21st Century Necromancer

"How can you just fiddle with someone else's stuff like this..." Jounouchi Hiromi began with discontent upon seeing Ayajichi Shoubu picking up Chen Yu's healing protocol, but before she could finish her sentence, she saw a look of utter astonishment on Ayajichi Shoubu's face, her eyes wide and round as if she had seen something incredibly shocking, which made Hiromi stop in mid-sentence.

"How... how is this... possible..." Ayajichi Shoubu's voice was filled with incredulous amazement. Although she hastily flipped through the treatment plan in her hands, she handled it with extreme care as if holding an invaluable treasure, and she scrutinized it so closely that she couldn't help but murmur, "How did they come up with this... It's impossible..."

Seeing Ayajichi Shoubu's look of profound shock, as if she had completely lost her wits, Jounouchi Hiromi couldn't help but ask with concern, "Are you alright? Is there a problem with this treatment plan?"

"A problem? The problem is huge!" Ayajichi Shoubu seemed to have been jolted awake by Jounouchi's question, her whole body emanating excitement and thrill, even her shoulders trembling slightly. She stared intently at Jounouchi Hiromi and excitedly asked her, "Doctor Jounouchi! Where did this treatment plan come from? Whose research is this, which neurosurgical expert? It's amazing!

With this method, we could push the research on nerve damage in modern medicine forward by fifty years!"

The way Ayajichi Shoubu spoke was certainly exaggerated, but her assessment of the treatment plan's potential to advance modern medicine's research on nerve damage treatment was by no means false.

For modern medicine, with the aid of increasingly advanced treatment instruments like microscopes, the reconnection of damaged nerves is no longer an issue. Although such surgeries are highly complex, there is no shortage of people capable of performing them.

What really hinders the healing of nerve damage is how to restore the original function of the damaged nerves.

The fundamental reason is that humanity has not yet reached the point where we can perfectly join every single nerve fiber in each nerve.

A nerve about one millimeter in thickness contains approximately thousands of nerve fibers, each with its specific function, such as some responsible for transmitting pain sensation, some for conveying muscle contraction signals, some for controlling respiratory organs, and some for controlling sphincter muscles...

It's not difficult to suture a one millimeter thick nerve under a microscope, but as for the thousands of nerve fibers inside this one millimeter thick nerve... even if surgeons can see them, they can't possibly match and correctly join each one as they originally were.

If you're lucky and get most of them right, more of the injured nerve function will be restored, and naturally, the less the postoperative sequelae will be. But if you're unlucky... then it's all up to how much favor Lady Luck grants you: urinary incontinence, hemiplegia, quadriplegia from high-level spinal injuries, or complete paralysis, pick any ailment that seems less troublesome.

But in Chen Yu's treatment plan, the methods for joining and suturing the damaged nerves are totally different from the current mainstream nerve suturing techniques! Just the suturing of the damaged nerves alone includes seven methods Ayajichi Shoubu had never seen before.
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It should be known that she graduated from the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, and the research in neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University's Department of Medicine is also top-notch in the world. As a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, Ayajichi Shoubu has always been proud of her academic credentials.

Yet even with her knowledge, she had never seen the suturing techniques described in this treatment plan before, which couldn't help but astonish her immensely.

Although she couldn't conceive of such suturing techniques herself, as a neurosurgeon, Ayajichi Shoubu could recognize the effectiveness of these suturing techniques with near certainty. She could confidently say that they were far more effective and sophisticated than those currently used in neurosurgical operations!

"This... Who wrote this treatment plan? It's really amazing!" Ayajichi Shoubu stared intently at Jounouchi Hiromi, pressing her for the author of the treatment plan in her hands.

However, looking at her appearance, Jounouchi Hiromi seemed a little confused, but she still answered, "This is written by Mr. Chen Yu... that is, Professor Chen. Didn't he ask you to come for the treatment plan? This is it! Since it's handwritten, I'm still organizing it.

Let me give it to you after I've finished arranging it!"

As she spoke, Jounouchi Hiromi tried to take back Chen Yu's treatment plan manuscript from Ayajichi Shoubu's hands, since the doctor in front of her seemed too strange, and Jounouchi Hiromi was somewhat reluctant to let her take the treatment plan away just like that.

But just as Jounouchi Hiromi's hand touched the treatment plan and was about to pull it back, Ayajichi Shoubu clutched the treatment plan tightly in her hand, peering intensely at Jounouchi Hiromi as if she was trying to steal her most important possession, "How is this possible? Isn't Professor Chen a thoracic surgeon?

Wasn't he the one who had a problem with a surgery and had me come over to clean up the mess? How could he write such an incredible... No, it's no longer appropriate to describe it as incredible, this is simply a breathtaking treatment plan! If he can produce such an impressive plan, why would he need me to come over?"

"Mr. Chen Yu asked you to clean up the mess?" Jounouchi Hiromi's eyes suddenly widened like Ayajichi Shoubu's, though her eyes were naturally big. This widening made her beautiful eyes appear especially larger, "Mr. Chen Yu was performing the surgery with Daimon-san. I was the anesthesiologist for the surgery, and I know how it went. It was very successful, without any need for remedy!"

Hearing what Jounouchi Hiromi said, Ayajichi Shoubu suddenly realized that she must have misunderstood something and just stared blankly at Jounouchi Hiromi, both of them staring at each other, temporarily speechless.

Although both Jounouchi Hiromi and Ayajichi Shoubu were beautiful, two beauties staring at each other wasn't exactly a sight to behold.

Doctor Higashiyama at the side couldn't help but cough once, breaking their staring contest before saying, "Professor Chen had proposed to try a completely new treatment method on this patient in order to achieve complete healing of the nerve damage caused by her cervical spine fracture. There was no such thing as cleaning up a mess.

As for Dr. Ayajichi being dispatched here, it was Director Shimura's doing. She felt that since Professor Chen is a thoracic surgeon, he might have insufficient experience in neurosurgery, so she asked someone from your neurosurgery department to come assist, not to clean up a mess for Professor Chen."