Famous Among Top Surgeons in the 90s-Chapter 1989: A Difficult Choice

This sight caused the family member who was a first-time father to be deeply moved.

"The child is so tiny." The child’s father said.

Newborn babies are quite small, and premature infants are even smaller.

Such a fragile little life, it was exactly this delicate little life that his late wife guarded until her final moments. However, in nature, no matter how small a life form is, with proper protection, it has the potential to grow strong like a sapling and become a towering tree in the future.

Xie Wanying directly told the family member, "You were this small when you were little, too."

The child’s father believed her words, and his spirit was once again uplifted, following the medical personnel to escort the child together.

The police car prepared for the patient transfer was ready once again.

The traffic police opened the rear car door for them. Shen Xifei and Xie Wanying, responsible for caring for the child, sat in the police car’s back seat.

Doctor Hu sat in the front passenger seat.

The patient’s family member once again sat in another taxi to follow them and the child. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

While driving, the traffic police asked them which hospital they planned to send the child for emergency treatment.

Everything was too rushed, and Doctor Hu temporarily couldn’t think of a plan. She could only instruct the police officer to drive onto the road and not waste time.

Doctor Hu and the others were unfamiliar with the area and had no idea which nearby hospital was closest.

Familiar with the area’s traffic, the traffic police provided them with information, offering them choices among several tertiary hospitals: "Guoxie is about an hour’s drive from here. Capital Children’s Hospital is slightly farther than Guoxie. I’m not sure if other hospitals have neonatal care. Oh, Capital Maternal and Child Health Hospital might be a bit closer than Guoxie."

Capital Children’s Hospital is the most renowned in pediatrics, being the most famous children’s hospital nationwide with the best technology. Needless to say, if the journey is slightly shorter, it could be chosen. As for other hospitals, the Capital Maternal and Child Health Hospital mentioned by the traffic police also has decent technology.

The only disadvantage of the two hospitals above might be that there were no familiar faces there. Only people within the industry know that the rescue of a patient like this requires the quick arrangement of various human and material resources. You can’t just go there and find a young on-duty doctor. Young on-duty frontline doctors don’t have the capability to make various decisions about critically ill patients; they need to consult with their superiors. Transferring from emergency to neonatal intensive care requires contacts and approvals, which can significantly delay time.

Therefore, Doctor Hu preferred her hospital over others. She had familiar colleagues who understood each other deeply and could communicate in advance over the phone. When the patient arrived at the hospital, a swift implementation of various rescue measures would happen without wasting any intervening time.

Unfortunately, Beidu Third Hospital was indeed too far away, so it had to be excluded as an option.

But the two hospitals mentioned above didn’t have acquaintances, making it difficult to contact and mobilize a senior doctor to return to the hospital and participate in the child’s rescue with them. Doctors typically return home to rest after work and don’t suddenly return to the hospital outside their on-duty time. The hospital has its own on-duty doctors, and if there’s a need to call other doctors in, it’d be done according to procedures, adhering to rules and regulations. Asking a doctor to take an external call to specially return to the hospital overnight is a special case and counter to usual practice.

Convincing a doctor to break the rules is quite challenging.

With this in mind, Doctor Hu thought for a long time and discovered she had very few choices.