A busy day at Capital Children's Hospital starts early in the morning.
Xie Wanying, who came to the hospital early, talked on the phone while walking on the road: "Teacher Zhuang, are you at the door?"
"I was stopped at the door of your department and told that your medical staff were going to do rounds and I was not allowed in." Teacher Zhuang said.
He quickened his pace and walked to the Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Department II. Xie Wanying shouted: "Teacher Zhuang."
Teacher Zhuang stood side by side with another gray-haired old woman and introduced her: "She is my classmate Teacher Ge. We mentioned it on the phone last night."
It's a coincidence. During the phone call last night, we learned that Lin Qiaowei, a patient in the 12th bed in their group, is the granddaughter of Teacher Ge.
"She got flustered after running at school. We thought she had a cold, so we gave her traditional Chinese medicine and ginseng to replenish her energy, but it didn't work. We then went to the hospital for an examination and found out." Teacher Ge talked about the origin of the child's visit to the hospital.
(I have mentioned before that the disease is not easy to detect in girls.)
"The doctor talked to our family members before the operation," Teacher Ge said, "and they talked about the surgery."
Xie Wanying remembered that this family was quite special, showing completely different attitudes on whether the patient should have surgery or not.
For example, this family has connections in the capital, and they have been asking around for a long time to come here to call the Immortal Brother, hoping that the Immortal Brother will perform the surgery. As a result, during the pre-operative conversation, he suddenly changed his mind and said that he needed to continue thinking about it, causing the patient's surgery date to be postponed again and again.
The top tertiary hospital has a shortage of beds and cannot allow such a waste of beds. This makes Dr. Cheng Yuchen, who is in charge of the beds, very anxious.
What are the families hesitating about?
"We heard from Dr. Chen in Guozhi that a seven-year-old child had this kind of surgery in Guozhi and was found to have scoliosis three years later. This news made her parents panic." Seeing that he was a familiar person, Ge The teacher confessed to Xie Wanying the feelings of their family.
What the family members are struggling with is the patient’s surgical procedure: a small thoracotomy on the right side. As mentioned before, this surgical method is controversial among doctors.
To sum up, the whole thing is like this: The family first heard that right-sided thoracotomy surgery with a small incision is good and will not leave big scars. Considering that children are not like old people and will have hard needs to get a job or get married in the future, I came to Brother Shenxian for right incision surgery. During this period, he must have heard other opinions, and then went to see Dr. Chen from Guozhi to learn about the shortcomings of this surgery, and finally fell into retreat.
12-bed family members This type of patient's family members is really common. They are commonly known as the grasshoppers who just follow what others say. For family members like this, even if you provide them with all the information, they will still keep vacillating. It's not that they don't have their own opinions, they just can't take any risks. They have been people who haven't taken risks since they were young. If one day they really take the risk to do it, they will only be pushed to do it. It is impossible for them to take the initiative to do it.
It was Dr. Cheng Yuchen himself who talked to the family before. Xie Wanying has little contact with the family members of the 12-bed patients. Now that she heard that the family member showed such a side, she really felt worried for the young patient.
What is Xie afraid of as a doctor?
In the top tertiary pediatric cardiac surgery department, we can see family members asking the doctor through various channels every day, asking the doctor whether he can perform the operation and whether it is worthwhile to continue the treatment. Among the family members who inquired, the proportion of those who ultimately chose to give up surgical treatment for their children was unimaginable to outsiders, and more than half were the norm.
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