Chapter 646: Patients, family members, and doctors work together to repay their teachers
He has cured no less than four hundred cases of neurological diseases.
Among them were 23 extremely difficult cases that were sentenced to death by other hospitals. All of them were caused by car accidents, falls from heights, or spinal nerve damage caused by dancing. After his meticulous surgery, supplemented by the patients' own tenacious exercise, they eventually recovered some of their nerve functions, or almost all of them.
The success of these operations not only earned Zhou Can a high reputation and made him a famous doctor in the field of neurosurgery, but also allowed him to accumulate more experience in the treatment and diagnosis of spinal nerves.
Many of the experiences and insights cannot be learned from other doctors.
Even Wu Baihe now often seeks help from him to discuss some difficult neurological cases.
Every doctor has his or her own understanding and comprehension, way of thinking, direction of thinking, and comprehensive application of medical knowledge, even including the application of surgical knowledge and experience in treatment plans. These are all critical.
Don’t think that Zhou Can has been following Wu Baihe to learn surgical and medical knowledge in the field of neurosurgery.
However, two people may have very different opinions on the same case.
For example, they treated a case of lumbar injury in which a worker was unfortunately pierced through the body by a steel bar while working on a construction site. In addition to damage to organs and tissues such as the intestines and peritoneum in the abdominal cavity, the most serious injury was to the lumbar spine.
When the patient was sent to the hospital, he had completely lost sensation in his lower body.
After an emergency surgery, the steel bar was removed and the damaged intestine in the abdominal cavity was repaired. Zhou Can personally cleaned the wound for the patient to ensure that the probability of abdominal infection was minimized.
After the operation, the patient developed mild peritonitis, but he survived with timely medication and nutritional support, as well as his good physical foundation and immunity.
After the abdominal wound healed, the patient's life was saved, but he still had no sensation in his lower body.
According to this situation, the patient will need to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair or in a hospital bed, unable to take care of himself and need lifelong care from his family.
Zhou Can remembers clearly the morning when he urged the family to arrange for discharge from the hospital.
After finishing his rounds in the emergency department, he routinely went to the inpatient department of neurosurgery to check on the inpatients who had been treated by him or had been involved in his diagnosis and treatment.
I happened to see the nurse urging the patient's family to be discharged from the hospital as soon as possible.
Unlike small hospitals that want to keep patients in the hospital forever, Tuya Hospital has a limited number of beds and strict assessment standards. If a patient fails to recover or stays in the hospital for too long, money and points will be deducted.
In fact, even small hospitals have an evaluation mechanism. It is not an in-hospital evaluation, but the competent department has a set of evaluation standards.
Small hospitals often discharge patients after 15 days and then readmit them for hospitalization.
Some people even revealed that some elderly people actually had no illnesses, but were simply dragged there by doctors to seek hospitalization. During the day, four elderly people sat at a table, playing mahjong or cards, with food and accommodation provided.
You can also go home at night.
It doesn't cost a penny.
Because they get money from medical insurance.
Top hospitals like Tuya are completely the opposite. As long as they feel that the patient has almost recovered or that they meet the conditions to go home and recuperate, they will immediately urge the patient to be discharged.
At that time, the patient who had lost consciousness in his lower body was half-sitting on the hospital bed. His wife and two children were guarding the bedside and bringing him water for brushing his teeth and washing his face.
The nurse urged them to be discharged from the hospital, and both the family and the patient agreed.
After all, the cost of staying here for a day is not low.
More expensive than staying in a hotel.
As a result, when the patient saw Zhou Can coming in for rounds, he looked at Zhou Can with almost pleading eyes.
"Dr. Zhou, thank you and Director Wu for saving my life. My lower body is paralyzed now, and my wife has to take care of me for everything, including eating, drinking, defecating and urinating. I have an older child in junior high school, so how can the four of them survive? Please, think of a way to help me get better!"
The man sat on the bed and bowed to Zhou Can, asking Zhou Can to help him treat his lower body paralysis.
You can see that the skin on the patient's hands is rough and covered with scars left by injuries.
" Uncle doctor, please help my dad!"
The two children are very sensible. The younger one is less than three years old, and the older one is just over four years old.
They all knelt in front of Zhou Can and begged him to cure their father.
"Hurry up, kids! Your father's lumbar spine is seriously injured. It's not that I don't want to help him, but I am limited. With the current medical technology and level, it is difficult to cure this kind of spinal central nervous system injury."
Zhou Can pulled the two children up and looked at this scene. To be honest, he felt very sad.
The patient's wife remained silent.
When Zhou Can finished checking the room and was about to leave, he could see despair in the man's eyes.
The two children lay on the edge of the bed, looking at their father.
The female family member chased out.
"Doctor Zhou, please think of a solution, okay? At least give my husband hope to live. He has secretly written a suicide note on his phone without telling me. I can't live without my husband, and my three children can't live without their father. I am willing to endure any hardship or suffering. Even if he can't get up for the rest of his life, I am willing to take care of him. I just ask you to give him hope to live, okay?"
Her eyes were filled with tears.
This woman must be somewhat cultured.
At least the wisdom and ideas she displayed made Zhou Can respect her.
To be honest, what I see most in the hospital is the cruel reality and dark human nature.
Many women or men, upon learning that their partner is paralyzed for life or has become a vegetable, choose to leave without saying goodbye and lose contact with them.
The most hateful thing is that kind-hearted people in the society donated money to the female patient for her treatment.
As a result, the man ran away with the money.
The woman was left in the hospital crying her heart out and attempted suicide seven times. Later, two nurses had to be sent to monitor the patient 24 hours a day.
When Zhou Can looked at the woman's pleading eyes, even his hardest heart softened.
"How about this, I'll talk to Director Wu again, and you don't have to discharge him yet. We can try to perform a second operation on your husband, but no one can predict the final result. Anyway, he is now paralyzed from the waist down, and the worst result is that he can't be cured and will be paralyzed for life. If the treatment is successful, he can stand up again, which will be of great benefit to your family, you, and your child."
Zhou Can would not easily say these words to the family members.
Because some family members secretly record the conversation, and when the doctor fails to cure the disease, they turn around and attack the doctor.
Even took the doctor to court.
What do you think the family wants to do when they sue the doctor? They want to get a large sum of money from the hospital to make up for the patient's losses.
This practice must be chilling for doctors.
There’s nothing we can do about it, some family members are just like that.
"Doctor Zhou, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, please help my husband with his treatment. Even if I have to sell everything I have, I will raise the medical expenses. No matter what the final result is, I can accept it."
This woman is really nice.
Sometimes, if a man can marry a virtuous wife, it can definitely bring prosperity to three generations. It is a blessing earned in several lifetimes.
After the family members agreed, Zhou Can went to discuss the matter with Wu Baihe.
Wu Baihe believed that the patient's lumbar spinal nerves were damaged, which could not be repaired.
After research, Zhou Can found that the patient's spinal nerve damage was not complete, but there was also spinal nerve compression caused by damage to the lumbar vertebrae, which was a double damage.
It is relatively rare in clinical practice.
It is a disease caused by two or more causes at the same time.
Later, after in-depth research and discussion between the two, Wu Baihe believed that Zhou Can's discovery was correct.
Next, a complete surgical repair plan was developed for the patient. Zhou Can performed the operation personally, while Wu Baihe stepped back and performed the operation on the side.
Because it requires multiple surgeries, the cost is high.
The repair of the vertebrae in particular is extremely complex.
The total cost was more than 370,000 yuan.
This is an astronomical figure for this poor family that has already been depleted of its assets.
Zhou Can used his influence to launch a fundraising campaign for the patients online.
Maybe the article was well written, or the patient's family situation aroused the sympathy and love of many people. More than 420,000 yuan was raised in just one day. After Zhou Can found out, he stopped the fundraising in time.
The extra 50,000 yuan can be used as the patient's future rehabilitation expenses.
After five operations, the patient's lower body is still paralyzed, but he has regained his pain sensation and knee bounce reflex.
Zhou Can boldly predicted that the patient's spinal nerves had been successfully repaired, and that he would have hope of standing up again as long as he persisted in scientific and reasonable rehabilitation training.
I remember that about five months later, one day, Zhou Can suddenly received a call from the patient's wife.
"Doctor Zhou, I have good news for you. My husband can urinate on his own today."
Patients with paralysis of the lower body often suffer from incontinence.
The patient was able to regain the ability to urinate independently, which is a great improvement.
The patient's wife on the other end of the phone was choked with sobs.
You should be in an excited state of crying for joy.
Zhou Can encouraged her to let the patient persist in rehabilitation training and try to start the second phase of rehabilitation training movements.
Of course, the help of the patient’s wife is indispensable.
For example, helping patients lift their legs, helping patients stand up, etc.
Moreover, this type of rehabilitation training is extremely painful. Whether it is the patient or the family, if one party cannot persist, all the previous efforts will be wasted.
About three months later, Zhou Can had already cured many difficult central nervous system injuries in neurosurgery and was well-known. He could .
Only the brainstem area remains a semi- forbidden zone.
He can handle the peripheral areas, but he still dares not cross the line in the core areas.
Because it's too dangerous.
If the treatment kills the patient or causes wider disability, paralysis, or loss of organ function, it would be a very serious medical accident.
The brainstem is the main nerve center of the entire body. Sometimes a small insignificant trauma can directly cause the patient to lose autonomous breathing.
I'm not kidding.
This happened when they were rescuing a patient who had been in a car accident.
On that day, Zhou Can was performing surgery on a patient in the emergency department's operating room when he heard a nurse run in and tell him that a lion dance team had come outside, holding a large banner.
He said he wanted to thank doctors Zhou Can and Wu Baihe from Tuya Hospital for curing his paralysis, so he specially invited a lion dance team and drove more than 600 kilometers to express his gratitude.
Zhou Can handed the surgery in his hands to two doctors under him and went out to check.
Wow, there is a lion dance team outside, accompanied by a gong and drum team, just like the New Year.
Dancing and having fun outside the emergency department.
The person walking in front was holding a banner in his hand and had a bright smile on his face.
The two people holding the banner were none other than the man with paralysis in his lower body and his wife.
Seeing this scene, Zhou Can felt particularly relieved and happy.
After treatment and rehabilitation training, the patient finally created a medical miracle and stood up again.
When he walks, his lower limbs are still a little stiff, but as long as he continues to exercise, he should be able to walk like a normal person in a few months.
It was not Zhou Can alone who cured this patient.
He called Wu Baihe and told him to accept the banner and let the patient go. Don't block the hospital's lifeline.
When Wu Baihe heard that Zhou Can wanted the patient to take the lion dance team to the Department of Neurosurgery, he became so anxious that he swore.
Threaten him if he dares to do this and tell him not to go to neurosurgery again.
It is human nature to love fame and fortune.
But after reaching Wu Baihe's level, he began to care less about fame and fortune.
Zhou Can accepted the banners presented by the patients and their families, thanked them, and quickly dismissed the band and lion dance team.
Unexpectedly, this incident accidentally made the news and various media outlets rushed to report it.
Zhou Can's fame in the field of neurosurgery suddenly rose to more than one dimension.
After becoming famous, more patients came to him.
Every patient hopes that the doctor can help them relieve their pain and cure their illness.
Zhou Can's ability and energy are actually very limited.
Most of the patients who come here because of its reputation flock to the neurosurgery department and are treated by other doctors.
The business volume of the neurosurgery department skyrocketed, which made Wu Baihe overjoyed and he was very happy for a while.
Zhou Can saw that the time was almost ripe.
That day, he drove alone to an official-controlled area in the city.
There are many green trees here, and you can see buildings hidden among them. Those who can live here must be powerful and wealthy.
Standing at the door was a sentry, his posture tall and straight.
There are not many places in the entire provincial capital that have such high-standard security.
Zhou Can's Mercedes-Benz slowly drove to the entrance.
Without a doubt, he was stopped.
"Hello, I'm Zhou Can, a doctor at Tuya Hospital. This is my work permit and ID card. I came here specially to visit Mr. Song Dingxian."
This Mr. Song Dingxian is none other than the patient who suffered a medical accident from Dr. Xu.
It also changed Dr. Xu's life.
Zhou Can had the idea of repaying his teacher's kindness a long time ago and had been preparing for it over the years. Now he had the conditions to do so.
Although he was not completely sure, it was enough for him to be qualified to meet Mr. Song Dingxian.
"Do you have an appointment?"
"No."
"Please wait a moment while we make the announcement."
The sentry was very polite to Zhou Can and went straight back to his booth to make a phone call to report.
