the fairy tale also really has some substance; peeling off the outermost "carefree" big sister coat, she's actually quite bookish, has read a lot.

And the fairy tale's reading is different from Fang Ziye, Luo Tingzhu and others' reading; it's genuine, solid reading of many books, a Master's dual degree minoring in Eastern Han classical literature.

If not for the final pharmacology knowledge points and post-work workload, research tasks being relatively heavy, this young lady would probably have been able to break through the Chinese Department too.

Two genuine 'oddballs' collided together, both cross-disciplinary talents, both quite interesting to talk to, and they struck off real sparks.

"Couldn't tell, you like this uninhibited-outward reserved-inward type." Fang Ziye crossed his arms, looking Lan Tianluo up and down.

"No one can figure out what type they'll truly like; maybe after understanding, feeling it's not bad, you just fall for it." Lan Tianluo has become much more mature; now discussing such issues, he doesn't avoid them at all.

"Also referencing Liao Jia Big Brother's template, I still feel you shouldn't stay muddleheaded anymore; otherwise later, you truly won't find someone who can make your hormones surge."

Hearing this, Fang Ziye asked: "Speaking of, you've been with Liao Jia Big Brother for a long time; have you really never heard any stories about him?"

Lan Tianluo shook his head: "This, really no."

"Liao Jia Big Brother hasn't been hurt either; just comparatively smart, knew how to make money from undergraduate onwards; after having money, he just did as he pleased."

"Going along, going along, too much play-acting, tasted too many flavors, instead everything feels bland and tasteless."

"According to Liao Jia Big Brother himself, actually peeling open many people's outer layers, inside it's all the same; fat layer plus a layer of skin, difference in skeleton size, difference between developed muscles and undeveloped muscles."

"Nie Mingxian Big Brother and I call him innate cultivation saint body, innately self-penetrating white bone contemplation."

Fang Ziye was also speechless upon hearing this.

What is Liao Jia's concept at this moment?

Seeing a girl's eyes, he can think of the limpid eyes inside, there's also thick secretions; after sleeping, there's still eye gunk.

Seeing a nose, he thinks of snot, and the snot is still hanging in the nose hairs inside the obturator foramen.

Seeing a mouth, he thinks of tooth inflammation, inside it's suppurating, thick mucus hanging across.

Seeing a chest, he thinks inside it's all fat layer oil; inside, it's lung secretions, that is thick phlegm, possibly still deep yellow sticky thick.

Seeing abs, he thinks inside those few centimeters are packed with shit; when having diarrhea it might even spray out...

With this kind of worldview, looking at men or women he only feels disgust.

"Self-inflicted evil, cannot live. We need not pity him."

"If you haven't eaten yet, hurry up and go; don't let your Gold Brick Senior Sister wait too long."

"Still think our master's school people don't understand human relations." Fang Ziye actively pressed to end the topic.

Lan Tianluo also didn't stand on ceremony: "Senior Brother, the things I should do I will finish."

"Hanging up..." Fang Ziye hung up first.

After hanging up, Fang Ziye recalled Lan Tianluo's words; after his divine sense wandered a bit, he cast aside all thoughts and began organizing the data sent over from the bone tumor departments of several hospitals in Han City, and categorizing and organizing them.

Generally, instrument companies' instruments conducting clinical pilots are begging each department's clinical group for cooperation, hoping clinical doctors can provide more convenience; then the clinical trial informed consent signatures, etc., are all handled by company people, providing free trial use.

But the current microcirculation instrument combined with chemotherapy project is completely the opposite; Fang Ziye and the project team members are only responsible for collecting patients' "Voluntary Participation Application Forms".

The informed consent and other content are entirely handled by the specialty department.

This combination is, after all, too revolutionary; if you don't want to do it, there are plenty of people with keen noses willing to undertake this task and collaborate with the Fang Ziye Team.

Controlling the quality of the clinical trial mainly focuses on two points.

One is whether the patient is voluntary, whether they voluntarily signed up for the trial after knowing the corresponding benefits and drawbacks.

The second is assessing whether the lead surgeon team within the specialty department possesses the qualifications and capability for operation and chemotherapy regimen design.

The third is to see whether objective variables were well controlled during the clinical trial process, that is, whether there were third unrelated factors.

The first batch of clinical trial Han City pilot sites only had four units: Zhongnan Hospital, Provincial People's Hospital, Tongji Hospital, and Peking Union Medical College Hospital's Bone Tumor Departments.

Operational level and theoretical level, Fang Ziye need not worry excessively. He only needs to consider whether patients are voluntary and whether the trial site teams are playing tricks.

The voluntary participation principle is actually not difficult; the microcirculation instrument combined with chemotherapy regimen does not involve new drugs, all are applications of classic drugs.

The side effects that traditional chemotherapy should have, after applying the microcirculation instrument, may not necessarily be absent, but without the microcirculation instrument, they certainly exist and affect the whole body...

Even with four hospitals jointly participating, the daily patient volume for trial participation is actually limited; the four Han City hospitals average about thirty-five cases per week. An average of one case per day.

This is the strict headcount standard designed by Fang Ziye, precisely to avoid unexpected incidents.

The duration of the Phase I clinical trial is one month; the final collected case count is about one hundred twenty to one hundred fifty people per city, six locations total, a volume of seven hundred to nine hundred people.

This volume, for a Phase I clinical trial, is already not small.

Fang Ziye organizes data daily; what needs to be done now is to aggregate and preliminarily analyze all organized data for this week.

Although Fang Ziye's statistical analysis capability is not as good as Lan Tianluo's, he is not completely incapable of using the most basic statistical analysis software.

Research-related capabilities being placed here, Fang Ziye's data statistical analysis capability is actually better than most people's, just not as good as specially professional personnel like Lan Tianluo.

After Fang Ziye finished the statistics, the time was already approaching eleven o'clock in the evening.

After putting down the mouse in his hand, Fang Ziye pinched his eyebrows, and when he reached for the water kettle again, the tea inside had already been emptied by himself.

Fang Ziye simply went to add another kettle of water.

Luo Tingzhu hasn't opened a video call today yet; she definitely still has to sit for a while longer.

After Fang Ziye returned from fetching water, he didn't wait for Luo Tingzhu's reply, but instead waited for Professor Zhou Yan's reply.

"Professor Fang, have you rested?" Zhou Yan asked.

Fang Ziye glanced at the time in the upper right corner: 23:05!

Brows furrowing slightly: "Not yet temporarily, Professor Zhou hasn't rested either?"

"Just finished running samples, then chatted with Professor Zhang Limin for a while."

"Hard work, Professor Fang." Zhou Yan replied like this.

"Professor Zhou, I have some matters during the vacation; after returning, the microcirculation instrument pilot task was added on, so I haven't had time to refine the previous project." Fang Ziye hurriedly replied.

"Professor Fang need not be too polite with me; this matter was me pulling Professor Fang into the water."

"Now that there is a matter, I, Zhou Yan, will not be a person who avoids responsibility!"

Zhou Yan's reply was very magnanimous; the other side was typing... for a moment, then quickly replied: "Offending people, I, Zhou Yan, have done plenty anyway."

"If this project, Professor Fang you are unwilling to openly lead, then let me do it; anyway, my current identity, no matter what I do, others can understand."

"But Professor Zhang still had me discuss with you; after all, this matter isn't a small one either."

With projects, whoever leads gets relatively greater benefits.

Just like the previous mangled extremity and functional reconstruction surgery, Liu Huanglong was the main beneficiary; the reason Fang Ziye got more awards was the microcirculation instrument improvement "merit"!

"Professor Zhou willing to lead is the best thing possible."

"However Professor Zhou, the previous speculations were all my personal speculations; they might very well have no positive results."

"Furthermore, even if there are positive results in the early stage, we also cannot too simply and violently deconstruct Traditional Chinese Medicine." Fang Ziye said.

Zhou Yan replied: "Does Professor Fang think I am a person who likes to target people?"

"I personally also have great respect for Traditional Medicine; I have also spoken up for Traditional Medicine several times; on the contrary, when facing some non-compliant projects in Modern Medicine, I would be even more swift and decisive."

"But precisely because I have some friendship with some teachers in the Traditional Chinese Medicine circle, I feel that me leading this matter is the most suitable."

"It won't make people feel from the start that I am deliberately targeting."

"Traditional Chinese Medicine divides into Classic Formulas, Contemporary Prescriptions, Verified Formulas, Folk Remedies, Secret Formulas; among them, besides Classic Formulas and Contemporary Prescriptions, even Verified Formulas still await time to pile up for further verification."

"Let alone Folk Remedies and Secret Formulas."

"Currently, some teachers in the Traditional Chinese Medicine circle are very concerned about additions and subtractions to Verified Formulas; some Folk Remedies after clinical verification can be upgraded to 'Verified Formulas', but most still belong to non-mainstream therapies."

"At first, Professor Zhang was even unwilling to tell me Professor Fang your hairstyle; actually there were quite some reservations..."

Fang Ziye knows some basic knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Classic Formulas are like "Orthodox Martial Arts", characterized by simplicity, efficacy, and specialization;

Contemporary Prescriptions are like "Reformed Schools", flexibly adapting to era demands;

Verified Formulas are like "Standardized Weapons", stable efficacy but limited innovation;

Folk Remedies are like "Folk Crude Methods", convenient yet risks coexist;

Secret Formulas are like "Unique Secret Skills", mystery and controversy coexist.

Hearing this, Fang Ziye's gaze lightly flashed: "Reservations? Professor Zhou might as well speak directly."

Zhou Yan said: "Senior Chen Song is indeed a senior and big shot in the Traditional Chinese Medicine circle; his own level is very high, and he is very righteous and awe-inspiring."

"But after all, Senior Chen Song is just one person; a few years ago I unintentionally befriended an old friend from the Traditional Chinese Medicine circle from Hunan Province; he was the one previously 'chopped' by Elder Chen the Chinese Doctor."

"Hmm, the 'chop' I speak of is not substantive harm."

"It was because his philosophy clashed with Dean Chen Song, and he was 'knocked around' during Elder Chen the Chinese Doctor's tenure, a disciple of an old Chinese doctor."

"In the past two years, with my help, this Big Brother erased the 'toxicity' in his master-inherited formula!"

"Therefore, many people might think that me investigating the problem with Elder Chen the Chinese Doctor's son's company is to repay a private grudge..."

Fang Ziye was stunned upon hearing this: "Then Professor Zhou, you still came to Enshi Yangyuan for a consultation surgery so calmly?"

"Why not?"

"Enshi Yangyuan isn't a den of tigers and wolves?"

"Whether you believe it or not, for ordinary people, as long as it's a garrison location, that is the safest place; even if one strays in unintentionally, there's no need to worry about safety."

"Do I look like I'd be afraid of going in but not coming out?"

Zhou Yan continued: "Actually, last time I came to Enshi Yangyuan, besides agreeing to the consultation surgery, there was another purpose: to explain the misunderstanding from back then to Dean Chen."

"No one is omnipotent; regarding the norms of the TCM system, one cannot violently deconstruct them with any kind of thinking, even if Old Chinese Doctor Chen is a big shot in the TCM world."

This is a dispute of concepts.

Fang Ziye could tell that Chen Song didn't place special importance on some folk remedies or secret formulas; what he revered more were the classic Classical Formula and Contemporary Prescriptions!

【189】 Fang Ziye could tell that Chen Song didn't place special importance on some folk remedies or secret formulas; what he revered more were the classic Classical Formula and Contemporary Prescriptions!

He believed many people just use "folk remedies" and "secret formulas" to swindle money and ruin the future of TCM.

"What did Old Chinese Doctor Chen say later?" Fang Ziye continued asking.

"With relatively objective evidence, Old Chinese Doctor Chen isn't entirely unreasonable; he just lacked the patience and time back then to verify certain things."

"Furthermore?"

"Actually, this TCM friend of mine was only able to reorganize and rectify the 'secret formula' after hearing some words from Old Chinese Doctor Chen."

"I don't understand TCM either, but my old friend said that the medicinal properties of some Chinese herbs in our Eastern Han now may differ slightly from those recorded in ancient formulas and classic formulas."

"This requires re-sorting the corresponding knowledge of TCM pharmacology, reconstructing dosages and herbal formula compositions, to be able to recombine them into effective prescriptions."

"Anyway, researching this is far more difficult and complex than our modern medicine."

"After going through my friend's teacher's generation, plus his own half-lifetime of deep cultivation research, only now has he begun to glimpse the clues..." Zhou Yan said.

The medicinal properties of Chinese herbs have changed from those recorded in medical books back then.

This is indeed a very heavy blow to TCM.

If the medicine is no longer the original medicine — this being a fact — then is the prescription still the original prescription, and how should it be corrected?

If someone told Fang Ziye now that painkillers in modern medicine no longer relieve pain, or have too many side effects.

Anesthetics no longer anesthetize, Fang Ziye would be dumbfounded too.

"Professor Zhou, how do you view the hypothesis I proposed?" Fang Ziye asked.

"Respect objective reality."

"Some medicinal materials in TCM do indeed possess toxicity!"

"This has been proven in the past; there is precedent."

"But one must also see whether these toxicities can be decomposed, and whether the processing methods of the medicinal materials need to be optimized."

"In the composition of TCM prescriptions, regarding the preparation of medicinal materials, there are multiple forms, extremely complex..."

"First, directly verify whether the current preparation methods have toxicity, and whether they are associated with certain 'carcinogenic' or 'pathogenic' factors in modern medicine."

"Second, whether correcting the preparation methods can remove these 'pathogenic factors'!"

"Third, whether through the compatibility of herbal formulas, one can remove or weaken these disease-causing factors, and after reduction, whether the original therapeutic efficacy can still be achieved..."

"Actually, 'verification' related to TCM is the most complex."

"Because the most basic principle of TCM is not the so-called one-to-one positive correlation of modern medicine, so in the verification process, the theory of positive correlation cannot be directly and violently applied."

"Most troublesome to manage! ~" After sending the message, Zhou Yan directly sent a few cute emoticons.

There was a little bear sighing, and a demonic pack that even a dog would shake its head at.

Fang Ziye hurriedly saved them: "Then thank you for your hard work, Professor Zhou."

"My main purpose in telling you this, Professor Fang, is to hope you can let down your guard and conduct expanded research on this matter without any reservations."

"We discover the problem first, then go solve the problem."

"I believe, Professor Fang, that you raising this issue merely discovered a phenomenon; your ultimate goal certainly isn't to kill off TCM or a certain prescription, is it?"

"Your social interests don't have much connection to TCM." Zhou Yan, occupying a third-party position, spoke and acted with worldly clarity.

Fang Ziye naturally needn't provoke such a messy situation; of course, Fang Ziye also didn't dare easily believe Professor Zhou Yan: "Thank you for the praise, Professor Zhou."

"I will certainly do my utmost."

"Right, Professor Zhou, is it convenient to ask you something?" Fang Ziye said.

"Go ahead." Zhou Yan replied very generously.

Fang Ziye simply extracted and recounted what Lan Tianluo had told him before.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yan fell silent for a full three minutes.

Then spoke again: "Just knew that Professor Liu Tang would still be this restless! ~"

"I'm also drunk! ~"

"???" Fang Ziye's pupils instantly contracted.

Professor Liu Tang of Xiangya Second Hospital was one of the middle-aged professors who left a particularly deep impression on Fang Ziye.

Thirty-eight years old, already a Chief Physician, Ward Director.

More critically, this Professor Liu Tang was different from Liu Huanglong; Liu Huanglong had an Academician father-in-law as backing, plus his own qualifications, achieving Chief Physician and Ward Director.

Liu Huanglong became the current Administrative Director of Hand Surgery at Zhongnan Hospital because he swept clean the original Hand Surgery professors in one pot.

But this Professor Liu Tang, without such backing, in Xiangya Second Hospital where talent abounds even more than Zhongnan Hospital, carved out his own territory!

Such capability and poise?

"Undeniable, Professor Liu is a genuine talent! ~"

"Excellent surgical talent; before serving as Director of the Bone Disease Specialty at Xiangya Second Hospital, he served as Attending Physician in Trauma Surgery, and as Deputy Chief Physician and Associate Professor in Joint Surgery."

"This person can span common surgeries across four major sub-specialties: Trauma Surgery, Joint Surgery, Sports Medicine, and Bone Disease Department."

"Even more critically, he is also a Famous TCM Master."

"He was a seven-year program student at Xiangya Hospital back then, graduating with his Master's a year early, then continued on for a Doctorate in Neurosurgery, during which he also obtained a Professional Master's Degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine..."

Fang Ziye's mind went a bit chaotic upon hearing this: "Professor Zhou, may I say a word?"

"What kind of mess is this?"

Zhou Yan said: "Clinical Medicine (Seven-Year Program), Professional Master's Degree in Bone Tumor Department, graduated in six years, simultaneously obtained Professional Master's Degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine, pursued Doctorate in Neurosurgery after graduation, graduated in two years."

"Afterward served as Chief Resident and Attending Physician in Bone Tumor Specialty, Attending for one year, Professor Liu Tang's teacher was removed from the 'Bone Tumor Department' Chief position and transferred out to a tumor hospital in our province."

"Professor Liu Tang began his 'exile' life, worked in Trauma Surgery for two years, performed common trauma surgeries, worked in Joint Surgery for one year, after promotion to Deputy Chief Physician could perform joint replacement surgery."

"Then worked in Sports Medicine for four years, could proficiently perform arthroscopic rotator cuff repair, ligament reconstruction, massive rotator cuff suture repair."

"At thirty-six, returned to Bone Tumor Specialty as Group Leader with Associate Professor status, at thirty-seven, promoted to Chief Physician, served as Bone Tumor Specialty Chief."

"During his tenure as Group Leader, he advocated integrated Chinese-Western medicine treatment for bone tumors, later was complained against by patients, our Provincial Health Commission organized an expert panel to review the treatment plan and ordered it halted!"

"Now? I estimate this Professor Liu wants to take advantage of your microcirculation instrument combined chemotherapy plan to continue integrating his own integrated Chinese-Western medicine tumor treatment plan."

"According to my TCM friend, Professor Liu Tang is extremely skilled in pulse diagnosis and acupuncture."

Fang Ziye listened and coughed for a good while on the spot.

What kind of cheat-enabled "immortal" is this?

Thirty-seven years old, simultaneously proficient in Trauma Surgery, Bone Tumors, Joint Surgery, Sports Medicine surgeries, also a Neurosurgery Doctor, TCM Master...

"If not for being a jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none, this Professor Liu would probably be a legendary figure in our Orthopedics." Professor Zhou Yan summarized.

Fang Ziye then asked: "Professor Zhou, this jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none you speak of, isn't that not so unskilled either?"

"Naturally, everything a professor of this age should know Professor Liu knows, and what general professors don't know Professor Liu also knows! ~"

"Of course, engaging in multiple fields does indeed distract Professor Liu."

"The current Professor Liu focuses mainly on Bone Tumors, currently serves as Group Leader of Bone Tumor Group, Orthopedic Professional Committee, Hunan Provincial Medical Association."

"If not for you Professor Fang leading Zhongnan Hospital to rise unexpectedly, for the next few decades in Central China Region's Bone Tumor Specialty, whether Han City or our Hunan Province is stronger, remains unknown!" Zhou Yan showed some regional protectiveness.

Fang Ziye could understand, replied rather formally: "Integrated Chinese-Western medicine treatment for bone tumors may also be the next very popular treatment direction! ~"

"Given current development direction, instrument-based R&D and use like microcirculation instrument, before the historical roller wheel of Chinese-Western medicine characteristic integration, doesn't even count as a mantis!"

Zhou Yan then said: "Regardless of whether it counts as a mantis, there's still you Professor Fang!"

"Your level and strength Professor Fang, still need other language to embellish?"

"Senior Professor, Yangyuan-origin professional surgical talent, Yangyuan resident Group Leader Professor! ~"

"Just this layer of coat, who can easily compare?"

"So-called overseas experience, visiting scholar, wherever went for further study, wherever held position?"

"That is the mantis arm." Professor Zhou Yan said, giving Fang Ziye five consecutive big thumbs-up made of bone anatomy.

"Professor Zhou, you're too polite."

"You praise so excessively, I'll take it seriously." Fang Ziye laughed casually.

"Hehe, polite."

"The most life-cherishing, highest medical-demanding group of people in this world you've already broken through, still need my politeness? Professor Fang." Zhou Yan countered.

Fang Ziye thought a moment, pursed his lips: "Different paths same destination, my main focus differs from yours Professor Zhou."

"If we talk about social contribution?"

"Professor Zhou, let's not do more meticulous commercial mutual flattery, otherwise we'll chat all evening."

Zhou Yan understood at once: "Forgot Professor Fang you're still in the unmarried honeymoon phase, sorry, disturbed your lovey-dovey."

"Chat next time."

"Chat next time." Fang Ziye didn't explain either, because Luo Tingzhu had really already video-called.

After Zhou Yan ended chat, Fang Ziye swiped open video call.

Luo Tingzhu's well-behaved face-mask-applying "Cold Noodles" appeared in video, at same time she typed while inconvenient to speak.

"Too busy today, I didn't get back until eleven."

"The teachers here are extremely meticulous, showed me very detailed and comprehensive materials, letting me review bit by bit."

"Senior Brother, one thing to say, no praise no blacken."

"Huaxi Hospital's research atmosphere, rigorous and meticulous work attitude, can hang up Zhongnan Hospital and beat it! ~"

Fang Ziye heard, slightly embarrassed, also alert inside: "As one of our country's most famous higher medical institutions, Huaxi Hospital naturally has many extraordinary aspects."

"Not just technology and teaching, many atmosphere details, definitely not something our hospital can catch up to in a short time."

Luo Tingzhu continued gossiping: "Your student Tian Yao, talent indeed quite average, even took the Military Cadet Program, teachers here also unwilling to take."

"But actually Tian Yao, personal capability still okay."

"Just in Huaxi Hospital where internal competition is especially severe, wanting to catch up with the main force is a bit strenuous."

"Compared horizontally like this?"

"I feel our hospital's Trauma Surgery will forever not match Huaxi Hospital's Trauma Surgery, unless one day our department can also permanently admit high-quality student sources."

Comprehensive capability is not personal capability.

Comprehensive level is foundation, atmosphere, comprehensive capability and other multi-dimensional comparison, not Fang Ziye alone leading team making it awesome can really fully support a whole specialty of Zhongnan Hospital.

"Things depend on human effort, our hospital started late but must walk."

"Whatever students encountered must teach, what kind of capability, do what kind of things! ~"

"Worry useless, envy useless, jealousy even more useless."

"Tingzhu, even if others are gold from inside to out, we can only start plating from gold-plating layer, then slowly transform from outside to inside into full gold layer."

"If longitudinal comparison with other hospitals in our Hubei Province, say Enshi Central Hospital and our hospital's Trauma Surgery?"

"If our hospital is only gold-plating layer, their hospital is only copper-plating layer..." Fang Ziye at this moment extremely human-world awake.

Professor Liu Tang of Xiangya Second Hospital can encounter Fang Ziye's interception during his team-building development process, Fang Ziye in his team-building development process must also face Huaxi Hospital such strong hospital's explosively thick foundation.

(Chapter End)