Chapter 77: A Big-Stage Performer

The surgery timer had frozen at one hour, twenty minutes, and fifty-eight seconds. Even a standard bile duct stone removal surgery typically took one to two hours. However, Walter, using a new surgical technique, had performed a gallbladder-preserving worm removal procedure. Most of the time had been spent extracting worms, not only from the bile duct but also from within the liver. As Walter completed the final steps of the surgery, Andy let out a relieved sigh. He had been even more nervous than...