The reason is that nerve repair and anastomosis are extremely difficult.
With the current level of human scientific technology and medical standards, there's still no way to precisely reconnect severed nerve bundles one by one.
This is almost an impossible surgical task.
Therefore, when Fu Chachun accidentally severed the third toe nerve of the patient, he chose to simply ignore it.
Firstly, he was surely afraid of taking responsibility for the accident.
Secondly, because the success rate of nerve anastomosis is too low.
His surgical skills were quite average, not even having the thought of attempting anastomosis.
All motor nerves of the foot and most sensory nerves come from the sciatic nerve. Only the femoral nerve branch, also commonly referred to by surgeons as the saphenous nerve, is distributed to the medial ankle and foot, governing the sensation of the skin there.
