godfather of surgery

Chapter 1075 Gastric Surgery for Weight Loss
These days, Yang Ping was busy with the treatment of Professor Chang from the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of the Arts, and had not paid much attention to the affairs of his own hospital. Director Fang of the General Surgery Department had told Yang Ping many days in advance that he had a major operation of extracorporeal resection of liver cancer and autologous liver transplantation. Although Director Fang had performed dozens of such operations, given that the operations were too complicated and difficult, Director Fang felt more at ease with Yang Ping by his side.

However, Yang Ping had been busy the past few days, so Director Fang had been waiting. Now that Yang Ping was finally free, he immediately took the opportunity to arrange the operation. After Yang Ping was done, he went to the general surgery department to take a look and help Director Fang calm down.

When Yang Ping was on his way to the surgical building, several patients' families were waiting at the gate. When they saw Yang Ping coming out, they immediately blocked him, but he was immediately stopped by Er Shun and several plainclothes guards who were following him.

Upon asking what was going on, it turned out that the patient could not get an appointment with Yang Ping, so he came up with this rough method. He was lurking at the door of the Surgical Institute. When he saw Yang Ping coming out, he immediately rushed over, wanting Yang Ping to help look at the CT film, give a treatment plan, and preferably help perform the operation.

This kind of thing is very difficult for doctors, especially for someone of Yang Ping's status and position. If you help him, once you open this loophole, it will not just be a matter of treating just one patient, but thousands of patients will come to block him. There will even be a scalper industry chain formed around this method, with a group of people organized to help others block him, charging thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan for each blockade.

If you don't help him, the patient and his family will say that the doctor has no medical ethics. It only takes a few minutes to see a doctor, but he doesn't help even though the patient has come to you. He is completely unethical and does not save the patient.

In fact, most doctors will not see such patients. Once this is done, it is not just a matter of seeing one patient, but many more will follow. This is not a question of morality at all. If this were possible, everyone would not have to register, see an outpatient clinic, or wait in line. Everyone would flock to see famous doctors, and the entire medical order would be in chaos.

In fact, this kind of thing has happened more than once or twice. In the past, someone would block Yang Ping at the door every week. Later, the security department took special measures to deal with it, and now such incidents have been reduced a lot.

Several security guards at the door also came up to help immediately. Ershun handed the matter over to the security guards and continued to follow Yang Ping. If the security guards stopped him a few more times, such things would gradually decrease in the future. Yang Ping could only refuse such things. There was no other way. Once he gave in, it would cause chaos in the entire medical order.

Yang Ping went to the general surgery ward first, and then to the operating room. Because Director Fang had previously performed ex vivo tumor resection and autologous organ transplantation on several patients, all of whom had undergone surgery under Yang Ping's guidance, Yang Ping also wanted to see how the postoperative results were.

When the doctor on duty in the general surgery department saw Yang Ping coming, he immediately accompanied Yang Ping and helped open the computer to report the latest examination results of these patients. Yang Ping was browsing the test reports when a fat man was peeking at the door of the doctor's office.

Isn't this Wei Danian? With a weight of 200 kilograms, he is the heaviest patient Yang Ping has ever seen. No matter where he goes, Yang Ping can recognize him immediately.

"Professor Yang?" Wei Danian also recognized Yang Ping and immediately came up to greet him. Wei Danian was a warm-hearted person.

"Wei Danian, why are you here? What's going on?" Yang Ping asked him.

Wei Danian smiled foolishly and said, "I had a gastric resection surgery here. It has been a few days since the surgery. Now I am waiting for the stitches to be removed and I can be discharged from the hospital."

"Gastric resection for weight loss?" Yang Ping remembered that he seemed to have consulted about this operation before, but he never thought that it could be implemented now.

He really needs to lose weight. At 200 kilograms, obesity has seriously threatened his health. The obesity problem is definitely not just an image problem, but more importantly a health problem.

For obese people like Wei Danian, his blood pressure and blood sugar levels will definitely be high in the future, and it is very likely that they have already increased now.

"Wei Danian, why did you decide to have surgery to lose weight? Weren't you afraid before? Didn't you say that you should control your diet and increase exercise first, and then see how the situation develops?" Yang Ping asked him.

Wei Danian said very seriously: "Professor Yang, if I don't lose weight, I will definitely not be able to survive. I have no confidence in other weight loss methods, so I can only resort to surgery. I have also thought about it for a long time. You see, I am now sick. My blood sugar and blood pressure are not normal. I also have sleep apnea syndrome. I went to the respiratory department for a consultation. The experts there said that I don't need surgery in my current situation. As long as I lose weight, I will definitely get better."

"How do you feel after the surgery?"

"It feels good."

Yang Ping felt that he had finally found the key problem and should have lost weight long ago. He weighed 200 kilograms and had high blood pressure, high blood lipids, and high blood sugar. He was only in his twenties. If he was a little older, a lot of problems would definitely appear one after another. Losing weight seems to be simple: control diet and increase exercise.

But it is easier said than done.

For most fat people, their appetite is very good. It would be more painful to stop them from eating than to kill them.

Increase your exercise. It may seem good, but when you are obese to a certain extent, you can’t move at all.

For a fat person like Wei Danian, his heart rate would soar to 160 beats per minute after just a few minutes of running. If he continues running like this, he will definitely have arrhythmia.

He is out of breath after climbing the stairs to the second floor and has to sit on the floor to rest for half an hour. If the weather is hot, he will be sweating all over after walking a few steps. Do you want such a person to exercise?
"It is impossible for me to control my diet and exercise in my condition," Wei Danian himself said.

And those weight loss pills are useless. Because the principle of weight loss pills is similar, they all increase the feeling of fullness in the stomach, that is, you haven't eaten anything yet, so you feel that your stomach is full. This can prevent you from eating less, which is actually just reducing your diet. And almost all weight loss pills need to be combined with increased exercise to be effective.

For a foodie, he does not eat to solve the problem of hunger, he eats purely because it tastes good. He just likes to eat, not because he is hungry.

Therefore, this kind of weight-loss drug that increases the feeling of fullness in the stomach is meaningless to Wei Danian.

What should he do? Wei Danian thought of gastric resection surgery.

"I have also inquired about many people who have undergone this operation, and the effect is indeed very good. Some people have lost almost 100 pounds. If I can lose 250 pounds, I will present a banner to Director Fang." Wei Danian gestured.

250 pounds? This goal seems a bit high. It's not easy to get this banner from Director Fang.

"I didn't know about this surgery before. We have a WeChat group full of fat people, and several of them had the surgery. But they did it secretly and didn't tell anyone afterward. I asked them how they lost weight so successfully, and they said it was thanks to diet pills. Then they tried to sell me the pills. Later I found out that they had secretly undergone the weight-loss surgery." Wei Danian was a little angry.

Once Wei Danian starts talking, he can't stop. If you continue chatting with him like this, he probably won't repeat a word for three days and three nights.

Yang Ping walked around the ward and then came to the operating room. Director Fang had already opened the abdomen and was separating the blood vessels of the liver.

Director Fang felt more at ease when he saw Yang Ping coming.

"I just met Wei Danian in your department. He said that you performed a gastrectomy and weight loss surgery on him?" Yang Ping asked casually.

Director Fang said: "He was too obese, so I performed sleeve gastrectomy on him."

This operation involves removing most of the stomach from the greater curvature, retaining the normal physiological structure and function of the cardia and pylorus, while compressing the stomach's capacity to about 80 ml.

"Why are the blood vessels in the liver so difficult to separate?" Director Fang's operation seems to be difficult to perform.

(End of this chapter)