Chapter 3116: with translation of chapter title

Zheng Ren brought the entire medical team to Stockholm.

As for the award ceremony, it can be said to be a very important point in one's life journey, worth commemorating. Moreover, everyone put a lot of work into the whole project, so at this point it's not good to bring anyone or leave anyone out. Zheng Ren even hadn't forgotten to call Liu Zewei to invite him to come along, but Old Liu was a bit embarrassed.

Today they did a bit of tidying up, and everyone went to a few sights. The city hall was the venue for the 10th, and they didn't first go to scout it out. In Zheng Ren's view, receiving the award was just a formality, not really important.

They visited the old town and the palace, and upon entering the Stockholm Vasa Shipwreck Museum, they saw an old warship that had been temporarily converted into a double-decker.

The guide explained that this warship was originally a single-deck gunship, but when the king learned that Sweden's maritime rival Denmark at the time already had double-deck gunships, he disregarded the country's technical conditions and ordered the gunship to be rebuilt as a double-decker; it sank just a few minutes after its maiden voyage in 1628, and was not seen again until 1961.

The time-worn shipwreck and palace made for a fun outing. Although there were many people here, Zheng Ren did not feel his energy value draining away 'swish-swish' as it did when he was strolling through supermarkets or markets.

Before leaving the museum, Zheng Ren's phone rang.

After answering the call, Zheng Ren's fatigue vanished, his expression solemn yet with a hint of… strangeness.

"Zheng Ren, was it my dad calling?" Xie Yiren understood the meaning of the words, but seeing Zheng Ren's expression a bit odd, she asked softly.

"Mm, Uncle Ning said… he got a fish bone stuck." Zheng Ren said, turning to look at Feng Xu Hui, "Little Feng, do you have large tweezers for removing fish bones?"

"We have ordinary sterile tweezers, but we didn't bring a laryngoscope…" Feng Xu Hui said with some regret.

Being out and about, it's not as convenient as in the capital. He brought four large rolling suitcases; besides the equipment for interventional surgery, they also contained emergency and rescue gear. As for the laryngoscope, it was too big, so he didn't bring it this time.

"Uncle Ning, where are you?" Zheng Ren asked earnestly.

"Just came out of Karolinska Hospital?"

Hearing Xie Ning's reply, Zheng Ren was surprised; Xie Yiren saw his expression and knew he was inquiring about what had happened earlier.

From a clinical standpoint, this belongs to past medical history. But Xie Yiren knows Xie Ning's temperament; he went to Karolinska Hospital first and then sought Zheng Ren, so surely something went wrong during the medical examination.

But whatever the problem is, let's not ask over the phone; we'll talk when we meet.

Xie Yiren patted Zheng Ren's hand, took the phone, asked a couple of questions, and agreed to meet at the hotel.

"Boss..." Su Yun could no longer hold back her laughter.

In his view, this was practically a blessing from heaven! But if he said that out loud, it's hard to say whether Xie Yiren would get angry.

"A fish bone got stuck last night; after going to Karolinska Hospital and going through the ordeal, the laryngoscope was used twice but still couldn't remove it. They've scheduled surgery for tomorrow morning..."

Hearing Zheng Ren's account, Xie Yiren also found it unbelievable.

"Finally it's your turn to serve, boss. Honestly, if you were to remove Uncle Ning's fish bone, would your hand shake?" Su Yun asked, "If your hand shakes, I'll do it."

"If the fish bone really exists, my hand won't shake." Zheng Ren said seriously.

His voice was firm, his shoulders slightly spread, his waist straight as a rod, like a soldier about to step onto a smoke-filled battlefield.

"Relax, it's just a fish bone, a fish bone!" Su Yun laughed.

"Fish bones vary by location; if it's stuck in the tonsils, it's easy to handle. In that case, pulling the tongue out removes it right away." Zheng Ren's face was grave, and Su Yun shrugged.

Before performing the conjoined twin heart separation surgery, his boss hadn't shown such an expression; back then it was mostly excitement, whereas now there are hints of solemnity.

"If the fish bone isn't found around the tonsils, we need to probe deeper. At that point we might need an indirect laryngoscope and specially made foreign-body forceps. Because the probe goes deep, patients usually feel a urge to vomit."

"If it's still lower, it might have pierced the esophagus, possibly hitting the aorta..."

"Boss, don't be a harbinger of doom!" Su Yun didn't even care about her tone or expression, and didn't snap at her own boss. Xie Yiren's complexion turned quite ugly when Zheng Ren said this, the sky overcast and threatening rain.

Recently we performed two surgeries where fish bones were lodged in the major artery, extremely dangerous ones. The boss's analysis like this, aside from causing panic, is basically useless.

"After hours of ordeal at Karolinska Hospital, I'm worried the fish bone has pierced inward." Zheng Ren immersed himself in the case analysis, as if only this could overcome his fear of his father-in-law.

After Su Yun kicked him, Zheng Ren realized that Xie Yiren might be afraid…

He immediately took Xie Yiren's hand and said softly, "It's fine, just a fish bone."

"But..."

"What I just said are all extremely rare situations, with a probability of no more than one in ten thousand. And with me here, rest assured, nothing will go wrong." Zheng Ren said firmly.

The sky was filled with dark clouds, snowflakes already drifting down, just like Xie Yiren's mood. They had just been having fun, never expecting that before they could even go eat, they'd run into this mess.

After getting in the car, as soon as Zheng Ren settled his seat, he dove straight into the system space.

Seeing the experimental subject seated in the chair of the system operating room, Zheng Ren was stunned for a moment. He had never encountered such a 'strange' posture before.

But then he thought, he hadn't spent any surgical training time removing fish bones either. However, this is Uncle Ning's problem; he can't be careless just because it's a fish bone—he must be cautious, cautious, and cautious again.

Suddenly, a thought flashed: if it really is lodged in the aorta, would he still need to dissect Uncle Ning's experimental subject?

This ethical and logical issue was immediately dispelled by Zheng Ren.

He glanced around at the equipment, and there was actually a simple laryngoscope… Zheng Ren's hands and feet went a bit numb.

The big pig trotter had been equipped with a laryngoscope, which meant the fish bone was still relatively deep, not visible under normal circumstances.

Little Feng didn't bring equipment either—what should he do now?

In a moment of daze, Zheng Ren thought for a long time, and ultimately decided to first remove the fish bone from the experimental subject. At the very least he needed to know its position to decide what to do next.

If all else fails, contacting Dr. Mehari for a laryngoscope shouldn't be a big deal. He just feared that Uncle Ning already had a psychological shadow toward hospitals and would refuse to go no matter what.

Zheng Ren steadied his mind, put on sterile gloves, picked up the laryngoscope, and began examining the experimental subject.

As the laryngoscope went down, indeed a fish bone was found in the pyriform fossa. The tweezers clamped it out, the whole process taking two minutes.

It wasn't difficult, aside from needing the laryngoscope there was no difficulty; why couldn't Karolinska Hospital even remove a single fish bone?

Could it be a test from his father-in-law? Or does he have other thoughts? Zheng Ren fell into contemplation.