21st Century Necromancer

Another week, another routine pre-operative seminar, with the large conference room filled with doctors from both internal medicine and surgery.

As an associate professor, Chen Yu had the closest seat to the front for a surgeon. Although Michiko Daimon was a freelance doctor, she also had to attend such conferences like the pre-operative seminar, albeit seated in a farther position at the back.

The weekly pre-operative seminars were a common system in Japan's hospitals, where resident doctors from various departments reported on their typical cases. They presented their treatment plans for discussion among all doctors, crafting contingency strategies for a variety of potentialities encountered during the healing process and discussing their viability.

"Ichinose Miyako, female, 19 years old." The slide on the projection screen changed to the next patient, a young girl with a cervical spine fracture under Chen Yu's care: "Two weeks ago, the patient was admitted for treatment due to eye injuries caused by chemical potion corrosion of her contact lenses, and an indirectly inflicted flexion injury to the third and fourth cervical vertebrae.

Professor Chen Yu was responsible for the surgery at that time."

Upon mention of his name, Chen Yu raised his hand to signal and then stood up. He proceeded to explain to the other doctors: "The patient was an emergency case on arrival, and after immediate assessment, I arranged for an emergency surgery, removing the compressive objects within the spinal canal via an anterior approach, restoring the spinal canal's alignment, and Dr.

Daimon reconstructed the patient's damaged nerves in her neck."

As Chen Yu described the procedure, the slides on the projection screen changed accordingly, shifting from Miyako Ichinose's medical records to the CT scans of her neck from before and after the surgery. Your journey continues at empire

"The patient's neck injuries healed well post-surgery, with both the bone and nerve healing processes being very ideal. However, due to the damage to the cervical nerves and despite nerve reconstruction, the patient still developed quadriplegia as a sequela," explained Chen Yu.

The doctors in the audience didn't find this alarming; for a cervical spine fracture serious enough to require hospital surgery, it was normal for a complication like quadriplegia to occur.

"Has there been any change in this patient's condition?" asked a doctor from internal medicine, raising his hand with a sense of curiosity directed at Chen Yu.

Theoretically, a patient who had already undergone surgery wouldn't need to be discussed in a pre-operative seminar. The fact that Chen Yu presented her medical records here implied that the patient needed another surgery, which seemed somewhat odd.

"Not at all," Chen Yu negated the doctor's guess and continued to explain: "Because this patient has developed quadriplegia as a sequela, I plan to perform a second surgery to reconstruct her damaged nerves a second time, in the hope of curing her sequela."

"Hmm..." A buzz of stir arose following Chen Yu's statement, as doctors around the room began murmuring among themselves. Although each spoke softly, the many voices together made the hall sound as if a swarm of bees had invaded, creating a noisy clamor.

"That's impossible!" exclaimed a physician who appeared older and quite authoritative. He stood up and audibly contested Chen Yu's claim: "Quadriplegia is one of the common sequelae following a cervical spine fracture, caused by upper motor neuron paralysis due to cervical cord damage.

Indeed, reconstructing the damaged nerves can to a certain extent treat and improve paralysis, but to claim a cure is absolutely impossible!

Nerve injury repair is an important research direction in the current international medical community, and so far, no one has made any breakthrough progress in this area. Doctor Chen, aren't you just a thoracic surgeon? To suddenly claim that you can cure quadriplegia is to give patients unrealistic hopes, which is extremely irresponsible!

I expect you to retract your statement, and this patient should be treated by our neurosurgery department!"

"Who are you?" Chen Yu, normally with a good temper, couldn't help getting irritated when someone stood up and interrupted, resulting in his questioning in a rather impolite manner.

Looking arrogantly at Chen Yu, the doctor with an air of self-importance raised his head and said, "I am Professor Arima from the Department of Neurosurgery. Unlike you, a lucky upstart, I was appointed as a professor based on my own merits. It's an honor for you to receive advice from a senior like me, so observe and learn how a senior makes a treatment plan!"

Professor Arima was about to explain his treatment plan, but Chen Yu had no intention of stepping aside.

"Professor Arima? Has it never occurred just because you haven't heard of it?" Chen Yu looked down on the standing doctor and let out a cold snort, "Don't make a fool of yourself if you have limited knowledge and experience. It's already the Reiwa era yet you still act like it's the Showa period.

No wonder you end up severing a patient's nerves during surgery and have an assistant clean up the mess for you!"

Such words were not suitable to be said at the hospital's preoperative conference, but since the other party was over the line, there was no need for Chen Yu to preserve their dignity.

"You!" Professor Arima, who had probably never been publicly humiliated like this, was so infuriated that his face turned red, "You're slandering me! I will sue you for defamation!"

"Whether it's defamation can be verified by looking at the hospital's surgical records.

All of our surgeries are recorded with video archives, aren't they?" Chen Yu glanced at him disdainfully, showing no intention to engage with him, turned back to the screen, and signaled the doctor next to him to change slides, "This surgery will not use the existing treatment methods, but will adopt a completely new nerve suturing technique."

As Chen Yu spoke, the slide on the screen changed to a diagram of the suturing technique he had prepared.

"The reason why nerve injury treatment is so ineffective is that even with the aid of a microscope, surgeons are unable to ensure that each nerve fiber is connected to the correct position, it's more like gambling, connecting the severed nerves randomly and hoping some fibers align correctly. If luck is good, more fibers might align correctly. If luck is bad, fewer will.

Such a method naturally cannot be said to have much efficiency or assurance of treatment success."

Chen Yu stood in front of the screen, confidently explaining while the doctors below stopped their whispering to gaze at the suturing technique diagram he was presenting on the screen. No one expected Chen Yu to actually propose a suturing method that was completely different from the existing nerve connection methods.

"The new nerve suturing method I have prepared fundamentally addresses the issue of nerve fiber continuity. Though it cannot guarantee 100% correct alignment, at least it can ensure that over 60% of the nerve fibers are correctly connected, and the remaining 40% won't leave any sequelae affecting the patient's quality of life!"