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Chapter 1120: 【1120】Diagnosed Without Surprise

Chapter 1120: 【1120】Diagnosed Without Surprise

"Thank you, Teacher Wang," Xie Wanying and her colleagues immediately expressed their gratitude.

"I have a request," Doctor Wang spoke up forthrightly. "I know Dr. Tao; we are old acquaintances from numerous interactions. If he is to perform this laparoscopic surgery, I would like to go there and observe."

"Right, Doctor Wang could go there and offer some assistance," said Fang Xueqing, ultimately worried about whether her classmate Teacher Lu’s surgery could be successfully completed at Guoxie.

Xie Wanying and her colleagues could only relay the teachers’ messages back to Guoxie.

Back at Guoxie, the departmental handover meeting had ended, and Tao Zhijie anxiously waited in the office for their return. Upon finally receiving all the medical records, he took them over and eagerly sat down to examine them first.

He Guangyou asked about their experience: "Did anything happen when you went to Beidu?"

The two had been gone for nearly two hours, indicating they definitely encountered some difficulties.

Xie Wanying incidentally conveyed the requests from Teacher Fang and Doctor Wang to her senior.

After hearing what she said, He Guangyou was surprised: "Who told you that we were going to perform a laparoscopic surgery on Teacher Lu? You both are surely aware of how difficult Teacher Lu’s surgery might be."

It seemed that the senior’s idea coincided with Doctor Wang’s.

And what about Senior Tao?

Sitting behind his desk meticulously reading through the patient’s medical record, Tao Zhijie could obviously hear what was said in the room. His brows were slightly furrowed, his gaze fixed on the medical record, showing no signs of anger at what Junior Xie Wanying suggested. His silence clearly expressed his approval of Xie Wanying’s idea.

He Guangyou was taken aback: He was indeed planning as Xie Wanying had said, to take a desperate chance.

Teacher Lu chose to trust him, to trust the doctors at their own hospital, and he and his colleagues surely could not let Teacher Lu down. Thus, Tao Zhijie’s eyes flashed sharply over the medical record, his anxious dilemma hidden in his expression.

The preliminary results shown on the medical record, and the medical deductions discussed last night, were roughly the same—it was indeed likely lung cancer that had metastasized to the duodenum.

The lung cancer tumors were small, two or three in number, hence asymptomatic. The problem is, the early spread to the intestines indicates a less favorable type of cancer. The tumor in the duodenum, although small due to early detection, was located in a tricky position, near the bile duct—it turned out to be a periampullary cancer. The surgery must remove these cancerous cells around the area as completely as possible; otherwise, it would not be possible to prolong the patient’s survival period.

This surgery was inevitably going to be extensive.

"You all go out first," Tao Zhijie told them, as he gathered the documents, preparing to report to the department leaders alone. Director Tang and others were also anxiously awaiting the medical records.

Seeing this, the other doctors felt a heavy burden in their hearts.

Four years ago, they could not cure Teacher Zhang successfully, and now they were to treat Teacher Zhang’s wife, Teacher Lu. Being a doctor is such; they might end up treating an entire family, unable to cure one before moving to another, a tremendous pressure inconceivable to outsiders. Failing again might mean losing the lives of a couple, a father and son, all on their hands.

Having some free time at noon, Xie Wanying rushed to Teacher Lu’s hospital room.

Seeing her, Teacher Lu, who was eating with his grandson, was very excited and invited her: "Come, join us, try my grandson’s cooking skills."

Zhang Shuping had learned a skill in cooking from his grandmother. Now that his grandmother was sick, he took over cooking her patient meals.