There are still two chapters later.
Zuo Sicheng never knew he was a genius, because he had forgotten most of his previous memories.
After experiencing amnesia, Zuo Sicheng lost his memory, completely forgetting all memories before he fell unconscious.
This was not a deception, nor a cover for a transmigrator, but genuine amnesia.
Of course, amnesia itself was not uncommon. After all, 60% of vegetative state patients lost their memory after waking up. Fortunately, after lying in bed for two years, Zuo Sicheng basically relearned common human knowledge. While in bed, Zuo Sicheng also discovered that his brain seemed to work much better now.
First, he relearned Chinese and Chinese characters, which was also quite normal. Many amnesiacs forget their language and writing abilities and need to relearn.
For people who have suffered brain damage, this learning process can take up to ten or even decades.
However, Zuo Sicheng only took two months, and that was within two months of regaining consciousness, to fully master all conversational and writing abilities.
But this did not attract the attention of the doctors, because they believed that Zuo Sicheng had not lost his memory regarding language and common knowledge, and such occurrences were not uncommon.
As for Zuo Sicheng himself, he did not think his actions were particularly amazing. He believed everyone should be like this.
In the following days, Zuo Sicheng continued his rehabilitation while learning more things.
However, his father was still mainly collecting scrap. Apart from occasionally coming to take care of his son, he never thought of bringing any books. The center had some books for learning, but they were mainly cultural books, including many children's books and world classics.
After all, a rehabilitation center is meant to help you regain normal life skills, not to become a mathematician or a physicist.
So, Zuo Sicheng spent a year reading most of the books in the center, and then tried writing a few novels, but dared not publish them. He did not realize that his current language level was already top-notch.
After finishing the books in the rehabilitation center, Zuo Sicheng could not find any new books to read, which made him quite distressed. He could not stand periods of not being able to learn.
Fortunately, Zuo Sicheng soon discovered that there was another kind of book in the hospital, which was medical professional books.
Many doctors continued to study while working and take professional exams. Having lived in the hospital for several years, Zuo Sicheng had become familiar with all the doctors. When Zuo Sicheng asked to borrow some medical books for entertainment, these doctors did not think much of it and generously lent them to him.
Then, after another year, Zuo Sicheng was already able to treat patients. After Zuo Sicheng woke up, he was moved to a general ward. The general ward was bustling with people, and many patients chatted with Zuo Sicheng, most often about their illnesses.
Soon, these patients discovered that Zuo Sicheng could diagnose their illnesses simply from their verbal descriptions, and it was almost always accurate compared to what the doctors said.
The most miraculous thing was when a patient was admitted, and Zuo Sicheng said this patient had purulent encephalitis, meaning pus had accumulated in his brain.
However, after various CT scans and X-rays, the doctors believed he had a tumor in his brain, which terrified the patient, as such a tumor was also called brain cancer.
But Zuo Sicheng insisted to the doctors that the patient's brain was filled with pus, and he did not need surgery. He just needed a small hole drilled, and the pus extracted with equipment, followed by antibiotics.
Naturally, the doctors did not listen to him and insisted on surgery. Helpless, Zuo Sicheng could only remind them to prepare catheters and other equipment during the surgery, so as not to be caught off guard.
This made the nearby doctors laugh heartily. They thought that after waking up, Zuo Sicheng had recovered well, but seemed to have become foolish.
Then, when the doctors opened the patient's head, they smelled a strong stench and found a pool of extremely foul-smelling pus in the brain. It was indeed pus in the brain.
This stunned all the doctors.
The main characteristic of purulent encephalitis is that it causes severe fever and pain in a short period. If not treated promptly, the mortality rate within five days can be as high as 80%.
This is because the pus would almost inevitably enter various parts of the body through the blood vessels in the head, causing systemic inflammation, with unimaginable consequences.
Moreover, later examinations revealed that this was caused by anaerobic bacteria, which made it even more dangerous.
However, this patient was very miraculous. All his pus was confined to the gap between his skull and brain, and not a single drop penetrated the blood vessels. This caused the patient to only experience severe headaches without fever or other symptoms.
For this very reason, none of the doctors considered it to be purulent encephalitis. After the surgery, the doctors eagerly asked Zuo Sicheng why he was so sure it was purulent encephalitis.
Then Zuo Sicheng told the doctors that he had performed a simple examination on the patient yesterday by tapping the patient's head and found the sound to be different, which made him suspect that a large amount of viscous fluid had accumulated in the brain.
He had seen this case in a collection of medical cases. It said that in the past, before equipment like X-rays existed, a British doctor who used to sell watermelons had mastered a miraculous technique: by tapping the patient's head, he could determine the location of the lesion in the patient's brain, whether it was a tumor or fluid accumulation, and the viscosity of the fluid.
Then, by finding the correct position, he could operate directly with an accuracy rate of almost 90%, comparable to a human X-ray machine. The survival rate of patients under this doctor's neurosurgery increased by more than 40%, because previously too many doctors could not pinpoint the problem's location, and after opening the skull, they found the lesion was elsewhere and needed to be opened again. The patient could not bear the risk of a second surgery and died.
This is not a joke. In the 18th and 19th centuries, although human doctors had mastered surgical techniques, they lacked adequate detection equipment. Furthermore, their surgical knives were never sterilized, and they did not even know that there were bacteria on the blades. The result was that the surgical mortality rate was very impressive, reaching over 40%. xxs壹贰
At that time, surgeons emphasized speed in their operations. They had to be quick with the incision, quick to solve the problem, and quick to suture, because only by being fast enough could they close the wound before the patient's blood ran out.
There was once a doctor who was the fastest, and in just 5 seconds, he killed three people with a surgical knife.
The first person was naturally the patient undergoing surgery. The second was the doctor's assistant, who, due to excessive speed, did not retract his hand in time and had a finger severed.
The last was a spectator watching the surgery, who was so terrified by the horrific surgery that he died on the spot.
That's right, surgeries could be watched at that time. Doctors and patients would be in a circular area similar to a Roman Colosseum, with tiered seating outside the circle. Doctors, students, and ordinary people could all come to observe surgeries and experience their magic by paying a small fee.
From the perspective of the culture at the time, this was not a bad thing; on the contrary, it was quite beneficial for medical development and patients.
Medical students could gain solid practical experience by observing many surgeries. Through charging admission fees, it could help patients reduce some of their medical expenses.
After all, as the performing party, patients could receive 50% of the viewing fees. However, this money would be directly used to offset treatment costs, so patients would not see it.
Ahem, back to the point. This 19th-century doctor discovered that examining a patient's head was like tapping a watermelon. By grasping the differences in sound, he could determine what problem the patient's head had.
Our student Zuo Sicheng, after seeing this case, learned from it. By continuously tapping various parts of the patient's head, he differentiated the sounds to determine what was inside the head.
After all, liquid and tumors produce different sounds. Liquid can fill the entire space, while a tumor can only compress a part of the space. Therefore, the sounds produced by both are different.
After listening to Zuo Sicheng's explanation, the entire hospital was dumbfounded. After three days of deliberation, they announced that Zuo Sicheng had fully recovered and could be discharged. This made Zuo Sicheng a little regretful, as he wanted to be a doctor and earn money for his family.
Through his two years of learning, Zuo Sicheng fully understood how miserable his family was and how much medical debt they owed. Zuo Muli did not tell the doctors or his son that the employer had started paying him again.
Because after Zuo Muli lost his source of income and could no longer afford his son's medical expenses, the hospital had already held two rounds of doctor donations and waived most of the fees.
This reduced the monthly medical expenses, which were originally as high as 50,000 yuan, to about just over 10,000 yuan.
Zuo Muli naturally could not reveal this news to the doctors again. Otherwise, if the hospital stopped giving him discounts, how would that work? After all, the other party was still sending 50,000 yuan every month. With this inflow and outflow, he could earn a net of 40,000 yuan, which was infinitely better than collecting scrap.
Zuo Muli also did not tell Zuo Sicheng because he realized his son had become an ignorant novice and had a good relationship with the doctors. If he foolishly disclosed the matter to the doctors, it would be disastrous.
Therefore, to this day, Zuo Sicheng still believes his family is very poor and that his father is selling blood to treat him. Hence, he is working hard to find ways to make money to help his family solve their problems and difficulties.