Chapter 2498: 2410 Carcinogen

"You won't even take a close look?" Su Yun scolded.

"Uh..." the male student held toilet paper, his face reddening to the base of his neck.

"This is really see you tomorrow, the enoki mushrooms you ate yesterday?" Su Yun's lips curled, drawing a perfect arc.

"Uh... the day before yesterday." the male student said sheepishly.

"Thedayaftertomorrow, tsk tsk, letting you come to the hospital you're so obedient. You're going to be a doctor in the future; after listening to a lesson on parasites, you think you've grown parasites yourself? Won't you take a look?" Su Yun adopted the pose of a teacher demanding respect.

"Forget it." Zheng Ren chuckled, patting Su Yun on the shoulder, "The kid is still too nervous."

"You need to chew your food properly, not eat like a mule eating grass. Especially when you go to the clinic, you don't have time to eat, and with you gulping food like that, you'll quickly gain weight."

Su Yun kept nagging.

"Mm-hmm, okay, okay, Teacher Su." the male student nodded repeatedly, saying, "Teacher Su, I also felt nauseous from accompanying her eating enoki mushrooms, and just having them in my mouth makes me want to vomit."

"Why eat so many enoki mushrooms?" Zheng Ren wondered.

"Don't listen to him." the female student said, "Didn't the World Health Organization recently list red meat as a 2A carcinogen? I think it's better to go vegetarian, so I dragged him along to eat vegetarian."

"You..." Su Yun looked at the female student and sighed.

"Teacher Su, is that false news?" the female student saw Su Yun's expression, froze for a moment, thinking she had made a mistake.

"On October 26, 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, affiliated with the World Health Organization, officially announced: processed meat products are classified as Group 1 carcinogens, mainly referring to colorectal cancer, and red meat has also been included as a Group 2A carcinogenic food." Zheng Ren said gently.

"Boss, don't go off on that." Su Yun said disdainfully, "What else is on the list? Have you looked?"

"..." the two students shook their heads simultaneously.

"Let's not talk about the recent research article published in the Annals of Internal Medicine; we'll just mention the things simultaneously listed as Group 2A carcinogens." Su Yun counted on her fingers, "Dieldrin, that's one."

"I'd like to drag the person who made the list out and ask what they mean by putting Dieldrin and red meat together."

"You're just being contrarian." Zheng Ren was speechless, "Dieldrin causes death, but that's not referring to cancer death."

"Tch, you're the one being contrarian." Su Yun didn't want to discuss this further with Zheng Ren, but continued counting on her fingers, "Ginkgo leaf extract, you know what that is, right?"

"I know, Teacher Su."

"Tell us."

"Ginkgo leaf extract has a significant antagonistic effect on PAF receptors, and it also works as an anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, vasodilator, protects cerebrovascular blood vessels, and improves peripheral blood circulation." the female student answered quickly.

"Hmm, you've memorized it well. In the future, you need to think more and keep a critical spirit." Su Yun said, "Ginkgo leaf extract is a Group 2A carcinogen; do you know how many patients take ginkgo leaf tablets long-term?"

The two shook their heads.

Zheng Ren didn't know this data either; he just knew many elderly people take ginkgo leaf tablets long-term.

"I ask you, if someone gets cancer, can they come to the hospital and sue the doctor for causing cancer by giving them oral ginkgo leaf extract?"

"..."

Zheng Ren suddenly shivered.

"If someone were to specialize in researching this, they'd practically win every lawsuit. The key is that this clinically used drug is very mild, and aside from severe allergic reactions, the instructions don't list any prohibited users."

"Don't overthink it; the more you think, the more Zheng Ren feels that doing basic research would be better."

"Let me give you another example—a child has a fever, you..." he pointed at the female student and asked, "What do we do?"

"Infants and young children usually reduce fever via an enema, for example with chloral hydrate."

"Hmm, chloral hydrate is also a Group 2A carcinogen." Su Yun said, "Moreover, metronidazole is also a Group 2A carcinogen."

The students fell silent.

"If you want to scrutinize, look—what the World Health Organization publishes isn't necessarily correct; recently there's an article in the Annals of Internal Medicine that refutes the idea that red meat causes cancer." Su Yun said, "When examining issues, don't just believe what people say right away. You're doctors—how can you be so blindly trusting?"

"Thank you, Teacher Su." The two didn't know if they understood, but in unison they said.

"Let's head back." Su Yun waved her hand, "Bringing enoki mushrooms to the hospital and calling them parasites—no one would laugh if you said that out loud."

"Hehe." the male student felt a bit embarrassed, scratching his head.

After seeing the two students leave, Zheng Ren then asked, "You're so averse to the WHO carcinogen list—is it because they put alcoholic beverages in Group 1?"

"Exactly!" Su Yun, not the least bit embarrassed, said, "Alcohol is humanity's good friend; without alcohol, how could we live? We couldn't even survive—what's the point of saying all that useless stuff?"

"Cold alcohol harms the liver, hot alcohol harms the lungs, not drinking harms the heart"—Zheng Ren thought of this joke.

"Current science is just like that. Wasn't it said yesterday or today that the atomic pens in Lighthouse Country actually contained nuclear radiation? At the end of the day, everywhere is the same." Su Yun argued stubbornly.

"Irritating the esophagus and stomach lining can easily lead to carcinogenesis; that should be the logic, right?" Zheng Ren said.

"They all say not drinking harms the heart. A few years ago there was an old joke: humanity struggled for countless years, finally reached the top of the food chain, and you want me to go vegetarian? Do you remember that?"

"I remember." Zheng Ren smiled, not wanting to argue with Su Yun. For Su Yun, not drinking is impossible.

"Sometimes because of drinking he can't go into surgery, including his favorite cardiothoracic surgery. All you see is regret, but never him saying he'll quit drinking."

"I'm heading back." Zheng Ren said lightly.

"Boss, the odds list from UK Ladbrokes Company has changed." Su Yun said.

"Huh? Odds?" Zheng Ren paused.

"As for odds, soccer betting and such, Zheng Ren never bothers to look, thinking they're all scams."

"Can ordinary people out-calculate those actuaries at the betting companies?"

"Winning is a low-probability event, losing is high-probability. Moreover, Zheng Ren doesn't even look at any lotteries, to the point that his OCD has become so severe he won't even open the treasure chests given by the system space."

"Boss, the UK Ladbrokes Company's odds list is the biggest public platform each year for predicting Nobel Prize winners. The Nobel Prize nominees are kept secret, but Ladbrokes' slogan is—'We just need to draft the initial list of candidates; after that, it's entirely up to the bettors' choices."

"Is that meaningful?"

"Hey! Guess how high our odds have gotten?"