Surgery Godfather

Manstein, Augusta, and Robert worked together well, with Manstein taking charge of counteracting public opinion, personally leading the way, participating in television programs across major networks, and educating the world about the surgery. Robert and August were responsible for identifying those activists and then finding their weaknesses to defeat each one.

Professor Manstein's combat ability was extremely formidable. After a few rounds of TV shows, he quickly turned the tide with his sharp words, pushing back the overwhelming negative public opinion to a stalemate of balanced positive and negative views, which was much better than before.

Of course, this was due to Manstein's personal charm and influence in Europe and America, leading many doctors and the public to choose to trust him.

Those scholars who led the public opinion were stripped bare by Manstein one by one, and many no longer dared to show up, having to hide from Manstein's sharp edge temporarily.

This barely turned the public opinion into a confrontation between two major camps. Who would win depended on the upcoming live broadcast of the surgery. If the surgery were successful, naturally, the positive side would win. Regardless of how much the opposition criticized, it would be in vain if the surgery was very successful.

If the surgery truly failed, no matter how eloquently the positive side spoke, it would be useless. A failed surgery would validate the opposition's rhetoric: this surgery had no success rate, undergoing it was as good as sending the patient to their death, knowing it was a death sentence, allowing the patient to undergo the surgery was an immoral experimental surgery.

There was no choice, all the pressure was on this surgery now.

However, Manstein, August, Robert, and other doctors did not doubt that Yang Ping would perform this surgery perfectly because too many cases showed them that Yang Ping was not a normal person; he was an alien visitor with a superhuman surgical talent.

Although public opinion was turbulent, as the center of that opinion, Sanbo Hospital was instead peaceful, as if everyone didn't know there was such a public opinion situation, and didn't pay attention to it.

Originally, Dean Xia and Director Han were concerned about the direction of public opinion, but now they also learned from Yang Ping and didn't take it seriously. Only the team specifically handling public opinion followed its trends closely.

The surgery here was almost ready, the only thing left was to wait for the appointed time.

Morris was not worried about the surgery's safety now, but worried that Professor Yang might abandon the surgery due to the pressure from public opinion, which would mean his daughter would lose a valuable opportunity. He was always uneasy, thinking that if he hadn't hesitated at first, perhaps the surgery would have been done earlier, and maybe there wouldn't have been so much turmoil.

If, at the time, he had ignored his peers in the United States calling him and hadn't publicized his daughter's surgery, perhaps today's messy situation wouldn't have occurred.

Morris felt very guilty, thinking he had added a lot of trouble to Professor Yang, and initially, he was still conceited and had no confidence in Professor Yang.

"Professor Yang, I'm really sorry, I didn't expect it to be like this. If the pressure is really too great, why not abandon the surgery?" Morris apologized, unwilling to let public opinion destroy a truly outstanding surgeon.

Yang Ping responded quite calmly: "I only care about your opinion, as for others, they are not my patient's family, so I don't need to pay attention to them. If you say give up, we give up; if you agree to surgery, we continue."

Morris hadn't expected Yang Ping to not care about those people's opinions at all and said: "Of course, we agree to the surgery, can't wait for the surgery, I'm just worried about the public opinion..."

"I just said, we only care about your opinion, don't mind public opinion. As long as we don't pay attention to it, it can't cause us any substantial harm." Yang Ping said firmly.

Morris nodded: "Understood, we agree to the surgery, I will no longer care about this public opinion."

"That's the right thing to do, you should focus on being a patient's family member, not caring about this public opinion." Yang Ping nodded and said.

Yang Ping's steadfast and confident gaze shocked Morris once again. Professor Yang was a truly pure person, someone who was focused on medicine.

"Is the live broadcast ready? That day the surgery will be broadcast from the incision to the suture in its entirety, with bilingual Chinese and English subtitles. The video will be available for any surgeon to download and rebroadcast among doctors." Yang Ping showed no fear whatsoever.

Song Zimo said: "It is all ready."

He and Xu Zhiliang were also prepared. If the professor had any lapse in performance, they would certainly step up, not failing the professor's training.

"During the surgery that day, everyone should maintain a normal mindset and do their job as usual. In fact, you might not realize it, but you are already the best surgeons in the world; those who ridicule, question, and smear us are the real fools."

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A few days later, the surgery finally began; it could be said to be of public interest, with everyone wanting to see if Chinese doctors were experimenting on the patient and whether the surgery could succeed.

Despite time differences, surgeons around the world who could would pay attention to this surgery, and even many doctors from other specialties were focused on it. Never before had a surgery drawn so much global attention from doctors.

Some hoped to see Yang Ping make a fool of himself, others hoped to see Yang Ping demonstrate extraordinary surgical skills, and some were just following the crowd, without even knowing why they were watching this surgery, simply because everyone else was, and chasing trends had become a human instinct.