Healing Doctor

Chapter 544: Viewers with underlying medical conditions such as heart disease or high blood pressure should view with caution.

"Old Bai, tell me, what is all this junk?"

Three days later, in a private room at Qiyang Barbecue, Liu Zhi spoke to Director Bai with great dissatisfaction.

"What a load of rubbish! They can't even update on time. Can't they even do this? If not, send Xiao Ji back."

"It's alright. I guess the production team is striving for perfection and preparing to create a nationally popular program," Director Bai said calmly. "That's a good thing."

"When we were young, those Hong Kong movies were all made in just a few months or even a few dozen days. Many of them were classics."

"Back then, there were many classic works, but even more garbage works from the department; you just didn't see them," Director Bai said.

"Old Bai, what are we filming this time? There was even a preview before, but this episode is really too much. They only gave a warning: 'Viewers with underlying conditions such as heart disease or high blood pressure should watch with caution.'"

"A publicity stunt." Director Bai curled his lip and said disdainfully, "Do they dare to film a major emergency? I remember once I asked you for a consultation, and you came into our neurosurgical intensive care unit. A female patient was lying on an extra bed, and the bed was covered in blood. She was basically lying in a pool of blood."

"I remember, the person looked like he was going to die at first glance." Director Liu sighed. "You treated so many car accidents that day, you were so busy you were practically flying off the building."

This happened more than 20 years ago, when young people were just beginning to celebrate "Western holidays" like Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Everyone was young and energetic, having a great time. But after a few drinks, drunk driving and fights became more common.

Director Liu once treated up to six kidney stab wounds in one night, and cut off six kidneys.

For them, those are all painful memories. Now, the crackdown on drunk driving is particularly strict, and coupled with the common saying about calculating costs, things have quieted down considerably.

"They definitely wouldn't dare broadcast that kind of footage," Director Bai said confidently. "Is it that easy to pass censorship? When we first started playing World of Warcraft and Molten Core, the ground was covered in bones, but later it all turned into little grave mounds."

"Now, even the bleeding can't be red, it's green. Isn't this bullshit?! Yeah, with this kind of thing, you can't even film a major emergency. A bed full of green liquid, is this Avatar?" Director Liu added with a sarcastic remark.

"Therefore, it's impossible for them to create the kind of scene that would cause a heart attack."

"But I'm still very curious. Although I know rationally it's impossible, I still support Xiao Ji," Director Liu said.

"Just watch," Director Bai smiled slightly. "However, I think this is just a gimmick; they're very likely to use some minor measures to inflate the numbers."

"Is it like a lumbar puncture in your neurosurgery department?" Director Liu asked.

Lumbar puncture is a routine procedure in neurosurgery. An 11-centimeter-long fine needle is used to pierce through the skin and subcutaneous fat, through the intervertebral space, and through the ligamentum flavum and dura mater to reach the subarachnoid space, with the purpose of collecting a small amount of cerebrospinal fluid.

The cerebrospinal fluid is sent for testing, various examinations are performed, or a small amount of cerebrospinal fluid is released to reduce intracranial pressure, etc.

This procedure is one of the most basic procedures in neurosurgery, with almost zero risk.

but!

The needle is a bit long, and the procedure is somewhat complicated, requiring positioning the patient, locating the problem area, disinfecting, and administering anesthesia. This whole setup can be a little intimidating for both family members and patients, and sometimes even newly employed doctors or medical students feel a bit scared.

There have been many instances where family members of patients have seen a long needle inserted into the patient's spine, and while the patient was fine, the family member would faint.

"I guess the production team was really out of options and came up with this gimmick themselves. But..." Director Liu said, shaking his head, "Many viewers will feel cheated after seeing this. Don't they care about the show's reputation?"

"If we can find a suitable patient, it would be a good thing to actually record the entire lumbar puncture process on camera," Director Bai smiled. "If the interventional radiology department can be on camera, why can't we neurosurgeons!"

"Ugh, and you call yourself a neurosurgeon." Director Liu scoffed. "I remember once when I was on duty, I heard someone crying, a woman's sobs. I opened the window and listened carefully, but I couldn't hear anything. I asked a nurse to come and listen with me, but people misunderstood it as me trying to pick her up."

"With all those cunning ideas you had when you were young, how could the nurses trust you?" Director Bai said with a smile.

"In the end, it turned out that one of your neurosurgery patients had been delirious for about a month after surgery. Damn it!" Director Liu cursed. "Your department is so bad that every scene is inappropriate for children. You can't even be on a variety show."

"It's okay to watch microsurgery in the operating room, but you can't look at the camera."

"I don't understand it at all, what's so interesting about it for the audience?"

"Just watching the excitement, that's normal."

"Do you remember that documentary?" Director Liu asked.

"What documentary?" Director Bai hesitated for a moment, then immediately remembered, "The one about stent placement in the cardiology department?"

"right."

One segment of the documentary shows a man who suffered a heart attack undergoing surgery in the circulatory catheterization lab.

The patient developed atrial fibrillation as soon as they were brought on the operating table. The doctors tried to resuscitate them, and the patient cried out loudly. It was a cry of impending death, but for the doctors, it was better if the patient could still make a sound; they were afraid the patient would become completely still.

Because they could see the surgical procedure inside, the patient's family was terrified.

After the atrial fibrillation was treated and the surgery went smoothly, the patient's family kept cursing at the doctor.

This is a real case where the surgical procedure was performed in front of the patient's family.

Since then, no film crew has wanted to make a "real" documentary, and no doctor has dared to take on the job.

Although Director Fan's program has been leaning towards that direction, it has still maintained a certain level of restraint. I imagine the doctors and department heads at the First Affiliated Hospital are also on guard.

"We don't dare to perform proper surgery, because if something goes wrong, it will be a big deal. If it's a minor procedure like a lumbar puncture, there won't be any problems, but then it's pointless," Director Liu said.

I can't figure it out no matter how hard I try. I can't understand what the production team is trying to do, no matter how hard I try.

The lengthy discussion not only killed time but also raised the expectations of Director Liu and Section Chief Bai. However, they believed that "operations" like waist puncture, which looked scary but actually had little risk, were more likely to be performed.

Finally, the game ended, and the guests started chatting in the comments section.

Neither of them liked watching this part, and they would definitely fast-forward if they could.

What follows is the daily routine of the interns, uneventful as water.

Half an hour later, when Ji Xiang appeared on camera, Director Bai and Director Liu finally perked up.

"Xiao Ji seems to be very happy with Gan."

"It's all work, no matter where you are," Director Bai commented casually.

The camera then pans to show Ji Xiang and Director Yang entering the outpatient clinic.

This scene was added later; Director Bai and Director Liu were unaware of it, and even if they had, it wouldn't have mattered.

Because they immediately saw the camera frantically turn on, and a woman standing on a high place, teetering on the edge.

(End of this chapter)