Chapter 730: Surgery definitely carries risks Chapter 730: Surgery definitely carries risks This Lin Hao, unlike the gentle and delicate Yingying, made Zhao Zhaowei try hard to take a couple of deep breaths.
“The squad leader went to the doctor’s office to see if he could get the chance to stay with you in the operating room,” Lin Hao said to him, “We all want to accompany you in there so you might not be too scared. The problem is, they definitely won’t let so many people into the operating room. We can only get the squad leader to represent us. The main counselor isn’t here.”
Ren Chongda, who had just gone on a business trip over the weekend and couldn’t make it back in time, hastily made a phone call to his old classmate Cao Yong.
“You help me stay with him in the operating room. He’s very timid,” Ren Chongda entrusted Cao Yong with the task, based on his understanding of the boy in his class.
“I know, that’s why I followed him to the hospital,” Cao Yong had anticipated this.
“I want to ask, how is his surgery being prepared? How dangerous is it?” Ren Chongda asked with a low and worried voice, “Is Tao Zhijie the chief surgeon? Do we need to find someone else to come and assist him?”
“You know his abilities. The most impressive in Hepatobiliary Surgery is Associate Director Xue. He himself is Associate Director Xue’s most proud pupil. Associate Director Xue doesn’t have the physical strength anymore, and it’s better that he operates than Associate Director Xue. Moreover, Associate Director Xue has gone out, he took the flight last night. Their Hepatobiliary Surgery has a liver transplant next week that might have to be postponed now,” Cao Yong’s tone was filled with a rational and cool breeze as he spoke, “As for how much risk there is, there’s always risk with surgery.”
“What I heard is that the surgery has to start with an exploratory procedure, which means Tao Zhijie isn’t sure about what is going on inside him right now, is that correct?” Ren Chongda voiced his worst fear, “If something unexpected happens during the procedure and Tao Zhijie can’t handle it, what’s to be done?”
“As far as I know, the kind of accident you’re talking about has never occurred in his surgeries,” Cao Yong said.
Ren Chongda clamped his mouth shut.
“Do you, like everyone else, think the reason we fell out was because of his incompetence during surgery, doing things he believed were right?” Cao Yong criticized his old classmate.
“When you two were arguing, it seemed no one heard what you were arguing about. I’ve known you for so many years, only knew that you guys had a falling out. As to why, it seemed no one besides the two of you knew the reason. It has always felt very strange to me,” Ren Chongda revealed his thoughts.
“Rest assured, the reason we fell out will absolutely not occur in this operation,” Cao Yong hung up the phone after saying this last sentence, gripping his cellphone tightly. Like he had emphasized to his old classmate just moments before, there’s definitely risk in surgery. The main issue is that the patient has an odd disease, making the surgical risk enormously high.
In the doctor’s office, Tao Zhijie gathered all the team members for one final pre-surgery discussion.
“The most recent CT results, done the day before yesterday, confirmed it’s pretty much the same as the ultrasound results, with liver abscesses in both the left and right lobes, just like gallstones. Therefore, the first problem to solve in the operation is which side to explore first, the left lobe or the right lobe. It can’t be that both sides are very serious because then–” He Guangyou was fraught with worry. Doctors fear most not being able to definitively diagnose the disease. If you don’t know where the problem lies, having to go through the entire liver back-to-front is the same as having to go through the entire abdominal cavity, and that’s certainly a big problem.
If the cause of the disease can never be found, the surgery goes on too long, and the patient can’t endure it, it can only end in a hurried manner, which is tantamount to failure.
“I hope the problem is only with the Common Bile Duct, and if the exploration is clear, it can be resolved quickly. My thinking aligns with his, and I estimate that it will take quite a long time to investigate,” He Jiuliang expressed his concern, “If it truly cannot be found, we may have to prepare for arranging a liver transplant for him.”