Chapter 459: Chapter 458: Exams Over Life

No matter how Zeng Ni pleaded or what she offered—even raising the compensation to fifty percent—Yan Feifan wouldn’t budge.

Faced with the impervious Yan Feifan, Zeng Ni was fuming.

She desperately wanted to have the driver stop the car, drag Yan Feifan out, and give him a good beating.

However, she had received a stern warning before coming and didn’t dare do anything too drastic...

After arriving at Baining Hospital, Yan Feifan threw himself into surgery and was busy until nearly one in the afternoon, when he finally had lunch.

For lunch today, he was joined by Vice President Yu Youhai.

"Look, Mr. Yan..."

Yu Youhai immediately started complaining, "You should have just rejected PLA General Hospital outright. Why did you have to leave them a loophole?"

"What you did... that was pretty shabby."

Feeling a little guilty, Yan Feifan defended himself, "They came up with that workaround themselves. It wasn’t my suggestion."

"Hey, Mr. Yu, you could have just turned them down flat."

Yu Youhai gave a wry smile. "The head of their hospital came with several senior officials, and they even brought a leader from the Health Commission. They all sat down in my office and politely discussed a ’collaboration.’"

"Tell me, could I refuse?"

"Would I dare refuse?"

"Does the Yu Family want to keep doing business in Jingcheng or not?"

Yu Youhai slapped his forehead and sighed, "Now, the number of slots has suddenly dropped from three to two."

"There are so many patients waiting in line. How am I supposed to explain this to them?"

Yan Feifan said with a straight face, "Put more pressure on Baining Medical Technology. Make them speed up their R&D."

"Once the surgical robot is put into use, the pressure will ease up."

Yu Youhai sighed again. "Even if the surgical robot is put into use, it won’t be that easy for patients to accept."

"People are always afraid of new things."

"Especially a critical surgery where the slightest mistake could leave someone partially paralyzed, or even cost them their life."

Yan Feifan chuckled lightly. "That’s simple. Just two or three successful surgeries will be enough to dispel the patients’ worries."

"Just like back then, that Mr. Pan didn’t believe someone as young as me could do it either..."

Speaking of which, for some reason, the mention of the surgical robot made Yan Feifan think of the phone call from Zheng Libing last night.

His police colleague, Wang Zenglin, and the bullet in his lumbar spine.

’Maybe... I could use the surgical robot, connect a slender, flexible arm with multi-axis steering and a high-definition camera...’

Yan Feifan quickly ran a simulation in his mind. It seemed very feasible. He asked urgently, "Mr. Yu, in its man-machine operation mode, what’s the movement precision of Baining Technology’s surgical robot?"

Yu Youhai thought for a moment, then said uncertainly, "Maybe zero-point-one millimeters? I don’t remember clearly."

Yan Feifan simply took out his phone and dialed Yu Youlian’s number.

"Mr. Yu, I have a patient, a police officer, with a bullet lodged on the inner side of his lumbar spine, an area dense with nerves and blood vessels. The surgical field of view is severely obstructed, making an operation difficult. The bullet has been stuck there for several years."

"I was thinking, could we use a surgical robot with a multi-axis articulating arm and a high-definition panoramic camera, operating it remotely to retrieve the bullet?"

After a moment, Yu Youlian’s voice came through the phone.

"Mr. Yan, from a technical standpoint, everything you’ve described is currently achievable."

"However, the multi-axis articulating arm would probably need to be custom-made to your specific requirements."

Yan Feifan pondered for a moment, then said, "Mr. Yu, tonight I’ll send you the man’s detailed medical records, my proposed surgical plan, and the requirements and specific parameters for the robotic arm."

"Please have your technical team study it as soon as possible to see if it can really be done..."

After Yan Feifan hung up, Yu Youhai sighed, "Mr. Yan, I see now why you’ve achieved so much at such a young age."

"You’re always thinking about patients and surgery. It’d be strange if you didn’t get results."

Yan Feifan said modestly, "It was just a flash of inspiration."

"Actually, I’ve known about this patient for quite some time. I should have thought of trying out the latest surgical robot technology on him sooner."

Yu Youhai chuckled. "Whether you thought of it early or late, thinking of it at all is a victory."

"Come on, Mr. Yan, let’s eat first..."

During the meal, Yu Youhai also apologized for how Zeng Ni had pestered Yan Feifan the whole way there.

However, Yu Youhai’s evaluation of Zeng Ni was still quite positive, saying she had a good character and was just a bit playful and mischievous.

Just as lunch was ending, Yan Feifan received another call, this time from Qiu Ge.

The first thing he was told was that Carolyn had woken up.

A post-operative check showed she was conscious but had some short-term memory loss, loss of smell, blurred vision in her right eye, and numbness on the right side of her body.

Overall, the surgery was considered quite successful.

"The second thing, Mr. Yan, is that I admitted a young brain tumor patient today, only fifteen years old."

"His surgery isn’t particularly difficult. The tumor is just pressing on his visual center, causing blindness."

"The young patient has his high school entrance exams in a few days."

"He and his family want to know if it’s possible to restore his vision first so he can take the exams, and then have the surgery afterward."

Hearing this, Yan Feifan thought of the classmate Tian Yu had mentioned last night.

"Dr. Qiu, is this young patient from Huinan District Ninth Middle School?"

He had barely finished speaking when Qiu Ge’s surprised voice came from the phone, "Yes, he is. From Huinan District Ninth Middle School."

"Did someone pull some strings to get to you beforehand?"

Yan Feifan explained, "No one contacted me. He’s a schoolmate of my neighbor’s little sister."

"That girl told me last night that a student at her school had suddenly gone blind."

Qiu Ge’s light laughter came through the phone. "What a coincidence. It seems you two are fated to meet."

"Mr. Yan, the most convenient and effective way to temporarily restore his vision so he can take his exams is to use your puncture and injection technique to shrink his tumor."

"Mr. Yan, are you available?"

Yan Feifan frowned. "Dr. Qiu, you know as well as I do that a puncture will inevitably cause some brain damage."

"Is it worth inflicting additional damage on the brain just for the high school entrance exams?"

"Wouldn’t it be better for him to repeat a year, and then get into a better key high school with better grades?"

Qiu Ge sighed over the phone. "I tried to persuade them with the same argument."

"The problem is, they insist on him taking the exams first. They say that falling behind one year means falling behind every year, and he’ll never be able to catch up."

"They also said they’re confident he can get into a key high school this year."

"Mr. Yan, if you don’t take his case, they’ll opt for managing it with medication."

"In my opinion, that method could potentially have even more severe consequences than your puncture and injection technique."

Hearing this, Yan Feifan found it somewhat incredible.

’What kind of child and parents are these?’

’Are the entrance exams more important than anything? Are they choosing a test over his life?’

Yan Feifan shook his head and said into the phone, "Dr. Qiu, let me take a look at his tumor scans first..."

After ending the call with Qiu Ge, Yan Feifan also finished his lunch, left Baining Hospital, and started his journey back.

While waiting in the lounge at Shoudu Capital International Airport, Yan Feifan received a video call from his sister.

"Feifan, guess what car I bought?"

From the background in the video, Yan Feifan could see his sister and Yu Suye were at a car dealership.

"How could I possibly guess what car it is?"

Yan Feifan gave up. "I’m not going to guess."

"Sis, as long as you didn’t buy a supercar worth millions or tens of millions, I can accept it."

"Hee hee, why would I be such a spendthrift?"

His sister’s cheerful voice came from the phone, "Feifan, watch closely! The moment of truth..."

"...is here..."

After a shake of the phone’s camera, a vibrant red compact car appeared in the center of the screen.

It was a convertible Beetle...

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