Surgery Godfather-Chapter 1701 - 1225: Let’s Be More Conservative
The focus of the debate was on how long the next plan should be scheduled for, five years? Ten years? From the experience of the current top international laboratories, indeed, the process of finding new K Factors must be a topic spanning five to ten years. However, if the K Therapy itself were placed in any other world-class laboratory, even if luck were on our side and it succeeded, it probably wouldn’t work without ten or twenty years. But at the Sanbo Research Institute, it actually succeeded in just over a year, so no one dared to be sure about the timeline for this plan.
If the time is set too short, there may not be the same luck in the future. After all, the path of scientific research is tortuous, and sometimes one often hits a dead end.
Tang Shun also thought about this issue, if luck is set aside and set according to normal experience, this kind of topic may take ten years, positioning it for five years is considered aggressive. Professor Yang has always been aggressive, so when balanced this way, the next step should be spanned over five years. Although the entire research and development cycle of the K Therapy was only over a year, it cannot be used as a reference. The K Therapy went too smoothly, Tang Shun had never seen such a smooth study, and there was no deviation in direction.
He knows this is due to Professor Yang’s strong sense of direction in scientific research, but Tang Shun also knows that the reason inside is hard to say. Sometimes there is luck, sometimes it’s Professor Yang’s intuition, but no matter the reason, it’s not possible for the direction to always be so precise, that would be illogical.
"Five years?" Lu Xiaolu said, "Isn’t that too aggressive?"
Tang Shun explained: "The K Therapy only took more than a year, and using five years to delve deeper into the K Factor and find new K Factors isn’t too aggressive."
As per common sense, this kind of topic definitely wouldn’t be expected to be completed in five years. In any country, it would take different genius-level researchers over ten years.
For example, in 1928, the Brit Fleming found in the Petri dish of penicillium cultivation that there were no staphylococci growing around the contaminated penicillium, but instead, a strange sterile circle was formed.
Fleming believed this was due to a substance secreted by the penicillium that could kill or inhibit the growth of the staphylococci. He named this substance penicillin.
However, Fleming merely discovered penicillin. Later researchers speculated that since penicillin can kill staphylococci, it might be able to kill other bacteria that cause human diseases, but this was just a speculation.
It wasn’t until 1940 that the British pathologist Florry and the German biochemist Chain proved through numerous experiments that penicillin could treat bacterial infections and had therapeutic effects, and established a method to extract penicillin from penicillium culture solution.
Subsequently, doctors used penicillin for the first time to treat a critically ill patient with sepsis. Penicillin killed the bacteria in the sepsis, allowing the septicemia patient, who was untreatable at the time, to recover.
From the discovery of penicillin to its clinical application, it took a total of twelve years.
The industrial production of penicillin was already a matter of 1945, when the outbreak of the Second World War resulted in a large number of wounded in need of a lot of penicillin for treatment. This specific situation prompted scientists in the United Kingdom and the United States to conduct a lot of arduous research on the manufacture of penicillin. Finally, in 1945, the industrial production of penicillin was achieved.
However, the discovery of the K Factor is actually very similar to the discovery of penicillin, and it was also discovered by Yang Ping during an accident. But from the discovery to the clinical application of the K Factor, it took just over a year, which is highly efficient.
That is to say, Professor Yang completed a process that countless people participated in alone, where he needed to make countless precise judgments without a single mistake or delay. This way, he managed to achieve in just over ten years what would normally take more than ten years to complete.
Tang Shun couldn’t help but feel a chill in his scalp when he thought about it. What kind of ability is this? He usually spends time with Yang Ping and does not feel anything unusual, but upon careful reflection, he can’t help but feel reverent. This is a genius among geniuses, whose ability to judge scientific research directions and execution in scientific practice can be described as terrifying. Tang Shun believes he has seen many of the world’s top scientists, none of whom can compare with Professor Yang. Compared to Professor Yang, those scholars are like fireflies to the bright moon.
"Perhaps not even five years!" Tang Shun added a sentence, because based on the five-year calculation, he dared not refer to the research experience of the K Therapy; he really couldn’t use it as a reference.
"Not even five years?" Lu Xiaolu was quite surprised, feeling that Tang Shun’s words today were a bit erratic.
Lu Xiaolu hadn’t been with Yang Ping’s team for long and naturally did not have the same depth of understanding of Yang Ping’s terrifying capabilities as Tang Shun had because when he arrived, the K Therapy had already crossed its initial stage and entered the application stage.
"Why don’t we ask the professor?" Tang Shun suddenly felt that discussion no longer mattered; the opinion of the professor was the most critical; others’ opinions were only for reference.
Sometimes, Tang Shun believed in the power of the team, but most of the time he believed in the power of genius. Especially in the history of scientific development, the principal driving force of scientific progress has always been the varied genius, not ordinary folks forming teams.
In mathematics, the role of a Gauss can surpass the role of countless ordinary mathematical researchers of the past, and every discipline is the same.
The many doctors began to discuss vigorously. Some believed that using five years to complete this kind of topic is too naive, some believed that referring to the progress of K Therapy, it would not take five years, and others thought that K Therapy was exceptionally lucky and shouldn’t serve as a regular reference. The discussion was very heated, with different opinions and each having their reasons.
Tang Shun looked towards Yang Ping, who was still resting his eyes. Tang Shun was used to Professor Yang’s habit and dared not disturb him. He glanced at Lu Xiaolu, who understood what Tang Shun meant.
They tacitly agreed: "Let’s wait for a while." Wait for Professor Yang to open his eyes himself.
Anyway, the doctors were still discussing; let them discuss. After Professor Yang opened his eyes, they would ask the professor how much time should actually be planned for, so Tang Shun could plan accordingly, including funds, talent, etc., all of which need to be planned.
About ten minutes later, Yang Ping finally opened his eyes. Tang Shun immediately seized the opportunity: "Professor Yang, how long do you think our next research plan needs to be estimated for?"
How long? Yang Ping thought for a moment and said: "Let’s be conservative, don’t be too hasty, stretch the time a bit, one year."
One year? Yet be conservative? Tang Shun thought there was something wrong with his ears.
"Did the professor say one year?" Tang Shun turned to Lu Xiaolu next to him for verification.
Lu Xiaolu nodded: "It seems so." He was also unsure. A year was truly unexpected.
Surely the professor doesn’t follow the ordinary path, Tang Shun originally wanted to ask more, but seeing the strong confidence on Yang Ping’s face and recalling times when the research met difficulties, the professor always managed to make incredibly precise judgments.
For instance, when Sisi had brain edema, Professor Yang decisively proposed craniotomy to prevent brain herniation. Everyone was doubtful at the time, felt that Professor Yang was too aggressive, but later facts proved that Professor Yang was right. If he hadn’t decided decisively, Sisi would have died from brain herniation.
The more he thought about it, the more Tang Shun felt that Yang Ping was a deity. He always managed to penetrate the fog and grasp the essence of things to make incredibly precise judgments when faced with complicated problems.
Tang Shun felt he shouldn’t doubt the judgment of a genius, so he said: "Okay, we will schedule for one year. All arrangements will follow the one-year plan."
In Yang Ping’s view, spending more time would be wasteful. There would absolutely not be a five-year plan, as that would be too aggravating. How could one spend so much time on a single topic? If not for the constraints of various objective conditions in reality, he would have been faster.
But there was no way around it, no matter how fast in reality, one has to be limited by objective conditions, such as animal experiments and clinical trials, you really can’t fast forward them.
