My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

Chapter 1483 - 596: Do Your Best and Leave the Rest to Fate, the Emergence of a Medical Miracle

If Lin Aixi had transferred to Tu Ya’s hospital that night, willing to take some risks and accept Zhou Can’s suggestion, his daughter might have had a chance.Lin Jinzhi, although part of the healthcare system, was not a doctor and was completely unaware of the severity of the disease’s progression.

Many chronic diseases, if treated late, can be fatal.

Take stomach cancer, for instance. The difference of one day can mean the difference between Stage II and Stage III. This is why when doctors suspect a malignancy, they go to great lengths to arrange a bed, admit the patient quickly, and conduct various checks as soon as possible.

Sometimes, they even start medication before the test results come out.

This is truly a compassionate act.

To doctors, treating one more patient or one less patient almost makes no difference.

Their dedication is not driven by the desire to earn the patient’s treatment fees. In reality, even if the treatment cost reaches a million, the portion that lands in the admitting doctor’s pocket is very limited.

Zhou Can strongly recommended a laparoscopic examination for the little girl, purely out of a sense of responsibility as a healer, full of goodwill.

Unfortunately, the family was unwilling to take this risk, leading to persistent delays.

Even minor illnesses can escalate into serious ones, let alone a dreadful intestinal condition.

Many people only know about the fear of cancer, but in reality, there are many diseases with survival cycles much shorter than cancer. For example, the intestinal condition—in the absence of timely and effective treatment, the survival cycle hardly exceeds two months.

In the cases Zhou Can has seen, most patients only survived about a month.

Faced with Mr. Lin’s earnest pleas, Zhou Can also wanted to help but knew he was already powerless.

"Dr. Zhou, why don’t we try to think of something? Doing our best and leaving the rest to fate is still good. As a mother, I feel particularly uncomfortable seeing situations like this."

Tang Fei spoke from the side.

She has maintained a close relationship with Zhou Can from the very beginning of his practice in the Pediatric department, offering plenty of care.

Later, even when Zhou Can took the lead in protesting the hospital’s disregard for clinical healthcare workers’ safety in the Emergency Department, she brought pediatric health care workers to offer support.

In interpersonal relationships, the heart is most important.

Similar character, comparable levels, and mindset—being similar types of people can lead to pleasant interactions.

Like attracts like, and people group by likeness for this reason.

If not at the same level, it’s difficult to truly connect. Similar levels, but vastly different characters, similarly find no common ground.

Zhou Can’s willingness to dedicate himself to Pediatrics greatly relies on having a good leader like Director Tang Fei.

Now that she’s spoken, Zhou Can would naturally give it careful consideration.

"When I examined Lin Yuxi earlier, I discovered she was sweating profusely, with tight abdominal muscles and pronounced tenderness upon palpation. Then I reviewed the emergency abdominal X-ray results, which showed free air under the diaphragm, indicating an intestinal perforation. Honestly, this is already critically ill!"

Though stating the facts was harsh, it needed saying.

"Dr. Zhou, Director Tang, please try your utmost. Regarding the outcome, I can accept anything. I can immediately sign the agreement, and the exemption consent form."

Lin Jinzhi was deeply regretful, but unfortunately, there was no remedy for regret.

This case left Zhou Can with a particularly deep impression as well.

"Let’s begin with exploratory laparotomy. Intestinal perforation certainly needs surgical intervention, and after opening, it can be managed on the spot."

Zhou Can offered his medical advice.

"Okay, I agree!"

This time, Lin Jinzhi agreed without a second thought.

Sadly, agreeing now versus six days ago made all the difference.

Being able to oversee the Health Bureau, there’s certainly no issue with his mental capabilities, nor does he usually act indecisively. But many matters become muddled due to overly deep concern.

As it concerned his daughter’s life, this rendered him indecisive.

Now that death had arrived, he had no other choice.

The emergency exploratory laparotomy was performed for the young girl. During the operation, they found yellow turbid fluid in the abdominal cavity, totaling over 700 ml upon suction. Zhou Can discovered several peanut-sized lymph nodes at the root of her mesentery, and there was a mass in the ileocecal region measuring 12 cm in length and 9 cm in diameter.

This mass was the string-like lump felt during the physical examination of the patient’s abdomen.

It was tightly adhered to the retroperitoneum.

After discussion, Director Xiao from Digestive Surgery was called over.

Under Director Xiao’s on-site ’guidance,’ Zhou Can personally led the surgery, performing a bowel mass excision, lymph node clearance, and ileocecal end-to-side anastomosis for the young girl.

After the surgery, Zhou Can could not feel happy.

Usually, he was full of confidence during operations.

But this time, his mood was exceptionally heavy.

Given his surgical skill level, he could already sense the patient’s condition intraoperatively and have quite an accurate prediction of the prognosis.

The surgery went smoothly, but his intuition told him things didn’t look good.

This little girl likely faced dire odds.

"The patient’s intestines are extremely fragile, particularly the ascending colon, which resembles decayed wood. Postoperative care must pay special attention to preventing re-perforation and peritonitis." Zhou Can advised.

"Understood."

The circulating nurse greatly respected Zhou Can. She had already witnessed Zhou Can’s capability in the operating room more than once.

In the operating room, who’s skilled versus who’s incompetent—the nurses are generally aware at a glance.

Many young doctors at Zhou Can’s age are still elated over the opportunity to suture skin and close incisions. They spend over an hour sewing it up and feel they’ve made significant advances in surgical skills.