My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points-Chapter 347 - 168: One Brilliant Move, Eat Everywhere. Zhou Can Can Handle This.
Chapter 347 -168: One Brilliant Move, Eat Everywhere. Zhou Can Can Handle This.
Every disease, once diagnosed with its cause and pathophysiological mechanism, can be effectively treated with the right approach, and in general, outcomes can be assured.
Unless it is a malignant disease, where medicine and treatment are impotent.
For instance, most cancers, even with a known tumor location, once metastasis occurs, medication can only alleviate pain and postpone death. No drugs can precisely kill cancer cells yet.
However, as humanity’s medical science and technology continue to develop, medications are also becoming more advanced.
The emergence of various anti-cancer drugs has brought hope for a cure to cancer.
Maybe one day, cancer could become as trivial as a common cold, easily cured.
The patient in bed 7, after finding the true cause and being treated with targeted medication, truly had visibly effective results.
Unless something unexpected happens, this patient will certainly be transferred out of the ICU soon.
Zhou Can felt that the value of his medical studies was greatly exemplified.
At this moment, the medical team surrounding bed 14, not far away, began to disperse, each with serious expressions. Two nurses had tears in their eyes.
It seemed that the patient’s fate was more likely to be grim than hopeful.
The family soon came in wearing isolation gowns, led by a nurse.
It was an elderly man being resuscitated in the bed; his exact illness was unclear. The family did not break into loud cries, and the entire farewell process was brief and silent. It probably lasted no more than about ten minutes.
Once the tube was removed, the patient took his last breath and left this wonderful yet painful world forever.
After the nurse finished processing the body, a hospital worker came in directly with a cart, lifted the body into a yellow body bag, and then took it away through the morgue door. A life thus ended. freёwebnoѵel.com
This time it was an elderly patient, which is somewhat less tragic compared to the saying ‘the gray-haired mourning the black-haired.’
“Alas, that old man had late-stage lung cancer and had been in our Intensive Care Medicine Department for nearly two months. The attending doctor told the family early on that treatment was not very meaningful. But the family insisted on treating him, sparing no expense. Now that he’s gone, it’s a relief for both the family and the patient.”
Doctor Hu came back and started telling Zhou Can the story of patient in bed 14.
After listening, Zhou Can couldn’t help but be filled with emotion.
In the Intensive Care Medicine Department, one could see the genuine side of families.
Like the patient in bed 6 yesterday, the one who drank paraquat; his wife cried bitterly, but how much of that was real grief, outsiders would find it hard to tell.
The family of the patient in bed 14, with no crying or fussing, appeared very calm throughout the entire farewell process.
They seem indifferent and unfeeling, but in fact, they possess more filial piety than one might expect.
Knowing fully well that the old man was elderly and suffering from an incurable disease, they still willingly spent a huge sum on medical expenses, insisting on having him stay in the best ICU for the best treatment.
The money spent is real; knowing fully well the situation would result in both financial and personal loss, very few families are willing to spend that money.
“The patient never knew he had cancer until his death. Otherwise, he might have asked us to remove the tubes himself.”
Doctor Hu added.
“For the patient, knowing it’s an incurable disease, he might choose to leave this world with dignity. The piety of the family seems noble, but if it were my parents at this stage, I would not hesitate to ask the doctor to remove the tubes. Lying in this place hidden from the sun, I believe it’s torment for the patient every day.”
Zhou Can shared his opinion.
“Hey, under China’s traditional values of filial piety, your thoughts could easily be condemned as unfilial.” Doctor Hu paused, looking at Zhou Can as if seeing him for the first time.
“My parents always told me not to care about what others think, to live each day well, and to stay true to myself. That is sufficient! To make my parents suffer in bed without dignity, in the name of so-called filial piety, is worse than letting them go sooner.”
Zhou Can’s view was indeed different from many others.
He seemed to have understood some life philosophies that were not typical for his age.
Even if, in the eyes of the world, it seemed rebellious, he remained unconcerned.
Patients in the Intensive Care Medicine Department depend on others for all their needs.
For example, the patient in bed 17, also quite old. I heard he was a retired official, quite a high rank. But now look at him, breathing with a ventilator, eating through a feeding tube, urine and bowels controlled by catheters.
He is conscious, but his body is paralyzed and immobile.
Eating, drinking, using the toilet, turning over, lifting hands and feet, all need the help of the medical staff.
No different from a walking corpse.
Yet the patient insists on treatment; I heard he was very dominant before retiring, and the family dares not oppose him.
So he has been lying in the Intensive Care Medicine Department for nearly half a year.
Merely hanging by a thread.
I really don’t know what he’s living for? Knowing death is inevitable, why endure such suffering.
“Humph! Who would have thought, so young, yet you have such deep insight.” Doctor Hu complimented him verbally, but his eyes and tone suggested disagreement with Zhou Can’s perspective.
Everyone has different thoughts; their ways of living differ as well.
“Alright, let’s not talk about the grand principles of life. Today I will continue to teach you how to use various instruments here and how to medicate patients.”
Doctor Hu changed the subject and started teaching him more skills from the Intensive Care Medicine Department.
“First of all, I must tell you, the purpose of the Intensive Care Medicine Department is not to treat patients, but to save their lives.”
Zhou Can nodded in agreement with this point of view.
The Intensive Care Medicine Department is all about doing everything possible to save lives. Treatment is the responsibility of specialists.
