Oncology Physician Life

Chapter 73 Chapter 72
The next day, in the doctor's office of the oncology department, the interns gathered together and watched the video of the heart replacement and tumor removal operation jointly performed by the Cardiac Surgery Department and the Children's Oncology Department many times.

Even though everyone had already heard the complicated and thrilling operation process recounted by the online doctors, they still couldn’t help seeing the complicated and dizzying operation in the video, as well as the one-and-a-half-hour-long heart arrest of the donor. Startled.

Shu Yusheng sat in his seat, feeling very complicated. Yesterday he experienced the whole operation process in the observation room with his own eyes. He couldn't help but wonder if he was the one who performed the operation at that time. Save the girl?

The answer is no.

There is an indispensable factor in this operation, and that is Jiang Li.

In the seat beside him, after watching the video, Xu Youshu couldn't help expressing emotion: "Professor Jiang's ability is really admirable. How did she do it? Accurately judge the donor's heart disease in the first time." In the case of mitral valve stenosis, a second bioprosthetic replacement of the donor heart can be performed in an undisturbed manner!"

Tan Tan turned around and shook his head: "At that time, I had already given up. The donor heart re-beated six times, all of which ended in failure. After nearly an hour and a half of beating, the patient's donor heart unexpectedly recovered. It's like a comeback, I can only say, this is a medical miracle!"

"It's not a miracle!"

Shu Yusheng sat on the wheelchair with a serious face, and refuted Tan Tan's words.

"At that time, the patient's heart transplant was completed, and the donor heart had re-beated successfully, indicating that there was no problem with the heart transplant operation. The subsequent ventricular fibrillation of the donor heart was due to the stress response of immune rejection, which triggered the mitral valve stenosis of the donor heart. Under the chain reaction of the two, this hidden danger is completely magnified in this heart transplant operation!"

Shu Yusheng raised his head and glanced at the doctors in the office: "The real test of this operation is only the test of the chief surgeon. In this extremely complicated operation, the donor's heart has stopped beating for an hour and a half. Under such circumstances, any doctor will have self-doubt. Is the patient dead? Is the operation a failure? Most doctors will rescue, but no one will insist on resuscitating the situation for an hour and a half? I am now I can understand why Professor Dong Tianshu would say that to Professor Jiang Li after the patient was successfully rescued when he gave up!"

Xu Youshu asked curiously: "What did Professor Dong Tianshu say to Professor Jiang?"

Shu Yusheng smiled knowingly: "Professor Dong Tianshu said that he is very grateful to Professor Jiang, thank her for not giving up on this girl!"

Xu Youshu glanced at the other interns in the office, but they were all at a loss.

Shu Yusheng didn't have any explanation, but deep down in his heart, he found the answer that puzzled him for a long time!

When he was in Hokkaido University, his teacher once asked him a question: What kind of doctor is a good doctor for patients?
At that time Shu Yusheng didn't know, because the answer was too general.

Is a doctor who is responsible to patients a good doctor?
But every oncologist can be said to be serious and responsible to patients.

But can these doctors be called good doctors?

They are simply living up to their work ethic.

But today, Shu Yusheng knew that he had found the answer.

A doctor who will not give up the patient's life under any extreme conditions is a good doctor!
On Jiang Li, it reminded him of a sentence he saw once!

Every oncologist is the last gatekeeper at the gate of heaven.

After a while, Wei Chen walked into the office with a few large packages of fried chicken.

"Smelly boys, you have a good fortune today!"

He put down the delicious fried chicken in his hand, and said, "Today, Director Qi Song, in order to congratulate the success of the joint operation with the heart surgery department yesterday, we paid out of our own pockets at noon and invited everyone to eat fried chicken!"

The interns in the office burst into cheers immediately, scrambling around the table to get behind.

On the other side, Jiang Li took Yang Xiaolan and Lu Jiajia, two interns, to the special needs ward early in the morning for rounds.

The few wards I will go to today are a bit special, and they are all patients with poor prognosis.

Passing through the automatic door in the corridor, the three of them passed the dispensing room and walked forward for more than ten steps, and arrived at the innermost wards of the corridor.

When Lu Jiajia passed the half-closed casement, he could obviously feel a wave of heat rushing towards him.

Zhao Lihua, deputy director of the Radiation Therapy Department, was explaining the treatment plan of Gamma Knife to one of the family members of the patients. Seeing Jiang Li approaching, she nodded slightly with a serious face.

Zhao Lihua is an old doctor in the radiology department. She is in her early 50s this year. Her usual style of work is different from the director of the radiology department Tao Dawei's sense of humor.

Standing at the door of the first ward, Jiang Li pressed lightly on the hand sanitizer hanging in the corridor, and rubbed the back of his hand repeatedly with his palm. After a simple disinfection treatment, he entered the ward.

Lu Jiajia and Yang Xiaolan followed closely behind.

This is the room of a leukemia patient.

The room is not too big, it can only accommodate a hospital bed and two medical cabinets.

At this moment, there was a bald girl lying on the ward. She looked very quiet and her eyes were particularly large, but overall she gave off a sickly paleness.

Lu Jiajia glanced at the medical records in his hand.

The girl was only 18 years old, and she had chronic myelogenous leukemia and needed chemotherapy, so she couldn't keep her long black hair.

Probably no girl can accept the appearance of her bald head. After all, girls love beauty.

Yang Xiaolan noticed the card hanging in front of the hospital bed. The girl had a very demure name, Li Sisi.

Jiang Li walked to Li Sisi's hospital bed with a gentle smile on his face and a small soft hammer in his hand.

She smiled at Li Sisi: "How do you feel today? Are you feeling better?"

Li Sisi looked up at this gentle female doctor, her eyes stayed on her rolled up hair for a few seconds, and a gentle smile appeared on the corner of her mouth: "Sister doctor, your hair is so beautiful!"

Jiang Li's eyes swept over Li Sisi's bald head, and his eyes softened a lot. He squatted down and approached the bed so that she could see his hair more clearly.

She whispered to Li Sisi: "When you recover from illness, you will have such beautiful hair as my sister!"

Li Sisi nodded happily: "Then I have to get better soon!"

Jiang Li picked up the little soft pendant, and gently lifted Li Sisi's leg: "Then let me check on my princess, how is her body recovering recently?"

The bald girl on the hospital bed obediently followed Jiang Li's instructions and raised her slender left leg. Jiang Li tapped the girl's joints with a soft hammer.

Li Sisi's voice was very sweet, "I feel numb."

"The physical function is recovering well, don't slack off, and keep exercising every day in the future!"

Jiang Li nodded, praised her, turned to look at Yang Xiaolan, and asked: "The patient's dose of chemotherapy these days is very high, and she has become severely thinner. After a while, you and your family members will specifically ask you not to give her any treatment in the near future." Eat foods that contain nitrite, and pay more attention to supplementing fruits and vitamins."

Yang Xiaolan hurriedly picked up the notebook and recorded Jiang Li's words one by one.

Just when Jiang Li turned to leave, Li Sisi looked at her back and suddenly asked, "Sister Doctor, can you visit me more often in the future?"

Jiang Li turned his head and smiled softly: "From now on, my sister will come to see you every day until it makes you tired of watching!"

Li Sisi nodded happily: "That's great, I like the doctor's sister the most."

Jiang Li is the very talented girl who took over last week.

The other party was originally a student of the Dance Department of the Art Academy, but suddenly fainted on the stage and was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia.

This kind of disease will make Li Sisi faint or die at any time.

Although leukemia now relies on expensive Gleevec drugs, there is a 90% chance of survival.

But Li Sisi's ordinary and ordinary family hardly allowed her to use such expensive medicines all year round. She could only use domestically produced generic medicines instead, but the cost of medicines was still the biggest financial burden for the family.

Li Sisi's father is a construction worker, his younger brother is a junior high school student, and his mother is a courier.

The family lives in a simple rented house in Shanghai. More than half of the family's salary is used for the treatment of the daughter, and the tuition fee for the youngest son is also set aside.

Li's father can only support his daughter's expensive medicine expenses with his hands twisting steel bars at the construction site during the day, and work as a delivery man at night to subsidize the family.

But Li Sisi has to take several boxes of medicine a month, which means an expenditure of tens of thousands of yuan.

In such a family, the parents do not have medical insurance to reimburse them, and they need to bear all the expenses themselves.

Actually, Jiang Li liked this little girl very much.

If they didn't have this disease, their family should be happy, right?

Jiang Li often makes such assumptions.

She assumes that Li Sisi's dream will come true one day, right?

Maybe in the future, on the stage of the Water Cube, maybe in the performance of a well-known dance troupe, you can see this little girl who dances ballet brilliantly?
When will the hypothesis become reality?

There should be such a day, the day when leukemia is completely conquered and cured, right?

For this reason, Li Sisi's family is working hard with hope!
Jiang Li walked out of the ward and walked towards the second ward.

When she passed by the window sill in the corridor, some naughty child secretly drew a stick figure on the white wall.

On the painting is a huge sunflower flower, under the flower there is a family of three, all with sunny smiling faces.

The second ward is a female singer with bone metastases from gastric cancer.

Before the three of them approached, there was a passionate opera sound in the ward.

The moment Jiang Li opened the door, the sound of the opera was like a train, rushing towards her suddenly.

Let her stand at the door for nearly a minute before she gets used to the decibels of this high voice.

The ward was decorated to look like a bedroom, with all kinds of furniture, stereos, and wedding photos, it didn't look like a ward.

The woman lying on the bed is called Zhang Xiaotian, about 35 years old, she is straightening her neck, waving her arms, slightly closing her eyes, praying devoutly.

"Emmanuel, God be with you!"

Jiang Li looked at the conspicuous stereo in the room, the restless opera was released from this big guy.

Zhang Xiaotian's husband smiled and looked at Jiang Li and the others with an apologetic expression on his face.

Jiang Li once heard this song in a church in California. It is the most popular country gospel in the United States, and it is also a hymn for Christians.

Lu Jiajia and Yang Xiaolan were still shocked.

It is difficult for them to understand that what they hear in the hospital ward is not the moans of patients, but an opera like the sounds of nature.

Amazing, grace!
(God-sent grace!)

How sweet the sound!
(What a sweet voice!)
That save da wretch like me!
(saved helpless people like me!)
Ionce wa slost but now I am found,

(I used to be lost, but now I find,)

Was blind but now I see.
(Many times of being blind, let me finally understand.)
Jiang Li seemed to turn a blind eye to Zhang Xiaotian's behavior, and checked the woman's physical condition on his own. After doing all this, he turned and left the ward, and did not raise any objection to Zhang Xiaotian's behavior from the beginning to the end.

This made Lu Jiajia very puzzled. After following Jiang Li out of the ward, she immediately asked, "Teacher Jiang, are you going to stop her?"

"Stop her for what?" Jiang Li asked instead without looking back.

"This is a hospital, not a church, let alone an opera house. Zhang Xiaotian plays opera every day, and the sound is so loud, it will affect other patients!"

Jiang Li didn't answer, but asked another question: "You two, do you know what cancer pain care is?"

The two looked at each other without answering.

Jiang Li said to himself: "For some patients with advanced cancer, when medical methods can no longer relieve their pain, the medicine is also ineffective. As the pain is discovered by cancer cells, it will continue to affect them, and even make them feel sick every day. Can't sleep, even though our doctors try their best to relieve cancer pain, there is still no effective way!"

Jiang Li stopped and turned to look at the two of them.

"This kind of cancer pain will always accompany the patients until they die, throughout the entire course of the disease, and even make their lives worse than death. Because many patients cannot bear this pain, their psychological defenses collapse and they even give up their lives. At this time, you What can I do as a doctor?"

Neither Yang Xiaolan nor Lu Jiajia could answer.

Even drugs can't relieve cancer pain. Although they are doctors, they can't help.

Jiang Li continued: "At this time, as doctors, what we can do is to comfort and encourage. The patient is not used to living in the ward and wants to decorate the ward to look like his own bedroom. Don't we even have such a small wish? Can’t you be satisfied? The patient is a singer, and only when she hears her favorite opera can she feel less pain, can’t we even satisfy their little wish?”

Facing Jiang Li's questioning, both Lu Jiajia and Yang Xiaolan fell silent.

Jiang Li looked at the two interns who were still immature, and his expression became more serious.

"We must admit that as doctors, we cannot guarantee to cure every cancer patient. Even the longer you are a doctor, the more fragile your life will be! There are too few things we doctors can do. The process of many diseases is caused by our doctors. It can’t be changed! Even our doctors can’t prevent death, and even prolong the patient’s life, our doctors can’t do it!”

"The only thing we can do is to help them as much as possible when they are in life-and-death struggle, so that they can feel the warmth of a stranger on the last journey of life before entering the gate of heaven. This is our doctor What can be done, the significance of this society is far greater than the significance of curing them!"

Jiang Li's face was indifferent, and he said earnestly.

"I hope you two, never forget what I said today, and I hope that when you become a true oncologist in the future, you can do the same thing, and that is to treat your patients with dignity. Leaving and letting them come to this world alone, they were also treated tenderly at the last moment before leaving this world!"

(End of this chapter)