BXBX NOVEL Chapter 157: A Great Irony (Subscribe please!)
concerns.
His life was not filled with commendations and honors, nor had he received many accolades, but he had indeed saved many lives.
Older generations of medical workers were just like that, quietly benefiting the community without seeking fame.
It was under Fang’s leadership that Xiehe Second Hospital was established with a group of senior doctors. Through all kinds of hardships for fifty years, it stood on the north side of Jianyang City’s Jianshe Road, becoming a well-known tertiary hospital in Jianyang City.
Yet such an elderly man, after retirement, still worked silently at his post, persisting in seeing patients three days a week, no matter the weather.
Last year, after suffering multiple cerebral infarctions, he started to live in a nursing home, and since this April, his jaundice worsened.
Ultrasounds confirmed the presence of a huge gallstone, and his abdominal colic became increasingly severe, the old man’s health was deteriorating day by
day!
However, such a man who contributed his life to Jianyang City, when he fell sick in his old age, got turned away by every hospital!
This was undoubtedly an immense irony!
The Provincial People’s Hospital did not dare to admit him!
Neither did the first or second hospitals of Dongda!
The Municipal People’s Hospital and the Jianyang City Bethune Hospital did not dare to admit him either!
In the vast Jianyang City, there was suddenly not a single place that could take
in this elderly man.
Having no choice, people had to take him back to Xiehe Second Hospital.
Li Jianwei, Hao Xuliang, Tao Zi, Qin Xiaoyuan, and others were all grim-faced, not uttering a word!
Everyone knew the situation of the general surgery department at Xiehe Second Hospital. If it were not for Zhang Youfu maintaining the hospital’s reputation, its level would truly not differ much from that of a second-tier hospital.
Fang Yonglin was childless all his life, yet he raised a group of pillars for Xiehe Second Hospital, including Li Jianwei, Hao Xuliang, Tao Zi, and Qin Xiaoyuan.
All four were Fang’s students.
Back then, medical specialties were not so finely divided. After graduating from Xiehe, Fang returned to Jianyang City to establish Xiehe Second Hospital. He personally trained these individuals, who later established various departments and gained their current standing after being sent out for further studies!
Yet even these individuals, each a director or deputy director, just couldn’t get
Fang Yonglin admitted to a better hospital, how ironic!
Because no one would take him in!
They didn’t dare!
Fang Yonglin was a medical hero of Jianyang City, nearly 90 years old, in extremely poor health with conditions like cirrhosis, diabetes, hypertension, and portal hypertension!
He was now experiencing an acute attack of jaundice with cholecystitis and gallstones!
Who would dare to operate?
Who could take responsibility if problems arose from the surgery?
As the jaundice worsened day by day, Fang Yonglin’s health declined rapidly, and Qin Xiaoyuan was extremely anxious but had no solution.
Now, no hospital dared to shoulder such a burden, despite Qin Xiaoyuan’s desperate pleading. Even if Li Jianwei was a renowned surgeon in the province, nothing could be done. Everyone was afraid to take on such a responsibility.
Even surgery!
No one dared to perform it, because if Fang really died under their own knife, this would become notorious throughout Dongyang Province!
Yet for such an elder in the medical field, to not even make a statement made these specialists also feel somewhat embarrassed. Left with no choice, this led to the current situation of a major consultation within the province.
At this moment, inside the consultation office, there were a dozen experts from various large hospitals in Jianyang City, all specialists in the field of general
surgery.
Yet these experts, gathered together, looked at Fang Yonglin’s medical records
in silence.
Qian Liang, after all the leading expert in the field of hepatobiliary, sighed, “Director Qin, Director Li, this is the situation. Fang is too old, and he has too many underlying diseases. His tolerance for surgery is extremely low; if the operation proceeds, the mortality rate is over ninety percent!”
“So… you still need to think it over seriously!”
Qin Xiaoyuan was Fang Yonglin’s biggest and most promising student, whom
Fang proudly introduced to others as his ‘adoptive son.
Qin Xiaoyuan’s position as a director was also closely linked to his teacher’s generous support.
So, Qin Xiaoyuan looked at Fang Yonglin as a father.
This was not only a father as in ‘once a teacher, forever a father,’ but also a father for whom he would don solemn mourning, guard the coffin, and see through to the end!
Li Jianwei was a few years younger than Qin Xiaoyuan. Ultimately, these matters depended on Qin Xiaoyuan.
Fang Yonglin had no children; these people were like adopted sons to him.
Qin Xiaoyuan’s face was grim, his eyes betraying an unknown thought. As a doctor, he understood that birth, aging, sickness, and death were all part of human life, but when it came to his own experience, he was still unable to decide!
Seeing this, Liu Siqi exhaled a sigh, earnestly persuading, “Director Qin, actually, considering the old man’s age, my suggestion is that there’s no need to go through so much trouble. Mister Fang has lived a dignified life; let’s not allow him to suffer in his old age… I reckon the surgery would be too much for him to endure! There’s even a possibility that he might pass away on the operating table…”
Qin Xiaoyuan’s expression was indecisive!
To save or not to save?
To perform the surgery or not?
That had become the biggest question.
If it were to be done, who would do it?
And if not?
Qin Xiaoyuan found it hard to forgive himself. There was a chance…
After the consultation, everyone slowly left Xiehe No. 2 Hospital, with no one willing to perform the surgery for Qin Xiaoyuan. Going through with such a surgery, don’t even joke about it!
Taking on such a notorious reputation wasn’t worth it!
Others would say, so-and-so performed the surgery and killed Mister Fang Yonglin.
Once these words got out, who could withstand it!
Therefore, everyone slowly departed, leaving Qin Xiaoyuan and a few others in the room lamenting.
Suddenly, Li Jianwei turned around, fixing his gaze on Qin Xiaoyuan, “I want to try!”
Qin Xiaoyuan didn’t respond but just looked at Li Jianwei emotionlessly.
Li Jianwei’s eyes were firm, he nodded seriously, “Big brother, let’s… give it a try!”
“What if… what if there’s a chance?”
Qin Xiaoyuan’s eyes flickered, and he opened them wide to take a deep breath, for a long time!
“Let’s try! If it works, we’ll take care of the teacher until his old age in the Veteran Cadres’ ward. If not, we’ll grieve and see the teacher off together!”
Li Jianwei clenched his fist!
“Good, I’ll call Zhang Youfu!”
Zhang Youfu had just sent off the consultants when he suddenly received a call from Li Jianwei and hurried back.
“Director Li, what’s up?”
Li Jianwei: “Prepare for surgery!”
Zhang Youfu was startled, “Is there a patient…?”
Before he could finish, Zhang Youfu immediately realized!
Li Jianwei meant to prepare for surgery for Elder Fang Yonglin!
Zhang Youfu was dumbstruck…
Li Jianwei suddenly turned around, grabbing Zhang Youfu’s arms with both hands, his eyes, misty, staring into Zhang Youfu’s.
He said in a grave voice, “Director Zhang, please!”
Zhang Youfu let out a sigh, a rare spark within him: “Alright! I’ll do my best!” At that moment, aside from doing his best, what else could be said!
Turning around, Zhang Youfu picked up the phone, notifying Duan Bo, Zhang Zhixin, Zhou Xiaodong, and others: “Prepare for surgery!”