21st Century Necromancer

It was the day for the chief physician's ward round again, and a swarm of doctors was still rushing through the stairwell of the hospital, yet Chen Yu, as always, was leisurely standing by the elevator entrance.

"Why are you always so quick, Professor Chen?" Standing beside Chen Yu, Doctor Higashiyama and Glasses Doctor were both tidying up their appearance and curiously asking Chen Yu.

Hearing their question, Chen Yu couldn't help but shake his head slightly, "Why climb the stairs when you have elevators? The hospital isn't limited to just this one, so why not take a slight detour and ride the elevator up."

"Eh? You can do that?" Doctor Higashiyama and Glasses Doctor were suddenly taken aback, having not realized that this was an option.

The rule that all doctors must wait in front of the elevator before the chief physician's round was long-established. If they took the elevator, they might run into the chief physician, but they couldn't come early to wait, so climbing the stairs had become a regular feature of the rounds. Doctor Higashiyama and Glasses Doctor indeed hadn't thought of taking a detour to use the elevator.

Some things are better known without being widely publicized. Seeing that other doctors had lined up, Chen Yu didn't say anything more. After straightening his tie, he reminded the two, "The chief physician is coming."

Hearing Chen Yu's reminder, the two behind him also noticed the floor indicator above the elevator and quickly straightened their attire, promptly standing up straight.

The elevator doors opened as usual, revealing Shimura Maru accompanied by Professor Kube and Yamamoto Hisae stepping out.

"Good morning!" Everyone bowed at once, greeting Shimura Maru with good morning.

"Good morning." Shimura Maru nodded slightly, returning a brief salute before starting the day's rounds.

Today's ward round was much like any other, focusing mainly on key wards in surgery and internal medicine. By chance, the first case Shimura Maru encountered in the surgical ward was the nineteen-year-old girl with a cervical fracture that Chen Yu was in charge of.

The young girl had now awakened, but she still wore a neck brace to prevent further damage to her cervical spine, and her eyes were covered with gauze. Her mother, sitting next to her looking worn and evidently not having rested well these past few days, was her constant companion.

Upon seeing a group of doctors enter and hearing the announcement of the chief physician's round, the girl's mother instantly understood the significance of their visit and quickly stood up from beside the bed, greeting the chief physician with a mix of eagerness and restraint.

For a patient, encountering the chief physician's round is definitely good news; it means that at least a panel of experts will consult on your case, and the hospital will pay more attention to you.

Though this doesn't actually solve any problems and mostly serves as a psychological comfort rather than actual healing, most of the time it still brings some improvement to the patient's treatment—after all, not every patient has the privilege of being treated by the chief physician or a specialist professor.

However, this young girl was lucky, as the associate professor Chen Yu took her case, and she was operated on by Doctor X, Daimon Michiko. Overall, the surgical treatment was very successful, and it didn't cause any serious sequelae—at least she wouldn't suffer from incontinence or paraplegia of the lower limbs.

But, as it was ultimately a fracture of the cervical vertebra, even the spinal cord was damaged, and the specific sequelae still need to be observed for a definitive diagnosis.

"Professor Chen, is this your patient?" Shimura Maru looked at the medical record in his hand and, upon seeing the name of the attending physician, looked up at Chen Yu, "How is the patient's specific condition?"

"The patient primarily suffered from chemical potion corrosion causing damage to her contact lenses, as well as indirect force causing flexion type injuries to the third and fourth cervical vertebrae." Being called by Shimura Maru, and as it was his patient, Chen Yu naturally stepped forward and explained the patient's condition, "The patient's eye treatment was administered by the emergency room doctors, who removed the corroded contact lenses and washed the eyeballs.

After taking over the patient, I arranged an emergency surgery to remove the intracanal compression and restore the cervical column alignment, and reconstruct the damaged nerves. The patient's vital signs were stable after the surgery, and her breathing was also normal, so I didn't arrange for a tracheotomy, just cardiac and pulmonary monitoring."

"Hmm, very sensible management," nodded Shimura Maru, affirming Chen Yu's treatment plan.

For cervical fractures, aside from surgical treatment or non-surgical measures to repair the damaged vertebrae, there are not many good treatment options for nerve damage in the cervical area. After all, if nerves were easy to heal, there wouldn't be so many paraplegic patients.

"For subsequent therapy, I plan to perform another surgery on her after her cervical bone structure recovers, based on her recovery and nerve damage situation, hoping to treat her nerve injuries as much as possible." Chen Yu shared his follow-up treatment plan with Shimura Maru, a plan that he had confidence in after reviewing the "Multiverse Universal Necromancy Spell Compendium" over the past few days.

After all, Necromancer's research on nerves far exceeds that of modern medicine.

"Professor Chen, do you plan to repair her damaged nerves?" Shimura Maru couldn't help but look at Chen Yu in surprise. Nerve damage treatment has always been one of the important research topics of modern medicine, and achieving results in this area would be a significant medical advancement.

However, Chen Yu's prior research was mostly showcased in cancer treatment, and he hadn't demonstrated particular expertise in nerve damage, which naturally raised concerns about his claims.

"I plan to try out a new treatment scheme that has quite good effects on nerve regeneration and functional recovery." Chen Yu didn't elaborate further but revealed his confidence to Shimura Maru.

Seeing Chen Yu's full confidence, Shimura Maru instinctively felt some distrust, but such words obviously couldn't be said in front of the patient's family, so she simply nodded slightly and didn't oppose, but she also added a safeguard, "Since you're so confident, Professor Chen, I'll have someone from neurosurgery come over to assist you later, and they can also learn from the experience."

Chen Yu didn't oppose Shimura Maru's arrangement, as he knew that suddenly making such a claim would invite skepticism.
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After all, his previous research focused on cancer tumor treatment, and achieving results with broad-spectrum anti-cancer drugs was already astonishing. Revealing that he also had research on nerve injury treatment, although not impossible, was still something others would find hard to believe. Shimura Maru assigning a neurosurgery doctor to come over was just a precautionary measure.