Chapter 233: 【233】Now I know why so many people are afraid of Teacher Tan. Chapter 233: 【233】Now I know why so many people are afraid of Teacher Tan. “After all that reasoning which does nothing but prove Teacher Tan’s perspective correct, you support performing laparotomy?” Luo Yanfen reorganized her thoughts before speaking again.
“What I mean is, Teacher Tan’s viewpoint isn’t wrong. However, could we consider whether the patient’s anemic appearance might be due to intermittent minor bleeding? The patient eats very little, and when they do eat, it’s only a small amount of liquids. With no bowel movements, it’s difficult to conduct a stool occult blood test. Teacher Tan had ordered several stool occult blood tests without any results; the samples can’t be retained, which further confuses the clinical judgment,” Xie Wanying explained calmly and methodically.
“There’s the CT scan—”
“A CT scan only reflects the condition at that moment and doesn’t indicate whether there’s been further bleeding afterward. The patient had a CT scan just before being admitted, during an outpatient visit. It wasn’t necessary to have another one after being admitted.”
“Do you think the patient is still bleeding now?”
Whose last sentence was that?
Luo Yanfen and the other two male doctoral students turned their heads, since it wasn’t one of them who spoke; they quickly sought the source of the voice and eventually found it came from the aloof figure who hadn’t turned around.
The associate professor had said it.
The three of them were stunned.
The associate professor had been listening to the clinical rookie’s words all along and, after hearing her out, thought she made sense enough to speak up?
“Teacher Tan, she—” Luo Yanfen and the other three doctoral students who’d arrived earlier began to feel uneasy, sensing the newcomer was too sharp-tongued, having caught the teacher’s attention.
Completely oblivious to these noises, Tan Kelin didn’t turn around. His sharp brows furrowed, he summoned the clinical rookie Xie Wanying to reply, “You mentioned evidence.”
Dr. Xiao Sun glanced at him twice from the side and saw him flipping to the urine test result report in the medical record.
Urine and stool tests are categorized together, yet there wasn’t a single stool test report to be seen among the results.
In this light, what Xie Wanying had just mentioned about the stool problem had hit the nail on the head.
“This morning, when Teacher Sun wasn’t around, he asked me to do the rounds on my own. So I went to inquire about the patient from their family members. They said the patient was feeling stomach pain. Late-stage cancer patients are certainly in pain, but Teacher Tan had prescribed pain medication for the patient, which they were supposed to take regularly. Logically, they shouldn’t continue to feel this persistent, vague pain. Such a situation is more indicative of the stomach slowly bleeding, but it’s difficult to detect clinically,” Xie Wanying reported to the teacher the task she had carried out that morning.
Dr. Xiao Sun was the first to exclaim, “I didn’t hear about this situation during the handover this morning.”
The night shift is very busy; there’s no way they could mention such detailed examinations. These minor details are supposed to be dealt with by the day shift. Consequently, Dr. Xiao Sun was given a glance by his superior and then shut up.
Tan Kelin asked in a composed voice, “Who checked on the patient during yesterday afternoon’s surgery?”
Dr. Xiao Sun replied, “The three of them took turns, with one relieving another after finishing in the operating room. After the surgery, they had to go down to write up the medical records.”
“So, all three of you were responsible for staying downstairs, weren’t you?” Tan Kelin’s tone grew colder.
Seeing that the teacher’s tone was off, Luo Yanfen and the other two scrambled to speak up in their own defense before the teacher: “We never heard the patient’s family mention the situation she described.”
Upon this, Tan Kelin suddenly turned around.
In that moment, Xie Wanying understood why so many people were afraid of Teacher Tan.
When the man’s single-lidded eyes beneath the slanted bangs truly lifted to look at someone, they were like two sharp knives, and his gaze could scare the life out of someone.