Chapter 348: [(348)] Strict teachers actually care a lot about their students. Chapter 348: [(348)] Strict teachers actually care a lot about their students. “Dr. Xie, how can you say the tumor is not malignant when it has grown rapidly in a short period of time?”
“A rapid growth rate over a short period is a feature of malignant tumors. Don’t just stick to the book.”
“You’ve been in clinical practice for a few days now; you should understand this.”
Some teachers are impatient, tapping their fingers on the table as if to chalk a message to the students: Just a few days into clinical practice and you haven’t grasped these key clinical experiences?
The conference room was about to turn into a marketplace.
“Everybody, take a break, stop for a moment, and let’s hear her answer,” Gao Zhaocheng shouted, blocking a crowd of people who were in a hurry to attack his junior sister.
“Her teacher hasn’t spoken up to stop us; what’s your hurry?” Someone leaned back in their chair and teased Gao Zhaocheng: Don’t make it too obvious that you are protecting her, knowing you were formerly from the eight-year program too.
“This is an academic discussion, not a quarrel.” Gao Zhaocheng did not admit that he was being protective as he spoke, “What can we discuss in this chaos? I’m not against you arguing with her but don’t get emotional and try to outshout each other. Her mentor surely thinks the same way. Otherwise, why bring her out here?”
Tan Kelin’s aloof eyes under his long fringe glanced at Gao Zhaocheng: Since the emergency incident, this man had shown an increasing interest in his student.
“Right, Dr. Tan?” Gao Zhaocheng turned to ask him.
Trying to usurp his role as the teacher? Tan Kelin’s lips curled slightly: “Yes. Please focus on the main points. Of course, with me as her teacher, no one will think anyone is being bullied.”
Gao Zhaocheng feigned misunderstanding of his implication and turned back around.
The other doctors understood: Although Teacher Tan pushed his student to the front, he was also protective of her.
The debate continued: “Dr. Xie, why do you say that it’s not malignant?”
“I didn’t say it’s definitely not malignant. Whether it’s benign or malignant can only be determined by pathological results. We can’t immediately conclude it’s highly malignant just because it has grown rapidly,” Xie Wanying said.
“So what you mean is, it could be malignant, but it might not be highly malignant?” others continued to interpret her words.
“I feel it is either benign or it might have suddenly turned malignant, so we should take this opportunity to perform surgery as soon as possible and remove it completely.” Xie Wanying wanted to seize the most valuable time frame for the patient.
“What is your feeling based on?”
“As our seniors just mentioned, we should look at it based on clinical experience, where a tumor growing rapidly in a short term is mostly malignant. The problem with this tumor is that, although it’s multifocal, leiomyomas typically grow inside the stomach cavity and outside the intestinal canal. This one isn’t like that–the tumors are all growing inside the cavities, including the stomach, small intestine, and the very rare large intestine. There are no infiltration lesions around yet, and another feature of malignant tumors is the invasion of surrounding tissues or metastasis across the body, which has not been found in this patient for now.”
After hearing her speak, the doctors looked down at the medical records again.
“If what you say is true, there’s no reason for the pediatric hospital to refuse this patient,” Professor Li raised another point that puzzled all the doctors.
“The pediatric hospital didn’t refuse the patient,” Xie Wanying clarified on behalf of the patient, “The doctors at the pediatric hospital suggested that the child’s father should opt for chemotherapy before surgery, but the father believed in having surgery before chemotherapy. He feared that chemotherapy would weaken his daughter’s body too much for her to withstand it. He’s a good father, having done his utmost to research his daughter’s illness. That’s why he couldn’t accept the pediatric hospital doctors’ plan.”