I Quit My Job and Run a Café - Chapter 454



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Episode 454 Academic Society [1]

institute.

This is a place where academics and researchers publicly present their research results and review and discuss their scientific validity.

It is also an organization that provides a venue for research results presentations, such as reviews, research presentations, lectures, academic journals, and conferences, and plays a role in exchanges between researchers.

No matter how you look at it, it seems like an institution that is somewhat distant from the 19th century… … .

Surprisingly, there are already quite a few active academic societies.

Among them, of course, there are medical societies.

“The next speaker is Professor T.P. Lee Young… … Kim from the London College Medical School. Please give him a round of applause.”

It’s not that I didn’t know it existed.

I just didn’t go.

I’m afraid I’ll get stabbed.

If you think, ‘If they’re doctors, they’re educated people, so why are they doing that?’ then you’re crazy.

Aren’t we already killing enough people?

Even the sword they mainly wield is a Liston-style knife, and its power is comparable to a 21st century machete.

“Hello. This is Kim Tae-pyeong.”

“Wow!”

So what should we do?

You just have to swing a bigger sword.

When I think about it, the only people who are prepared to die for what they believe to be right are scholars or independence activists.

Everything else is bent.

It was much easier, since what those kids believed wasn’t even that romantic.

-I heard that guy is finally coming to this conference… … .

-That guy? Oh, Kim Tae-pyeong?

-Okay. What should I do?

-What should I do? I have to shoot a gun!

-Gotcha, you bastard.

-What, what?

That doesn’t mean I actually used force.

I started with the easier money.

When it comes to weeding out the bad guys, money is always the best, right?

Those who planted spies and crossed the line like that have already been sent to prison.

Well, I’m thinking of releasing it little by little.

Then won’t I end up harboring resentment and hating them even more?

There may be some such guys, but I think the majority will be defeated.

The human mind is more fragile than we think, and when the body gets sick, it quickly breaks down.

“What do you think about the organ called the heart?”

It’s time to put these thoughts aside for a moment.

Now is the time to open your mouth.

Shouldn’t I make this great achievement of mine known to the four corners of the earth?

“The heart is an organ that beats without rest 24 hours a day, circulating blood through the blood vessels in our body. Some people say that it ‘supplies’ blood, but this is a misconception. The heart simply circulates blood.”

But that’s not that easy either.

Anatomy has actually become quite advanced.

One reason is that since I discovered that formalin can be used as a preservative, many people have been able to perform dissections with a little more ease.

Another is that doctors at this time were so crazy about their passion that they even robbed or produced countless corpses and dissected them even before there was formalin. Is that a fault? Anyway, there’s this.

‘Compared to that, physiology is at a miserable level.’

You can just look at it to see what it looks like.

Of course, since people are not block toys, if you just keep cutting them apart, it’s difficult to the point where you’ll end up wondering, “Where was this?” but “What did it originally look like?”…

However, it is a much easier problem to think of than what this long-term thing is.

In comparison, the function is on a different level.

‘Actually, in this situation, my bones are making blood? How can I think like that?’

bone?

No matter how you look at it, it’s just something solid.

It’s not easy to think that this thing is alive and breathing, you know.

Of course, we already know that blood flows through it, but we still don’t know why.

In such a situation, it could be said that believing that the heart supplies blood is as natural as breathing.

I wish I could tell you exactly this, but unfortunately that’s impossible.

I learned what it does and what it looks like, but I didn’t learn how it came to be known.

“I will swear on all the people who have bled to death as proof. If the organ that produces blood is the heart and if the blood circulates only once and disappears, how can you die from bleeding?”

I ignored all that and just shouted loudly.

If I had confidence in myself, I would have shouted like Steve Jobs, but isn’t what I’m doing now bordering on agitation?

So I just waved my hands around like some future testicle mustache would, and mumbled a little when I said something a little unpleasant.

To be honest, I felt anxious when I practiced alone in the corner of the room.

I was wondering if this would work…

But history has proven it.

This works.

Even those cold-hearted Germans became one in heart and mind and killed Jews in gas chambers, and in order to kill more Jews, they opened an Eastern Front following the Western Front, and waged a war that led to the deaths of millions, if not tens of millions.

“Wow!”

“This is right!”

Even the reaction was enthusiastic, as there were spies I had planted here and there.

We haven’t even gotten to the main point yet and it’s already like this, haha.

I continued speaking with a smile that only a villain would wear.

“Because the heart is a pump, it has been taboo to use a knife on it for a long time. In reality, no one has ever used a knife on it outside of an autopsy, right?”

It’s quiet now.

I said that because it was true.

Since it wasn’t an incitement, I was able to return to a serious attitude instead of making a fuss like before.

After all, people shouldn’t lie.

How comfortable it is to tell the truth.

Not only my body but also my mind is at ease.

“Even I did that. It’s crazy to put a knife to a beating heart.”

Here and there, you can see people nodding their heads in agreement.

Yeah, that’s crazy.

It goes without saying that only a very small number of things, even in the 21st century, can do such a thing.

There is a reason why thoracic surgeons, and cardiologists in particular, are looked down on.

“But the doctor says, there are times when you have to go under the knife.”

In my previous life, it was really… … .

I thought it was an area I couldn’t dare to enter.

Even though it was a trauma surgery department that only saw horrible patients, it was like that.

But not anymore.

Stand shoulder to shoulder.

This time I realized that I was a much greater doctor than I thought.

“If someone is dying right before your eyes, shouldn’t you do something?”

I never thought I would say those words with my own mouth.

That’s a nice statement, but it’s not realistic.

In a real medical setting, anything can go wrong, right?

Then you will be sued.

It is so unfair to the person being treated.

That’s what happened when I tried to save someone.

I also cursed a lot back then.

Doesn’t it look a bit too evil?

‘But… … Now that I think about it in the 19th century, I understand the context.’

The will to save people.

This is clearly well-intentioned.

But we must always keep in mind that there is also this saying:

-The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Whether they are wild healers or butchers who graduated from regular medical schools, their desire to save people is genuine.

But instead of saving people, they are killing them.

So are 21st century doctors upright in every way?

There is a saying that the more rice ripens, the more it bows its head. In reality, as I study and study, there are times when I wonder if this is really for the patients.

In fact, based on my experience, the time when I was most self-conscious as a doctor was during my third year of residency.

Back then I thought I was the best.

But the more I looked into it, the more I realized that it was a bit retarded.

‘If you let people do anything in the 21st century, accidents will probably happen. But that doesn’t mean you’ll have to tie their hands and feet with lawsuits… ‘

When I look at it like this, I feel like I grew up more in the 19th century.

If I were sent back to the 21st century, I’m confident I’d do much better than before.

Well, I’ll probably die of a brain tumor before I can do it.

“A patient came to the hospital a week ago with a heart stab wound.”

Anyway, I am a 21st century person who knows how effective audiovisual aids are in making presentations.

So this time I made him draw a picture again.

To William Turner.

It was originally a very expensive product, but they are offering it at a cheaper price because they also treat cataracts.

Of course, he wasn’t at the scene.

It’s just imagination, that’s what I’m saying… … .

“her…….”

“There’s so much blood… … .”

“Oh my… … .”

I told him to draw it a bit extreme on purpose.

Draw a lot of blood and block the wound? Draw it big.

Actually, if you look at it from a medical standpoint, it’s a picture of someone who should have already died, but what can you do?

In the original announcement, there was a bit of exaggeration and such.

“At that time, my blood pressure was around 60/40. There are still many things to be discovered about blood pressure… … Most healthy adults seem to maintain it at around 120/80. Anyway, anything lower than that is not a good sign, right?”

“Umm… … .”

“Hmm.”

Maybe it’s because I’ve been selling stuff at various lectures lately, but I’ve also heard people quietly saying, “Are they trying to sell blood pressure monitors?”

It’s unfair.

Unlike something like Taepyeongtang, this is real.

What can I do?

This is the limit of the times.

He continued speaking with the thought, ‘Those who don’t understand me are the ones who will suffer.’

“Anyway, his complexion was pale, his lips were very dry, and his eyelids were almost white. This usually means severe bleeding.”

“There was a lot of bleeding… … ?”

“uh?”

Moved to the next picture.

Unlike before, there was not a single drop of blood on the patient, but he was extremely pale and lying there.

Since they were all treated cheaply, other medical staff members besides the patients were portrayed in a dark manner.

Still, I wondered where this was.

Because we live in a time when other people can’t even think about things like this.

“After wiping everything off, surprisingly, there was no new bleeding. Nevertheless, the patient’s complexion was becoming increasingly pale. This is a description of the probe used at the time.”

The next picture was of a probe.

There was only a little blood on the side, but the end was clean.

Do they even know what this means?

To do this, you must not only master the anatomical structure, but also have a thorough understanding of the function of the heart and the circulation of blood.

And you’d have to be a genius to do that.

In this day and age, the diagnosis called pericardial tamponade is not yet commonly used.

You can think of recalling an existing concept from memory and creating a concept in your head that didn’t exist before as tasks on completely different levels.

“Umm… … .”

“what……?”

“There is no bleeding, but it looks like there is a lot of bleeding… … ?”

As expected, everyone was just muttering and not answering at all.

It was time for me to step up.

“The heart is surrounded by a sac called the pericardium. Surely… … I don’t think there’s anyone here who doesn’t know this anatomical structure, right?”

“Oh, I know.”

“Then, then.”

Some people were nodding their heads with awkward expressions, but I decided to just let it go.

“Now, let’s say that blood is coming out of the heart, but the pericardium is relatively intact and is collecting inside. Then, the pressure built up here will prevent the heart from beating properly. Then, circulation will not be possible. The mechanism is a bit different from bleeding, but the result will be similar.”

I did that because I knew I would stutter most of what would follow.