190: Killing or saving lives, the hospital cannot have no bottom line!

Chapter 190: Killing or Saving? A Hospital Must Have a Bottom Line!

"What if Bai Ji disregards the patient's life and insists on operating?"

"Wang Baoguo's condition can't withstand such a ordeal!"

Although Lu Chenxi completely understood Lin Yi's meaning, she was still a little worried that Bai Ji might act recklessly without a bottom line.

She couldn't let their conflict delay or worsen the patient's condition...

"You don't have to worry about that. Bai Ji is as cunning as a monkey; he would never do anything he's not confident about."

Seeing that Lu Chenxi was still uneasy about Bai Ji's character, Lin Yi could only comfort her.

"Teacher Lu, don't worry. If he insists on going his own way, I will definitely step in at the critical moment. As a doctor, I would never put a patient's life in danger!"

Lin Yi had his own confidence to make such a guarantee.

When he and Lu Chenxi studied Wang Baoguo's condition, he knew very well that Lu Chenxi could perform the patient's aortic valve replacement, and Bai Ji could also handle it with ease.

The key difficulty lay in the coronary artery blockage. Due to the patient's age and physical condition, the blood vessels could no longer withstand interventional or replacement surgery. For the current Thoracic Surgery Department, this was almost unsolvable, and they could only adopt conservative treatment and let the patient wait for death.

But Lin Yi was different. With the Perfect Level Suturing Technique, even if the patient's blood vessels were riddled with holes, Lin Yi could restore them to their original state, let alone a simple incision and thrombectomy.

What was impossible in others' eyes was just a trifle for Lin Yi...

"Hearing you say that, I'm completely relieved."

Only then did Lu Chenxi's furrowed brows completely relax.

What she feared most was that the young Lin Yi, being impulsive, would allow a patient who truly needed treatment to suffer collateral damage due to a fit of pique.

Now it seemed she had worried too much.

Lin Yi's adherence to his duties as a doctor was absolutely worthy of his profession...

"Just as you said, I really want to see now what kind of wonderful expression Bai Ji, that old schemer, will have after fully understanding the patient's condition!"

Completely relieved, Lu Chenxi finally felt a hint of satisfaction from revenge.

From the moment she became Bai Ji's subordinate in the Thoracic Surgery Department, she had been suppressed by the Department Director at every turn, and her work had never been smooth.

Even after being marginalized to the Emergency Department, he continued to haunt her, looking for trouble whenever he had a chance.

However, in terms of both skill and seniority, Lu Chenxi was inferior to him in every aspect, and she had no better means of retaliation other than enduring it in frustration.

The arrival of her student, Lin Yi, brought Lu Chenxi a ray of hope.

As long as she could make Bai Ji suffer, Lu Chenxi felt relieved from the bottom of her Heart...

After completing all pre-operative preparations, to prevent occupational exposure from contact with the patient's blood, Lin Yi and Lu Chenxi added an extra layer of protective measures.

Only then did they follow Bai Ji and Zhuang Shu into the operating room where the patient was located.

"Patient Name: Wang Baoguo; Age: 80 years old; Admitted due to penicillin allergy. After examination, the patient has syphilitic Heart disease caused by tertiary syphilis... Surgical procedures: Aortic valve replacement, coronary artery dredging..."

Due to the emergency surgery and the fact that Director Bai was unaware of the patient's specific condition beforehand.

After entering the operating room, the task of confirming patient information had to be completed by other medical staff inside.

But when the patient's detailed condition was clearly introduced, and even various examination reports were retrieved, Bai Ji's gaze towards Lin Yi had turned sinister, emitting a cannibalistic green light.

"Damn it! I've been hunting geese all my life, but a goose pecked out my eyes!"

"No wonder this kid agreed so readily; he was waiting for me here..."

Bai Ji cursed Lin Yi's ancestors countless times in his Heart.

Opening the chest of an eighty-year-old patient and performing vascular dredging surgery—is this something a doctor should do?

The Emergency Department is really ruthless. Performing surgery on a patient of this age, isn't this practically taking an old person's life?

Lu Chenxi also learned to use her brain. To get revenge, she and a new kid put on a double act in front of him.

It was also Director Bai's momentary carelessness that led him into their trap...

"With this degree of coronary artery blockage, there's no need for surgery at all. Isn't this just causing trouble for the Hospital?"

"At this age, it's better to go home and rest, eat well, drink well, and keep a happy mood. Maybe he'll live a little longer."

"The old gentleman looks like a romantic. Tertiary syphilis only manifesting now means he hasn't lived in vain!"

"The difficulty of this surgery is no less than the gallbladder cancer surgery just now. We're in for a treat today..."

"Isn't this absurd! Over-operating on a patient who can't undergo surgery—is it killing or saving? A Hospital should at least have some bottom line..."

When the patient's age and specific condition were fully revealed to the Expert Professors in the observation room, intense discussions broke out.

From a professional doctor's perspective, this surgery was completely unnecessary, let alone expecting any surgical outcome.

The Central Hospital performing surgery on an 80-year-old patient with tertiary syphilis was questionable in itself.

To be blunt, in the entire Northwest Five Provinces, there was no successful precedent for Heart surgery in such a situation...

"Old Bai, Old Bai, don't be reckless!"

"The best solution at this point is to decisively end this surgery..."

Director Cui gritted her teeth, secretly praying that Director Bai would not act on impulse and would make the most correct choice.

Although they had clear differences in their styles of conduct, and even often disagreed for the sake of their respective career developments.

But first and foremost, they were doctors, and the professional ethics of a benevolent doctor, saving lives and helping the injured, must be remembered.

If, for the sake of one's own development and reputation, one disregarded a patient's life, that would be a crime.

Director Cui would risk her life to prevent such a thing from happening...

However, Director Cui couldn't directly intervene at this moment. If she undermined Director Bai, it might have the opposite effect.

Although there was a difference in their titles, Vice President and Department Director, Bai Ji, who held the same administrative rank, also had the right to act expediently within his jurisdiction...

"Professor Zhuang, what do you think of this situation?"

"You are a great expert in interventional therapy. Given the patient's current physical condition, is there any possibility of interventional vascular dredging?"

Bai Ji turned to look at Zhuang Shu, anxiously asking the question he cared about most.

As long as the patient's coronary artery blockage could be resolved, he could guarantee that this surgery would achieve the most perfect outcome.

But the question was, could the blood vessels of a patient of this age withstand interventional dredging?

There were no successful cases in China yet; whether it would succeed or not depended on Professor Zhuang, who had returned from overseas.

Could he save his life at the critical moment...