Chapter 572: 563 What on Earth Is It?

563 What on earth is it?

The Inpatient Chief brought the patient onto the stage, and Director Sun, unwilling, was pulled up by Zheng Ren.

Although Director Sun didn't want to go up, there was no way to explain this matter. In the end, he could only grit his teeth and accept.

"Chief Zheng, let me go up—is that not okay?" Director Sun finally sighed and said, "Chief Zheng, you also know my situation; I have no interest in going up, otherwise I wouldn't have come to you."

"Director Sun, speak frankly—I can't tell what the family wants from the patient's side." Zheng Ren said candidly: "I'm pulling you up; you don't need to do anything—just scrub, change clothes, and stand on stage."

"……" Director Sun was stunned for a moment, then angrily said, "What the hell! I'll go ask them."

Saying that, he rushed out of the changing room.

Zheng Ren wasn't worried that he would really run away.

Actually, pulling Director Sun up to stand on the stage is just standing on the stage. After all, the patient is from General Surgery Department 2; if something goes wrong, Director Sun won't fare any better.

Zheng Ren hurried to change clothes; just as he was about to enter the operating room, Su Yun rushed in.

Emergency surgeries are always done on the run.

"Boss, what surgery?" Su Yun didn't ask why they were doing surgery on a General Surgery Department 2 patient; she first asked what the disease was and what surgery.

That's an instinct.

"I can't say for sure; I can't determine the cause." Zheng Ren admitted frankly.

Su Yun looked at Zheng Ren in surprise, her eyes full of questions.

Unclear cause, exploratory laparotomy—this kind of surgery is common. But with Zheng Ren, it's rare.

He can even diagnose P‑J Syndrome—could there really be a disease he can't figure out?

Su Yun merely blinked, then suddenly understood.

Zheng Ren isn't a god; countless events have left him with a very bad impression—that Zheng Ren is omnipotent.

That's wrong!

No doctor is a god, and no doctor is omniscient and omnipotent.

"Where are the films?" Su Yun asked while quickly changing clothes.

"The boss took the films into the operating room." Seeing that Su Yun had arrived, Zheng Ren simply waited for her to finish changing and then they went in together: "Looking at the films and doing a physical exam, we can only conclude it's an intestinal perforation."

"Huh?" Su Yun exclaimed, "Isn't there already a diagnosis?"

"It's only a preliminary diagnosis; the films still show questions." Zheng Ren frowned and said, "I always feel the films show that the inflammatory mass in the abdominal cavity is moving."

"Moving?" Su Yun's expression shifted as she asked, "Boss, how many patients with lower‑body foreign objects have you seen?"

"Very few—I've seen a few cases of beer bottles and shampoo bottles." Zheng Ren replied, feeling that Su Yun seemed to have guessed something.

"Forget it, let's see during the surgery." Su Yun said, "You're just too honest…"

Zheng Ren felt a stir in his heart; suddenly the changing room door opened, then with a bang it was shut.

Director Sun stormed in, angry.

"Director Sun?" Zheng Ren wondered.

"Chief Zheng, your judgment is correct—there really is a problem." Director Sun said with a grim face: "Last time the patient underwent exploratory laparotomy, they finally pulled out an eel."

"……" Zheng Ren was speechless.

Su Yun wore an expression that said, "I guessed this all along."

"Chief Zheng, I really don't know." Director Sun felt a bit apologetic: "The family is embarrassed to say; they didn't even tell me. Actually, it's just a case of connections—it's not a relative of mine."

Zheng Ren nodded lightly.

"Be careful during the surgery; I looked at the films and feel that eel might still be alive." Zheng Ren said: "If that's the case this time too…"

This time Su Yun put away her smile and her expression turned solemn.

Everyone was thinking about possible intraoperative complications.

God knows whether this patient has HIV, syphilis, or similar diseases. Because the patient's condition is severe, there's simply no time to wait for test results.

Besides the risk of being cut by the scalpel or pricked by the suture needle, we now have to be extra careful about another possibility.

The three of them looked grim and hurried to the operating area.

The anesthesiologist was administering general anesthesia to the patient; Zheng Ren and Su Yun exchanged a glance, both shook their heads, and turned to scrub up.

After the patient was successfully anesthetized and placed supine, Su Yun routinely disinfected and laid down sterile drapes. Zheng Ren put on his clothes, stood before the viewbox, continued looking at the films, and did his homework.

He kept imagining various abnormal scenarios in his mind.

Whether this surgery is difficult or not, we'll set that aside for now. Just the various abnormal scenarios make Zheng Ren feel extremely fatigued.

At one point Zheng Ren even imagined that, upon opening the patient's abdomen, countless sharp teeth would burst out from the cavity…

Moreover, it's not just the surgery that's difficult; Director Kong's flight is this morning, and Zheng Ren still wants to go see him off.

He sighed, "Let's do it—we have to grit our teeth and get it done."

"Boss, I'm dressed." Su Yun said after laying the first layer of sterile drapes, then went to disinfect her hands a second time and put on a sterile gown.

Zheng Ren stood in the surgeon's position; the shadowless lamp's light was glaringly bright, white and oppressive, weighing down his mood.

He reached out—his hand grasped nothing.

This is the major external operating room, not the emergency operating room…… Zheng Ren felt even more empty and uneasy inside.

"Iodophor, dry gauze." Zheng Ren said.

The instrument nurse handed Zheng Ren the hemostatic forceps clamped with iodophor gauze, and placed two pieces of dry gauze beside the patient's leg.

After disinfecting, Zheng Ren wiped the iodophor dry with dry gauze, then reached out and said, "Scalpel."

A scalpel was slapped into Zheng Ren's palm.

Zheng Ren made a midline abdominal incision, from about 8 cm above the umbilicus to about 15 cm below it, cutting through the skin layer by layer into the abdomen.

This incision followed the old one. After opening it, Zheng Ren didn't rush into blunt dissection; instead he began removing the original scar tissue, using electrocautery to stop bleeding.

The original surgical incision was long; Zheng Ren alone spent just over ten minutes removing the scar tissue.

We have to cut here; if we don't remove it, postoperative suturing will be very difficult to heal.

After cutting away the existing scar, Zheng Ren began Blunt Dissection of the muscle tissue, layer by layer entering the abdominal cavity.

After protecting the peritoneum, he opened the peritoneum.

Director Sun also scrubbed in and went on stage, but he didn't stay in the assistant's position; instead, he naturally gave that position to Su Yun.

"Boss, be careful." When entering the abdominal cavity, Su Yun reminded.

"Hmm." Zheng Ren nodded.

Thereafter, Zheng Ren opened the peritoneum and explored the abdominal cavity.

The patient's abdominal cavity had obvious adhesions, stuck together in a mess. All the intestines were stuck together, a full lump.

Zheng Ren looked at the patient's abdominal cavity and let out a sigh.

This is the most difficult kind of intestinal adhesion and obstruction. The difficulty of the surgery reaches the heavens.

He habitually reached out, but his hand was empty.

Zheng Ren realized again, this was the second time he had made this mistake today.

"Blunt Scissors, hemostatic forceps." Zheng Ren looked at a lump of intestine and said softly.

"What?" The instrument nurse didn't hear clearly and asked loudly.

"..." Zheng Ren felt very tired, mentally and physically exhausted.

"Blunt Scissors, hemostatic forceps!" Su Yun raised her volume and said, then laughed: "Boss, are you especially not used to this?"