novelraw Chapter 358 - 186: Director Yang’s Gratitude, Neck and Neck_2
Chapter 358 - 186: Director Yang’s Gratitude, Neck and Neck_2
Director Yang, being quite advanced in age and a senior in the field of medicine, couldn’t really refuse when someone offered a toast, could he?
"Ah, I’m not afraid of being laughed at when I say this, but I’m like that tree by the roadside. It’s just a piece of bark living, and for me, it’s a matter of face. A family member insulted me in front of many hospital colleagues, saying I was only good at analyzing feces and called me a quack doctor. At that time, I felt so wronged! Yet, there was no place to vent. That baby had been transferred from the children’s hospital because they didn’t treat him well enough, so I had to be extra cautious with such a patient! If things aren’t clear, how could I easily draw conclusions?
I really had no way to deal with an impatient family member.
But now it’s all good. She gave me a banner in front of everyone, all the misunderstandings were cleared up, and I regained my dignity.
At that moment, I was truly happier than when I was awarded Outstanding Young Talent nationally."
After two glasses of wine, Director Yang poured out all these heartfelt words.
Everyone needs to vent.
Keeping everything bottled up inside can be especially exhausting and repressive.
It feels much better after letting it out.
No one expected that Director Yang had been awarded Outstanding Young Talent, which is a very prestigious personal honor.
Outstanding Young Talent is also known as Minor Distinguished Talent, slightly less than Distinguished Talent.
The difficulty of being awarded is very high.
The People’s Hospital truly deserves to be one of the two strongest hospitals in Lijiang City, their strength is rock solid.
The quality of its talent is astonishingly high.
"I deeply understand such feelings from Director Yang. I remember when I just started working, I had a graduate degree from a prestigious school, so I was considered quite outstanding. After practicing for a while, the hospital had me take consultations in the outpatient department. Then there was this official’s wife who questioned my diagnosis in 800 different ways. I told her if she didn’t agree with my diagnosis, she could see another doctor.
She left angrily at that time.
Not long after, she came back and cursed me as a quack doctor, a killer, accusing my diagnosis of being wrong.
She said she consulted a well-known physician who told her it was nothing serious."
Lian Tao shared a story from his career development.
Every doctor experiences different things and grows little by little because of them.
"So how did it turn out later?"
Li Jingsheng inquired further.
The lobsters here really are big, much larger than crayfish.
The chef’s skills are excellent; they made several cuts on the back and belly of the shrimp, letting the flavor seep into the meat.
"Later, she made quite a fuss, which alarmed the hospital leadership. She was an official’s wife, after all. Naturally, the hospital leadership wanted to appease her somehow. They had me apologize to her in the office. I was really suffocating at that time. It was then that I understood how humble we doctors are in the face of power."
Sharing about the grievances and unfair treatment he received back then, Lian Tao still wore an expression of unresolved anger.
"About three months later, that official’s wife came back again. This time she was brought to the emergency department by an ambulance, and the emergency department couldn’t handle it, so they called doctors from our department to take over. I went to the emergency department with an intern, and when I saw that official’s wife, she was already on her last breath, her face had wasted away to almost nothing but skin and bones. She needed to wear a breathing mask to sustain her life.
The result from the imaging showed bowel cancer with multiple metastasis.
She was treated in our hospital, spending over a million yuan, but eventually, she still passed away. Once, in tears, she said to me, Dr. Lian, I really regret not listening to your diagnosis back then.
Disease is cruel like that, not giving people a chance to regret."
As Lian Tao spoke about the official’s wife’s death, his expression took on even more compassion.
"Who did she consult later on? Tumors in the bowel shouldn’t be hard to detect, right?"
Li Jingsheng also sighed.
Doctors treat patients as if they were family, doing everything they can to cure their illnesses.
But patients don’t understand, often filing complaints and questioning everything, leaving doctors disheartened.
"What really makes me angry is that she consulted a so-called miracle doctor, who was pure fraud."
This is really a case where good advice falls on deaf ears, and compassion fails to save someone determined to perish.
The fact that the official’s wife didn’t trust the regular big hospital doctors but instead trusted a fraudulent miracle doctor meant her death was not in vain at all.
"Her husband was an official. After realizing they’d been scammed, didn’t he cause any trouble for that miracle doctor?"
Some people are born to live off their deceit.
They can talk glibly, are articulate and persuasive, always finding some unlucky people to deceive.
"I heard that her husband was arrested later on. He was deceived by that miracle doctor for more than fifty million yuan. That person was not only a fraud but also a broker who helped her husband by running for office, scamming a lot of money."
It’s truly a tragedy within a tragedy.
A family was ruined and devastated by a con artist, such a pity.
"By the way, Jingsheng, I remember your internal medicine diagnosis is quite good, how about your chest surgery diagnosis?"
Lian Tao seemed to recall something important.
"So-so, I know a bit about it. Is there a tricky case you want me to consult on together?"
Li Jingsheng and he usually had some private conversations as well.
They mostly talked about cases.
For instance, if Li Jingsheng encountered an uncertain internal medicine case at his clinic, he would ask Lian Tao, essentially conducting a joint consultation.
Lian Tao is a chief physician at the People’s Hospital, his skills are naturally not lacking.
From Li Jingsheng’s diagnostic approach and questions, Lian Tao could feel Li Jingsheng’s capability.
"If you say so-so, it can’t be that bad. This patient is a 40-year-old female who does physically demanding work. She has had a fever, cough, phlegm, and purulent nasal discharge for nearly three months, and we’ve done all the necessary tests for her. She was treated for chronic rhinitis at the local hospital without any effect, and the illness kept relapsing. Then she came to our hospital for help. A resident physician saw her and gave her penicillin and streptomycin to treat her inflammation. About eight or nine days afterward, her temperature returned to normal, but she still had a cough and phlegm. The patient reported feeling a bit breathless."