This doctor has a system

Chapter 484 548. Award
Liang Dongqing was admitted to the hospital and began a series of examinations in preparation for the upcoming surgery.

During the preoperative conversation, the doctor in charge said that the success rate of the operation was less than 50%, which made Liang Dongqing's wife very worried.

"That means there's a 50% chance that he'll die on the operating table, right?"

"The chance of death is very small."

Before Liang Dongqing's wife could be happy, the doctor in charge started talking again, "The probability of becoming a vegetable or mentally retarded is higher."

Obviously, Liang Dongqing's wife could not accept this result. It was too terrible that such a strong man in her family could become a vegetable.

She thought she should consult a few more experts, perhaps they were wrong.

"I have a tumor in my brain. I'm not buying vegetables. Why would I compare prices from three stores?" Liang Dongqing was in a bad mood, so his tone was naturally not very good.

His wife could understand his feelings, but still insisted on her own opinion.

"Professor Ma is an authority in this field, why bother!" Although he said so, Liang Dongqing still obediently followed his wife to Beijing when she insisted.

"I feel like this is probably a pituitary tumor." Gao Feng hesitated for a moment and said, "It shouldn't require a craniotomy."

However, he had heard a little about Professor Ma Junbin mentioned by Liang Dongqing. He was a master in neurosurgery and had a great reputation throughout the country.

"I'd better take you to the neurosurgery department." After all, this is not Gao Feng's specialty. Although he is very confident, he still behaves very cautiously.

"Pituitary tumor." After X and Director Zhou Qupeng of the Department of Neurosurgery looked at the film, they said in a relaxed manner, "Let's do a minimally invasive surgery."

"What is the success rate of the operation?" Liang Dongqing's wife asked cautiously.

"About 95%." Director Zhou said, "Surgery is always risky. I can't guarantee it."

His words made Liang Dongqing and his wife very happy.

"But Professor Ma Junbin of the Gdong Provincial Hospital said that the possibility of malignancy is very high and asked for a craniotomy."

"Ah?" Director Zhou Qupeng was stunned. "Is that what my teacher said?"

After these words were spoken, everyone present was stunned for a moment.

"Your teacher?"

"Yes, he is my master's supervisor." Director Zhou Qupeng said. He was a little self-doubting at the moment. Could it be that he lacked experience and made a mistake?
"Wait a moment, I'll find a few people for consultation." He decided to call for help.

Zhou Qupeng first called the department director, but then felt uneasy and simply called the people from the imaging department over.

"Hello, Director Gao." Director Yue from the Radiology Department greeted Gao Feng with a smile.

"Hello, Director Yue." Gao Feng also had an impression of the other party. The last time he went to the Radiology Department, the other party had left his contact information.

"Please show me this film."

Director Yue from the Imaging Department did not dare to delay. He adjusted his glasses with his hand and then looked at it carefully.

"It's considered a pituitary tumor."

His judgment was agreed by Hu Yaoming, director of the Department of Neurosurgery. "This is very simple, why did you call us over?" There was a hint of dissatisfaction in his tone.

Zhou Qupeng just laughed it off but didn't explain the reason. Gao Feng guessed that it might be to save his teacher's face.

Liang Dongqing was already extremely excited at this moment. You know, pituitary tumors and intracranial malignant tumors are two completely different concepts.

Let's start with the pituitary gland. This little thing is located at the base of the brain, deep behind the nose. A bean-sized organ, despite the gland's small size, it affects nearly every part of the body.

The hormones it produces help regulate many important functions in the body, such as growth, blood pressure, and reproduction. The pituitary gland is divided into the anterior pituitary (adenohypophysis) and the posterior pituitary (neurohypophysis).

Pituitary tumors mainly occur in the adenohypophysis, accounting for 10% to 20% of intracranial tumors. Most of them are benign and usually manifest as pituitary tumor compression symptoms and abnormal hormone secretion.

The main treatments are surgery, drug therapy and radiotherapy. Most patients can control the disease through treatment and can live and work normally.

"No need to open the skull. We can go in through the nasal cavity with the help of X-rays. We can finish with the gamma knife." Hu Yaoming, director of the neurosurgery department, briefly explained the surgical method to Liang Dongqing, "Go and get hospitalized. We'll schedule it tomorrow."

He spoke in a very calm tone, which, combined with his bald head, was a sure kill for patients and their families! Liang Dongqing and his wife immediately felt a strong sense of security.

Director Zhou Qupeng standing by had a frown on his face, looking like he was worried about something.

He really wanted to call his teacher to inquire about this matter, but he felt it was not appropriate. During the three years of graduate study, his tutor's rich theoretical knowledge and superb surgical skills had been deeply engraved in his mind.

He can also make mistakes? Impossible!
Is it a coincidence?
It's hard to say, but Liang Dongqing has no intention of pursuing the matter. He is a medical student and knows very well that even the most experienced clinicians can be careless sometimes.

But he still gets scared when he thinks about it. If it weren't for his wife's insistence and Gao Feng's advice, he might be lying in the operating room now.

If an accident really happened, my life would be over.

Soon, two weeks passed, and the Lasker Medical Award selection committee was conducting final consultations and voting on the award.

"Does anyone have any opinions about the winner of the Basic Medical Sciences Award?" asked Professor John Gordon.

No one in the audience said anything.

"Okay, this year's Basic Medical Science Award is awarded to Professor Gao Feng from China." Professor John Gordon wrote Gao Feng's name on the card.

"Okay, next we will select the winner of the Clinical Medicine Award."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a buzz from the audience, which was what Professor John Gordon had expected.

The competition for this clinical medicine award is very fierce, and he has recently been lobbied by many familiar scholars in the hope of gaining his support.

Excluding some scholars with less likely chances, the opinions of the evaluation committee are currently divided into two camps. One camp supports Kazutoshi Mori from the University of Tokyo and Peter Walter from the University of California, San Francisco.

Others believe that Alim Louis Benabid of Joseph Fourier University and Mahlon R. DeLong of Emory University School of Medicine should receive the honor.

The former resulted in the unfolded protein response, and the latter two achieved deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus, which can help Parkinson's patients reduce tremors and restore movement.

Most committee members believed that the discovery of the unfolded protein response was more difficult, but the deep brain stimulation technology of the subthalamic nucleus was clearly more widely used in clinical practice.

And now the Lasker Clinical Medicine Award is being selected.

"I have met Kazutoshi Mori from the University of Tokyo. He is a very humble scholar who is indifferent to fame and fortune." A judge spoke first, "I think he doesn't care whether he can win the award." "But Professor Alim Louis Benabid from Joseph Fourier University is different. He really needs this award to prove himself."

"Professor Alim Louis Benabid has been engaged in scientific research for more than 20 years, but has received only a handful of honors. Due to a lack of funding, he lives in poverty."

"But he never gave up, and eventually he and Professor Mahlon R. DeLong achieved great results in deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus. I think this award belongs to both of them."

"I think there's something wrong with what you said." One judge was unhappy, "Just because you're indifferent to fame and gain, you can just not give people the award?"

“This is absurd!”

"The discovery of the unfolded protein response is extremely amazing and the Clinical Medicine Award is well deserved."

Afterwards, several people expressed their opinions, with some agreeing with both views, and it seemed that they were evenly matched.

"Professor Kazutoshi Mori of the University of Tokyo had his paper retracted before. Oriental scholars love to falsify papers." A voice came out.

The scene suddenly fell silent.

Professor Kazutoshi Mori's supporters looked unhappy. This was indeed a scandal. Although it was handled promptly at the time, it still left a bad impact.

In fact, Professor Kazutoshi Mori was also a victim in this incident, and the person who published the article was his student.

In order to get the "correct and surprising" results, this clever student fabricated experimental data and also produced fake pictures.

After the article was published in Nature, it attracted the attention of many scholars. Some scholars repeated the experiment according to the above experimental steps, but without exception, they all ended in failure.

It caused a lot of controversy at the time, but the author of the article stuck to his conclusion.

Seeing his student's confident words, Professor Kazutoshi Mori of the University of Tokyo chose to believe and spoke up for him.

But soon, all this was exposed.

A scholar found that the picture in the article looked familiar. He scrolled it down and looked at it for a long time and found that it was very similar to the picture in an article he published 4 years ago. He asked someone to look at it and confirmed that it was forged based on this.

"I am very sorry that my student Yuto Sagoya fabricated the experimental data and pictures, which were Photoshopped." Professor Kazutoshi Mori had no choice but to publicly issue an apology letter in the industry.

As a result, all his articles from the past two years were censored, and Yuto Sagoya was basically expelled from the academic community.

This stain is now inevitably brought up, and for a moment Professor Kazutoshi Mori's supporters feel a little embarrassed.

"Professor Gao Feng is also an oriental scholar." Someone suddenly said, "Does this mean he could be a fraud as well?"

"That's not what I meant! Don't try to blame others for it!" The person who just spoke quickly clarified, "I take back my inappropriate remarks."

Academic fraud occurs in every country, but generally speaking, those who resort to this method are small-time scholars who publish articles just to get promoted.

About 2 SCI papers are published worldwide each year, 601% of which are useless. Some articles have only one reader in their lifetime, and that is the author himself.

Great professors are all very careful about their reputation and they hate academic fraud.

Firstly, if they were discovered, their reputation might be ruined; secondly, with their status, they would not lack one or two articles.

At this time, Professor Isidor Dickens was a little restless. After all, his disciple and Professor Kazutoshi Mori would share the same fate.

"The cause and effect of this matter have long been determined." He said, "Professor Kazutoshi Mori did not commit any major fault. Even if he did, we cannot just beat him to death with one blow."

"I have to be fair here, the unfolded protein response is significantly more difficult to discover than deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus."

"Everyone knows that Peter Walter is my disciple, and I know exactly how hard it was for him to achieve this result."

"Professor Isidor Dickens, scientific research is hard for anyone," one person retorted. "Now we are selecting the Clinical Medicine Award. I think the unfolded protein response should be competing for the Basic Medicine Award."

"Yes!" someone agreed, "You can have a competition with Professor Gao Feng from China."

"Hahaha" there was a burst of laughter from the audience, everyone was amused by his words.

"I am dying of laughter. How can he compete with Professor Gao Feng?"

"That's right. I think he is just picking on the weak. He doesn't dare to compete for the Basic Medical Science Award, but comes here to interfere in the Clinical Medicine Award."

Seeing that the wind was blowing in the wrong direction, Professor Isidor Dickens looked a little unhappy. He had never encountered such an embarrassing situation before.

“This award is very important to Peter Walter, as it is related to his confidence in his future scientific research career.”

“Professor Alim Louis Benabid and Professor Mahlon R. DeLong do not lack such honors, and awards are dispensable to them.”

"My own students must win awards, while others are dispensable." A professor from Emory University School of Medicine was very dissatisfied. "As expected of a great professor, he has so many crooked ideas."

"I worked with Peter Walter," said a professor. "I can say with full confidence that this guy rose to prominence by playing the guitar and drums."

"Besides this unfolded protein reaction, does he have any other achievements to show for it?" "Not even a hair!"

"We were in the same lab before, and he kept a crappy article that no one else would even look at, locked in his D drive like a precious egg, and was afraid that someone would take a peek."

"This person's reputation is not very good. He likes to interfere with other people's research."

"He's also arrogant. He's been at the school for a few years, but he doesn't even recognize all the professors in the lab! But he knows all the pretty female researchers. He can even remember the time of their periods. He asks because he cares about his colleagues."

"That's right. We strongly suppress our competitors, but when we see our leaders, we smile brightly."

"He always said that he was in poor health from doing experiments and was unwilling to take on the task of teaching. But last time our president went to inspect the laboratory, he was seen by Professor Peter Walter. Wow, the 2-meter-high guardrail collapsed under the pressure of one hand, just like a monkey."

"I'm afraid he might break his waist!"

"He must have learned it from his teacher. Professor Isidor Dickens was an athlete when he was young. When Professor Bill broke his leg, he carried him on his back to go to class for a whole month!"

“Later, he became the chief professor of the medical school.”

"Hahahaha!"

Professor Isidor Dickens' face flushed red, "Victor, you are simply farting! Didn't you recite it at that time?"

(End of this chapter)