Chapter 558 - 461: Catheterization?

"Xia Zhu, call your Mr. Wen here. There’s something I need him for, quickly!" Back at Yongning Hall, Lin Miao directly called for Xia Zhu.

"Mr. Lin, what’s the matter?"

"A minor surgery, need his assistance."

"Surgery, can’t I do it?" Xia Zhu blinked her eyes. She wanted to learn surgery from Lin Miao more than anyone else. Such a good opportunity, how could she miss it?

"It’s not that you can’t, but you need to make sure your Wen Ruyu agrees first." Lin Miao chuckled. This surgery wasn’t just any surgery; if it were someone from his own time, they wouldn’t care, since they couldn’t see it and were already used to it.

But in this world, people of this era might not be able to accept it. For trimming a small cannon, it’s not a big deal for a man to do it, but if a woman does it, if she’s married it’s okay, but if she’s unmarried then...

For this surgery, he didn’t even want his senior sister to observe, let alone participate. The same went for Xia Zhu; as for the future, they’ll talk about it later.

After all, Lin Miao wouldn’t force his wife or female disciple to perform such surgery related to men’s private parts.

Even in his own time, many people were reluctant to mention such surgery, as it was truly private, done only when necessary. Some people even went through life without knowing that such a surgery could change their awkward situation.

Ximen Tower encountered him; otherwise, he might have really had to "draw a knife and cut it off," and could have gone to be brothers with Mr. Xue.

A simple "cutting" surgery isn’t complicated. The problem is dealing with the hematoma. This area is at the nerve endings, sensitive and difficult for medicine to reach.

Without antibiotics, performing this surgery carries risks, but not performing it carries even greater risks.

A surgical informed consent form needs to be drafted.

Liability should be avoided; otherwise, it might become unclear. As a doctor, one must first protect themselves and then heal the patient. There’s no saying that doctors can cure all diseases; if it’s uncurable and one meets someone unreasonable, the doctor could end up in trouble.

The confiscation of the Ye Family was causing Wen Ruyu much distress, creating a significant upheaval in the medical industry of Dongshan.

The Ye Family was too involved; too many people were implicated at once, and even Shengyuan Hall was sealed, posing a seismic-level disaster for Dongshan’s medical industry.

This tested his capability as the chief of the Medical Bureau. Luckily, with Mr. Sang and the former chief advisor here, otherwise, untangling the relationships would be enough to give him a headache.

"Surgery, what surgery?" Wen Ruyu looked up, surprised to see the messenger Lin Ren.

Lin Ren was one of the orphans adopted by Lin Miao. Among them, five boys were named Ren, Yi, Li, Zhi, and Xin, with their eldest brother naturally being Lin Mao. Normally, besides studying and practicing, they also did some errands and delivery work.

Lin Miao treated them as trusted household servants.

Similarly, among the girls, Lin Miao selected four outstanding ones and named them Mei, Lan, Ju, and Zhu.

The remaining ones, who were younger, would be named later.

The Lin Clan’s expansion clearly couldn’t rely on Lin Miao alone to proliferate; they needed to attract and cultivate fresh blood.

Of course, in this process, encountering people of varying qualities and unscrupulous intentions was inevitable and unavoidable.

"Young Master said you’ll know once you arrive."

"Is it urgent?"

"The patient is quite urgent."

"Alright, I’ll go right away." Upon hearing the patient’s urgency, Wen Ruyu didn’t care about being busy with work. Can anything be more important than a patient’s life?

On the first day of studying medicine, the teacher taught that saving lives is the primary duty.

Wen Ruyu didn’t even change out of his official robe and directly rode a horse straight to Xiuyue Square.

Yongning Hall also had a dedicated operating room, which was later renovated. In fact, it was smaller than the one in the clinic.

But it was sufficient.

Lin Miao planned to renovate the inn, build a large operating room there, so patients could be transferred to a ward to recuperate after surgery.

The idea of the maternity ward awaited Guan Biyun’s arrival, as she promised to bring a team to help him establish it.

Mr. Xue’s surgery wasn’t large, Yongning Hall’s treatment room was sufficient.

Soon after Lin Miao returned, Ximen’s household servants and Spring Garden’s attendants brought him over, specially finding a gentle palanquin fearing to harm Ximen’s delicate body during the move.

Currently, there’s no development of local anesthetic injections; even if there were, they wouldn’t dare use them recklessly. For minor surgeries, acupuncture was generally used for local anesthesia.

But for this surgery, Lin Miao planned to use general anesthesia. With local anesthesia, it wasn’t impossible, but if this fellow were awake, listening to him and Wen Ruyu talk, it wouldn’t be good.

So, general anesthesia it was.

With general anesthesia, one would have to drink medicine first, which takes more time. With local anesthesia, one injection could cut off the nerve to lose feeling.

"Drink this medicine?"

"Still need to drink medicine?" Ximen Lou said bitterly. Since childhood, he feared drinking medicine the most. The bitterness of decoction was truly hard to swallow.

"Not drinking is fine, then you can watch me perform surgery on you. I don’t know if you’re afraid of pain or faint at the sight of blood?"

"Huh?!"

Ximen Lou had no other thoughts, directly taking the mafeisan and drinking it all in one go, bottom up.