Overpowered Resident Doctor

Chapter 584: Chapter 583: The Busier, The More Work

Ever since he was a child, the brilliant Yan Feifan had often represented his class and school by giving speeches on occasions big and small.

He had long since trained himself not to have stage fright in public settings.

Plus, given Yan Feifan’s vast knowledge, it only took him an hour of focused preparation to produce a brand-new, one-and-a-half-hour speech.

Yan Feifan mentally rehearsed the speech. Feeling quite good about it, he then turned his attention to studying the examination materials for the patient with macrogloassia.

The patient was a seven-year-old Caucasian girl.

In her photo, the little girl had long, golden hair and a shy smile. She was quite cute.

But the moment she opened her mouth, all an observer could see besides her teeth was a mouthful of pink tongue.

The girl’s tongue was excessively flat, wide, and thick.

It looked as though a normal tongue had been stung by a particularly vicious bee.

Yan Feifan also noticed numerous scars on the tip of the girl’s tongue, recognizing them as marks left by bite injuries of varying severity.

After carefully reviewing all the child’s examination results, a three-dimensional model of her tongue materialized in Yan Feifan’s mind.

At the same time, he also visualized the normal-sized tongue the girl *should* have, placing it alongside the model for comparison.

This direct comparison allowed Yan Feifan to "see" that the girl’s current tongue was about a quarter larger than it should be.

The proportion was, to say the least, staggering.

A tongue so overgrown not only caused the little girl’s speech to be slurred but also created considerable difficulties and interference with her daily swallowing and breathing.

Yan Feifan began to formulate a surgical plan for the girl’s tongue reduction surgery, drawing upon his current knowledge and understanding...

The human tongue is, on average, nine centimeters long and weighs fifty grams. It’s not one muscle, but a collection of eight different muscles.

The lingual muscles, a type of striated muscle, are the main component of the tongue.

Changes in the shape and position of the tongue are accomplished through the contraction and relaxation of these lingual muscles.

The lingual muscles can be divided into two groups: intrinsic and extrinsic.

The extrinsic group originates from areas outside the tongue and inserts within it; these are the extrinsic lingual muscles. They include the genioglossus, hyoglossus, styloglossus, and palatoglossus.

The intrinsic group refers to those whose origin and insertion points are both within the tongue; these are called the intrinsic lingual muscles.

The intrinsic muscles are mainly composed of interwoven muscle bundles running in different, mutually perpendicular directions.

These are the superior longitudinal, inferior longitudinal, transverse, and vertical muscles of the tongue.

Unlike muscles elsewhere in the body, the lingual muscles are not attached to a supporting skeleton of hard bone.

Instead, they are interwoven, creating a flexible chamber-like tissue, forming a "muscular hydrostat."

This structure is similar to that of an octopus’s tentacles or an elephant’s trunk.

This makes our tongues exceptionally flexible.

The tongue is also richly innervated; of the twelve pairs of cranial nerves, five are involved in controlling the tongue.

This represents a very large portion of the brain’s motor cortex.

The tongue can bend, twist, and suck. It can be curled into a cup shape. With practice, it can even perform all sorts of tricks.

Some people can even thread a needle or tie a knot in a spaghetti strand with their tongue.

In addition to its astonishing flexibility, the tongue also possesses incredible endurance.

We feel fatigue in our limbs during daily labor, but can you recall the last time your tongue felt tired?

The answer is likely that you can’t remember it ever happening.

The tongue’s toughness and endurance stem from its structure.

It contains many similar muscles, each of which can perform the same task.

Due to the significant redundancy in the tongue’s musculature, we can achieve the same result by simply activating different muscle fibers.

This allows the muscle fibers to take turns, resting and working in shifts, so the tongue as a whole never feels fatigued.

This muscular redundancy is also what makes tongue reduction surgery possible.

Surgically removing some muscle fibers won’t affect the tongue’s normal physiological function...

"Thinking about the tongue reduction surgery?"

A voice from behind pulled Yan Feifan from his thoughts. A pair of hands landed on his shoulders and began to knead them.

Yan Feifan hummed in acknowledgment. "I’m just drafting a preliminary plan. I’ll compare it against an expert’s procedure later to find any shortcomings or oversights."

After a pause, Yan Feifan thought of something else.

"I’ll also need a period to familiarize and adapt myself to the procedure. After all, it’s surgery performed within the confined space of the oral cavity."

Yu Suye gave his shoulder a firm pat and chuckled. "It’ll be a piece of cake for you."

"Feifan, I contacted Mr. Hai. He said he’ll ask Mr. Yu Youyi for you."

Yan Feifan raised his right hand and gently placed it on Yu Suye’s left hand, which was still massaging his shoulder. "Thank you," he said.

"Tomorrow, I’m going to the hospital’s media archives to study the surgical videos of a senior specialist."

"Oh," Yu Suye said softly. "In that case, I’ll go with my sister to the villa on Phoenix Tail Mountain for the weekend."

After a pause, she asked, "When did you schedule the leg pain surgery?"

"There’s no rush for that one."

Yan Feifan explained, "We still need the patient to gather the detailed records from the original surgery, ideally the surgical video."

He sighed. ’The next two or three weeks are going to be crazy busy. It seems the busier I get, the more work I take on.’

Yu Suye knew that in the next two weeks, Yan Feifan would be holding two observational seminars on puncture injection surgery for intraspinal and intracranial tumors at the Affiliated Hospital and Baining Hospital, respectively.

More than two hundred confirmed attendees from all over the country were coming to observe at the Affiliated Hospital.

And over one hundred and fifty were registered for the seminar at Baining Hospital.

The scale of these events rivaled some of the major academic conferences organized by national medical associations.

Fortunately, Yan Feifan didn’t have to get involved in the specific planning and organization, or he would have been driven mad by the hassle.

"I guess that’s what they mean by ’the more capable you are, the more you have to do.’"

Yu Suye comforted him, then said with some envy, "You have no idea how many people are envious of you."

"Most doctors will go their entire careers without getting to host even one seminar on this scale..."

At this moment, Yan Feifan’s phone rang.

It was a call from Zheng Libing of the district public security sub-bureau.

On the phone, he cautiously inquired about his colleague Wang Zenglin’s spinal bullet surgery.

"I haven’t forgotten about his surgery. Mr. Zheng, please let him know that I’ve settled on a rough timeline."

"It will either be on the weekend of the second week at Jingcheng Baining Hospital, or during the third week at the Affiliated Hospital."

"Tell him to get ready..."

After ending the call with Zheng Libing, Yan Feifan couldn’t help but mutter, ’I hope Baining Medical Technology doesn’t let me down.’

"They won’t let you down!"

Yu Suye declared confidently, "Mrs. Lian always keeps her word. You can trust her character."

"I hope so."

Yan Feifan gave a perfunctory reply, and his phone rang again.

It was Chan Weiwei from the Hang City Dawn Charity Fund.

Seeing it was her call, Yan Feifan immediately realized he had overlooked something.

’So much for my free time tomorrow morning.’

After he answered, Chan Weiwei’s crisp, pleasant voice came through the line.

"Mr. Yan, tomorrow is Yuanyuan’s discharge celebration ceremony. Mr. Deng will also be there, as well as the big star Ding Xuan."

"If it’s convenient for you, Mr. Deng would like to speak with you for a few minutes..."

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