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    A surgery spanning over a dozen hours is a tremendous burden for both doctors and nurses, but it is somewhat easier for nurses in the operating room. They don''t burn out as much as the doctors do, and they can take turns to rest as there are several nurses rotating in and out.


    Normally, for such an extended surgery, there should be two teams of doctors who can rotate, too. A small hospital mightck that many doctors, but this is the Tokyo University Medical School Hospital, one of the hospitals with the highest medical standards and strongest capabilities in all Japan. It should be possible to gather two full sets of surgical teams.


    However, due to the uniqueness of the patient''s condition, Chen Yu hardly took any breaks in the midst of the surgery,boring continuously through an eleven-hour high-intensity operation. Under the influence of Chen Yu''s highly focused state, the pediatric associate professor serving as his assistant as well as Doctor Higashiyama and sses Doctor were also wholeheartedlymitted. Afterpleting the surgery, it was only then that the three of them realized they could hardly even stand firmly. sses Doctor was so exhausted that his legs gave out and he copsed in front of the scrub sink outside the operating room.


    "sses Doctor, are you okay?" Despite also being so tired that he could barely lift his fingers, Doctor Higashiyama''s instinct was to reach out to help him up. However, being just as drained, hecked the strength to pull sses Doctor up, which resulted in him losing his own bnce and kneeling on the floor as he reached out.


    If it weren''t for him grabbing the nearby sink in time, Doctor Higashiyama might have fallen onto sses Doctor.


    "Hahaha, Doctor Higashiyama, you can''t even stand up yourself and you''re trying to help me?" Watching Doctor Higashiyama fumble to stand using the operating table, failing several times, sses Doctor eventually managed to sit up, leaning on the outside edge of the sink and teased him.


    Seeing this, Doctor Higashiyama changed his position and sat down beside sses Doctor against the sink,ughing helplessly, "Can''t help it, I had no strength left after the surgery. When I was suturing the wound, I could hardly hold the stapler steady."


    "Don''t talk about you, wasn''t I the same? I had to have the nurses help me even to take off my gloves at the end." sses Doctorughed with Doctor Higashiyama, but as he did, he suddenly looked up at the ceiling, then let out a very emotional sigh, "It''s wonderful, isn''t it? The child was saved."


    Hearing sses Doctor''s emotional words, Doctor Higashiyama leaned in close to him, also looking up at the ceiling as if the fluorescent light above held a special allure, and said with absolute certainty, "Yes, saved!"


    "Saved! That''s fantastic!"


    "Yes, saved, that''s fantastic."


    "Higashiyama, you''re pressing on my hand."


    "Sorry, I don''t have the strength to move, you''ll have to pull it out yourself."


    "I don''t have the strength either, can''t pull it out, just leave it."


    "Hahaha!" "Hahaha!"


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    Because the injured person had only been temporarily sutured in the abdominal cavity, he and the other two injured people who had been brought in with him were all admitted to the ICU.


    After sending the injured person to the ICU, Jounouchi Hiromi went to the cafeteria and, unsurprisingly, saw Chen Yu, who was drinking syrup with Daimon Michiko. She smiled at him and said, "You worked hard in the surgery today, Mr. Chen Yu."


    "How unfair! When we performed surgeries together before, you always said I worked hard, but now that you have a boyfriend, do you really not even look at me anymore? Such an inconsiderate anesthesiologist!" Daimon Michiko, seeing Jounouchi Hiromi only smiling at Chen Yu, immediately pouted and voiced herint.


    However, Jounouchi Hiromi just nced at her and sat down next to Chen Yu, looking at Daimon Michiko, she said, "Aren''t you the one who is skilled at special and interesting surgeries, Daimon-san? You get itchy hands if you don''t operate for three days, so you must be excited about high-difficulty surgeries like this one, right?"


    "The difficulty of a surgery where a rib pierces the heart is not considered highpared to the liver suturing surgery your man has to do tomorrow. Tomorrow''s surgery is the real challenge," Daimon Michiko said, sipping the high-concentration syrup from her cup to alleviate the difort brought on by mental exhaustion from surgery, responding to Jounouchi Hiromi as if her earlierint had been nothing but a joke.


    "Mr. Chen Yu, how confident are you about tomorrow''s surgery?" Jounouchi Hiromi, having heard Daimon Michiko''s assessment that the surgery was challenging, couldn''t help but look towards Chen Yu, worried whether he couldplete the operation.


    Having seen the child''s injury on the operating table, Jounouchi Hiromi knew exactly how difficult it would be toplete the surgery, and only top surgeons like Chen Yu and Daimon Michiko dared to say they could finish such an operation.


    "The surgery is very difficult, but if we''re talking about saving that child''s liver, my confidence is one hundred percent," Chen Yu said, gently rubbing his forehead with his fingers. An eleven-hour intensive surgery had exhausted even him, "However, the child''s liver is so badly shattered that even I am notpletely confident about suturing it all back together, and it''s quite possible that some excessively damaged parts of the liver may need to be removed."


    At that moment, Daimon Michiko did not oppose Chen Yu''s attitude. As doctors, even though everyone strives to save every patient and provide the best treatment, being a doctor must be the most realistic profession. What can be saved should be saved; what cannot be saved should be cut away to focus on preserving the patient''s life first.


    Thus, Daimon Michiko would not demand that Chen Yu must save the child''s liver, especially since she had also seen the child''s CT images and knew how difficult it was to suture a liver that was shattered to such an extent.


    Even she was notpletely confident about it.


    "If we remove part of the liver, there shouldn''t be a problem. The child is still young, and his liver is still growing. In such circumstances, as long as we facilitate the regeneration of his liver, it will be eptable to sacrifice parts that cannot be sutured back," Daimon Michiko considered and felt that if they could save most of the child''s liver, then the surgery would be a sess.


    "Yes, that''s thest resort. If possible, we should still try to suture the child''s liver back together. We may just get a bit tired, but for that child, it could affect his whole life," Chen Yu remarked, feeling deeply since the patient was only nine years old; he still hoped to do the best for him.