Surgery Godfather

Chapter 2219: Chapter 1449: Good Work Takes Time

At half past six in the morning, Yang Ping was awakened by the alarm clock.

He lay in bed, staring at the ceiling for a few seconds, as thoughts emerged one after another like a computer booting up. There were plenty of things to do today: the final confirmation of Director He’s prominence reconstruction plan, Xia Shu’s coronary bypass patient needed a coagulation function recheck today, Manstein scheduled a ten o’clock discussion on the thesis, Weber’s review comments weren’t finished yet, and Tang Shun had several new doctoral candidates to interview on his side.

Yang Ping sat up, glanced at Xiao Su who was still sound asleep beside him, and quietly got out of bed.

The Sanbo Hospital was already bustling early in the morning. A long line formed in the outpatient hall, with nurses at the guidance desk patiently answering patients’ questions. People crowded in front of the elevators of the inpatient department, including patients in hospital gowns, family members carrying breakfast, and nurses pushing treatment carts.

Yang Ping weaved through the crowd and entered the Institute building.

As soon as he got out of the elevator, he heard Tang Shun’s voice.

"This data is incorrect. Check the original records again. What’s written in the lab notebook doesn’t match the electronic version; we can’t afford to make these mistakes anymore."

Yang Ping walked out of the elevator and saw Tang Shun standing at the entrance of the cell laboratory, talking to a young doctoral candidate. The candidate hung his head, his face flushed red, clutching the lab notebook tightly.

"Tang Shun!" Yang Ping called out.

Tang Shun turned his head, saw Yang Ping, and his expression softened somewhat: "Professor, good morning."

"What’s going on?" Yang Ping walked over.

"Xiao Wang’s experiment data doesn’t match." Tang Shun took the notebook from the young doctoral candidate and opened it to a specific page, handing it to Yang Ping. "Look, the original notebook says 37 degrees incubation for two hours, but the electronic version says 37 degrees incubation for four hours. A whole two-hour discrepancy; how can the experiment be replicated like this?"

Yang Ping glanced at the lab notebook and then at the young doctoral candidate. Xiao Wang had just joined the lab less than three months ago and was still in the familiarization stage.

"Xiao Wang, please explain." Yang Ping’s tone wasn’t stern, but neither was it gentle.

Xiao Wang swallowed, his voice trembling a bit: "Professor Yang, I... I remembered wrong. The actual procedure was indeed two hours, but I wrote it wrong when entering the electronic version."

"Wrote it wrong?" Tang Shun’s volume increased, "Can experimental data be written wrong? This one mistake could waste a whole month for the entire project team!"

Yang Ping gestured to Tang Shun to calm down. He looked at Xiao Wang and said, "What is the core of scientific research?"

Xiao Wang hesitated for a moment, less confident as he replied: "Is... it being truthful and accurate?"

"Exactly, it is about being truthful and accurate," Yang Ping said, "Always cultivate a rigorous habit to minimize such basic errors."

"Understood." Xiao Wang’s voice grew fainter.

"We’ll let it go this time, but not again." Yang Ping handed the notebook back to Xiao Wang, "Go back and correct the electronic version, and note the reason for the correction in the comments."

Xiao Wang took the notebook relieved and left.

Tang Shun watched Xiao Wang’s back, shaking his head: "Professor, several of these newly recruited doctoral candidates have shaky fundamentals. They looked good during interviews but showed their weaknesses as soon as they entered the lab."

"That’s normal." Yang Ping said, "Interviews and actual work are different matters. You should guide them more; everything has a process, and if it doesn’t work out, eliminate them."

Yang Ping entered his office, opened his computer, and started dealing with accumulated emails.

There were many emails, most of which were review invitations from academic journals. He was now an editorial board member of several mainstream journals, having to review seven or eight manuscripts each month. These manuscripts came from all over the world, with some well-written and others poorly drafted. He meticulously reviews the good ones and provides constructive feedback; for the poor ones, he doesn’t hesitate to reject them.

One particular email caught his attention.

The email was from an editor at The Lancet, stating that a paper on stem cell therapy for spinal cord injury was under consideration for review and invited Yang Ping for a quick assessment. Yang Ping glanced at the abstract and noted that the authors were a European research team with overlapping studies with Manstein’s topic.

Yang Ping didn’t rush to respond but instead printed out the abstract and planned to discuss it with Manstein later.

He skimmed through several other emails, some about funding applications, others about academic conferences or collaborative research. He dealt with each email one-by-one, replying where needed, forwarding when necessary, and archiving as required.

After finishing the emails, it was almost eight o’clock.

Yang Ping stood up, stretched his neck, then picked up the case materials from Director He and started flipping through them.

Prominence resection and reconstruction combined with pulmonary artery replacement, the difficulty of this surgery wasn’t in any specific operation but in the accumulation of all the operations. It’s like an acrobat attempting extreme challenges: walking a tightrope is already difficult, but walking a tightrope while spinning a hoop, juggling balls, and riding a unicycle makes each separate action seem manageable on its own, but together they become an ultimate test.

Yang Ping simulated the surgical procedure in his mind.

Starting with the incision, he chose the median sternotomy with a right anterior thoracic incision, providing exposure to the mediastinum and right thoracic cavity with ample operative space. Then comes the exploration to determine the actual extent of the tumor’s invasion. If broader than shown in imaging, the resection scope might need to be expanded, or surgery might need to be abandoned.

If the exploration results were satisfactory, the next step would be handling the blood vessels. Yang Ping’s plan was to first free the superior vena cava, putting on a blocking strap just in case. Then, free the main pulmonary artery trunk and branches of the left and right pulmonary arteries, assessing the required length and angle for the replacement.

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