This is true indeed.
Ian was momentarily at a loss for words.
Being a genius and a polymath, he could understand anything he picked up, so he often mistakenly assumed others could too.
Now, after Lawrence mentioned it, he suddenly realized he had repeated the mistake of "empiricism" and quickly patted his head, saying, "My bad, so you're saying that while operating, you didn't look at the X-ray and CT scan reports?"
Lawrence shook his head again and honestly explained, "No. As I said, I couldn't understand them even if I looked. I only listened to my mom tell me that my uncle probably wouldn't wake up and might become a vegetable."
At this point, she couldn't help but ask Ian, "Professor Lothrop, do you understand medicine?"
She didn't know that Ian had already performed surgery once, that time on Joyce.
But during that operation, Ian wore a mask the whole time, so Lawrence had no idea it was Ian who performed the surgery on Joyce.
