Famous Among Top Surgeons in the 90s-Chapter 1712 - 1711: Different Moms-to-Be
Having experience is a good thing, whether you’re a doctor or a patient, your mindset changes first.
The patient in Bed No.6 on the left is very petite, standing at only 153 cm, her weight seems as thin as a stick, making her pregnant belly look large. At first glance, it makes you question if she is really pregnant or perhaps a patient with ascites.
"Didn’t you contact her family?" Doctor Zheng asked a colleague.
The moment a doctor looks at the patient in Bed No.6, they know she is not suitable for a natural birth. Yet she’s lying in the delivery room on oxytocin. Although she seems not to be in pain, her face shows a bluish-white pallor from enduring great pain, making it even more frightening.
"She came through the emergency, and the family requested oxytocin right away. Our Director Yoo already informed them that a natural birth was not viable. Still, the family insisted they try for a natural birth. Director Yoo couldn’t convince them otherwise, so they had to try here first."
"Why is the family so insistent on a natural birth, did they hear something?" Doctor Zheng asked.
Nowadays, families love listening to hearsay, especially those with tighter finances, the most hearsay and deeply believed notion is: once a patient enters a hospital, it’s like falling into a money pit, and the doctors will definitely make you spend more until your family is penniless and everything goes to the hospital.
Doctor Peng, finding it hard to explain the family’s issue, said: "They say they don’t believe having a child is so difficult. Saying the mother was as thin as his wife back then and could give birth on her own while working in the field, never needing to go to the hospital at all."
Any OB/GYN who has worked clinically like Boss Li knows it’s hard to blame any pregnant woman and understands that the issues typically don’t stem from the pregnant woman herself.
What to do if the family refuses a cesarean?
Doctor Peng softly conferred with Doctor Zheng, "I’ve decided, later I’ll go out and tell the family that if we don’t perform a C-section soon, their son might die inside her belly."
Don’t think the OB doctors are lying to the family. What they say is true. When labor lasts too long, the fetus can become hypoxic inside the womb, and the fetal heart rate drops. The midwife has already gone to Bed No.6 to monitor the fetal heart rate and administer oxygen.
"What if they keep believing the hospital is deceiving them, what will you do?" Doctor Zheng pressed, making his colleague prepare more contingencies just in case.
"Then we have to let someone from the family in to see the fetal heart rate as it is." Doctor Peng, within his limited means, pondered how to employ every effort. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦
"What if they continue not believing you and insist on a natural delivery?" This question from Doctor Zheng pushed the colleague to the limit on how to handle such obstinate family members.
Doctor Peng felt heavy-hearted, understanding if the family remained this stubborn, bringing in senior doctors would yield the same result. Worst case, it could end like the news reports, with both the mother and child dying in despair.
"I’ll call Director Yoo to report the situation first." With no other choice, Doctor Peng could only first communicate with his superior.
"She’s not hurting as much as I am." As the doctor was about to leave, Bed No.5 insistently requested a C-section, pointing to the patient on the right.
Apparently, she believed none of the three fellow patients were in as much pain as she was.
"They aren’t not in pain." Doctor Peng turned back to seriously analyze the situation for Bed No.5, "Didn’t you see the expressions on their faces? They’re all in so much pain that their faces are turning pale. Your complexion is still better than the other three."
The patient in Bed No.4 on the right couldn’t help but be amused by Doctor Peng’s words, smiling while her muscles twitched and contracted spasmodically on her face due to labor pain.
