Chapter 695: [(695)] The old professor was convinced. Chapter 695: [(695)] The old professor was convinced. Others, seeing the situation, followed him to the ward.
Zhao Huaming hurried along, thinking that his grandson was a fool to assume surgery was a simple matter, wanting to proceed as if it was easy. Did he really think that his grandfather did not care for his grandson? Upon arriving at the ward, he pushed the door open vigorously and went in to find his grandson was already washing and peeling an apple: What?!
“Grandpa, do you want an apple?” Zhao Zhaowei picked up an apple and asked his grandfather in a calm tone, as if he had expected his grandfather to come.
“Explain yourself to me clearly.” Zhao Huaming’s hand continued to tremble as he pointed at his grandson’s head.
“Are you referring to performing laparoscopic and choledochoscopic procedures? I’m personally in favor,” Zhao Zhaowei responded promptly and decisively.
“Do you think laparoscopy isn’t surgery?” Zhao Huaming shouted.
“The incisions are very small. Grandpa, don’t think I don’t understand anything. After all, I’ve been an intern at General Surgery Department Two for nearly three months now, where they do laparoscopic surgeries every day. How could I not understand?”
The grandfather and grandson shouted at each other.
This time, no one was there to intervene.
“You can undergo laparoscopy.”
“Laparoscopy involves making incisions as well. I’d rather have a more thorough laparoscopic examination than having to undergo surgery again later on.”
“Your illness isn’t that serious,” Zhao Huaming said, touching his forehead.
“Don’t try to fool me. If you want to comfort yourself, don’t come to me!”
Zhao Huaming’s face showed his complete astonishment: How was he comforting himself?
“If you’re not trying to comfort yourself, then what is it?” Zhao Zhaowei mercilessly poked at his grandfather’s fear, “Before, I didn’t understand why doctors shouldn’t treat their own relatives. Now seeing your reaction, I get it. As an old professor, you’ve treated so many patients like me. Don’t you feel a sense of urgency after seeing my reports?”
“You do and still tell me to wait?! At my young age, so many abscesses have appeared on my liver, and the jaundice hasn’t subsided after taking antibiotics. Do you still want me to wait? If this treatment doesn’t cure me completely, I’ll have to go to the hospital constantly in the future, and it will be the end of me sooner or later. Let me ask you, are you a surgeon or not? I’m not afraid of the knife; are you afraid to use the scalpel?”
Zhao Huaming was pressed back by his grandson’s accusation.
“Weren’t you afraid of hospitalization before? Now you’re not afraid of surgery?”
“What I fear is not hospitalization. What I fear is messing up,” Zhao Zhaowei said, pursing his lips and sitting down, “I’m a medical student myself; I don’t want to be at the mercy of others. You all insist on hospitalizing me, so I listened, but have you really treated me properly instead of just dragging it out?”
Everyone understood that Xie Wanying was right. Her classmates were all talented and privileged individuals with the right and ability to be proud.
“I have more experience than you–” Zhao Huaming continued trying to persuade his grandson.
Zhao Zhaowei challenged his grandfather again, “How long do you expect me to wait, until when? Shouldn’t you go back and look up data, find case records similar to mine to convince me, rather than just insisting you know everything because you’re an old professor? If you knew everything, all your patients would be cured. If you really want to treat your grandson properly, please go back and check the data before talking.”
He was wrong; his grandson was no longer the little kid following behind him, but a doctor who could sit down and discuss with him as an equal. After the shock in his heart, Zhao Huaming scratched the back of his head: “I’ll go back and look up the information.”
Everyone instinctively made way for him to the doorway. Zhao Huaming walked out, looked back after a few steps towards the direction of Xie Wanying: “You’re right, we should respect him.”