Healing Doctor

Chapter 597 Turning Against Each Other

Lin Jiu looked as if he had seen a ghost, his usually calm face showing surprise, astonishment, and horror.

"Huh?" Qin Chu exclaimed, his heart pounding faster and faster, with intermittent beats of two harmonics.

A bad feeling enveloped Qin Chu, but he didn't even know what that bad feeling was.

He tried his best not to think about the "worst" outcome, but Lin Jiuze's expression and Ji Xiang's insistence were silently telling Qin Chu what was going to happen next.

The camera was outside the ward, not inside, faithfully recording the events that unfolded.

"Doctor, the patient is a distant relative of mine. I contacted his family."

Just then, a voice appeared.

"What?" Director Fan was both surprised and delighted.

"My family said they can film the surgery, but could you please have our production crew cover the medical expenses? The person who caused the accident is very poor and has said they'd rather go to jail than pay for the medical expenses."

"How dare you speak like that!" Director Fan said, suppressing his voice. "Not only medical expenses, but also post-operative recovery nutrition expenses and lost wages should be paid! If the cooperation goes smoothly, I will apply for a service fee of tens of thousands of yuan for him."

"Thank you, Director Fan," said one of the crew members.

This segment was not edited out; it's clear that the production team was explicitly telling the audience that they had obtained the patient's and their family's permission to record.

The camera then approached the ward, but still didn't go inside. It just stood at the door filming, as if someone was standing at the door watching what was happening inside, giving a feeling of voyeurism.

The camera focuses on the patient's legs.

The cameraman was startled by the patient's right leg, and the camera visibly shook.

Before seeing the patient's condition, everything was just speculation. Even Director Bai, Director Liu, Qin Chu, and Ling Tian were only guessing based on their own experience.

But when I saw the patient's right leg, everything became clear.

The color was purplish-blue with some mottled spots, which clearly indicated that the patient's right leg had begun to experience ischemia and necrosis.

Time is running out for the First Affiliated Hospital.

"The skin temperature is very low. I'm worried if we don't try it..." Ji Xiang didn't voice his concerns, because the director and experts present knew what he wanted to say.

Within hours, the patient's right lower limb will become necrotic, requiring amputation.

"It wasn't this serious just now," an expert said quietly.

"The condition is progressing very quickly, and I suggest that you have surgery as soon as possible."

Lin Jiu said firmly.

"!!!"

"!!!"

"!!!"

Not only the experts in the ward, but even Qin Chu in front of the screen was stunned, his jaw almost dislocated and fell off, hitting his feet.

Lin Jiu betrayed his allies at the last minute?!

Surgery isn't impossible!

"Director Li, would you mind coming up on stage and keeping an eye on things for a while?" Lin Jiu asked calmly.

Director Li nodded reluctantly.

He knew very well that Lin Jiu wanted him to take the stage so that someone else could take the blame.

Although Lin Jiu is an expert at Massachusetts General Hospital, he estimates that without a domestic medical license, practicing medicine in China would be illegal.

As for what he can do after taking office, he can only be an assistant at most.

"Dr. Ji Xiang, could you lend me a hand?"

"Okay!" Ji Xiang happily agreed.

Director Li wept bitterly, saying that even being his assistant was a luxury he could only dream of, and that he could only watch from a distance.

……

In front of the screen.

Director Liu looked puzzled.

"Old Bai, what's going on?"

"I don't know." Director Bai was also clueless. "Just now, Dr. Lin Jiu was writing a very brief surgical record for the thrombectomy on the paper. He changed his mind after he looked up."

Director Bai's voice grew softer and softer as he spoke. He had already come up with a hypothesis, but it was so unreasonable and so absurd.

So unreasonable that Director Bai had no confidence whatsoever, his voice grew softer and softer.

"Defying fate?" Ding Xiang asked.

"Huh?" Director Liu blurted out the question as if he hadn't understood.

"It wasn't about defying fate," Director Bai said calmly. "It was because Lin Jiu saw a change in the patient's condition that he decided to perform the surgery."

Director Liu's eyes darted around, then he sneered.

"Isn't this just picking peaches?"

"Picking peaches?" Director Bai immediately understood what Director Liu meant. He shook his head but didn't say anything more.

The difficulty of the surgery has not changed, but rather increased; there is no such way to pick peaches.

Although that wasn't what Director Liu meant, continuing to think about it made Director Bai's values ​​waver somewhat.

The scene flashes to the operating room.

The patient's and their family's permission was genuine; the program did not broadcast the process of negotiating with the First Affiliated Hospital in order to save time.

In short, the camera crew followed them into the operating room.

Ji Xiang disinfected and laid out sterile sheets as usual, making preparations for the operation.

Off-screen, Qin Chu pressed his hand to his chest, as if doing so would make his diacritics disappear.

"Boss, what does Lin Jiu think?"

"I don't know." Qin Chu stared at the screen with a serious expression.

"I've called him, but he hasn't answered." Ling Tian sensed something was wrong and whispered, "Why don't you call Lin Jiuze and ask?"

Qin Chu didn't speak. He stared at the tablet quietly, lost in thought.

"Surgery is definitely not an option. I've researched similar procedures. A guide wire is attached to a mesh membrane. When the guide wire is inserted, the mesh membrane adheres to the guide wire wall. After the guide wire penetrates the thrombus, it is inflated and pulled out along the blood vessel wall."

"The patient has atherosclerotic plaques in his blood vessels. If too much force is applied, the blood vessels will rupture, and the consequences would be unimaginable."

"What is Lin Jiu doing?"

The more Ling Tian spoke, the more unpleasant Qin Chu's expression became.

Nobody knew what Lin Jiu was up to. All he had to do was give Ji Xiang a good scolding as an expert.

Regardless of whether the show airs this segment, Ji Xiang is definitely going to suffer a major setback. Forget about being the center of attention on the show; Qin Chu has already figured out how to belittle Ji Xiang on stage when school starts again.

but!

Unexpected changes occurred.

Lin Jiu then switched sides at the last minute and actually wanted to undergo surgery.

Could it be that Ji Xiang's body trembled, exuding an aura of dominance...? Impossible, Qin Chu ruled out this possibility.

This is surgery, not child's play!

Boston Scientific performed hundreds of Phase IV clinical surgeries at Massachusetts General Hospital. How could Lin Jiu not know that the surgery was impossible?

Qin Chu was completely baffled, his brows furrowed as he stared blankly at Ji Xiang on the screen, who was disinfecting and laying out sterile sheets.

Could it be that Ji Xiang possesses some kind of sorcery to bewitch people?

Qin Chu recalled the moment when Ji Xiang was facing him, and he suddenly lost focus. In the blink of an eye, several months had passed, and he had witnessed the entire process of a terminal cancer patient from surgery to death.

Did Lin Jiu also experience all of this?

Countless questions arose in Qin Chu's mind, but he had no answers.

The next second, the surgery began.

(End of this chapter)