Chapter 1627: Chapter 1627: Fell Into the Trap
After Luo Ziling, a few other people went on stage to deliver their speeches, but they all had prepared scripts.
The content of their speeches was far less moving than Luo Ziling’s impromptu speech, and many people listened absent-mindedly.
The morning passed quickly, and after having lunch at the School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, the delegation members continued with the afternoon activities.
The School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, has its own affiliated hospital. The original plan was for both sides to first compete in areas such as acupuncture and medicine preparation, then take the delegation members to the hospital for exchange visits, to interact with patients directly, and through treating patients, compare medical skills.
But Luo Ziling’s unexpected appearance disrupted their plans.
If the delegation were taken to the hospital for a medical skills comparison, Luo Ziling alone might defeat most of them.
Although the Japanese were usually very arrogant, they were rational enough not to want to embarrass themselves.
They didn’t want to fail, they wanted to overshadow the Huaxia people.
Therefore, in the afternoon, they first took the delegation to the medical school’s exhibition hall to let the delegation members see the achievements the School of Medicine, University of Tokyo has made over the years. They even invited a big name who had won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine a few years ago to be present at the scene.
In Huaxia’s medical community, there isn’t a complete blank in terms of the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Recently, Mrs. Tu received the Nobel Prize for the invention of artemisinin. Although Mrs. Tu’s award wasn’t solely an achievement of the traditional medical community, the delegation members still felt proud because Huaxia had a laureate, so they weren’t too envious when the counterpart’s Nobel laureate was present to introduce their achievements.
However, the achievements made by the School of Medicine, University of Tokyo over the years were still shocking to many people.
Even Luo Ziling felt shocked.
After visiting the achievements exhibition at the School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, he clearly realized that Huaxia’s overall medical development was still far behind Japan.
No wonder the Japanese medical community always displayed an attitude of pride and superiority.
Not only people in the medical field, but also the Japanese, when facing Huaxia people, always had a sense of superiority, and many of our Huaxia people recognized their superiority, considering it an honor to marry a Japanese, to join Japan, and the Japanese don’t even acknowledge having invaded Huaxia, let alone any massacre. Historical issues combined with current issues created the current situation.
During the visit, Luo Ziling didn’t demean himself, he praised the achievements of Japan to the accompanying Japanese, and hoped that the medical communities of both countries could have more exchanges to promote further medical development, especially in traditional medicine.
However, Hu Wenjun was quite furious when the Japanese side unilaterally changed the itinerary, and he negotiated with the Japanese reception officials, but to no avail.
They informed Hu Wenjun that since several Huaxia members did not approve of a medical skills competition, they canceled the arrangement and changed it to exchanges with medical school experts and professors. After visiting the achievements exhibition, the delegation would go on to visit the affiliated hospital, where some medical exchanges would occur, and it might even be possible to treat patients together.
In fact, the Japanese intended to use the modernization of the affiliated hospital to embarrass the Huaxia delegation and then use some difficult cases to trouble the Huaxia delegation, aiming to disgrace Huaxia medical experts.
In the end, unexpectedly, Hu Wenjun, considering the overall situation, accepted the Japanese arrangement.
The Japanese side’s arbitrary change of schedule surprised and angered many people.
Most people realized that the Japanese, after losing a few rounds, wanted to save face, thus arranging things in this way.
Luo Ziling was also quite angry.
After the morning speech, the Japanese treated him quite well, and he admired the achievements of the Japanese during the exhibition. However, after hearing about the afternoon arrangements, he quickly realized that the Japanese are still Japanese, only they were playing to their strengths and avoiding their weaknesses.
The arrangement by the Japanese side didn’t only involve people from the traditional medical community but also from the modern medical community.
Additionally, they deliberately arranged several patients with severe and intractable diseases.
When preparing to take the delegation members for a visit, the Japanese side divided them into groups, citing that the ward arranged couldn’t accommodate so many visitors at once. A total of three groups were formed, with each group having about twenty members.
The old man personally led Luo Ziling’s group.
Luo Ziling, with a few familiar team members and more first-time meeting members, went to the affiliated hospital’s nephrology department.
While leading the delegation members to the nephrology department, several experts from the Tokyo University School of Medicine Affiliated Hospital were studying the treatment plan for a critically ill patient.
This was a young patient with acute poisoning, poisoned by Paraquat, a medicinal herb extremely difficult to treat once ingested.
This substance has a nearly 100% mortality rate if more than ten milliliters are ingested. If a hundred milliliters are ingested, there would be absolutely no chance of recovery. This poisoned patient had ingested about sixty milliliters, had been resuscitated for a long time, and all the conventional rescue procedures had been completed. But now, the patient’s condition hadn’t improved, with extensive fibrosis of lung function and damage to liver and kidney functions.
Almost everyone had anticipated this patient’s outcome; he would die of respiratory failure.
While leading the delegation members into the doctor’s office in this ward, the hospital doctors were discussing the condition.
Seeing a group of people walk in, those doctors, who weren’t notified in advance, appeared very surprised and almost drove them out.
Fortunately, the old man communicated in time, and then the other party invited them to participate in the case discussion.
Upon hearing them introduce this as a miraculous case of Paraquat poisoning, Luo Ziling couldn’t help but sneer.
He knew very well that the other party intended to trouble them with this problem, which modern medical technology couldn’t solve at present.
Medicine is not omnipotent, just like with rabies and tetanus, once they break out, it’s basically untreatable, and you can only prepare in advance.
Paraquat poisoning is the same, with almost no remedy. Even the most skilled doctors would find such a critical condition challenging.
So, after listening to the condition description and examining the test results, Luo Ziling immediately pronounced the patient’s death sentence.
“If nothing unexpected happens, this patient will die in thirteen hours. If any unexpected situation occurs, he will die from respiratory failure in about ten hours.” After giving his diagnosis, Luo Ziling regretfully added, “If this patient had been brought to me right after ingesting the poison, I would have a 50% chance of saving him.”
Luo Ziling’s initial words didn’t surprise the Japanese medical personnel, but his latter statement stunned everyone.
Their own personnel were also surprised after hearing this since they all knew that this type of poisoning truly had no antidote.
“Are you sure?” A middle-aged man beside the old man, who was very short and had the stereotypical Japanese mustache, looked at Luo Ziling excitedly, “You have a way to save a patient just after ingesting the poison?”
“Do you mean you have another patient like this here?” Now Luo Ziling was surprised.
“Indeed, there’s another case, just brought in, undergoing gastric lavage.”
Hearing this from the other party, Luo Ziling couldn’t help but silently curse.
Isn’t the production of this drug banned in Japan? How can there be so many patients in one hospital?