Surgery Godfather
Chapter 1092 - 888 Rebirth

Chapter 1092: Chapter 888 Rebirth

Director Fang felt that this matter was not simple, there must be something fishy going on.

However, complaints were complaints, and rumors were just rumors. A single case was hardly enough to prove anything, there could have been some special circumstances at that time. After all, not being directly involved, one shouldn’t rashly jump to conclusions.

If one could obtain twenty cases that Director Qian had personally handled and diagnosed, and all twenty cases exhibited the same pattern, that would indeed be telling.

For now, Director Fang’s focus was on studying cases, and he didn’t have time to consider this matter. He planned to find time to ask someone to go to Affiliated Hospital No. 4 to make copies of twenty cases for further examination.

These thyroid ’zombie’ tumors were indeed very rare and could easily be confused with thyroid adenocarcinoma in imaging studies. Without experience in this area, it would be difficult to make an accurate diagnosis. Today, Director Fang had learned another trick from Yang Ping; next time he encountered a similar thyroid nodule, he would definitely not make a misdiagnosis.

Following Professor Yang, one truly could learn something at every turn.

Medicine was indeed a profound field. Having been a doctor for over a decade, Director Fang had always considered himself skilled, but next to Professor Yang, he felt like he was just a primary school student.

How could Professor Yang be so young and yet so experienced? It seemed like he had seen and done everything, as if he had activated ’Invincible Mode’ in a game. Director Fang was quite puzzled.

The closer he got to Professor Yang, the more distant Director Fang felt from him. The deeper his understanding of Professor Yang became, the more he realized how remarkable Professor Yang was and felt he was almost godlike.

"Let’s go see Nong Tiesheng!"

As Director Fang was seriously contemplating the imaging differentiation of thyroid ’zombie’ nodules that Yang Ping had just mentioned, Yang Ping spoke to him.

"Right, let’s go see Nong Tiesheng. It’s about time to remove the cancer label from him."

Director Fang came back to his senses from his contemplation.

So, the two went to the General Surgery Department for rounds. Nong Tiesheng and his son were having dinner, each with a bowl of white rice, sharing a large jar of chili sauce – not store-bought, but brought from their own home.

When the doctors arrived for their visit, Nong Tiesheng and Nong Zhiwen immediately put down their bowls and chopsticks, probably because they had no other dishes to eat and were squeezing together to eat rice with chili sauce, which left Nong Tiesheng feeling somewhat embarrassed.

"You’ve just had surgery, so try to eat less of these salty dishes. You should take some nutrients, and eating a few more eggs would also do," Yang Ping advised Nong Tiesheng.

"Yeah, I just don’t have much of an appetite. I wanted to have some chili to whet it," Nong Tiesheng explained, still slowly chewing his mouthful of rice.

Upon hearing this, his son, Nong Zhiwen’s face instantly turned red – this wasn’t about whetting the appetite; it was clearly about saving money, to save on their daily living expenses.

In this period, their father and son’s meals were nothing more than white rice with chili sauce, and sometimes they would buy a few large steamed buns from the breakfast store, eating two per meal, making it last for a day.

"You should include at least two eggs in your diet each day to keep up with your nutritional needs. The eggs from your own chickens are the best kind of nutrition," Director Fang added.

Nong Tiesheng nodded and just smiled naively. He couldn’t bear to eat the eggs from their home chickens since they had to be sold for money. Treating the illness had basically drained all their resources, and the household was already running on empty, trying to save as much as possible – every little bit helped.

"Rest assured, your surgery was very successful. From our experience, it should take about six months for your recurrent laryngeal nerve function to recover. After six months, all these symptoms should disappear – your voice will no longer be hoarse, you won’t choke or cough when drinking or eating, and your breathing will normalize. Your current breathing difficulty is due to one side of the recurrent laryngeal nerve being severed and the other side being compressed. Now that both issues are resolved, you can be at ease," Yang Ping reassured Nong Tiesheng.

Director Fang immediately shared some good news with Nong Tiesheng, "The cost of this hospital stay and surgery will be very low. You won’t need much medication post-surgery, and the total cost will be around twenty thousand yuan. After the Medical Insurance reimbursement, you’ll probably only need to pay out of pocket five or six thousand yuan."

Hearing that the surgery was very successful and that he only needed to pay five or six thousand yuan, Nong Tiesheng couldn’t believe it was true. At such a big hospital, after such a major surgery, how could it be possible to pay just a few thousand? It was the first time he felt that hospitalization and surgery could be so worry-free, in an economic sense.

During his two operations at Affiliated Hospital No. 4, each time the cost had been over a hundred thousand yuan. The two operations took more than three hundred thousand yuan, plus multiple follow-ups and various adjuvant treatments. The treatment had already cost four to five hundred thousand yuan, and most of these expenses were not covered by insurance and had to be paid out of pocket.

This simple and honest farmer in his fifties, who had been the pillar of the household and worked on construction sites when he was well, had seen his health decline day by day since becoming ill. Now, even speaking and walking were laborious for him, turning him into a severe burden for his family.

Out of the corner of his eye, Yang Ping noticed a tracheostomy kit sitting on Nong Tiesheng’s bedside cabinet, which was necessary to have on hand for a few days following a neck surgery, mainly in case of postoperative bleeding compressing the trachea, which could lead to asphyxiation. In such an event, an emergency tracheotomy must be performed.

Because such an event was rare, doctors at most hospitals may not have this awareness and could easily overlook it.

However, Director Fang still insisted on this protocol, as the kit could be life-saving if such a situation truly occurred, which is far better than frantically searching for tools when needed.

It’s best if these life-saving items are not needed, but one cannot be without them.

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