godfather of surgery

Chapter 1042 Lifelong Follow-up
The scalp is rich in blood vessels, so wounds heal very quickly. Generally, the stitches on head and facial wounds can be removed in 3-5 days. Li Gaoyang's surgical incision had the stitches removed 5 days after the operation. After another one or two days of observation and no problems, he was discharged from the hospital and returned home.

Li Gaoyang was very satisfied with his medical treatment trip to China. The scar had healed and the pain had been forgotten. Now Li Gaoyang had completely forgotten the death threat and suffocating feeling that the previous illness brought him.

Now, Li Gaoyang's mind is full of revenge plans. He hates Huang Jiacai so much that he wants to break his teeth. Huang Jiacai took advantage of the opportunity to help him get medical treatment and grabbed a lot of benefits from him.

It has always been Li Gaoyang who made others suffer losses, but now it is Li Gaoyang who is suffering losses at the hands of others, and the loss is very big.

Yang Ping made his final ward rounds with Li Gaoyang. During the rounds, Li Gaoyang's humble attitude of asking for help from others completely disappeared, and he was replaced by the arrogant American boss. Yang Ping thought he was ridiculous. How could this person's attitude change 180 degrees before and after the operation? Although he had encountered such patients before, with completely different faces before and after the operation, even the patients who changed their faces the fastest before were not as good as Li Gaoyang now. It really gave Yang Ping a lot of experience.

However, Yang Ping still has many patients. Li Gaoyang is just one of Yang Ping's many patients, and in Yang Ping's eyes, he is just a patient, so Yang Ping will not follow his attitude at all.

After Yang Ping finished his rounds, a graduate student came over to verify Li Gaoyang's phone number, address, email address, and other communication tool accounts. The graduate student had to enter all this information into the computer's follow-up system to ensure that all the information was true and reliable, because Li Gaoyang's situation required follow-up for at least ten years, and if possible, lifelong follow-up.

After verifying the follow-up information, the graduate student handed him a follow-up notice. Li Gaoyang took the follow-up notice and read it word by word.

"Follow-up? Isn't it said that the probability of recurrence of this type of tumor is very small?" Li Gaoyang asked, feeling a little scared.

The graduate student said calmly in a very official tone, "All of our cases require follow-up. Although the probability of recurrence in your case is small, it is not completely zero, and your surgery was a little late, so the probability of recurrence will be relatively higher. Once this type of tumor recurs, the difficulty of surgery will be higher than it is now. Only Professor Yang can perform the surgery on you at that time, so the contact information you leave must be true and valid, and do not change it at will. If there is any change, please inform us immediately. This is our follow-up team's contact number, email address, WeChat account, etc. We will not change these contact information. With conditions like yours, lifelong follow-up is completely possible."

Li Gaoyang felt cold in his heart after hearing this: "Lifelong follow-up? Do you mean that we may have to let Professor Yang perform the surgery?"

"Yes! We will give you a form for regular check-ups, and send the results to our email address each time. We have someone dedicated to handling it. This type of tumor is very atypical when it is checked in the early stages, and most doctors in the world do not have relevant film reading experience, so you must send the MRI film to us and let us read it, so as to avoid misdiagnosis." The graduate student's explanation was very detailed.

The more detailed the explanation, the more uneasy Li Gaoyang felt, because this meant that he was bound to Yang Ping for the rest of his life.

"You mean, I have to keep in touch with Professor Yang for the rest of my life?" Li Gaoyang swallowed his bitter saliva and said. He didn't know whether the bitterness in his mouth was caused by fear or by the medicine he had taken not long ago.

The graduate student said, “That’s not necessary.”

This made Li Gaoyang feel much more relaxed and he breathed a sigh of relief.

"With the development of medicine, one day many neurosurgeons will be able to perform this type of surgery. At that time, you can complete the follow-up consultation locally," the graduate student added.

Li Gaoyang had just breathed a sigh of relief, but now he shuddered again at the graduate student's words.

Medicine will develop someday! When will it be? Ten, twenty, fifty years? This is highly uncertain, just like one day mankind will be able to eliminate war, and at that time the earth will be one family, and everyone will live in harmony and be as close as brothers. Is this realistic? Not at all. To be more precise, this is a completely comforting language, which only has emotional soothing value, not practical value.

This is actually a lifetime bond with Professor Yang. "Among the cases you are currently following up, are there any recurrences?" Li Gaoyang frowned.

"Of course!" the graduate student said without hiding anything.

"What's the probability?"

“The data has not been sorted yet, so it cannot be disclosed. Doing so will mislead patients and add unnecessary pressure on them. But I can tell you that the probability of recurrence of this case is much higher than the statistics in textbooks and previous literature. This is because many doctors previously did not have enough knowledge about this disease and there was a lack of follow-up data, so the statistical data produced has no reference value at all.” The graduate student’s explanation was very cautious and professional.

Sweat broke out on Li Gaoyang's forehead. He felt that the young doctor in front of him was unreliable and suspected of misleading and intimidating patients. He decided to go and ask Professor Yang Ping in person.
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In Yang Ping's office.

Li Gaoyang sat opposite Yang Ping. Some hair had grown on his bald head and it was no longer as shiny as before.

"Professor Yang, will my condition recur? Do I need lifelong follow-up examinations?"

Yang Ping didn't even think about it and answered directly in English: "In theory, any tumor has the possibility of recurrence. If conditions permit, lifelong review is strongly recommended."

"What is the probability of recurrence?" Li Gaoyang felt that Professor Yang's words carried much more weight than those of the graduate student.

"For you, it's either zero or 100 percent. To us doctors, you are just one of many statistical specimens, so statistical probability doesn't mean much to you. You just need to do regular check-ups. Haven't the doctors in our follow-up team provided you with pre-discharge education yet?" Yang Ping was very curious. How come he didn't know anything and still came to ask him?

"There is education, there is education. If it relapses, are there any ways to deal with it?" Li Gaoyang continued to ask.

"Keep in close contact with us. Once you find signs of recurrence, perform surgery as soon as possible to eliminate the disease in its infancy. This is our three early principles: early detection, early diagnosis, and early treatment. Therefore, follow-up is very important. As long as conditions permit, try to follow up throughout your life to ensure your subsequent health. Do you have any other questions?" Yang Ping saw that Li Gaoyang's face was not very good.

"There's no problem now. Can I go back to the United States for a follow-up checkup at Mayo? I'm very busy." Li Gaoyang is a little confused now.

Yang Ping said: "Of course you can, but you have to feed back the test results to us. In your case, Mayo currently does not have the ability to make early diagnosis of recurrence."

"Okay, Professor Yang, thank you. Can you ask a nurse to push me back?" Li Gaoyang's legs were weak now and he couldn't stand up.

Yang Ping was very confused. Wasn't he fine when he first came? He walked in by himself. Besides, he recovered well after the operation and his motor ability was not affected at all.

"Are you feeling unwell?" Yang Ping asked.

Li Gaoyang shook his head: "Just a little tired."