There was no such thing as a free lunch. Since he had accepted the benefits, he had to work.
Well, real work.
Aoba had basically taken over all of Teacher Ueno's surgeries, with Yumiko serving as his assistant. She had also assigned several clear-eyed interns to him.
After that, rather horrifying scenes often appeared in the operating room. Patients lay on the cold operating table, watching the lead surgeon remove one of their organs, explain it to the other doctors, and then put it back.
In fact, during surgery, patients could not speak or move, but they remained conscious. Some with sharper senses could even feel the process of having something removed and reattached.
Some patients described after surgery how they had personally watched the doctor hold their hearts in his hand and comment on them. The hearts were still beating, and the other doctors had even reached out to touch them. That suffocating sensation of having one's heart held in someone else's hand left many patients deeply traumatized.
Of course, there were complaints afterward. The hospital claimed that patients were unconscious during surgery, and that it was merely an illusion produced by their brains after anesthesia.
Besides, even follow-up examinations found nothing wrong. Nothing was missing, so what the hell was there to complain about?
As Aoba verified theory against practice, his medical skills soared.
Sometimes, there was not even any need to make an incision. Yumiko and the others would watch Aoba pick up a scalpel, stab it straight in, twist it a few times, and neatly cut out the diseased tissue. They were left completely dumbfounded.
Of course, Aoba had not neglected his training outside of work.
From a higher perspective, many principles were interconnected. Medical systems related to the human body complemented the chakra system particularly