Chapter 649: Chapter 586: Another Knife Attach One_2 Chapter 649: Chapter 586: Another Knife Attach One_2 “My brother is treating us tonight, let’s all go together!”

Robert proudly told his roommates.

Both August and Takahashi were envious that Robert had a brother in Sanbo Hospital – that brother was Director Gao.

In his quest to learn Chinese, he called Director Gao incessantly, chatting endlessly, which caused Director Gao’s wife to suspiciously wonder if her husband was up to no good outside.

Left with no choice, Director Gao had to use the speakerphone each time. Once his wife confirmed the caller was a man, she would be reassured.

But in no time, Director Gao’s wife had a new suspicion. Why was Director Gao chatting with a man all the time?

This man would often say, “Brother, I miss you, have you been busy lately?”

This left Director Gao both amused and at a loss, it took a lot of explaining to convince his wife.

The three were waiting for Old Gao’s call. They gathered around the table, sharing their new insights from the day’s study. However, the topic of the available spots for the clinical training camp was strictly avoided.

Each of them knew that besides the advanced study, each of them harbored a mission for this program.

The single spot in the international clinical research base offered by Yang Ping made them extremely nervous.

These top-tier hospitals’ emphasis on new technology was not comparable to ordinary hospitals.

Similar to global economic trends, small merchants barely paid any attention, but top-tier businessmen were keen on every signal. They kept a finger on the pulse of information, just like a snake lurking in the grass.

The spinal external fixation technology represents a brand new development. If they managed to participate in the clinical experiment phase, they would be at the forefront of technological advancement, regardless if the technology was theirs or not.

If they reacted too slowly, and others took the initiative, they would naturally fall behind in this regard.

Therefore, to acquire this cutting-edge knowledge, they were all making every effort.

They followed their group’s doctors – receiving patients, taking medical histories, performing preoperative examinations, preparing for surgeries, conducting surgeries, and supervising postoperative recovery.

They left no stone unturned.

When it came to original surgical techniques, actually learning from the originators is the best way to grasp the techniques, assimilating their experience.

Advanced training was practical learning, which couldn’t be compared with reading books or papers.

Like learning to drive with a coach is vastly different from learning by reading a car driving manual.

When their conversation was about to end, Director Gao’s phone call came in.

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Li Jun was still on ECMO support in the ICU. Although the pulmonary embolism was treated in time, saving his life, the disease was vicious. Large-scale pulmonary infarction was inevitable.

Besides, Li Jun also had uremia. The intertwinement of various diseases could trigger a chain reaction of multi-organ failure at any time.

His condition was not optimistic.

After paying at the payment window in the lobby, Qin Xiaowei saw someone waving at him from the entrance of the hall, “Brother Xiaowei!”

It was his friend, Lu Qilong, known as Along in the climbing circle.

At forty years old, Along was Qin Xiaowei’s senior in the climbing community. He currently operates a video company focusing on extreme outdoor sports. A certain video platform approached him as they knew he was a veteran in the climbing circle. They needed him to help find a free-climbing expert. The platform wanted to produce a live program, resembling the free climbing scenes in Point Break, hoping the thrilling show would attract more viewers.

Actually, the free climbing circle was small, everyone knew each other. Qin Xiaowei was widely recognized as the top performer in the circle, both in terms of technique and fitness.

The two found a corner to sit in the hall. There were hardly anyone in the hall at night, Qin Xiaowei dared not go too far, even leaving the hospital felt risky.

Along brought two bottles of drinks. They chatted while sipping.

“Like I said, big companies are reliable. If they promise to prepay one million, one million it is. You need to start training as soon as possible. When are you going to check out the site? We’ve checked out the place, and everything’s fine. But you need to inspect the climbing route personally.”

Along, with his ponytail, was very casual with Qin Xiaowei, as they were good friends.

“I didn’t know we had cliffs like that in Nandu Province.”

Qin Xiaowei thought that such a daunting cliff should already be known to people in their circle.

“No one knows about these undeveloped cliffs. It took me and the boss a long time to find it. This is a great opportunity. Don’t worry. We’ve already started scouring the site.”

The boss Along referred to was another major shareholder of the company.

“Scouring the site” generally meant fully inspecting the cliff, checking if it had suitable grasp points and if they were firm enough.

“I can’t make the time for now. I’ll let you know when I can.”

Qin Xiaowei had no time right now. At least not until Ajun becomes stable. At the moment, with Ajun’s life at stake, he had neither the time nor the mood for anything else.

“Alright, let me know when you’re free. To be honest, I owe you one too, brother. I get to make some money from this as well. Xiaowei, in our line of work, we shouldn’t live hand-to-mouth, didn’t we climb even when we were broke? How about we go out for a meal together? Have a few drinks?” Along invited Qin Xiaowei.

Qin Xiaowei shook his head. “No thanks!”

“Yeah, you should rest and train when you have some free time. I gotta go.”

Along bid farewell to Qin Xiaowei.

Qin Xiaowei sat alone in a corner of the hall. He leaned back in his seat for a short rest, then headed to the family waiting area in the ICU.

He had been spending the nights there in a chair for the past few days.

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Nandu Affiliated Hospital One, Spinal Surgery Department.

“Prepare the cases, Professor Yang from Sanbo Hospital is coming for surgery demonstration on Friday.”

Professor Fan tapped on the desk, and Ou Lichun moved all the selected patients’ medical records for Professor Fan’s review.

There were many professors and associate professors at the Affiliated Hospital One. Advanced study doctors like him were only used as resident doctors, doing the most basic jobs like looking after patients and writing case reports.

However, due to his special connection, he was introduced by Su Nanchen. Therefore, Professor Fan paid more attention to Ou Lichun. If he made a few minor mistakes in his work, Professor Fan would take it lightly and not go off on him, which was not a luxury that other advanced study doctors could afford.

Professor Fan examined the medical records himself, page by page:
“Be more diligent, go over the case records multiple times. Check if you’ve missed anything in the preoperative assessment. Professor Yang is meticulous. If there are any loopholes, being scolded isn’t going to be great. Professor Yang was personally invited by Su himself, and he was personally involved in securing this cooperation project. There should be no mistakes on our patients. Understood?”

Professor Fan was the leading professor of the spinal surgery group at the Affiliated Hospital One. For this preparation of the clinical trial cases, he also contributed several.

“I’ve gone through them several times!”

Ou Lichun was completely respectful and filled with reverence before Professor Fan.

“After going through them several times, and yet it’s like this. Rewrite the specialist examination for this case record, rewrite the case history for this one, rewrite the preoperative assessment for this one –”
Professor Fan was very displeased after going through the files. He was somewhat angry.

Ou Lichun was startled and hurriedly wrote down the problems in his notebook.

“Where’s Dr. Luo?”

Dr. Luo was the main doctor in Professor Fan’s group, a doctorate holder.

“He just went to the ward to check on the patients.”

Ou Lichun was trembling with fear.

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