My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points Chapter 1588 646: Patients, Families, and Doctors Working Together to Repay Their Teacher's Kindness

Through his hands, over four hundred cases of neurosurgical diseases have been treated.

Among these, twenty-three were extremely challenging cases deemed terminal by other major hospitals. These cases typically involved injuries from car accidents, falls, or dance practice leading to spinal nerve damage. Thanks to his meticulous surgery and the patients' determined rehabilitation, some neurological functions were restored, or nearly all were regained.

The success of these surgeries has not only earned Zhou Can an outstanding reputation, elevating him to a renowned figure in the field of neurosurgery, but also enriched his experience in the diagnosis and treatment of spinal nerve issues.

Many of these insights and understandings are unattainable from other doctors.

Even Wu Baihe now frequently consults him about complex neural cases.

Every doctor has their own understanding and insights, their thought processes and directions, and the comprehensive application of medical knowledge, including the use of surgical expertise and experience in treatment plans, all of which are crucial.

Despite Zhou Can constantly learning surgical and medical knowledge in the neurosurgery field under Wu Baihe's guidance, their views might differ greatly on the same case.

For instance, on a lumbar injury case they treated together, a worker was impaled by a steel bar while working on a construction site. In addition to damage to abdominal organs and tissues like the intestines and peritoneum, the most severe injury was to the lumbar spine.

When the patient arrived at the hospital, his lower body was completely numb.

Following emergency operations to remove the steel bar and repair the damaged intestines in the abdominal cavity, Zhou Can personally cleaned the patient's wounds to minimize the chances of abdominal infection.

Post-surgery, the patient experienced mild peritonitis but endured it with timely medication and nutritional support, aided by his good physical foundation and immunity.

After the abdominal injury healed, the patient's life was saved, but there was no sensation in his lower body.

Under these circumstances, the patient would likely spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair or bedridden, unable to care for himself and requiring lifelong family assistance.

Zhou Can vividly remembers the morning when the family was pressured to discharge.

After conducting rounds in the Emergency Department, he routinely visited the neurosurgery inpatient ward to check on patients he had treated or was involved in treating.

He happened to see the nurse urging this patient's family to handle the discharge early.

Unlike smaller hospitals that almost wish for patients to stay indefinitely, Tuya Hospital faces bed shortages and strict assessment standards. Prolonged hospitalization without recovery warrants deductions in funds and scores.

Even small hospitals have assessment criteria, though not internal evaluations. Their supervisory departments have set standards.

Sometimes, small hospitals resort to manipulative tactics of discharging patients after 15 days and then readmitting them.

There have been reports that some elderly individuals are admitted without any real illnesses, almost as if hospital doctors are soliciting business. They spend days playing mahjong or cards at tables for four, with meals and accommodation provided.

They can return home to sleep at night.

No money is spent.

Because funds are drawn from medical insurance.

By contrast, Tuya, as a top-tier institution, immediately urges discharge once a patient seems adequately recovered or fit for home-based recuperation.

At that time, the patient with lower-body numbness sat half-reclined on the bed, while his wife and two children stood by, helping him wash his face and brush his teeth.

The nurse urged them for discharge, and both the family and patient agreed.

After all, staying here was costly.

More expensive than a hotel stay.

The patient saw Zhou Can enter for rounds, and his eyes met Zhou Can's with a pleading gaze.

"Dr. Zhou, thank you and Director Wu for saving my life. But now that I'm paralyzed from the waist down, my wife has to help with everything. We have one child in junior high, and it's hard for the four of us. Please, think of a way to treat me further!"

The man sat on the bed, bowing and pleading with Zhou Can for treatment for his paralysis.

His hands were coarse, covered with scars from injuries.

"Doctor Uncle, please help my dad!"

The two children were exceptionally sensible, the younger less than three years old, and the older barely over four.

Both knelt before Zhou Can, begging him to cure their father.

"Kids, come on, stand up! Your dad's lumbar spine is severely injured; it's not that I don't want to help, but my capacity is limited. Current medical technology and level make it very challenging to heal such injuries to the spinal central nervous system."

Zhou Can helped the two kids up, feeling deeply saddened by this sight.

The patient's wife remained silent throughout.

As Zhou Can finished rounds and was about to leave, he could see despair in the man's eyes.

The children clung to the bed edge, watching their dad.

The wife chased after him.

"Dr. Zhou, please think of something, won't you? At least give my husband hope to live. He secretly wrote his last words on his phone. I can't live without a husband; the three kids can't be without a dad. I'll endure any hardship, suffer any pain, I'm willing. Even if he's bedridden for life, I'll care for him. Just give him hope to live, okay?"

Her eyes were brimming with tears.

This woman seemed somewhat educated.

Her displayed wisdom and thoughts commanded Zhou Can's respect.