godfather of surgery

Chapter 1227 Family Academic Meeting

Professor Su didn't necessarily mean that Yang Ping had to help, but he was indeed encountering difficulties in this research and it was hard to continue.

In fact, judging from the current results, his research project has been very successful. This bio-bone cement can induce new bone growth and replacement, and it has a porous structure and sufficient strength to form mechanical support. In the field of orthopedics, this is already a major original innovation.

However, Professor Su was not satisfied with this. He wanted to go further and make the new bone induced by the bio-bone cement fill the entire pore structure, eventually replacing the original bio-bone cement. He knew that the problem was stuck in the formula, and he also knew that finding the best ratio of the formula would require a lot of trial and error, and he might have to add, reduce or replace the existing substances.

Yang Ping's research project is progressing so quickly, which shows that he has an extremely accurate grasp of the research direction. This kind of accurate grasp of research sometimes really relies on intuition, which is a kind of talent. Professor Su brought the materials over today for Yang Ping to take a look. Maybe Yang Ping can use his talent to see some problems and give some valuable suggestions.

Hearing Yang Ping say so casually that it would only take a little time to modify the formula, Professor Su must be very happy. This shows that Yang Ping has figured something out, but he just needs some time to figure it out.

Professor Su originally planned to transcribe the entire document to Yang Ping and ask him to help identify which part was problematic. However, his daughter was fiercely protective of her husband, fearing that her father would assign him any difficult tasks that would take up his rest time. It was truly a case of a married daughter completely siding with her husband.

Professor Su took a few sips of tea and continued chatting with Yang Ping, the conversation seamlessly shifting to the latest articles in several top journals and the trends in global medical science.

Lin Lan changed the baby's diaper. To get used to it quickly, she changed three diapers in a row. She had taken time to receive professional training at a housekeeping company, and after practicing, she improved some of the methods taught by the company, creating the more convenient and time-saving Lin's diaper-changing method. Today, she used Yang Ping and Xiao Su's son as models to practice, and changing three diapers wasn't enough for her.

She is also gradually learning other parenting knowledge. She has even compiled a thick notebook, treating parenting as a research topic and learning it using scientific research methods.

"How was it? My son was pretty cooperative while practicing with you, wasn't he?" Xiao Su said to Lin Lan.

Lin Lan was very satisfied with the little guy. She had changed three diapers with him, but he didn't seem annoyed at all. He just giggled and seemed to enjoy changing diapers. She was growing to like children more and more and planned to have several more in the future.

People's views change. Lin Lan wasn't like this before. She used to plan to remain single and childless, living her life alone. Later, she met Su Nanchen, and they fell in love. She decided to get married but not have children. But thinking about how to get married without having children, wouldn't that be too selfish? She didn't consider her lover's feelings at all, and that was delaying Su Nanchen's life.

So she changed her mind and decided to have children, but only one, one would be enough. Now, seeing Xiao Su give birth to a child, she interacted with the child many times and found that the child was actually quite cute. Gradually, her views completely changed, and she decided to have more children, because that would make life more exciting.

"Why don't you go and chat with them too?" Xiao Su said, taking the child from her.

Lin Lan had only held him for a short while, and she would need to change his diaper several times later: "You go ahead and do your work, I'll play with him for a bit now."

“He will pee,” Xiao Su said.

Lin Lan didn't care: "Don't we have diapers?"

Xiao Su understood that he loved the child dearly and wanted her to hold him a little longer. Lin Lan held the child and teased him, saying, "Call me Auntie, quick, call me Auntie."

“Look, his mouth is moving, is he trying to call me ‘Auntie’?” Lin Lan said happily.

Xiao Su found this professor quite interesting; he didn't even know how to address his parents properly, calling them "auntie."

Lin Lan carried the child and walked around, also participating in the family academic meeting. In fact, this family academic meeting was quite high-level, with a Nobel Prize winner, an academician, and two outstanding young scientists. Their conversation had changed the topic, and they no longer talked about the biological bone cement project.

The conversations usually revolve around a recently published paper in a certain journal, highlighting its novel viewpoints. These viewpoints are then discussed, with everyone offering their differing opinions. Following this, everyone shares their own research progress, allowing for mutual learning and exchange.

Currently, the three systems of Nandu Medical University, Clinical Medical College, and Medical Academy form a solid iron triangle. The model of combining universities, research institutes, and clinical medicine also exists in China, but there are not many that can be combined very well.

Mrs. Su worked quickly, bringing one dish after another to the table. Soon, several dishes were ready.

"You can eat while I cook, so the food won't get cold," Mrs. Su said.

"Mom, that won't do. No rush, we'll eat together later," Lin Lan said.

Professor Su also said, "No rush, no rush, let's talk some more."

"Our K therapy has completed the first phase and is now preparing to enter the second phase. The main task of the second phase is to develop new K factors and expand the scope of application of K therapy," Yang Ping briefly introduced his research project.

"I heard you've already successfully treated a case? That little girl?" Professor Su also knew about it; the news spread quickly throughout the entire Nandu Medical University circle.

Yang Ping said, "We can't say it's cured yet, but recent checkups have confirmed that the tumor cells have been completely cleared within an observable range."

"This project is progressing very quickly," Professor Su said happily. He was even happier than if he had achieved something himself when his younger generation made progress.

Yang Ping continued, "We plan to conduct Phase I and Phase II clinical trials simultaneously, and in China, the United States, and Europe at the same time, to obtain data from patients all over the world at once."

Professor Su knew the difficulty of applying for Phase I and Phase II clinical trials for a drug or a new treatment in Europe and America, but he didn't expect Yang Ping's application to be so easy. However, at the European Spine Surgery Conference, Professor Su also experienced Yang Ping's influence, because he was Yang Ping's father-in-law and received extremely prestigious treatment in Europe.

Everyone was chatting happily when suddenly a strong smell of urine wafted over. Lin Lan immediately realized that the little guy had peed, and she was actually quite happy about it.

Since the previous three diaper changes were all with clean diapers, it was just a drill. Now, changing a diaper that has urine on it is the real battle. Xiao Su walked over and said, "I'll go change it."

"I'll do it, I'll do it, I'll do it!" Lin Lan was afraid that Xiao Su would steal her precious opportunity for real combat.
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In the evening, Yang Ping used his time before going to sleep to enter the system space.

He conducted experiments on the biological bone cement formula in the system space. These experiments were simply trial and error, so they did not consume many points and rarely involved the use of large-scale equipment. With the current points, he could fully support finding the optimal ratio.

In scientific research, trial and error may seem like the simplest and most arduous task, but it is the most important and unavoidable task; it is the only way forward in scientific research.

Innovation inherently involves uncertainty, and with uncertainty comes the possibility of errors or deviations. There is no other way but through trial and error to verify whether something is right or wrong, and whether there are any deviations.

As long as you have enough points, the number of robotic arms in the laboratory can be increased indefinitely. Yang Ping calculated that he could start experiments with a thousand different formulas at once.

The experimental process is now relatively simple: adjust the formula, conduct the experiment, collect data, and if it doesn't work, continue adjusting until a satisfactory formula is found.

Scientific research involves a lot of trial and error. When you have a good idea, you should immediately put it into practice, and if you find that it is not right, you should modify it. It moves forward in this process of continuous trial and error, and only then can you finally reach the other side of success.

Yang Ping never had to worry about how rough his start was, because by constantly adjusting the direction, improving the details, and even stopping the experiment to start from scratch, he could eventually lead the ship to the shore of victory.

The nature of original innovation dictates that it must involve a great deal of trial and error, so original innovation must have a wild nature.

Many major innovations emerge in this wild model, while the nursery model, which involves rigorous and careful verification before anything is started, is suitable for following and improving, but not for original innovation.

Because anything new is inherently immature, has many shortcomings, is difficult for people to understand, and lacks readily available standards for evaluation, all the audits, evaluations, and verifications done on it are actually futile. Ultimately, these will only create obstacles or stifle the seeds of innovation.

The "wild" model best embodies the spirit of free innovation. It may seem simple and direct, but it is actually the most efficient and has the highest success rate. The "nursery" model, on the other hand, involves cautious, strict, and orderly management of innovation. While it appears refined and organized, aiming for high efficiency, it often backfires, ultimately resulting in the lowest efficiency and the lowest success rate.

Like a piece of land, where all sorts of new and unknown seeds sprout in the wild soil, we need to find the tallest plant.

The simplest method is the wild model, allowing them to grow and die naturally under equal conditions without intervention. Resources such as fertilizer and water are evenly distributed in the soil, and the tallest plant that grows in the end will naturally be the tallest plant we want. This is a natural selection process, and it is the most reliable.

In contrast, another nursery model employs a team of experienced gardeners who are very diligent and meticulous in their work. They inspect the land daily, pruning short plants or withholding water and fertilizer, while allocating more water and fertilizer to fast-growing and tall plants.

If these seeds were familiar and known to the gardener, their rich experience might allow them to identify the best plant to focus on cultivating. However, these are entirely new and unknown seeds. The one that grows slowly at the beginning might just be the tallest one in the end, and the one that grows tall at the beginning might be the shortest one in the end. Everything is uncertain.

The gardener's seemingly rich experience is actually of no help; their intervention is more counterproductive than helpful. In the course of their hard work, the plant that will become the tallest in the future may have already been cut off by them.

One is natural selection, and the other is artificial selection. No matter how experienced a gardener is, their selection can never compare to that of nature.

Yang Ping is now the dean of the Academy of Medical Sciences, managing more than a dozen laboratories. He does not interfere with the selection of research topics by these laboratories from a technical perspective. His job is to have the team review and monitor the research funds. As long as every penny is spent on scientific research, it is fine even if they are researching topics that seem absurd. Because what is considered absurd is only what you think is absurd, not that it is actually absurd. Whether there are results in the end is not important. No one can guarantee that the experiment will be successful.

Once these research topics are subject to technical review, reviewers can easily stifle genuine original innovation. In effect, the reviewer's scientific judgment becomes the ceiling for all research projects. The review process is like a sieve; those that the reviewer can understand and agree with are approved, while those that cannot are rejected. This is equivalent to the reviewer's ability being a ruler; all those being reviewed who meet his standards are approved, and those who do not are rejected. His personal ability is an invisible ceiling, and any topic that exceeds his understanding will be directly rejected.

Another major problem is that once quantitative requirements for results are added, the end result is not to encourage more scientific research output, but to lead to fraud.

Because innovation involves great uncertainty, huge risks, and a very high failure rate, very few of the seeds sown will sprout. If they want to quantify the final results, in order to obtain funding in the future and to prove their abilities, they can only resort to fabrication to cater to evaluations when they have not yet produced results.

Therefore, Yang Ping's philosophy is very simple: the dozen or so laboratories are like seeds on the same piece of land, and they are all given the same rain and dew and grow freely.

If he were to evaluate and review these topics, his personal abilities would become a ceiling for others, because he could make accurate judgments within his capabilities, but could not make accurate judgments beyond his capabilities, which would easily stifle the innovation of geniuses.

In this way, those who could surpass him were blocked by the ceiling of his personal ability, and he was never able to break through.

Proactive innovation is the former's wild model, allowing them to freely try and fail, while passive innovation is suitable for the latter's nursery model, because passive innovation has clear goals to refer to. Just like if the gardener is very familiar with the seeds, he can easily judge which one is the best based on its growth and other factors.

Yang Ping now prefers this "wild" approach. In fact, Sanbo Hospital used the same "wild" approach with him. Dean Xia and Director Han never interfered with his technical work, but allowed him to develop freely. As long as it was legal, Dean Xia would give him the green light all the way, without any review or other restrictions.

It is for this reason that it can grow wild, which is why Yangping has been able to develop freely to its current state.

In other hospitals, a junior doctor like Yang Ping would be bound by numerous rules and regulations, with no time to spare.