Chapter 1441: Chapter 1075: Stomach Cutting for Weight Loss Chapter 1441: Chapter 1075: Stomach Cutting for Weight Loss Reminder: Do not read now, it’s being edited!!!!!!!!!!!!

These days, Yang Ping has been busy with the treatment of Professor Chang at Nandu Affiliated Hospital One, so he has been somewhat neglectful of his own hospital. Director Fang of the General Surgery Department had informed Yang Ping many days earlier that there would be a major surgery involving ex-vivo resection of liver cancer and autologous liver transplantation. Although Director Fang had performed several dozen such surgeries, given the complexity and difficulty of the surgery, Director Fang felt more reassured with Yang Ping present.

However, as Yang Ping had been busy previously, Director Fang had been waiting, and now that Yang Ping was finally available, he seized the opportunity to arrange the surgery. After finishing his duties, Yang Ping went to check on the General Surgery Department to support Director Fang.

On his way to the surgery building, several patient families were waiting at the main entrance. Upon seeing Yang Ping come out, they immediately blocked his way but were stopped by Ershun and a few plainclothes guards who were following nearby.

Upon asking what the issue was, it turned out that the patients, unable to get an appointment with Yang Ping, resorted to this drastic measure. They ambushed him at the entrance of the Surgical Research Institute, hoping that upon spotting Yang Ping, they could rush up to him, have him view their CT scans, and possibly get a treatment plan or even have him oversee their operations.

Such situations pose a dilemma for doctors, especially for someone with Yang Ping’s status and position. Agreeing to help might set a precedent not just for one patient but could lead to thousands of patients blocking his way. It might even give rise to an organ market chain where organized groups may specifically target him, charging thousands for a blockade.

Refusing to help, on the other hand, would lead the patients and their families to accuse the doctor of lacking medical ethics, arguing that treating them would only take a few minutes and that failing to help even when approached directly is akin to neglecting life-saving responsibilities.

In reality, general doctors would not agree to such requests, as setting such a precedent would lead to numerous follow-up cases. This isn’t merely a question of ethics. If this were permissible, then everyone might forego appointments or queuing in Outpatient services, and the whole medical order would be thrown into chaos.

This wasn’t the first occurrence, as people used to block Yang Ping at the entrance every week. However, security has since implemented specific measures, greatly reducing these incidents.

The guards at the entrance immediately stepped in to help, and Ershun handed over the matter to them while continuing to follow Yang Ping. The guards, handling such matters more frequently, would gradually reduce the occurrence of such incidents. Yang Ping could only refuse such requests; otherwise, it would lead to complete disorder in the medical system.

Yang Ping first went to the General Surgery Ward, then the Operating Room. Since Director Fang had previously performed several tumor ex-vivo resections and autologous organ transplants under the guidance of Yang Ping, Yang Ping needed to check on the post-operative results of these patients.

Upon seeing Yang Ping arrive, the on-duty doctor in the General Surgery Department immediately accompanied him, helping to turn on the computer to report the latest test results of the patients. As Yang Ping was reviewing the lab reports, a hefty Fatty peeked around the doorway of the doctor’s office.

Isn’t that Danian Wei? Weighing 200 kilograms, he’s the heaviest patient Yang Ping has ever seen; Yang Ping could recognize him anywhere.

“Professor Yang?” Danian Wei also recognized Yang Ping and immediately came over to greet him, Danian Wei being a friendly person.

“Danian Wei, what are you doing here? What’s the situation?” Yang Ping asked him.

Grinning, Danian Wei replied, “I had a stomach-reduction surgery for weight loss here, and I’ve been here for several days after the surgery, now just waiting to have the stitches removed and be discharged.”

“Stomach-reduction for weight loss?” Yang Ping remembered he had consulted about this surgery before but didn’t expect it to already be carried out.

At this weight, indeed, he must lose weight; 200 kilograms, obesity severely threatened his health. The issue of obesity is definitely not just about appearance but more significantly about health.

For someone obese like Danian Wei, the future surely held high blood pressure and blood sugar levels, very likely already elevated.

“How did you decide to undergo surgery for weight loss? Weren’t you scared before? You said before you’d try dieting and more physical activity first, and then see how it goes,” Yang Ping asked him.

Danian Wei spoke earnestly, “Professor Yang, with my condition, I really had to lose weight. I lost faith in other methods, so I had no choice but to opt for surgical weight loss after a long consideration. Look at me, riddled with diseases, my blood sugar and blood pressure are abnormal, and I also have sleep apnea syndrome. I’ve seen a specialist in respiratory medicine, and they said surgery isn’t needed for now, just reducing weight will definitely help.”

“How do you feel after the surgery?”

Yang Ping believed he had finally pinpointed the key issue; he should have opted for weight loss sooner. 200 kilograms, plus high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high blood sugar – only in his twenties, if he were a bit older, a plethora of problems would surely emerge successively.

Losing weight seems simple: control your diet and exercise more.

But it’s easier said than done.

For most obese people, they have an exceptionally good appetite, and asking them not to eat is even harder than killing them.

Increase exercise, it seems good, but in reality, when obesity reaches a certain level, they simply can’t move.

Take someone like Wei Danian, he runs for a few minutes, and his heart rate is almost racing to 150 beats per minute. If he keeps running like this, it’s unbelievable that he wouldn’t collapse. Try swimming, he couldn’t last even one or two thousand meters before feeling like his chest was stuck to his back.

Climbing stairs to the third floor leaves him gasping for breath. If it’s hot, just walking a few steps makes his whole body sweat. And you want this kind of person to do exercise. How would you suggest they do it?

The truth of the matter is also straightforward. Some things seem easy but are hard in practice.

It’s like the college entrance examination. The attendance method seems so simple, right? Is it really that hard? Just get 150 on each subject, and that’s 750 points, a perfect score, isn’t it? Then you’d be able to get into Tsinghua or Peking University just like that.

Wei Danian’s parents said exactly that to him. They told him, “If you can’t get 150 points on the test, you should at least get 145 points, right? That’s easy enough. If not 145, then 140 points should be doable.” But what they don’t realize is, scoring 140 on each subject and reaching 700 points would only give a few top scores nationally.

“So, looking at situations like Wei Danian’s, controlling diet and exercise is simply impossible.”

And those diet pills, utterly useless. The principle of all diet pills is roughly the same, they increase the feeling of fullness in the stomach. That is, even before you eat, you feel full. This might stop you from eating better or less, and in reality, it just reduces food intake, moreover, almost all diet pills require a reduced diet and exercise to be effective.

For food lovers, they eat not because they’re trying to solve hunger, but purely because the food tastes good. It’s about liking the food, not because of hunger.

For someone like Danian, diet pills that increase the feeling of fullness in the stomach are meaningless.

So, what could be done? He then thought of stomach surgery for weight loss. He thought about it for a long time. His parents told him, “Why lose weight? Being able to eat is good. Being fat looks good.”

“As for those who I’ve inquired about, who have had the surgery, indeed, the effects are very good. Some have reduced by nearly 150 pounds. They don’t expect to lose much more. They said if you lose down to 330 pounds, that would be enough.”

330 pounds, what are they even talking about?

When the atmosphere gets measured, they used to have a social circle, and a group, all filled with obese people. Several of them have had the surgery. But these guys, they secretly underwent the surgery, and they never told anyone. When I asked them how they managed to lose weight so successfully, they claimed it was through diet pills, and then tried to sell those diet pills to me.

Later, I came to know that they secretly had weight loss surgeries.

Wei Dalian often talked a lot. Once he starts talking, there’s no stopping him. If you were to continue talking with him, he could probably go on for three days and three nights without repeating a sentence.

Yang Ping walked around the ward, then headed to the operating room. At that time, Director Fang was walking in, towards a patient with liver hydatid disease, undergoing autologous liver transplantation.

Since following Yang Ping in performing the duodenal and pancreatic resection and reconstruction, Director Fang repeatedly opened the door to treatment and reconstruction. He decided to make some achievements in his own reconstructions.

Professor Yang, Director Fang felt much reassured when he saw Yang Ping arriving.

I just met Wei Dalian at your place, he was talking about the partial stomach resection, the weight loss surgery he had undergone.

Director Fang confirmed, “Correct. What he underwent was sleeve gastrectomy, a kind of weight reduction surgery. His weight was just too extreme.”

This surgery involves removing a large part of the greater curvature of the stomach, preserving the normal physiological structure and function of the pylorus and antrum, compressing the stomach’s capacity to about 80 milliliters.

I see you opted for minimally invasive techniques.

Yes, it was done with a laparoscope. Three small incisions, one incision was out of jealousy.