21st Century Necromancer

Chapter 335 332: Thesis and Surgery (Subscription and Monthly Tickets Requested)

"Mr. Chen Yu, why did you just reject Director Liu's request for you to perform a demonstration surgery? For a professor at a university hospital like you, isn't demonstrating a surgery a great opportunity to gain both money and fame?" On the way home, Jounouchi Hiromi sipped on her chilly drink to soothe the burning sensation in her mouth and asked Chen Yu curiously.

"I didn't reject it, I just said that I needed to think about it." Holding the steering wheel with both hands, Chen Yu couldn't help but glance at Jounouchi Hiromi as she fanned her face with her hand, trying to make her lips less burning and said teasingly, "Besides, what do you mean by 'a professor at a university hospital like me'?"

"Eh? Isn't that right? For professors at university hospitals, isn't going to other hospitals to perform demonstration surgeries the best chance to get famous? Not only can you gain fame, but you can also rake in a load of cash into your pocket. Isn't that what you professors look forward to the most?" Jounouchi Hiromi took another sip of her drink and teased Chen Yu with her flushed lips puckered.

"Heh, other professors certainly rely on such opportunities to make money and earn fame, but for me..." Chen Yu said, smiling confidently, "The research on broad-spectrum anti-cancer agents and nerve reconstruction surgery is enough to make a name for myself. Winning the Nobel Prize is just a matter of time. And the patent fees for the broad-spectrum anti-cancer agents, a few hundred billion yen a year, aren't expensive."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know you're amazing! But you still haven't answered me, why won't you agree to do the surgery? Is it because your classmate snatched away the person you had a crush on?" Jounouchi Hiromi speculated about Chen Yu's thoughts, but it didn't seem like he was the type to refuse to save someone over such an issue.

"I won't deny that was one of the reasons, and I really dislike that person. After finishing the surgery that morning, he even complained that I hadn't done a good job, which really made me not want to save him," said Chen Yu, not hiding his thoughts in front of Jounouchi Hiromi.

Certainly, as a doctor, it was impossible to stand by and watch a patient die, so when Wang Jiancheng needed emergency surgery and there were no doctors available, Chen Yu was willing to intervene and save him, even taking the risk to remove the tumor after discovering he had stomach cancer.

But that did not mean Chen Yu would agree to operate on Wang Jiancheng again in the current situation, when it wasn't necessary for him to step in, especially not after saving him once without even receiving a word of thanks.

After all, with the current medical standards in China, there were doctors capable of performing the surgery; it wasn't like there was no one else to operate on him if Chen Yu didn't take the lead, so why bother?

"Well, that makes sense, I also got a really bad vibe from that guy. Considering your relationship with him, it's understandable that you wouldn't want to do the surgery," Jounouchi Hiromi naturally wouldn't contradict Chen Yu in such a situation, especially since she wasn't too fond of Chen Yu's classmate either.

However, Chen Yu continued to explain: "Actually, besides that reason, there is another important factor I must consider, which is whether the inviting hospital will agree to it. It was fine for the emergency surgery to save a life, but for a demonstration surgery, and especially one for hepatic hilum cholangiocarcinoma, which is high-risk and highly complex, I am confident I wouldn't falter, but the hospital might not agree to the invitation, so I have to consider that."

The hospital Chen Yu referred to was of course the Tokyo University Medical School Hospital, where he was currently employed. Even if he were willing to perform the demonstration surgery out of national loyalty, without the hospital's permission, he simply couldn't do it, since his medical license was issued in Japan.

"That's true, the professors in the hospital usually pick surgeries they have a lot of control over and that carry little risk for their demonstrations. It's not likely that the hospital would agree to such a high-risk surgery," Jounouchi Hiromi understood Chen Yu's reasoning. Given that Chen Yu was an associate professor at Tokyo University Medical School Hospital, they would indeed be likely to decline the surgery considering the hospital's reputation and the risk of failure.

"If it were any other patient, I would just do the surgery and at most get scolded by Professor Kube when I came back. The hospital wouldn't fire me over something so trivial," Chen Yu said, his expression turning a bit mocking, "But I really don't want to do it for that guy."

"Come on, Mr. Chen Yu, you don't have to explain so much to me. I support your decision anyway. Whether you save him or not, it doesn't really affect me. No matter how benevolent a doctor is, it's impossible to save everyone, especially when they don't even need your help," Jounouchi Hiromi finally felt the burning sensation on her lips subside, and she placed the empty drink bottle in the door's storage compartment.

Yet, Jounouchi Hiromi was still curious about the hepatic hilum cholangiocarcinoma surgery, and she asked Chen Yu, "By the way, Mr. Chen Yu, Director Liu mentioned earlier that you published a paper on the hepatic hilum cholangiocarcinoma surgery in 'The Lancet' a few years ago, but weren't you supposed to be still in school pursuing your doctoral degree back then?"

"That's right, I was indeed still in school studying under Professor Kube at that time, and the paper was written then too. Is there a problem?" Chen Yu looked puzzled at Jounouchi Hiromi and wondered why she would ask that.

"But where did the surgical experience come from? At your status as a doctoral student at that time, you would have only been an assistant during surgeries, right? You didn't just write the paper based on a single surgery where you were an assistant, did you?" Jounouchi Hiromi made a guess, not doubting Chen Yu's surgical skills, but rather curious about how he managed to write the paper.

Upon hearing that this was Jounouchi Hiromi's concern, Chen Yu couldn't help but laugh, "Of course not. The surgery back then was led by me. Being recommended by the professor to your hospital to act as the lead surgeon was largely due to that surgery.

Actually, Professor Kube was the real lead surgeon for that operation, but on the day of the surgery, after the patient was opened up, the professor suddenly had an intestinal obstruction and couldn't continue. As the professor's designated first assistant, I had to step into the lead surgeon's shoes and carry on with the surgery, and I wrote the paper based on the problems I encountered during the operation."