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.
She quickened her pace and walked to the second department of pediatric cardiac surgery. Xie Wanying called: "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 last night's phone call, I learned that Lin Qiaowei, the 12-bed patient in their group, is Teacher Ge's granddaughter.
"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 Qi, but it didn't work. We then went to the hospital for a checkup 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 make a special trip to call the immortal brother and ask him to perform the surgery. However, 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 waste beds like this. 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 how their family was feeling.
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 the right thoracotomy with a small incision is good and will not leave big scars. Considering that the children are not like the elderly and will have hard needs in the future to get a job or get married, they came to the fairy brother to do it.
Right incision surgery. During this period, I must have heard other opinions, and then went to see Dr. Chen from Guozhi to learn about the shortcomings of this surgery, and finally retreated.
Family members of 12-bed patients are very common. They are commonly known as wallflowers. They just follow what others say. For family members like this, even if you provide them with all the information, they will still vacillate. It’s not that they don’t have their own opinions.
, I can't take any risks. I have been a person who doesn't take risks since I was a child. If one day I really take the risk, I will only be pushed to do it. It is impossible for them to take the initiative to do it.
In the past, it was Dr. Cheng Yuchen himself who talked to the family members. Xie Wanying had not had much contact with the family members of the 12-bed patient. Now that she heard that the family members showed such a side, she was really worried about this young patient.
What is Mr. Xie afraid of as a doctor?
In the top tertiary pediatric cardiac surgery department, we see family members asking the doctor through various channels every day with their child’s medical records, asking whether the doctor can perform surgery, and whether it is worthwhile to continue treatment. These family members who inquired eventually chose to give up the treatment.
The proportion of children who undergo surgical treatment is difficult for outsiders to imagine, and more than half are the norm.