Surgery Godfather-Chapter 429 - 0396 Bridge

Chapter 429: Chapter 0396: Bridge

Chapter 429: Chapter 0396: Bridge

The fellowship team from Xiehe Hospital quickly adapted due to their thorough preparation. They were studying cases, assisting with surgeries, and attending lectures delivered by Yang Ping just like the common interns.

Song Yun was almost obsessively thorough, afraid to miss any technical detail and carefully noting down every word Yang Ping said during his lectures without blinking an eye at every step of the surgery.

Currently, the comprehensive orthopedics department deals with every sub-specialty in orthopedics, mostly handling high-risk and high-difficulty cases that others are unwilling to take.

Song Zimo could handle the relatively simpler surgeries in the department, for example, procedures like the twisted ball fold spinal deformity.

Xu Zhiliang also made rapid progress, but he still lagged quite a bit behind Song Zimo. He strived to catch up, hoping to become as independent as Song Zimo.

Being independent in comprehensive orthopedics is a completely different thing from other departments. Those who can do it are considered top-tier talents.

To provide more observation opportunities for his colleagues from Xiehe Hospital, Yang Ping performed a larger number of surgeries during this period.

Dean Xia and Director Han were discussing upgrading comprehensive orthopedics to comprehensive surgery and setting up a corresponding surgical research institute.

This approach is unprecedented in big hospitals across the country.

However, in smaller hospitals, township hospitals, and county-level hospitals where departmentalization was not very developed, they were divided into internal, external, obstetrics, pediatrics, and otolaryngology. A single surgery department would handle everything, from brain surgery, chest surgery, general surgery, to orthopedics. Doctors would perform surgeries from head to toe and handle all kinds of cases.

But the surgeries performed by these grassroots hospitals are limited, and generally are simple procedures. More difficult ones are transferred to higher-level hospitals, so mastering the surgeries is not difficult.

In third-tier teaching hospitals, especially in top-tier hospitals across the country, specialization is required, and with the larger the hospital, the finer the departmental division.

Now, many people oppose the establishment of a comprehensive surgery department in a hospital like Sanbo. They claim it’s absurd and would make people laugh – surgeons from a third-tier teaching hospital performing general surgery is unheard of.

Regardless, Dean Xia meticulously analyzed medical and health laws, regulations, and policy documents, and believes that there are no obstacles in theory to establish a comprehensive surgery department. The key is that the establishment of the department must be meaningful.

For a talent like Yang Ping, it is necessary to provide him with an independent, large platform. It may be even necessary to establish a hospital within the hospital, allowing him to fully utilize his talent and only then could talents like him be retained.

In a meeting, Dean Xia overrode all objections and firmed up this plan. He planned to allocate all eight floors of the comprehensive orthopedics building to Yang Ping for the purpose of comprehensive surgery.

The original orthopedics lab was to be moved out and relocated into a medical building. A lab for comprehensive surgery was to be set up inside its building for Yang Ping.

Yang Ping promised Dean Xia that he would not need a penny from the hospital or the country for research funding, and would raise the funds himself.

However, he needed Dean Xia to establish a legitimate process for receiving donated funds to allow his lab to be eligible for donations.

Because the process for the hospital to accept donations is complicated, Dean Xia would need to streamline the process administratively.

Transforming Sanbo into a top-tier hospital nationwide was what Dean Xia wished for years ago, but he felt overwhelmed by the task.

Now, the ambition he had when starting the hospital began to burn again. With comprehensive surgery as a foundation, he hoped to lead Sanbo to become a national industry front-runner.

Dean Xia was brimming with confidence and felt energetic like when he was young.

Yang Ping was incredibly busy as well. Apart from performing surgeries and delivering lectures, he also had numerous scalpel surgeries to handle, invitations from Li Quan Hospital, Malaysia, and Robert as well.

The newly appointed Dean Chen of the Municipal People’s Hospital also approached him several times, hoping to cooperate with Yang Ping and rebuild the orthopedics department of the Municipal People’s Hospital.

The Municipal People’s Hospital was currently a mess, with assets depleted and lacking talents due to high attrition rates over the past years. There was no money left in their account, only debts owed to banks and pharmaceutical manufacturers.

With his hands full, Dean Chen decided to start with orthopedics and step by step, renew the Municipal People’s Hospital.

Seeing Dean Chen’s sincerity, Yang Ping decided to aid him in rebuilding orthopedics without any charge.

After studying Robert’s cases in detail, Yang Ping concluded that they were not too hard.

It was just that Robert’s study duration at Sanbo was too short, and he has yet to grasp the nuances of such surgeries.

He could handle routine multiple ligament reconstruction surgeries of the knee joint for the average person, but for professional athletes whose sports abilities needed to be restored, Robert was not yet up to par.

When he saw Junhao Bao’s name among the cases, he couldn’t help but smile. Junhao brimmed with arrogance, showing extreme disrespect, showing off the moment he stepped into the United States. Not even out of the country yet, he started acting high and mighty.

After going around in circles and countless setbacks, they ended up requesting his surgical services. The world was indeed too small.

Though the surgery needed to be performed, an apology from the Bao Family was an absolute must. They could not be allowed to keep misbehaving.

Yang Ping tasked Little Five with coordinating these matters while he decided to take a trip to the United States. If possible, he would bring some people along for the trip to broaden their horizons.

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After several exchanges of emails, Yang Ping’s trip to the United States to perform surgery was finally confirmed.

For Robert, this was a big deal, as it signified that he would establish a channel of communication with Yang Ping.

Once this bridge was successfully built, he would quickly learn Yang Ping’s complex shoulder and knee ligament reconstruction techniques, even for more complicated surgeries.

Robert rushed to apply for a temporary surgical license for Yang Ping. The application for such a license in the United States was strict, but for Robert, this was not an issue.

It was the first time his mentor was invited to America, and Robert would meticulously arrange for his reception.

The surgeries, all five of them, were scheduled to take place at the Specialized Surgical Hospital in New York. Despite his own clinic being equipped with advanced facilities, only the Specialized Surgical Hospital in New York seemed fitting to invite his mentor for the first time.

The welcoming ceremony must be Chinese-style. He repeatedly insisted with the hospital administration department, it must be Chinese-style.

Robert looked at the banner template on his office desk, utterly satisfied: “Welcome Dr. Yang Ping to instruct surgeries”.

“This company specializes in Chinese-style wedding planning, and has a high reputation in New York’s Chinatown. They say this is the most Chinese way to welcome someone. If you agree, they will write it according to this template. The person who will do the calligraphy is an old gentleman, many of the Chinese New Year decorations on Chinatown come from his hand.” Barel was very confident in his arrangements.

“Very excellent, did you tell them? Write it with a brush-like pen, on red paper, with black characters, a big brush pen.” Robert was very satisfied with Barel’s performance, the previous lady from the administration department was terrible. He explained to her for ages but she was utterly clueless.

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“I’ve already told them, it is that kind of ancient brush, the one with a bundle of hair.” Barel opened the event planning booklet, pointed and showed Robert.

“Yes, just like that.” Robert looked at the photo in the album.

“The cheerleaders that day will wear cheongsams and hold a cheongsam flash mob event, but should the event location be at the airport or at the hospital entrance?” Barel needed Robert to decide.

“At the hospital entrance, are the cheering personnel confirmed?” Robert cared about the details.

Barel nodded: “Per your instructions, to show our sincerity, we’ll use our own people. We’ve pulled in all the secretaries from the Orthopedics Department, as well as the nurses, to form the welcoming committee.”

“Very good, you are indeed my most capable assistant Barel, you know? I’ve been to China, and saw the way they welcome important people. It is just like this, long banners written with welcoming words, and young boys and girls standing on both sides holding fresh flowers, shouting ‘welcome! welcome!’. You’ve found the right event planner this time.”

Robert was so excited that he began pacing around the room.

“We need to create the atmosphere of China. Barel, after the surgery, Dr. Yang is going to visit our clinic. We need to hang red Chinese knots in our clinic, and also, we need to paste the Chinese character ‘Fu’ on our doors.”

Robert became more and more excited. Barel seemed to feel it was inappropriate: “Those decorations are only used during the Chinese New Year.”

“We need to decorate it like the Chinese New Year. Our mentor will definitely like it.”

“The hotel, the chefs, all have been booked in advance——”

“What else? What else? Let me think.” Robert rubbed his hands together, gesticulating with enthusiasm.

Unable to think of anything else for the time being, Robert opened the surgical instrument case again. This was a set of instruments designed by Yang Ping.

“What’s the use of this flexible drill?” Barel could not understand the purpose of these instruments.

This flexible drill, the connecting rod of the drill head is a spring, which can change direction.

“Dr. Yang should be planning to perform a curve segmented drilling.” Robert understood the mystery behind it.

Barel did not understand the significance of curve segmented drilling. Robert walked over to the office desk and drew it for him on paper.

“Drill out from the femoral condyle inside the knee joint, the back of the condyle, exit from the section below the epiphyseal line, then follow the arc, cross the epiphyseal line, again from the section above the epiphyseal line, enter from the lower section of the femur, the two tunnels break off at the plane of the epiphysis, if we extend the line, they are on an arc.”

Finally, Barel understood why Robert regarded this Chinese man as his mentor.

This type of surgery technique ingeniously conceived can solve the difficult problem of reconstructing the anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments in children. It is much more advanced compared to the current suspensory fixation procedure.

“Also, the mentor will send two nurses here for an exchange. You need to communicate with the Nursing Department, they must be well arranged. Tell them, these are the people sent by the mentor I respect.”

Robert reminded Barel, in the Specialized Surgical Hospital in New York, clinical doctors, especially the consulting doctors, have absolute authority, and the administration department is only a servicer.

He had to build this bridge well. If Dr. Yang was satisfied, their communication would be unimpeded.

Dr. Yang’s surgeries are a goldmine in medical techniques, Robert had seen it with his own eyes.