Healing Doctor

Chapter 559 Skillful and Daring

Inside the operating room, Director Zou was showing Ji Xiang the Da Vinci robot.

Outside the operating room, Director Fan was gossiping with his assistant.

"Director, what's the pity?"

"Foreign companies control the power-on and power-off processes and all the disposable supplies for this thing. It costs a lot of money to turn it on, but unfortunately we can't manufacture it."

"It will be built soon," Director Fan's assistant said confidently.

Director Fan shook his head and didn't say anything.

Instead of continuing the discussion on that topic, he went on to gossip.

More than forty minutes passed before Director Zou and Ji Xiang finally walked out of the operating room.

"That's about it. The surgery is actually quite simple. The touch that only experienced specialists who had performed hundreds of surgeries could do before is now directly visible, so this is a good thing."

If you have the chance when you get back, you must try to get your hands on the Da Vinci robot. It's expensive, but worth it. Besides, you're young, and you'll definitely need it in the future.

"Okay, Teacher Zou." Ji Xiang nodded thoughtfully.

"I heard you have a provincial-level project in urology and interventional radiology. Actually, urology has been using the da Vinci robot for a long time. Dr. Sun from Changhai Hospital has performed a large number of nephrectomies, adrenalectomies, ureterotomies, bladder tumor resections, and prostate tumor resections using robots."

"If you're interested, do some more research."

"good!"

Ji Xiang nodded deeply, and even Director Fan, who was standing not far away, could see that Ji Xiang was very interested in it.

Director Zou checked the time on his phone and said regretfully, "I have other things to do today, so I can only show you this much for now. I'll take you up there to experience it when I'm performing surgery!"

"Thank you, Teacher Zou. What are you going to do today?" Ji Xiang asked.

Director Zou didn't answer directly. He looked up at Ji Xiang, and Director Fan highly suspected that Director Zou could only see Ji Xiang's chin.

The height difference between the two is so great that even Director Fan couldn't bear it.

Do you perform gastroscopy and colonoscopy in your gastrointestinal surgery department?

"It seems that the gastroenterology department at the Second Affiliated Hospital doesn't perform these procedures; it's done by the gastroenterology department. However, I've seen that some hospitals' gastrointestinal surgery departments have gastroscopy and colonoscopy procedures on hand, which can be performed for both inpatients and outpatients."

Ji Xiang recalled a time when he felt a deep connection with a patient in the gastrointestinal surgery department who used cola to dissolve the stones in his stomach.

"I'm having a colonoscopy today to remove polyps. Damn it, this is such a trivial procedure, the boss could have done it, why do I have to go?" Director Zou said disdainfully, "One day a week, I have to do five of these."

"So few?!" Ji Xiang's focus immediately shifted to the quantity.

"Hey, they all left the hardest part to me." Director Zou touched his face, his mask still damp, and his eyes narrowed into slits.

Director Fan found it somewhat disgusting; someone so old drooling, Director Zou was utterly unlikable. However, Ji Xiang seemed unconcerned; he was more curious about the removal of the intestinal polyps.

As for Director Zou, he was in Versailles, and his complaints were a way of showing off.

"Dr. Zou, what size polyps do you remove?"

"Patients over 1cm," Director Zou said with a smile. "We save up similar patients every week and do them all together on my surgery day."

Polyps larger than 2cm are not recommended for endoscopic removal and require surgical intervention. Removal of polyps larger than 1cm carries a risk of bleeding, so the endoscopy unit reserves high-risk patients for Dr. Zou.

This greatly increased Ji Xiang's goodwill towards Director Zou.

"Come on, come on, let me learn from your surgery!" Ji Xiang said excitedly.

Gastroscopy/colonoscopy?!

Director Fan's head suddenly heated up by 2 degrees Celsius, and his brain started working at high speed.

The content of the next episode kept troubling Director Fan, but when he heard about gastroscopy and colonoscopy, he suddenly perked up.

It seems like a minor surgery!

It seems like similar surgeries can be filmed!

Director Fan, as if he had just received a 5mg injection of adrenaline, strode over to Ji Xiang with his eyes shining.

He didn't speak immediately, but instead tried to make himself known and establish his presence.

But Director Zou completely ignored Director Fan and said to Ji Xiang, "It's just intestinal polyps, a minor surgery, nothing to see. I have a da Vinci robot surgery in three days, you can go and watch it first. Stand downstairs for the first one, then I'll take you up."

Since you've never done this before, don't move around during surgery and just follow my instructions. After you get familiar with a few procedures, I'll assess the situation. I think you can handle it.

"Director Zou, are you going to have a gastroscopy and colonoscopy?" Director Fan asked.

"Hmm? What's wrong?" Director Zou glanced at Director Fan, his eyes mostly white with little black, almost squeezing Director Fan with the corner of his eye.

"Can I take a look too?"

"cannot!"

Director Zou rejected Director Fan's suggestion without hesitation.

"..."

Director Fan had considered that he might refuse, but he had previously refused to go to the operating room, and now he was even refusing to have a gastroscopy and colonoscopy. How could he be like this!

Are you crazy?!

"I'm sorry, Director Fan." Ji Xiang looked at Director Fan with a warm smile and said softly, "Surgery is still possible, but gastroscopy and colonoscopy are really inconvenient. Unauthorized medical staff won't go in. You know, a colonoscopy requires anal incision."

"Well……"

"I'm so sorry I went to learn from Director Zou's surgeries," Ji Xiang said, sounding quite embarrassed.

But Director Fan had been in the business for many years, and he knew very well that Director Zou was rejecting him outright. If he begged, there might still be a sliver of a chance.

However, Ji Xiang appears gentle, but he is actually incredibly cold-blooded, thus eliminating any possibility of him wanting to have a gastroscopy and colonoscopy performed and turning that part into a program.

Oh shit!

Director Fan cursed inwardly, but smiled and gave Ji Xiang a perfunctory response.

Ji Xiang didn't care what Director Fan thought. After explaining, he and Director Zou went to the endoscopy room of the gastrointestinal surgery department.

"Director Zou, you're so late!" the head nurse said, clearly displeased.

"Didn't they say the show would start at ten o'clock?"

"Come early to prepare. If we start at 10 a.m. and finish cooking by noon, it will be too late for lunch."

"Soon," Director Zou said to the head nurse, drooling.

Ji Xiang greeted the head nurse and other nurses first. Everyone knew that he was the "male lead" who had recently been filming a variety show at the First Affiliated Hospital, and he was in a great mood.

After a few casual words, Ji Xiang hurriedly went to look at the medical records.

The outpatient medical records were very simple and had almost no reference value. Ji Xiang mainly looked at the previous colonoscopy report.

Just as Director Zou said, the intestinal polyps of all five patients were over 1 cm in diameter, which is considered a large polyp.

If it were done in a smaller hospital, they wouldn't dare use a colonoscopy at all, because they'd be afraid of postoperative bleeding.

In other words, Director Zou is highly skilled and daring.

Ji Xiang recalled what Director Zou had said to him when he came out of the operating room. He chuckled and thought, "Director Zou is like Versailles. You can tell he's an old Versailles at a glance."

While many people at the First Affiliated Hospital may be able to perform surgeries using the da Vinci robot, few can remove intestinal polyps larger than 2cm; in fact, it could be said that only Director Zou can do it.

This also involves determining whether a polyp is benign or malignant, which is quite complicated.

(End of this chapter)