Chapter 2889: with translation of chapter title

Boss, in the future do less of these thankless, labor-intensive tasks. Look at that junior supervisor's face, it's as if we owe him eight million. Su Yun got in the car and said this unhappily.

He, Lao He, and Gao Shaojie sat in the back row, a bit cramped, and his mood didn't look very good.

Zheng Ren smiled and said, "Let me treat you to a meal when we get back, how about that?"

"Huh? The sun rising from the west?" Su Yun said doubtfully, "What are you thinking?"

"Nothing much, just felt everyone worked hard, the night market near home, let's grab a late-night snack." Zheng Ren's Energy Value was full, his mood naturally good. Coming to save Taiwan this time, he got a big advantage, everyone else worked hard, so having a late-night snack together is normal.

Su Yun was somewhat surprised, so he didn't say what he was about to say.

Lao He said, "Zheng Lao Ban, today that anesthesiologist Director Xiang is really not a good person; I'll avoid such people in the future."

"It's fine, probably just got scared by something." Zheng Ren said nonchalantly, "Today's Shou Bing is interesting; surgical means cause big trauma, patients' families are very dissatisfied, leading to many medical disputes. If we use Interventional surgery to remove the broken Catheter, the dispute would be controllable."

"Zheng Lao Ban, I attended a yearly meeting, and in private chat a doctor said he had encountered this situation..."

Speaking, Lao He paused, then didn't say the rest.

Su Yun glanced at Lao He and asked, "Like an ostrich, do nothing at all?"

"Hmm." Lao He sighed, "Especially for the elderly, the advice is to do nothing. Everyone's opinion is that the Catheter may not have caused symptoms yet, and the person is already dead."

"Regarding surgical methods, the elderly's lamina is still too loose." Zheng Ren said, "If we do Shou Bing, it will indeed cause a lot of collateral damage."

"Zheng Lao Ban, how difficult is it for you to do this?" Lao He asked.

"At first it might be a bit difficult, but once skilled it's not a problem." Zheng Ren said, "Actually Lao Gao can do it, but I'm also doing it for the first time, so I'm being cautious."

Gao Shaojie used his smile to tell Lao He that he could perform this Shou Bing.

Lao He gazed at the night outside the window, thinking back on these years' experiences. Risks are everywhere. Just like driving, no one can guarantee they won't have a car accident in a lifetime; only the severity varies.

The medical industry faces many risks, both human-caused and non-human-caused.

Sometimes it's an accident caused by the operator not being careful enough, like mixing up the films, hanging the previous Shou Bing's film, and still treating it as this Shou Bing's patient. These are avoidable risks; just be careful enough.

But many risks are unavoidable, like opening and finding abnormal tissue structure, like today's situation.

Lao He hasn't encountered it, but he's heard of no fewer than five consecutive cases of epidural catheter breakage. Most are due to the patient's own spinal stenosis, bone overgrowth, pregnancy, epidural space connective tissue hyperplasia, positional changes, etc., pathological and physiological causes.

Because making a patient with appendicitis undergo a preoperative vertebral Nuclear Magnetic Resonance is unrealistic, this is an unavoidable situation.

Fortunately the incidence is low, about one in a hundred thousand; many people go a lifetime without seeing a case. Besides being extra careful ourselves, we also need to pray for good luck.

Thinking, Lao He felt a bit annoyed. Just like Section Chief Mao's illness, who would have known beforehand that her spinal canal would have endometrial ectopia!

Same appendicitis, different accident, unavoidable; if it weren't for Zheng Lao Ban being there, I'd have been done for in this lifetime.

As Lao He's mood was plummeting into the abyss, a patting sensation came on his shoulder.

"Lao He, what are you pondering? Why do you feel so down?" Su Yun asked with a chuckle.

"It's not that I haven't thought about a medical accident." Lao He sighed, "This thing is hard to say; if it happens, you can only say your luck is bad. You say we materialists think about luck every day, I find it a bit absurd. But luck is just not hitting a low-probability event... sigh."

"Cut the crap, how old are you to still be artsy?" Su Yun said disdainfully, "At my age, being a little artsy is normal; you're already buried in yellow earth up to the eleventh thoracic vertebra, right, how can you still..."

Mentioning the thoracic vertebra, Su Yun burst out laughing.

Lao He also gave a faint smile, his displeasure lessened a little.

"Boss has already come out, but it's a pity today's Shou Bing wasn't livestreamed, can't be put on Xinglin Yuan." Su Yun said, "I just want to ask you, if Interventional surgery can remove it, how big a reaction would the patient's family have?"

"Hard to say..."

"Bullshit." Su Yun said disdainfully, "At most it's just doing a Shou Bing for nothing, using a few consumables, getting criticized by the Medical Department, paying thirty to fifty thousand at most. Everything's taken out, what else could there be? As long as you don't take red envelopes before the procedure, blowing this up big isn't a big deal."

Lao He scratched his head, his thoughts seemed too dark.

"Boss running Wolf Mountain in the middle of the night, what for? Not because you've been thinking about medical accidents all along, but to create a new technique!" Su Yun said, "Don't fear accidents; fear mishandling after an accident."

Speaking, he patted Zheng Ren's shoulder and asked, "Right, Boss?"

Zheng Ren smiled, wondering if he had that meaning too; he himself didn't know. But he didn't say anything, just nodded.

"Antibiotics upgraded; previously, appendectomy incision infection over 10% dropped to under 1%. Don't argue with me, I haven't checked the exact numbers; if you argue, just wait and see." Su Yun said, "Let's just talk about this: the Shou Bing Boss did today isn't actually difficult; at least hundreds of interventional doctors nationwide can do it. The hardest part is the grasper catching the free-floating Catheter; if one try fails, just try a few more times, it's no big deal."

Lao He nodded.

"Anything that can be solved isn't called a medical accident; I believe this technique will soon appear clinically. So you anesthesiologists go wild doing it; if something happens, aren't there still interventional doctors?"

"Boss, I forgot something!"

"How?"

"I forgot to upload the image data; we need the material so I can write the paper." Su Yun said, "Other papers are just bullshit, just to get an SCI, I'm too lazy to write. This one's different—it's to safeguard anesthesiologists... actually it's just wiping ass. Lao Gao, you say if I write it, will I be hated?"

Gao Shaojie smiled and said nothing.

With Su Yun present, the car's atmosphere quickly eased. Lao He wasn't so gloomy either; they chatted and returned to Di Du.