533: ACCIDENT

His certainty and confidence in his tone stunned Zhang Zhiping. He couldn't help but recall his military career and admired such confidence, but admiration didn't equal trust. Could he entrust his daughter's life to such a young doctor?

This was too reckless.

He frowned and asked A Qi, "Your person?"

A Qi nodded, "Our intern forensic doctor."

Zhang Zhiping was even more surprised. Where did this young man get such confidence?

A forensic doctor, and an intern at that! Moreover, forensic medicine and chest surgery were completely different concepts!

"If I let you do it, can you guarantee the success rate?" Zhang Zhiping questioned.

Zhong Qi replied coldly, "My guarantee is meaningless; ultimately, it requires your trust. A forensic doctor is also a doctor. Regarding the human body, I understand it more thoroughly than you. There are two minutes left; you don't have much time to consider."

A Qi and Yan Qing were stunned. They had never imagined that the decisiveness Zhong Qi displayed at this moment would be so astonishing!

And Zhang Zhiping also fell into a dilemma.

Should he choose the thirty percent success rate, or choose this young man who seemed to have a one hundred percent success rate?

Could he raise thirty percent to one hundred percent?

Was this possible?

Zhang Zhiping wasn't a medical student; he didn't understand how these probabilities were calculated, but making a decision in just two minutes was truly difficult for him.

"No..."

He still chose not to believe this young man. If even experienced hands only had a thirty percent success rate, then such a young man's experience must be insufficient. No matter how much Zhang Zhiping wanted to believe in his heart, reason told him that he didn't dare and couldn't believe.

But just as he uttered those two words, another voice suddenly came from the side, "He can!"

Lao Wang climbed up the stairs carrying a file folder. He had originally gone to get the lab results but heard what was happening here.

Thinking of Zhong Qi's steady hands, he immediately rushed over.

The conflict with Xiao Xiao was a conflict, but he was still a doctor after all!

Lao Wang stood in the hallway, panting, and said, "The most crucial part of tracheal atrophy is the extremely high difficulty in handling the tracheal cartilage! If it's him, the success rate is at least higher than Director Li's! Let Zhong Qi do it! Director Li watches from the side, and with the two of you cooperating, it will definitely work!"

Hearing this voice, the decision Zhang Zhiping had just made wavered again. He looked at the chest surgery director beside him, then looked at Zhong Qi standing over there, falling into a dilemma.

"One minute left!" Zhong Qi's voice startled Zhang Zhiping, who was feeling a bit dizzy from excessive tension, but even so, he found it difficult to make this decision.

In the end, he simply did not trust this young man named Zhong Qi.

"Slightly understands? How can he do this surgery!?" Fine beads of sweat even appeared on Zhang Zhiping's forehead due to the excessive pressure.

"Forget it." Other voices sounded from Zhong Qi's side, "If you don't make a choice, I'll make it for you. Come, Director Li, I'll be the lead surgeon for this operation."

Zhang Zhiping's eyes widened, "No way! What kind of joke is this!"

His heart was filled with a sense of absurdity, but Director Li and Zhong Qi had already entered the operating room at this moment!

A Qi and Yan Qing were speechless throughout. They never expected such a situation to occur.

Zhang Zhiping immediately stepped forward, attempting to pull out the fellow named Zhong Qi who had made the decision on his own, but he was stopped by the nurse at the operating room door.

"Why didn't you stop him!? What are you people doing!?" The head nurse also became anxious, "This is a hospital! No loud noises! Whatever you want to do, trust our doctors!"

Zhang Zhiping was stunned, "That's not your doctor at all!"

But the head nurse didn't take Zhang Zhiping's words seriously at all, only warning, "If you talk nonsense again, I'll call security! Is this the kind of place you can cause trouble!? Lives are at stake!"

...

In the operating room sterilization room, as the two washed their hands, Director Li asked somewhat uneasily, "This... Dr. Su, are you confident?"

Zhong Qi did not answer. No one could be sure about confidence in such matters.

But after a moment of silence, Zhong Qi spoke, "If I succeed, then everyone will naturally be happy. And you... have thirty percent confidence?"

The young man's words directly struck the heart of the chest surgery director. On this surgery, she truly didn't even have thirty percent confidence.

However, if it failed, she had also explained the risks to the patient's family.

Furthermore, she was unwilling to perform such a high-risk surgery unless it was out of professional ethics.

Not only was the risk too great, but it would also lead to lawsuits.

So she silently agreed to Zhong Qi being the lead surgeon. Even if it violated regulations, the current situation was urgent, and acting according to the urgency of the matter would be easy for her to explain.

Moreover, if she were likely to fail by doing it herself, why not hand it over to someone more confident?

Thinking this, she followed Zhong Qi and entered the operating room together.

Under the shadowless lamp, on the operating table, Xiao Xiao lay quietly, like a delicate work of art.

Her face was pale, her lips almost devoid of color, but that cold and beautiful face complemented this sickly hue, displaying an extraordinary morbid beauty.

At this moment, Su Yue stood before the operating table, unable to help but recall the words Xiao Xiao had spoken just an hour ago.

Even when he had proposed such harsh conditions for "liking," Xiao Xiao had still given that answer.

He took a deep breath, stabilized his emotions, and then nodded to the surrounding medical staff.

Although the doctors and nurses present were all female, except for Su Yue, they all seemed a bit surprised, not understanding the identity of this young doctor.

However, Su Yue didn't need to explain. He walked naturally to the nurse holding the patient's case file and began preparing for the surgery.

"Everyone, let's begin the preparations."

His voice was quick and clear, and the entire operating room immediately entered a tense and orderly state.

Xiao Xiao felt as if she were before the sun. The effect of the local anesthetic had begun to show, but she hadn't completely lost consciousness.

That drowsy feeling made her feel as if she were in a dream. She thought silently, "Is this perhaps heaven? So bright..."

The strong light of the shadowless lamp shone through the curtain, illuminating her like a giant sun.

Xiao Xiao felt her limbs were numb and she was exhausted. She felt very sleepy.

Before falling asleep, Su Yue's appearance vaguely emerged in her mind, as if she heard his call in the cave again.

Then, Xiao Xiao completely lost consciousness.

And before the operating table where she lay, Su Yue was performing the final preparatory work.

He took a deep breath and reached out to take the surgical knife handed to him by the assistant.

The blade was sharp, glinting with a cold light under the shadowless lamp.

Although Su Yue's face showed a calm expression, his heart was not as calm as it appeared on the surface.

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After all, this was his first time truly performing surgery. Although he had excellent memory and stable hand skills, surgery on a living person was ultimately different from dissecting a corpse.

However, at this moment, he couldn't afford to think too much.

He took a deep breath and made the incision with sharp eyes. Although the process of opening the chest was different from dissecting a corpse, the scope of the incision for the target trachea did not need to be too large, so the initial steps were not complicated.

However, even this step of opening the chest, which was just the beginning of the surgery in Su Yue's eyes, caused Director Li and the other assistant doctors' expressions to change slightly.

They had never seen such stable hand skills! The force, angle, and arc of the incision were all just right, as precise and stable as a machine.

Director Li was filled with astonishment, "Is this a genius? At such a young age, his hands are like they've opened the chests of countless patients! How did he do it?"

Although Director Li was initially skeptical of the intern forensic doctor's abilities, after seeing this scene, her subconscious mind gradually began to believe.

However, she was still a bit worried, "After all, he's a forensic doctor, so it's not strange to have such proficiency in opening chests. But will he be able to handle the next steps so smoothly? Unless he's truly a god! But if I cooperate with him, relying on his stable hands... it is indeed very likely to succeed!"

As time passed, Su Yue finally let out a breath, "Retractor."

With the retractor in place, he could clearly see Xiao Xiao's trachea.

At this point, the trachea was clearly somewhat deformed and needed immediate repair.

"Ventilator ready!"

Su Yue's gaze never left the trachea, but his mouth had already given the next instruction.

The nurse beside him also quickly responded, "Ventilator ready!"

A tube was handed to Su Yue.

The next step was the truly challenging part of this surgery - cutting the trachea and performing tracheobronchial repair.

This required extremely high precision and skill. Once the trachea ruptured, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Even if the patient didn't die, they might need to rely on a ventilator for life support.

At this dangerous moment, Director Li was surprised to find that Zhong Qi's hand cut the tracheal cartilage directly without even pausing!

And his other hand connected the ventilator without any hesitation!

"Perform tracheal repair!" Su Yue's voice was still quick and firm.

He seemed to have become the controller of the entire operating room; every instruction was executed quickly and accurately.

"Forceps! Monitor the patient's blood pressure and heart rate. Prepare Lidocaine and Epinephrine."

Su Yue held his breath and concentrated on the tracheal repair work. He knew this step required absolute focus and precise operation.

A slight carelessness could lead to disaster, even directly causing Xiao Xiao's death on the operating table.

Therefore, he had to go all out to complete this arduous task.

Outside the operating room, Xiao Xiao's mother, Chang Yan, rushed out of the elevator in a hurry.

Although she had rushed over as soon as she received the news, she still couldn't arrive before the surgery began.

In fact, by the time she arrived, the surgery had already been going on for an hour.

Although her makeup wasn't heavy, it had smudged from crying.

Seeing her husband with equally red eyes, she could no longer control her emotions and cried again.

The grief was inexpressible. Crying, she asked, "Who is doing the surgery in there? Who is operating on my daughter? What is his skill level? If anything happens to my daughter, I'll smash this hospital!"

Chang Yan was usually a calm and capable executive of a large enterprise and would never say such things.

But now, she had completely lost her composure. The panic in her heart made her speak carelessly, unable to accept such a huge risk.

At the same time, she couldn't find anyone to take responsibility, so she pushed the responsibility onto the hospital, seemingly finding some solace in this.

She suddenly realized and asked her husband, "Who is doing the surgery on our daughter? Are they reliable? I heard you say the hospital's attending doctor isn't here? Then who is it?"

Zhang Zhiping was startled for a moment, glanced at A Qi, and then replied in a deep voice, "It's the forensic doctor from the Municipal Bureau."

A Qi was even somewhat grateful that he didn't emphasize the word "intern."

Chang Yan's eyes widened, "A forensic doctor? Is that what forensic doctors study? Different fields are like mountains apart! Zhang Zhiping, you let a forensic doctor perform the surgery?! Are you crazy?!"

Lao Wang was also present and found it somewhat unacceptable when he heard this. He muttered, "What about forensic doctors? Can't forensic doctors save people?"

Of course, Chang Yan didn't hear this. However, Lao Wang also knew that among the people present, besides himself, probably no one else could trust Zhong Qi. He could only pray in his heart that the surgery would go smoothly.

At this moment, inside the operating room, Su Yue was performing the tracheal repair surgery.

More than an hour had passed. His concentration was extremely high, and he had almost forgotten the passage of time.

But this did not prevent his body from feeling tired; beads of sweat had already seeped onto his forehead.

He instructed the nurse beside him, "Wipe the sweat."

The nurse immediately took a sterile towel and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Although Su Yue's physical fitness far exceeded that of ordinary people, the application of finger strength and control of precision at this moment were constantly consuming his mental energy.

However, his surgery was absolutely flawless! Looking at the situation before her, Director Li felt as if she was witnessing a miracle! Su Yue's fingers were like machines, the force just right, and the coordination between the forceps and tweezers was perfectly natural!

Where was the idea of cooperation she had thought of before now?

Her heart was filled with fear and awe!

It wasn't just her; any other assistant doctor who understood the difficulty of this surgery had expressions full of horror at this moment!

Because in their hearts, this was simply not something a human could do!

Moreover, this process had already lasted for a full hour, yet he still seemed not to feel tired, continuing the repair surgery steadily!

Too terrifying!

Whether in terms of physical stamina or technique, this person was even stronger than Dr. Sun, the chest surgery attending doctor who was abroad for exchange!

Let alone Dr. Sun, looking at the whole world, who could achieve this step!?

Director Li knew that if she were to tell others about this scene, no one would believe her words.

A forensic doctor, an intern forensic doctor, actually completed a difficult chest surgery - tracheal repair - independently!

Indeed, no one would believe such a thing if it were told.

But there was video evidence!

Every surgery had a surgical video recorder for documentation.

The recording would not have any connection to the patient or doctor, but it would clearly record all the techniques of the lead surgeon.

The video recording of this surgery would be preserved like a work of art!

Absolutely perfect!

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