Surgery Godfather
Chapter 805 - 721: Surgery, Quit Drinking?

Chapter 805: Chapter 721: Surgery, Quit Drinking?

The storm stirred up by the investigation team finally passed.

This was just a minor episode—Professor Wang, that clown, was like a speck of dust in Yang Ping’s eyes, slightly irritating to look at, but incapable of causing any substantial interference.

Following the commotion, Dean Xia thoroughly investigated the situation. Some people who failed to secure a spot for plastic surgery were discontented, and among these patients were some with significant influence. Thus, they ran to make accusations, their intentions crystal clear: if they couldn’t get an appointment, no one else should either.

Luckily, the issue was resolved. Otherwise, Dean Xia might have run off to the province to pick a fight with the leaders of the Health Department. Xia Changjiang was the type to take such actions and had the courage to do so. Now, in his eyes, Yang Ping was dearer than his own son, and anyone who dared touch a hair on Yang Ping would have Xia Changjiang fight them to the death.

Of course, there was also Han Jiangong, who held Yang Ping in equal regard as his own son—if it came to fighting for him, these two elders would probably join forces without blinking an eye.

Since the investigation concluded without issues, Ivan’s plan continued to move forward, and he would perform the main surgery for those who had already secured a spot for plastic surgery.

In Ivan’s words, he intended to honor the contract, claiming to be a person who upholds the spirit of the agreement. These patients had already scheduled their surgeries with Ivan during his outpatient service, and he was set to fulfill his obligations.

Under Director Lan’s dedicated management, Sanbo Hospital’s Plastic Surgery Department gained rapid fame. Now, the entire plastic surgery community knows that Ivan is working at Sanbo, bringing along an apprentice and personally teaching him surgery.

In China, this is called "direct transmission"!

A direct disciple of Ivan is counted on one’s fingers around the world.

This, along with Teacher Sun’s plastic surgery case studies, was packaged and released on the internet, trending continuously at the top of search rankings.

And this massive advertising expense didn’t cost Director Lan a penny—it was all funded by the owners of private plastic surgery hospitals in the city.

Because Director Lan had spoken with these entrepreneurs, explaining that in the plastic surgery field, the South lacks top-tier leading hospitals like Xiehe’s Eight Great Sites and Shanghai’s Ninth Hospital, resulting in the South’s failure to gain recognition within the plastic surgery community.

If this event could make Sanbo Hospital’s Plastic Surgery Department an overnight sensation, then Sanbo Hospital would become a hub for funneling patients. Once the funneling succeeded, the entire G City could share the traffic, establishing a brand for plastic surgery. Under this big brand, why worry about not making money?

Director Lan threw an operation plan on the table in front of the owners. The owners, who had never seen such a professional plan, were pumped with excitement by the plan which Director Lan created with the dedication and methodology of a doctoral topic. They agreed on the spot to invest money.

A public hospital’s plastic surgery department can only grow so much, and Xiehe’s Eight Great Sites and Shanghai’s Ninth Hospital represent the highest domestic standards, their scope is also limited.

Should Sanbo Hospital truly become the hub for patients, a significant amount of them would need to be distributed elsewhere. And to whom would they go? To these private hospitals, of course.

Hence, in the end, it would be these private hospitals that stood to gain immensely from the collaboration. Director Lan’s brand is Sanbo’s brand, and Sanbo’s brand is G City’s brand. They would happily cooperate and earn money together.

As a result, these owners decided to band together and vowed to transform G City into a center for plastic surgery, creating a cluster effect that could attract international patients, much like South Korea does.

After all, businessmen do have a vision!

Everyone in the world hustles for the sake of profit; as long as the rationale is clear and someone takes the lead, they’re willing to cooperate, especially if there’s money to be made from the partnership.

Director Lan has spent his life pursuing the application of marketing within the medical industry, and this time he finally seized the opportunity to demonstrate his ambition.

His reasoning is simple: he can do better than those high school dropout bosses.

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Yang Ping’s research project was progressing smoothly. The vast scientific research resources and ample opportunities for trial and error in the System Space Laboratory allowed the experiments to advance bit by bit.

He had managed to culture muscle cells and some associated structure cells using stem cells, but so far he could not get the cells to construct spatial structures on their own.

In other words, muscle cells, nerve cells, blood vessel cells, and the like were all individual, unable to build spatial structures and form real organs.

Most experimental teams currently rely on biological 3D printers and micro-scaffold technology to conduct 3D assembly of stem cells, but this construction is always rough, passive, and non-physiological.

Yang Ping regarded this route as a secondary one. He preferred the autonomous cultivation route, firmly believing in the possibility of achieving three-dimensional cell construction through cultivation.

Sharp Medical’s laboratory was pouring a significant amount of manpower and funds into researching biological 3D printing technology, starting from the most basic elements like control software, 3D print heads, micro-scaffolds, and other core technologies, each researched and developed in-house.

Core technologies must be developed internally. No matter how difficult, it is essential to research bit by bit.

Huang Jiacai had an ambitious blueprint for the company. He was not content with merely making a small profit from medical equipment sales—he aimed to build a great company with cutting-edge core technologies. He believed the company had all the necessary conditions—timing, location, and human support.

Especially with a genius like Yang Ping as the pillar, Huang Jiacai considered his goals within reach.

Thus, he reinvested the profits from orthopedic equipment sales into research, creating a virtuous cycle. Orthopedic consumables—broad surgical equipment—cutting-edge core medical technologies, this was Huang Jiacai’s three-tier rocket model. He planned to secure orthopedics consumables as a solid base, continue to launch new technologies, secure intellectual property rights, then expand markets towards Southeast Asia, Europe, North America, and beyond. After that, he aimed to venture into interventional medicine, neurology, cardiovascular departments, developing implantable consumables, and ultimately positioning in areas like biological 3D printing, new medical materials, and artificial organs.

Thanks to Yang Ping’s new technology, Sharp Medical’s orthopedic implants were booming, with many products leading the industry, creating an unshakable and incomparable position—for example, the spinal external fixator, a new device established on entirely new medical concepts. All other companies could only follow, and that is the power of innovation.

The success of Yang Ping’s skin expansion technology outside the body, and the biological agent that induces skin expansion, would naturally become a new product of Sharpness Company. This new product will be widely used in burn departments, plastic surgery departments, and trauma surgery departments.

This novel biological agent will be handled by Ivan’s team for clinical trials worldwide, and once the clinical trials are approved, it will quickly go to market.

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In the Stem Cell Laboratory, everyone was busy with their tasks.

Li Guodong was drafting the instructions for the inducing agent, while several graduate students were busy compiling the final data.

This seemingly small workshop-style research method, relaxed and free, would continuously produce world-class scientific research results.

Liang Fatty was studying a thick notebook whose cover had been blacked out and replaced with a new title --- "Intensive Research on the Topic of Love."

Yang Ping handed several A4 papers to Tang Shun, "These are suggestions for the next steps of the topic—see if there’s anything of reference value?"

The few A4 papers were a combination of text and illustrations, resembling a primary school student’s mind map.

Yet it was these A4 papers that Tang Shun followed in his experiments, and he actually quickly cultivated high-quality skin grafts.

Tang Shun treasured the A4 papers as if they were a treasure. These weren’t mere suggestions but an experimental bible. He quickly scanned through them; the pages described how to cultivate high-quality muscle cells, nerve fibers, and cells that make up blood vessels.

It outlined a complete set of induction methods, and the final result could be assembled into a piece of irregular muscle.

That is, although these cells were loose and lacked the capacity to shape space, they already had this rudimentary form, and such control over research direction is absolutely a world-class genius.

This was the Einstein of the medical world!

Tang Shun looked up, "Is this your masterpiece from the past few days?"

"Yes! If this experiment is successful, our next step is to solve the spatial construction of the cells, and the last step is to build the ancillary structures. Once that’s achieved, the topic can be declared a success. How’s your recruitment going?" Yang Ping said rather matter-of-factly.

Tang Shun passed over a list of personnel, "This is the list of people I plan to recruit. They’re all willing to come back and visit when they have the time."

Yang Ping looked over the names, all of whom were truly top-notch students. Many were college entrance examination champions who went to Tsinghua or Peking University and then studied in the United States. Now with Tang Shun extending the olive branch, several were considering returning to China.

"Professor, I have a suggestion. No matter where the researchers we recruit come from or how many there are, I want to maintain our current small workshop-style research method. This method feels relaxed and free, which is very suitable for the essence of scientific research. In my opinion, innovative work needs to be like this, relaxed but rigorous, free but not lazy." Tang Shun really liked the current research atmosphere.

"You are the director; you decide."

Yang Ping had no intention of interfering with the laboratory. He preferred to delegate authority and let people develop freely.

While talking with Tang Shun, Song Zimo called the laboratory from the emergency department. Li Guodong answered the phone.

The emergency department asked for a consultation with the Comprehensive Surgery Department regarding a suspected drunk driver causing a commotion, who kept insisting he hadn’t drunk any alcohol, and that the police were framing him, claiming the hospital and police were colluding to fabricate evidence. Song Zimo and Xu Zhiliang had already rushed over.

Now the emergency department was so brazen as to request a consultation with the Comprehensive Surgery Department for a drunk case?

Getting drunk—what does that have to do with Comprehensive Surgery Department? Were they supposed to perform surgery to cure alcoholism?

Li Guodong had never heard of such an outrageous consultation and was quite dissatisfied.

For drunkenness, a shot of naloxone would solve any problem. Was there any need to call Professor Yang for a consultation?

Yang Ping stood up to leave, headed to the emergency department to see what was going on. Li Guodong followed behind, quickly considering the possible reasons for the consultation.

Did the drunk sustain nerve damage from lying on the ground for a long time? Or possible limb necrosis requiring amputation?

Did the drunk go mad and start slashing people, necessitating the Comprehensive Surgery Department’s involvement in emergency surgery?

A sudden case of drunkenness—

Before he knew it, he had arrived at the chaotic emergency department lobby. From a distance, Director Xiong was waving his giant hands in greeting. Yang Ping noticed that doctors from several departments had already come for the consultation.

"You’ve even requested Professor Yang from Comprehensive Surgery Department to come over. Is there some kind of new alcoholism surgery now?" joked a deputy chief physician from the Department of Gastroenterology.

"It seems there is such surgery indeed," said a doctor from the psychiatric department.

"That’s the old rule, aren’t we? When you come across a tough case, invite Comprehensive Surgery Department first. Even if we just stand here, we feel more at ease," Director Xiong said helplessly.